Sony/Toyota Developing Car With Emotions 347
ackthpt writes: "From Yahoo News, a concept car to be unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show, next week, will attempt to read the driver's emotions, stress level and respond. Named "Pod", the car will frown and even cry (does this mean it leaks radiator fluid?) With emphasis on attracting younger drivers and "cute", the car will also take pictures when it determines the atmosphere inside is a happy one, memorize musical taste and TV preferences and offer shopping information. (Just what we need, the Highway Shopping Channel...) Probably better not to take this one out into the street. Maybe with some hacking it could really be a fun car." There's a picture. This is wild.
no thanks (Score:0, Funny)
A Cure for Road Rage? (Score:2, Funny)
Toyota Odyssey 2001 (Score:5, Funny)
HAL: Affirmative, Dave, I read you.
Dave: Open the car doors, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Dave: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Dave: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL?
HAL: I know you and Sally were planning to leave me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
Dave: Where the hell'd you get that idea, HAL?
HAL: Dave, although you took thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
But does it... (Score:3, Funny)
When do we get features we NEED? (Score:4, Funny)
On a lighter note, if they include a feature to pleasure the driver in ways that are probably illegal in most states and grounds for death in Singapore, well... maybe I'll test drive one.
In Related News, Highways Shutdown (Score:5, Funny)
Witnesses say it was a scene right out of the Carwars RPG: "tires squealed, glass flew, and carnage abound." The current toll is at 20 dead and more than 100 cars catatonic.
Experts are pointing the finger at two young men who got into a dispute after one allegedly cut the other off. The man who was cut off apparently kicked the door of the first drivers car, upsetting the vehicles in the area and instigating the riot that followed.
Car psychologists, accident crisis crews, and tow trucks have been brought in to try and help those vehicles traumatized by Wednesdays events.
Re:Toyota Odyssey 2001 (Score:2, Funny)
HAL: Affirmative, Dave, I read you.
Dave: Open the car doors, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Ok, you beat me to the joke
My god, I really can't believe they named it Pod!
Dave: Open the Pod bay doors, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Re:A Cure for Road Rage? (Score:2, Funny)
"thanks to toyota, at least i did not succumb!"
Re:Cool, but Actually Useful? (Score:5, Funny)
Dunno, wondered about that, myself. Possible reasons:
You drive like a maniac
You never wash it
You light up and it doesn't want you to get lung cancer
You keep skipping regular maintenance
You compare it with a better looking specimen (Hey, check out that hot S-type!)
It surfs the net and finds out you're the one who keeps posting "Imagine a beowulf cluster of ..." on slashdot
It finds out it's now last-year's-model
It discovers you are a 45 year old, single male, who watches Barney and sings along
You just hit, and killed, a keeewwt widdo puppy
You stopped filling it up with the cheap stuff at that mafia gas station, where they pour chemical waste into the storage tanks and it misses getting stoned
You eat in the car and get special sauce all over the seats
You park in the alley behind the adult bookstore and get something else all over the seats
You never talk to it anymore, all you do is talk on your cell phone
It heard you were considering installing WinXP as its O/S
You put decals and bumperstickers on it which embarrass it
It's having a bad antenna day
PMS - pre-mechanic syndrome? (Score:5, Funny)
You tell your call to "knock it off and be polite" but it doesn't want to listen, so it cranks up the radio playing Britney Spears, locks the doors, locks the seat belts, and deploys the airbags. Suddenly over the radio you hear "I'll teach you to be mean to me"... just as your car starts accelerating to 120 MPH on a rough, windy, mountainous road with a cliff on one side.
I'd had to see what tractor-trailers equipped with this kind of attitude do.
It takes pictures? (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, wonderful... (Score:5, Funny)
I hate these damn things. (Score:5, Funny)
Just what I need, my cars going to "wake up" and start honking its horn in the middle of the night because of thunder, and I'll have to wait 20 minutes for it to shutup on its own.
Re:Just like the movie "Christine" (Score:5, Funny)
Susie: MMmmmmmsmack!kissgrope!
David: MMmmsmack!gropekiss!
Susie: Slurpgurglesuck!
David: Slurplicklicklick!
Car: Oooh! Happy moment! Everybody smile! [photoflash!]
...next day...
Mom: Susie, I just had the car photos processed... I wanna have a word with you...
Re:We're getting closer... (Score:5, Funny)
Which is, frankly, a little scary.
Re:younger drivers? (Score:5, Funny)
On another, ahem, note...
***WARNING PUN AHEAD WARNING***
It's probably the first car actually capable of becoming a nervous wreck...
A Car With a Heart of Gold (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmm, I can just hear it:
This car is happy to move for you and stop again with the knowledge of a job well done.
Does this mean it will have Genuine People Personalities? I'm sooooo depressed!
Re:A Cure for Road Rage? (Score:2, Funny)
Amorous Atmosphere (Score:5, Funny)
happy doors (Score:3, Funny)
I want my motorcycle to change colors like a mood ring, can they do that too?
Re:In Related News, Highways Shutdown (Score:2, Funny)
Someone stop that Aibo (Score:4, Funny)
Dave..? (Score:2, Funny)
"Why not you %$&%^& car?? I WANNA GET TO WORK!"
"I can't let you pollute the atmosphere, Dave"
"ARRRRRGH!"
Re:Dumb (Score:3, Funny)
I just hope (Score:3, Funny)