Google’s New Car Is Tiny, Cuddly, and Could Change Transportation Forever

[ashling]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/05/28/google_self_driving_car_prototype_driverless_car_could_change_transportation.html




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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I WANT ONE!

[Xyzse]

2. I think it would be great for special lanes and used as a public transportation system.

I can't see driving something like that in to a farm area.

[hlthe2b]

3. I want to sit my doggy girl in the "driver's" seat! LOL

[hunter]

4. I'm sure our dogs think the driver's seat is just a matter of pack hierarchy.

The car is something entirely magical, and they're not sure why we're not paying attention to them while we are driving, just the same as when we're reading a book, or writing on the computer.

[Tobin S.]

5. That could eventually put me out of business. I'm a trucker.

There were many times when I was driving long haul and would be tired and up against a schedule where I wished I had a vehicle that operated like that. I could just hop in the bunk and it would keep going.

[ashling]

6. I immediately - well, almost immediately

thought of a plot for for a murder mystery

murderer hacks into the computer and drives the victim off a cliff.

Maybe 2004 Space Oddesyish ... the protagonist is about to reveal the crime to the DA

"Car, take me to the DA's office."

"I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that." Sound of doors clicking locked ... maybe instead of a cliff, the cars drives into an icy lake.

[NightWatcher]

7. great for going to the market...as long as you go alone

....and as long as you don't buy more than a loaf of bread and half a pound of ham....and as long as you are under 5'7''.....and weigh less than.....

[hobbit709]

8. I could never fit in it.

[csziggy]

9. I could never climb OUT!

Getting out of any sedan type car is a challenge - I much prefer climbing down out of my Suburban. It's a good thing we had two SUVs up through when I got my new knees or I wouldn't have been able to go anywhere in my husband's vehicle. Even now, getting out of his Prius II is difficult.

The other part is for most trips around town we take together we combine places to go and all the stuff we get wouldn't fit in that Google car with the both of us. Sometimes we can't carry what we need in the Prius - but that is what the Suburban is for (aside from it's main job, which is to pull our four horse trailer).

[femmocrat]

10. It would get stuck in the snow here.

Not very much clearance!

It does have a cute expression, though. Too bad it doesn't look a little happier.