Elysian Shadows

...With cars that drive themselves.

No, I'm not shitting you: http://gawker.com/5660400/googles-secre ... t-on-video



thoughts? is this a good idea? will these turn on us? will this finally make our roads safe? (their only accident was being rear-ended by a human-driven car)

This is actually pretty cool, I guess its not really a bad idea, but its just kinda weird for some reason thinking about a computer driving a car (maybe its just me). Only one accident though, and it wasn't the cars fault, thats impressive. How many steps are left until Google goes SkyNet?

I think its the next logical step. I mean what else are cars going to do? Fly, and that's about it...

This just goes to show that google simply has TO MUCH FUCKING MONEY and to much extra time spent on doing random insane shit. I mean... how do you go from a simple browsing engine to this? O_o it just boggles the mind how much power a simple small nuetral company gets from maintaining one browser. It's just building up steps. Next thing you know they'll make google self-operated planes and hovercrafts.

I believe that most vehicles are better controlled by computers than humans, especially if there are no human controlled vehicles.

I saw something like this a year or so ago but not from google, it was from another company, if i remember right i was watching the Discovery channel at the time.

So apparently Google also has a fairly successful social networking site going on: http://www.orkut.com

It seems it was launched just a week or two before Facebook in 2004. It's mostly used in Brazil and India.

K-Bal wrote:I believe that most vehicles are better controlled by computers than humans, especially if there are no human controlled vehicles.

True, less human errors!

You know its interesting, only a few years ago we thought most of the stuff coming out today would either be millions of dollars or impossible ( Kinect, Cloud services, some of the new features on the Xbox, back up cameras, this, ect.).

THe Floating Brain wrote:You know its interesting, only a few years ago we thought most of the stuff coming out today would either be millions of dollars or impossible ( Kinect, Cloud services, some of the new features on the Xbox, back up cameras, this, ect.).

I agree. I mean take the example of the Microwave. If you took it back to the 1400s during the crusades, they would have burned you at the stake for practicing witchcraft. Its a reason I'm an atheist.

Your an atheist because of the microwave?

short wrote:Your an atheist because of the microwave?

Lol.

It was my robotic vacuum cleaner that converted me to being faithless I'm personally pretty psyched about this, and I think that if we're ever going to leave this chunk of rock called earth, this is the kind of technology we need to do it.

WreckKa wrote:It was my robotic vacuum cleaner that converted me to being faithless I'm personally pretty psyched about this, and I think that if we're ever going to leave this chunk of rock called earth, this is the kind of technology we need to do it.

Agreed. I need to be commanding my own warp-9 capable ship before I die.