On Apr 24, 2014, at 11:15 AM, Jeffrey Schwartz <schwartz.jeffrey@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Bruce Johnson
> <johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 23, 2014, at 11:25 PM, Knapp <magick.crow@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Great ideas. I was thinking that people would still want to travel and impress their friends with a great sports car. Also where are the smells and the wind? The sense of freedom?
>>>
>>
>> For that, I expect they’ll just have finely crafted TL-15 replicas of TL-7 Ferraris , or like that spoilt kid James T Kirk, just wreck an irreplaceable, one of a kind, 2000 year old Corvette :-)
>>
>
> A TL15 replica of a TL-7 Ferrari..
> What if you use TL15 materials and techniques on the engine, get it
> down in size some, and put a single grav module under the hood as
> well?
> Add a full sensor system and a robot brain who's sole purpose in life
> is to monitor for the accident that's about to happen, and then
> override vehicle controls and apply grav thrust to prevent it?
> If the car slides into a skid, and the bot detects it's going to
> intersect a tree, it overrides the gas pedal, brake pedal, and
> steering, and puts 1g lateral thrust into pushing the vehicle into a
> path where there's no impacts.
> If you drive off a cliff, it uses 1g vertical thrust to have the car
> just hang there, then slowly/gently descend to ground level.

Well, then Geremi K’Larksin will complain on tri-d that the safeguards take all the fun from it, and it’s no different that pottering about in their Modestly Priced Car and that you have to pay extra Congestion Taxes in London.

Then he continues “Some say that his fire suit is made of genetically modified Bwap skin. All we know is, we call him The Stig”…

Seriously, I expect that kind of control to be bog-standard by TL15 in any vehicle. We’re already well on the way to that stuff now, with traction control, anti-skid brakes, radar guided braking, auto parallel parking, etc.

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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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