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Post by Tim on Jun 20, 2017 11:37:01 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2017 9:16:26 GMT
There's a Horizon about driverless cars next week (Thursday?). Actually looks like it might be worth a watch.
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Post by grampa on Jun 26, 2017 10:00:18 GMT
All this connectivity in cars is passing me by - even if I had a car so equipped - why? It's easier to unlock it with a remote control key, and if I still had a keyless car, a phone would never compete with the convenience of that.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2017 10:15:44 GMT
Technology does seem to be trying to answer a lot of questions that hadn't yet been asked, or provide ways of doing things that are novel but not yet better than can be done in more prosaic ways.
My brother has a Dot thingy and was showing us how to turn lights on and off with it. Clever, but the required switching or smart bulbs are still pretty steep, and it takes several seconds to deal with each one. I have three sets of lights in our living room that are all controlled by radio handset, which cost peanuts and can switch all on and off in a couple of seconds - it would be at the press of a single button if I didn't want the flexibility to have them on in different combinations.
(Mrs 12th is big on Christmas lighting, so these sockets save a fuck of a lot of bother over the festive season - they all get turned on and off with one button.)
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Post by Tim on Jun 26, 2017 10:26:28 GMT
Technology does seem to be trying to answer a lot of questions that hadn't yet been asked, or provide ways of doing things that are novel but not yet better than can be done in more prosaic ways.
This thought goes through my head when I read about the latest tech that companies like Merc and BMW are cramming into the cars. The mags seem to get excited about it but it appears to me that half the time they're simply trying to fix a problem they created themselves in the previous generation - for example gesture control is trying to make it easier to change the volume on your stereo (and other functions I assume) to save you having to piss about with a touchscreen but then why not simply go back to a knob?
It reminds me of football, once they started fannying around with the offside rule they kept changing the laws when really the simplest and best answer would've been to go back to what they had originally. However, there always appears to be an unwillingness to admit something like, the future is always better (except it's not necessarily!).
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