Re: [MBZ] Good idea or will it kill

2018-02-23 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
On 22/02/2018 6:56 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes wrote: Shakespeare's Henry Vl , Part 2, Act lV, Scene 2 Shakespeare's exact line ''The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers,'' was stated by Dick the Butcher in ''Henry VI,'' Part II, act IV, Scene II, Line 73. Dick the Butcher was a fo

Re: [MBZ] Good idea or will it kill

2018-02-23 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
New placard for Uber vehicles, perhaps? Just a thought ;) [OK, a sarcastic thought... ] On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 6:05 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > RTFM -- > > USER LICENSE > > By entering this vehicle the user agrees to the entirety of this agreement. > >

Re: [MBZ] Good idea or will it kill

2018-02-23 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
RTFM -- USER LICENSE By entering this vehicle the user agrees to the entirety of this agreement. . . . 37.B.7.h(5)iii:  The user of this device shall have no rights to any recourse should the user experience any event that the user deems unpleasant, up to and including death, dismemberment

Re: [MBZ] Good idea or will it kill

2018-02-22 Thread Max Dillon via Mercedes
Nice article! Driver-less cars, right around the corner! And then, flying cars, in another five years... I'm not holding my breath. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300 On February 22, 2018 9:57:39 PM EST, Mountain Man via Mercedes wrote: >http://www.fastjetperformance.com/podcast

Re: [MBZ] Good idea or will it kill

2018-02-22 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
RB wrote: > Aircraft have been flying along on autopilot for a long while... Driverless car seems to be a bad idea. The pursuit of an algorithm for everything seems foolish. Along with you, Randy, call me old fashioned or luddite. Additionally, it seems that much convenience can be realized in

Re: [MBZ] Good idea or will it kill

2018-02-22 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
Yes, current aircraft are for the most part no different than they were 70 years ago. There are slow, minor improvements coming in instrumentation and engine management that might bring us up to 1970's cars - FAA regulation is largely to blame - keeping the public safe from anything that hasn't bee

Re: [MBZ] Good idea or will it kill

2018-02-22 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
yeah, and unfortunately, most of the airline "pilots" are not real pilots, but computer tenders who've not got many hours in real (non computerized) flying, and learning/understanding flight dynamics. I am reading a book about Rickenbacher, Doolittle and Lindberg. I had never heard that l

Re: [MBZ] Good idea or will it kill

2018-02-22 Thread clay monroe via Mercedes
Elon Musk dropped out of the Anti AI council. His cars will have too much smartness, so he now has to protect us from them turning into SkyNet clay 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green 1986 SDL - Polei 1982 300 SD - Allen retired models- 2002 s430 - Victor, a Stately & well tailored crap 19

Re: [MBZ] Good idea or will it kill

2018-02-22 Thread clay monroe via Mercedes
But the trains are run by computers already. The big board know and controls all. The guy in the engine is watching things, and trying to intercede if things go tragically wrong. The Empire Builder train (skAmtrak) had a repeating failure when it pulls into Spokane around Midnight. The trai

Re: [MBZ] Good idea or will it kill

2018-02-22 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
Randy inquires: >‎So, if this 2 or 3 ton driverless hunk of >metal runs over your wife or  >one of your children, who do you sue? Which is pretty much why private aircraft have made so few advancements in the last seventy years. Perhaps Ipads have replaced steam gauges, but to my understanding,

Re: [MBZ] Good idea or will it kill

2018-02-22 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
It would have to be all electric. On Feb 22, 2018 4:21 PM, "clay monroe via Mercedes" wrote: > https://tinyurl.com/yaw7pkh8 > > > > clay > > 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green > 1986 SDL - Polei > 1982 300 SD - Allen > > retired models- > 2002 s430 - Victor, a Stately & well tailored crap > 1

Re: [MBZ] Good idea or will it kill

2018-02-22 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
The thing I wonder about is why all the attention is being paid to driverless cars. People are killed by often trains train drivers don't pay attention. Trains seem like a perfect place to develop the technology, you don't have to steer them after all... Probably the railroad has too powerful a

Re: [MBZ] Good idea or will it kill

2018-02-22 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
So, if this 2 or 3 ton driverless hunk of metal runs over your wife or one of your children, who do you sue? The owner who was asleep in the back seat or the car manufacturer who built the thing? Call me old fashioned, but I don't trust high tech all that much. What happens when the sensors ge

[MBZ] Good idea or will it kill

2018-02-22 Thread clay monroe via Mercedes
https://tinyurl.com/yaw7pkh8 clay 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green 1986 SDL - Polei 1982 300 SD - Allen retired models- 2002 s430 - Victor, a Stately & well tailored crap 1976 300D - Blei Vanst - it looks silvery 1972 220D - Gump - She was green, simple and ran 1995 E300D - Gave her life