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Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: silverbullet on December 05, 2019, 04:14:11 pm

Title: The end is nigh!
Post by: silverbullet on December 05, 2019, 04:14:11 pm
TheThings: Daimler Starts Testing Self-Driving Mercedes S-Class Taxis.
https://www.thethings.com/daimler-starts-testing-self-driving-mercedes-s-class-taxis/ (https://www.thethings.com/daimler-starts-testing-self-driving-mercedes-s-class-taxis/)
Title: Re: The end is nigh!
Post by: Shallowhal on December 05, 2019, 04:22:12 pm
Great stuff.
Title: Re: The end is nigh!
Post by: silverbullet on December 05, 2019, 04:28:53 pm
Great stuff.
E class will get to drive an S class from the back seat!
Title: Re: The end is nigh!
Post by: Shallowhal on December 05, 2019, 04:30:08 pm
Great stuff.
E class will get to drive an S class from the back seat!

He'll be able to drive it from the boot if he wants!!
Title: Re: The end is nigh!
Post by: Bob Shillin on December 05, 2019, 07:06:45 pm
From the article. Seems to contradict the "Fuk'd Now" spend, in that they see trucks as more lucrative



"In addition, full-scale deployment of the robotaxi business model ties up a lot of capital, and there are uncertainties surrounding the earnings potential. Eventually, their robotaxi spending will shift towards development of autonomous cars for private use."
Title: Re: The end is nigh!
Post by: dalymount on December 05, 2019, 07:22:40 pm
Do these people who continuesly invent things, all kind of new technology, etc etc not realize, that they are doing away with peoples earning power through being surplas to requirements. Now if, and when that happens, how the fukk do they expect the same people they want to buy their products to pay for them ?
Title: Re: The end is nigh!
Post by: silverbullet on December 05, 2019, 07:37:32 pm
Do these people who continuesly invent things, all kind of new technology, etc etc not realize, that they are doing away with peoples earning power through being surplas to requirements. Now if, and when that happens, how the fukk do they expect the same people they want to buy their products to pay for them ?
Apps put taxi companies out of business.  I think its called progress.
Title: Re: The end is nigh!
Post by: Octavia1 on December 05, 2019, 07:55:42 pm
Do these people who continuesly invent things, all kind of new technology, etc etc not realize, that they are doing away with peoples earning power through being surplas to requirements. Now if, and when that happens, how the fukk do they expect the same people they want to buy their products to pay for them ?

Excellent point
Title: Re: The end is nigh!
Post by: taxi1990 on December 05, 2019, 10:18:11 pm
https://www.whichcar.com.au/car-news/driverless-cars-are-decades-away-says-audi (https://www.whichcar.com.au/car-news/driverless-cars-are-decades-away-says-audi)
Title: Re: The end is nigh!
Post by: Cool Boola on December 06, 2019, 02:14:57 am
Look to the future.....its only just begone...
Title: Re: The end is nigh!
Post by: The Liffey Lip on December 06, 2019, 10:48:06 am
Look to the future.....its only just begone...

The Carpenters.......formed a splinter group?
Title: Re: The end is nigh!
Post by: silverbullet on December 06, 2019, 04:18:28 pm
Look to the future.....its only just begone...

The Carpenters.......formed a splinter group?
The Saw Dusters? 8)
Title: Re: The end is nigh!
Post by: taxi1990 on December 06, 2019, 07:01:48 pm
https://www.thejournal.ie/poll-self-driving-cars-ireland-4920635-Dec2019/ (https://www.thejournal.ie/poll-self-driving-cars-ireland-4920635-Dec2019/)



Jesus, the comments section looks like its written by thick children.




"My father has said that it could be the solution to keep rural pubs open and stop drink driving. Have your few pints and then get driven home safely in an automated car."




Title: Re: The end is nigh!
Post by: Lizzzy on December 07, 2019, 01:16:06 pm
https://www.thejournal.ie/poll-self-driving-cars-ireland-4920635-Dec2019/ (https://www.thejournal.ie/poll-self-driving-cars-ireland-4920635-Dec2019/)



Jesus, the comments section looks like its written by thick children.




"My father has said that it could be the solution to keep rural pubs open and stop drink driving. Have your few pints and then get driven home safely in an automated car."

Your father is a wise man taxi1990, what part of the country are you in ?
Title: Re: The end is nigh!
Post by: Rat Catcher on December 07, 2019, 02:47:20 pm

"My father has said that it could be the solution to keep rural pubs open and stop drink driving. Have your few pints and then get driven home safely in an automated car."


He could be right but it will take time... will the pubs survive long enough without some sort of intervention in the interim? If they all closed at the same time the publicans could organise minibuses I guess, problem is they'll tell you it's not viable to throw men out at whatever is determined to be closing time if the men still have money in their pockets and still want drink. I guess attitudes will have to change if they are to survive.
Title: Re: The end is nigh!
Post by: taxi1990 on December 07, 2019, 03:43:47 pm
my father didn't say that, Its a comment from the journal.
it seems pointless to say such a thing as I think autonomous cars are years away and might never be able to navigate country roads. it's like people in the 80s thinking we would have flying cars in the year 2000.
if the guy in charge of autonomous driving at Audi thinks autonomous cars are decades away then I'd be believing him.
Title: Re: The end is nigh!
Post by: Rat Catcher on December 09, 2019, 02:05:53 pm
Does your father agree with it?
Title: Re: The end is nigh!
Post by: Cool Boola on December 13, 2019, 02:16:04 pm
I'm driving green diesel to help the enviroment
Title: Re: The end is nigh!
Post by: taxi1990 on December 13, 2019, 06:39:52 pm
Does your father agree with it?


No, he like me thinks fully autonomous vehicles are decades away and nothing to be worries about.
Title: Re: The end is nigh!
Post by: Cool Boola on December 14, 2019, 02:30:52 am
Very boring...bring back Royston
Title: Re: The end is nigh!
Post by: silverbullet on December 15, 2019, 05:11:20 pm
Very boring...bring back Royston
Vasey?