Heya everyone, very new here and very interested in what this wild thing really is...do you ask questions?
Here's something I've been thinking about...feels like iPhones and cell phones generally are in their late middle age, a point of diminishing returns. What's next? The next THING that everyone says to their kids "I was around before _______". ?? Very curious for your thoughts!
@alexdobrenko electric cars?
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I would go even further and say autonomous cars. Electric cars have been around for quite some time (source: Dutch car museum Louwman, sorry no more specifics atm), but imagine the shift in "perceived safety in hindsight" of human operated cars when cars can drive themselves more safely!
@pkok @alexdobrenko I'm not quite sure I'll live to see autonomos cars. Electric cars being the default, on the other hand, I think will happen in the next decades.
@cm @alexdobrenko do you mean "not see it at all" or "not see it as the most common car"?
I think it won't take another 10 years from now to see some brands shipping them. Maybe getting the required legal paperwork might slow the process down to after that mark.
Going full electric might be very interesting! Right now, in some countries driving electrical isn't more CO2 friendly than on gas. This is mainly due to how the energy is created.
Do you expect electric cars to be the main driving force for a bigger conversion to green energy sources?
@pkok @alexdobrenko "not see it at all", not in the sense that cars will have no steering wheel because they can handle all types of traffic/driving. Autonomous highway driving in good weather: maybe. I think the world is way too complex for artificial "intelligence" still, and if you e.g. look into what the hyped Tesla "autopilot" does, it is pretty underwhelming.
@cm @alexdobrenko I sat in a Tesla yesterday and was indeed underwhelmed by the autopilot. However, I think it also has to do with what is allowed by any local government.
I imagine a certificate much like a human drivers licence, but then for cars. The first few car series will have a steering wheel but before we're dead (don't know about you, but I still got some 50+ years according to statistics), there will be new models that look unlike human driven cars.
(that had happened in the period where horse drawn carriage were being replaced by motorised carriages as well - the first few looked like horse drawn carriages, but without the horses)
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"oh gramps please tell of that time that you had that car accident! How didn't the car correct you?!"