San Francisco group placing traffic cones on self-driving cars to disable them.

[wilfred]

(Take your time reading up on it, there's no rush -- that whole discussion is more than a year old.  )

I wondered whether I should add an update to the thread, or start a new one. Some people seem to hate a thread being revived, even if its with new and relevant information.

Some are quite dogmatic about not starting new threads. I like to keep related info together if it is a small topic with limited scope like a piece of equipment that attracts responses from few people. That way anyone searching has fewer hits but each with more info. Then the benefit of consolidating threads tapers off as interest increases and the noise level rises with conversational responses interspersed amongst the real useful data. Thereby decreasing the value of each search hit. And then there are the popular opinion driven threads on flammable subjects where I again want them consolidated to keep the S#$t in one big pile(-on).

I don't know in some cases just why continuing an old thread is anathema to those who seem to have very rigid views on it. It's a nuanced spectrum to me.

[vk6zgo]

Testing immature technology on the general populace is a no-go.

If you know of a way to get a complex system working without real-world testing, then by all means, please enlighten the rest of us.

And what happened to my flying car? They promised me one last century.   

Pick your reason:

1) The pilots' union screamed bloody murder and got it outlawed. 

2) People laughed at the people who were trying to make it happen

3) People sabotaged the work of the people who were trying to make it happen

4) What, are you nuts?  Have you seen the way people DRIVE?  We will get flying cars after self-driving ones, not before.  If you want a flying car, get out of the way of the people trying to make self-driving cars work.

(5) We don't yet have, & probably never will, have anti-gravity, which would be the only thing which will make something like the cartoon & SCI-FI "flying cars" work.(The Jetsons one is really a spaceship.)

Everything that has been touted uses rotors or something similar, so that either gives you something like a bubble car, with the real estate requirement of a Hummer, or if it has anything approaching a normal car's seating capacity that of a Helicopter.

[BrianHG]

[vk6zgo]

In the immortal words of Groucho Marx----"I rest my case!"