Nothing in the world is perfect & no technology will ever be 100% reliable whatever the sales man says. It's always been so.

Tony

Who will be the first person to buy a ''driverless car'' ? The whole concept makes me laugh.

My vaccination certificate wont even upload to my check in app !

Tesla drivers getting a taste of the future, the REAL future

Getting shut out of their vehicles was simply down to the stupid owners/drivers. Had they taken their proper entry fob thing it would not have happened. Certainly they could not remotely program the car, but getting in and doing it from the car screen would not have been so difficult – except for the stupid ones….

Some of us are old enough to remember when Maggie Thatcher decided to cross swords with Arthur Scargill, and the result was rota power cuts of up to 16 hours a day, and even then, if the house was all electric, that was a problem.

Now, with the way that technology is changing things, imagine the implications of no power for long periods of time across an entire area, No light, no heat, no cooking, no communications or internet, the potential for freezer contents to spoil, and in a few years time, the possibility that it won't be possible to get to work the next day because the car battery hasn't been charged overnight. In some areas, it won't even be possible to call emergency services, depending on how the phone in the house is connected to the local exchange and then onwards to the network.

These sorts of issues could happen as a result of just a lack of wind, or as a result of severe weather damaging the infrastructure, and the race to the bottom has meant that there is not the investment in resilience or spare capacity to try and ensure that there is capacity to deal with unexpected events. I won't go on to discuss the potential for more disruption as a result of someone turning off the gas taps on the supply from Russia.

A long time ago, I had to put in a substantial generator to ensure that the computer I had here could be operated even if the power was off. The computer was sold off a long time ago, but given the uncertainty of the future, I decided that I would not sell the generator off, and given the way things are looking for the future, I may well end up being very happy that I can keep most of the house going even if the supply has gone out.

Favourite phrase of sales men across the world is "It'll be grand", and they're never anywhere to be seen when for whatever reason, it's NOT grand. Properly evaluating the real risks is a skill that too many people seem to be willing to ignore, and the result is too often a nightmare as a result.

Marketing and geeks build in the problems.
Recently Apple marketing decided they would be so clever that their phones should warn people that a WPA network is not secure unless it is WPA2. This of course is meaningless to 99% of people who panic that someone is now watching their every move (oblivious of apple, google, etc actually doing that). They either whinge and whine or find someone who switches their router to WPA2. Now all their cameras and doorbells that can't work on WPA2 stop working. They don't understand that their network change is the culprit. More pain.

Paranoia reigns, we're doomed captain Mainwaring, doomed!

If you can't read this, then your Tesla probably won't start either.

EV's are NOT the future……

I have just retired from teaching blind and visually impaired students and many were wanting these to give them the mobility their sighted peers have. If you add in those people who develop sight issues in life or other conditions where they are unable to obtain a driving licence then the concept becomes viable. Self driving cars will also allow people to work whilst travelling should they wish to.

If you buy even a modest small car today it could well have collision avoidance, self parking and lane warning technology so the technical concepts are already out there – they just need to be connected up to the satnav and delivered in a form the public will accept – because I know at least one driver who always turns off the lane changing technology and collision avoidance in his car because he 'doesn't like them'

There seems to be a surprising quantity of people who actually believe that!

I’ve had my booster still can’t get 5G though.

Edited By V8Eng on 23/11/2021 20:04:06