You Won't Own a Car in the Future WheelHouse
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Date: 2019-10-24
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Comments and reviews: 9
J B
Great video Contrary to what some commenters here are saying, this isn't a video about 'hating cars'. The future is coming, no matter what you think about it, and this video is simply calling it out. Get ready for it. Auto enthusiasts are a small part of the population. I'm pretty certain the future will indeed look a lot like what is talked about here. I think that gas-powered manual transmission cars, in the near future, are going to be a lot like what horses are today. They're around, and people love them - but they aren't the center of our society any longer. I am a serious enthusiast myself. Don't get me wrong. However, I see the gas-powered automobile, in its' place as the primary means of transportation for the past 50+ years, as a major misstep in human progress. Are they fun as hell? Oh, YES. Do I want to commute in one for 2h per day? Hell NO. I can't think of a larger waste of my time than sitting in traffic. Doing that makes me feel like I am aging quickly, I'd rather be doing anything else. But give me my project car and a flowing, curving highway, and I feel like I'm meditating or something. It's one of my favourite things to do. It's got a freaking open header at the moment, and it's hilariously fun. They aren't taking away cars from enthusiasts. Not until we aren't able to drive our own old, pre-AI cars out in public any longer, on those fun highways that we all like to drive them on. I think that the economics of doing so, however, will take that away from us before any legislation does. too bad so many humans wasted all that gasoline while sitting around in traffic jams for the last 35 years. Otherwise, maybe there'd be quite a few more years left for the enthusiasts to play with. Also, I use car sharing services a LOT, they are brilliant and a great way to keep your 'enthusiast' car away from daily use, and avoid paying for parking
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Great video Contrary to what some commenters here are saying, this isn't a video about 'hating cars'. The future is coming, no matter what you think about it, and this video is simply calling it out. Get ready for it. Auto enthusiasts are a small part of the population. I'm pretty certain the future will indeed look a lot like what is talked about here. I think that gas-powered manual transmission cars, in the near future, are going to be a lot like what horses are today. They're around, and people love them - but they aren't the center of our society any longer. I am a serious enthusiast myself. Don't get me wrong. However, I see the gas-powered automobile, in its' place as the primary means of transportation for the past 50+ years, as a major misstep in human progress. Are they fun as hell? Oh, YES. Do I want to commute in one for 2h per day? Hell NO. I can't think of a larger waste of my time than sitting in traffic. Doing that makes me feel like I am aging quickly, I'd rather be doing anything else. But give me my project car and a flowing, curving highway, and I feel like I'm meditating or something. It's one of my favourite things to do. It's got a freaking open header at the moment, and it's hilariously fun. They aren't taking away cars from enthusiasts. Not until we aren't able to drive our own old, pre-AI cars out in public any longer, on those fun highways that we all like to drive them on. I think that the economics of doing so, however, will take that away from us before any legislation does. too bad so many humans wasted all that gasoline while sitting around in traffic jams for the last 35 years. Otherwise, maybe there'd be quite a few more years left for the enthusiasts to play with. Also, I use car sharing services a LOT, they are brilliant and a great way to keep your 'enthusiast' car away from daily use, and avoid paying for parking
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Ymani Sisoukraj
This is actually a really good thing for car enthusiasts. if we all transition into a world where ride sharing, and electric cars, and not driving becomes a norm, we as enthusiasts will benefit LARGELY. Driveable cars arent going anywhere. we will still have our nissan skylines, bmw m3s, porsche 911s, what have you, but no one else will find a need to have them. thus, used cars that arent diamonds like a ferrari 250 gto, but instead a second hand bmw 3 series, will become cheaper. the great cars will only go to the people that will truly enjoy them, because now the normal people will have no reason to buy them. racetracks wont shut down because those of us who do love cars will still go to them and enjoy them. if anything we as a community will come closer. imagine driving down a road of electric vehicles and auto drive cars, and seeing a fellow enthusiast in a civic type r, or an old mustang (idk im bad at examples but yall get it. this is a world i pray that we get to live in.
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This is actually a really good thing for car enthusiasts. if we all transition into a world where ride sharing, and electric cars, and not driving becomes a norm, we as enthusiasts will benefit LARGELY. Driveable cars arent going anywhere. we will still have our nissan skylines, bmw m3s, porsche 911s, what have you, but no one else will find a need to have them. thus, used cars that arent diamonds like a ferrari 250 gto, but instead a second hand bmw 3 series, will become cheaper. the great cars will only go to the people that will truly enjoy them, because now the normal people will have no reason to buy them. racetracks wont shut down because those of us who do love cars will still go to them and enjoy them. if anything we as a community will come closer. imagine driving down a road of electric vehicles and auto drive cars, and seeing a fellow enthusiast in a civic type r, or an old mustang (idk im bad at examples but yall get it. this is a world i pray that we get to live in.
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Taha Hassan
I don't think we are gonna see the day in our life time when all of the cars will be self driving. Maybe the next generation. First of all, the technology to make it happen is still not there. For the technology to work, it needs to be better than humans. It needs to act in all kinds of situations. For example, snowy roads, unpredictable pedestrians, off road driving etc. If it doesn't, what's the point in relying on inferior technology? Let's just say we made the technology capable of self driving, it will still take lot of years to completely replace the normal cars. For many years there will need to be driver in a self driving car until all the cars on the roads become self driving. Even if it happens, the self driving car will never be able to work in every situation so there will be need for driver always. Imagine a driver brings his car in front of self driving to make it deliberately slow. For the self driving car it's just normal traffic but for the human it's nousinence.
