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by CautiousD
Tue Mar 08, 2016 9:50 am
Forum: In The News
Topic: Caught on camera... How not to overtake...
Replies: 36
Views: 36313

Re: Caught on camera... How not to overtake...

The reason for why I sometimes have a dashcam in my car, is to record my own driving. I don't upload it anywhere (except for one occasion where my footage helped the police to locate an elderly man who had somehow found his way onto the M23 and was going the wrong way on the hard shoulder up the A27...
by CautiousD
Mon Mar 07, 2016 5:40 pm
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: Would you?
Replies: 47
Views: 43523

Re: Would you?

Not unless I could safely exceed the speed limit. The expected puddle/water on the left at the bottom of the hill could cause the lead car to move away from it and I wouldn't want to be scraping my sump off the road due to compression either, so probably not. That was the point at which I imagine I ...
by CautiousD
Sat Jan 02, 2016 12:09 pm
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: What would you do?
Replies: 35
Views: 31158

Re: What would you do?

If the choices are: 1. drive through, passing cyclists on a bend by crossing a solid white, while hoping nobody is doing anything similar while coming toward me. 2. wait until the situation is as safe as reasonably possible before passing..... My initial thought is that I would slow and wait until i...
by CautiousD
Sat Dec 05, 2015 12:47 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Tesla X?
Replies: 37
Views: 32529

Re: Tesla X?

Porsche are now building an electric car..... and no, the power won't be generated by hamsters on wheels or by burning hippies, as some members of this forum seem to think happens in anything that generates electricity but which isn't a nuclear reactor. <cue taunts and fetchez la Vache> Imagine owni...
by CautiousD
Sun Nov 22, 2015 11:37 pm
Forum: Technology
Topic: Philosophy of programming a driverless car. Kill or be killed.
Replies: 17
Views: 18960

Re: Philosophy of programming a driverless car. Kill or be killed.

The thing is, that without the immense variability of the human conscience and factors which influence it, how will a computer make anything close to a sentient decision? It's more likely to be the case that drivers will need to either fill in a lengthy cross-reffed psychological survey, upon which ...
by CautiousD
Thu Nov 05, 2015 11:52 am
Forum: In The News
Topic: Audi, Porsche join VW scandal.
Replies: 22
Views: 21516

Re: Audi, Porsche join VW scandal.

What a defeatist and cynical attitude to take. So the question is 'why would you want to invest in cleaner and safer technologies?'. Of course, you don't have to but then you're justifiably criticising VAG for deliberately cheating us all because we all accept that our cars aren't really that great,...
by CautiousD
Wed Nov 04, 2015 6:14 pm
Forum: In The News
Topic: Audi, Porsche join VW scandal.
Replies: 22
Views: 21516

Re: Audi, Porsche join VW scandal.

I find the whole notion of corporations cheating very disheartening but the silver lining is that it makes me want a Tesla even more. Google's ex CFO has just joined Tesla
by CautiousD
Tue Nov 03, 2015 9:52 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Tuning boxes
Replies: 16
Views: 17992

Re: Tuning boxes

I bought a Superchips bluefin for my car about 3 years ago and the difference is night and day. It's a programme installation, so not a plug in that's left in the car. Might be worth checking if they wrote one for your car.
by CautiousD
Tue Nov 03, 2015 9:19 am
Forum: Technology
Topic: Philosophy of programming a driverless car. Kill or be killed.
Replies: 17
Views: 18960

Re: Philosophy of programming a driverless car. Kill or be killed.

My opinion is that unless/ until external factors are equally controllable, that the only choice available to programmers is to mitigate against those factors by assuming responsibility for them. So does the car automatically divert (if safe), brake (if safe) and possibly impact with an immovable ob...
by CautiousD
Tue Nov 03, 2015 8:15 am
Forum: In The News
Topic: Audi, Porsche join VW scandal.
Replies: 22
Views: 21516

Audi, Porsche join VW scandal.

Audi, Porsche join VW scandal: EPA finds more emission cheating software. Could this news lead to yet more organisational restructuring within VAG? Do Porsche owners even care about any of this?


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