Thread: Autonomous Vehicles

An interesting theory

Or just stop breeding many of those animals. For example, sheep, cows and goats.

Or people

If we all ate more native animals, hard hoofed imports could be phased out, the environment would be happier and so would many vegetarians.

Originally Posted by Zeros

If we all ate more native animals, hard hoofed imports could be phased out, the environment would be happier and so would many vegetarians.

Why do we want vegetarians happy? They aren’t happy unless they have something to complain about usually - you’d take away their biggest reason to complain - they’d have nothing to do but blow away in the breeze...

If we all ate more native animals, hard hoofed imports could be phased out, the environment would be happier and so would many vegetarians.

The fallacy of this was brought home to me when I visited Africa . Nobody there complains about the hard hoofed animals ruining the countryside.

It would be a bit hard considering the millions of hard hoofed antelopes, Wildebeest, goats and Giraffes, etc stampeding around everywhere. Let alone the soft footed Elephants which utterly destroy the tree scape whenever they wish to push over and break off every tree for miles and miles.
Regards Philip A

Originally Posted by Homestar

Why do we want vegetarians happy? They aren’t happy unless they have something to complain about usually - you’d take away their biggest reason to complain - they’d have nothing to do but blow away in the breeze...

I’m a second hand Vegan... My food eats vegetables

Had a good laugh last night.

I bought teh latest 4x4 Australia and it has a full test of the new Mercedes ute. It apparently is the only ute that has full autonomous braking.
They took it out into Western NSW and commented that it tended to stop at cattle grids with signs on the fence either side. It happened 3 times.

Also , it braked at every roo it saw and they"only hit one but slowly"

It sounds to me that the technology is really immature. I can imagine that cockys would be delighted that the ute stopped at grids. I wonder if you can turn it off, as if you were on a wet track, jamming on the brakes approaching a grid would perhaps result in you hitting the fence at the grid.
Sounds like OK in cities but could be gamed but in the country?
I was on an observation drive a few weeks ago and someone had a new Hyundai SUV. They ended up putting band aids over the sensors as they were being driven mad. They later found the button that disabled the proximity warnings etc.
BUT what use is it all when they are likely to be disabled.

Regards Philip A