anyone see that lexus commercial with auto parrallel parking???
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Sad to say but there is a market for such a thing.
Prediction: Look for this option to be selected by women at a 7 to 3 ratio over men.
Prediction 2: Look for a Lexus recall within a year after some moron tries to auto-parallel on an incline in icy conditions and subsequently wins their uber $$ whiplash law-suit. It's impossible to account for the human factor even in the most complex of failure modes analysis. That's primarily why we don't have cars driving themselves yet.
????Sad to say but there is a market for such a thing.
Prediction: Look for this option to be selected by women at a 7 to 3 ratio over men.
Prediction 2: Look for a Lexus recall within a year after some moron tries to auto-parallel on an incline in icy conditions and subsequently wins their uber $$ whiplash law-suit. It's impossible to account for the human factor even in the most complex of failure modes analysis. That's primarily why we don't have cars driving themselves yet.
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easily... i watch history/discovery all the time heh... like 3 yrs ago i saw how they already have the technology to put cars on the street hwy controlled my comps... but not public friendly/practical yet...
can easily see them taming it/simular technology to go parallel...
can easily see them taming it/simular technology to go parallel...
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Case in point, I just got a new cell. Here is one of the warnings in the "use and care" instructions:
"Don't try to dry your phone in a microwave oven"
You know someone had to try that for the manufacturer to even mention it. You can't simulate how some people think.
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I agree, it just goes to show that there are too many people out there that don't know how to drive. I think that retests should be mandatory at certain intervals. I know I won't have to take my driving test again in at least 10 years and it's already been 5 since I started. Not only that, if I don't let my license expire 10 years from now, I can just apply for a renewal online and I'll never have to step foot in the DMV. Who knows how bad my driving skills my have degraded in that amount of time.
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It's not the technology I have a problem with, it's the people using it. Even though parallel parking is a relatively easy task to automate, I'm pretty sure someone is going to find a way to defeat the fault protection in that system. Making something idiot proof is almost impossible.
Case in point, I just got a new cell. Here is one of the warnings in the "use and care" instructions:
"Don't try to dry your phone in a microwave oven"
You know someone had to try that for the manufacturer to even mention it. You can't simulate how some people think.
Case in point, I just got a new cell. Here is one of the warnings in the "use and care" instructions:
"Don't try to dry your phone in a microwave oven"
You know someone had to try that for the manufacturer to even mention it. You can't simulate how some people think.
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found that out right quick when I came home to Boston and was out of practice Iwas like WTF???? 2 years and I was having trouble parking like I used to..its funny how fast you forget to do womething if you havnt practiced it all the time..
