Amazing Things Your Automobile Can't Do 641
dslmodem submitted this NYT story on nifty automobile technology that isn't coming to the United States. The report suggests that legal liability is a significant reason for not offering various driver-distracting options in the U.S.
Stuff British cars have (Score:5, Funny)
Wow... point and click parallel parking... COOL! (Score:3, Funny)
Here's something amazing my car doesn't do (Score:5, Funny)
Gee, I can't figure out why this is bad... (Score:3, Funny)
"In many vehicles nowadays, you can check your e-mail, view Web sites, even watch television, from the comfort of your driver's seat."
How can't it be a bad thing if US drivers start watching porn on the TV/web while talking on the cell phone while driving and listening to loud music?
I would think that even if these options started to appear in the US, that insurance for vehicles equipped with them would be expensive.
Re:Wow... point and click parallel parking... COOL (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Glad (Score:5, Funny)
Re::: fingers crossed :: (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Wow... point and click parallel parking... COOL (Score:2, Funny)
Top 10 Lists of Things Car Can't Do (Score:2, Funny)
9. Go to Hill Valley whenever the car reaches 88 mph.
8. Make really cool "putta-pa-put-put-putter-pa-pa-put-pa" bubbly sounds when Fred McMurray drives it through the air.
7. Make Steve Jobs shit his pants.
6. Not enough room on the hood for the Trump logo.
5. Why won't anyone invent the full-windshield TFT display so we can play Doom 3 while we drive? Come on now!
4. Annoy David Hasselhoff.
3. Get 400 miles to the gallon (we KNOW Exxon-Mobile has warehouses filled with home-garage built super carburetors).
2. where's the middle headlights??? Too bad Tucker is dead.
1. "Take out the trash".
Can't you just see it now??? (Score:2, Funny)
or even worse...
Road Rage takes on a whole new meaning after the first couple of "hot teen xxx site" "enlarge your %RND_BODYPART%" spams
No thanks, I'm happy with my handleld mapping GPS. If I really need to get on the net that badly while I'm traveling, I can always use that and the laptop to wardrive for a convenient unencrypted wap. (just kidding*)
*sort of
Great.... (Score:3, Funny)
Sigh... I guess i have to get my commuting pr0n from dvds and not the web :-(
Re:Stuff British cars have (Score:5, Funny)
Why bother using a foreign car to blow stuff up and get tossed into the air? Buy American - get a Pinto!!
Gets rid of those #&%! kids and their soccer b (Score:3, Funny)
People in Europe or Japan spend most of their time crawling in traffic anyway, in their toaster size cars with 700 cc engines. I *like* that about Europe and Japan. Isn't there a nationwide 50 mph / 80 kph speed limit in Japan?
Don't bother (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Stuff British cars have (Score:3, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Video would be nice (Score:2, Funny)
Re:good, we don't need that crap. (Score:2, Funny)
Slashdot user != USA resident (Score:5, Funny)
Re:good! (Score:5, Funny)
The European system shuts off if the car is going more than 3 MPH. If you're getting passed by someone going 3 MPH, perhaps you should just pedal your Big Wheel a bit faster?
Re:good, we don't need that crap. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Stuff British cars have (Score:2, Funny)
I dated a girl once whose brother raced w/ a 455 burning alchol, and a bolt-on pinto body. From memory, a stock pinto won't hold anything bigger than a 5 liter (302?).
Also, growing up in rural Michigan, there used to be a lot of pinto bodies bolted onto a 4wd chassises (jeeps, I think).
Re:good, we don't need that crap. (Score:3, Funny)
Discrimination! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wow... point and click parallel parking... COOL (Score:4, Funny)
DG
Re:good, we don't need that crap. (Score:5, Funny)
Though to be fair, I have to agree--the McWhatsit family of breakfast products are pretty gross....
Re:It's too easy (Score:4, Funny)
The damned tests are written entirely in German!
Re:good, we don't need that crap. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Glad (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Tort Reform Redux (Score:1, Funny)
Apparently some german roads (where this was first used) now have otherwise unnecessary 3mph traffic queues...
Re:Stuff British cars have (Score:2, Funny)
Daaayam... She may be a CS-playing geek, but I hope she doesn't read Slashdot.
Re:Tort Reform Redux (Score:1, Funny)
"Last I heard" is hardly a reputable source.
Hell this is Slashdot. "Last I heard" is considered documented evidence here.
Re:Stuff British cars have (Score:5, Funny)
I get a similar feeling when people realize they were just owned by my wife at CS.
I personally can't wait to find out what happens when your geeky wife logs onto slashdot and finds you implicitly comparing her to something known far and wide for its lack of anything worthy. Buddy, are you in for the "-1, flamebait" of your life...
Re:good, we don't need that crap. (Score:1, Funny)
Do you really think that's a safe assumption?
You don't live in the same city I do, apparently.
Re:good, we don't need that crap. (Score:3, Funny)
I dunno. I kinda like the McGuessBurger and the Mystery Meat Salad.
Re:Gets rid of those #&%! kids and their socce (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Stuff British cars have (Score:3, Funny)
Cut to buddy wearing high heels...