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I don't think we are gonna see the day in our life time when all of the cars will be self driving. Maybe the next generation. First of all, the technology to make it happen is still not there. For the technology to work, it needs to be better than humans. It needs to act in all kinds of situations. For example, snowy roads, unpredictable pedestrians, off road driving etc. If it doesn't, what's the point in relying on inferior technology? Let's just say we made the technology capable of self driving, it will still take lot of years to completely replace the normal cars. For many years there will need to be driver in a self driving car until all the cars on the roads become self driving. Even if it happens, the self driving car will never be able to work in every situation so there will be need for driver always. Imagine a driver brings his car in front of self driving to make it deliberately slow. For the self driving car it's just normal traffic but for the human it's nousinence.
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Will Stikken
this seems inevitable and judging by the lack of driving skill on the road today and the relatively boring cars on offer many people will welcome it. first with be the urbanites, then it will replace the soccer mom and driving granddad around. while this happens the rights of manual drivers will be eroded. we'll be limited to side roads or revere HOV lanes on the highways with absurd speed constrictions. Parental controls will be developed so that your daughter cant get a car to her boyfriends house when parents aren't home. eventually this will be expanded to everyone with the government deciding where you can go, for your own good and resource mgt. Too many trips to five guys for a burger this month, you can only eat at the broccoli hut now. I'm sorry you cant go to that event, you've exceeded your road use allotment for your social grade. Like constant surveillance people will embrace this for the convenience and never ponder what it really cost them.
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this seems inevitable and judging by the lack of driving skill on the road today and the relatively boring cars on offer many people will welcome it. first with be the urbanites, then it will replace the soccer mom and driving granddad around. while this happens the rights of manual drivers will be eroded. we'll be limited to side roads or revere HOV lanes on the highways with absurd speed constrictions. Parental controls will be developed so that your daughter cant get a car to her boyfriends house when parents aren't home. eventually this will be expanded to everyone with the government deciding where you can go, for your own good and resource mgt. Too many trips to five guys for a burger this month, you can only eat at the broccoli hut now. I'm sorry you cant go to that event, you've exceeded your road use allotment for your social grade. Like constant surveillance people will embrace this for the convenience and never ponder what it really cost them.
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William Pierce
I just don't buy it. I mean, we were all hoping we'd be in flying cars by now and honestly the biggest reasons we're not is because 1. That's dumb when you think about it, and 2. The cost of flying is super expensive. I think self-driving cars are obviously pretty far from being feasible, considering that one of those autonomous cars he mentioned ran someone over. There's so much computing a car would have to do to be able to recognize objects correctly and at the right distance it's actually insane. It's not just radar with some boops because radar doesn't infer what direction an object will take next, it only knows where it is now. This may not sound like a big deal, but radar also can't read signs or see turn signals, or people waving you on. etc. Knowing Better has a pretty good video on why self-driving cars aren't working right now, and based on the evidence he gives I'm pretty sure we'll be fine driving our cars for the next 50 years lol
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I just don't buy it. I mean, we were all hoping we'd be in flying cars by now and honestly the biggest reasons we're not is because 1. That's dumb when you think about it, and 2. The cost of flying is super expensive. I think self-driving cars are obviously pretty far from being feasible, considering that one of those autonomous cars he mentioned ran someone over. There's so much computing a car would have to do to be able to recognize objects correctly and at the right distance it's actually insane. It's not just radar with some boops because radar doesn't infer what direction an object will take next, it only knows where it is now. This may not sound like a big deal, but radar also can't read signs or see turn signals, or people waving you on. etc. Knowing Better has a pretty good video on why self-driving cars aren't working right now, and based on the evidence he gives I'm pretty sure we'll be fine driving our cars for the next 50 years lol
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Jason Klein
I live in a city where the public transportation system is lack luster to say the least and it down right sucks, the mayor of the city (so there is street car system going in that services just the downtown area and upper east side) and the governor of the state reject Federal funding for public transport projects, the public bus system keeps cutting out routes and altering hours of operation on commonly used routes and the people in the suburbs are afraid of having a metro shuttle coming out to them because the city folk will use to come and corrupt all their suburban things. so to get around I still need a car. plus I don't want a computer to drive me around to my destinations. i like the adventure driving brings.
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I live in a city where the public transportation system is lack luster to say the least and it down right sucks, the mayor of the city (so there is street car system going in that services just the downtown area and upper east side) and the governor of the state reject Federal funding for public transport projects, the public bus system keeps cutting out routes and altering hours of operation on commonly used routes and the people in the suburbs are afraid of having a metro shuttle coming out to them because the city folk will use to come and corrupt all their suburban things. so to get around I still need a car. plus I don't want a computer to drive me around to my destinations. i like the adventure driving brings.
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Nobodies 2Dogbar
its a fascinating inquiry. one i have been pondering as well, my quick answer is: like the phonograph or the vcr, the cars we love to drive ourselves wont just disappear; rather, they will be filed into the timeless history we now all share where, if you want to be stuck in 1955 with those tv shows, cars etc or on the bloody cutting edge of ubertopia, you can. it is without a doubt super weird but because of tv and the internet we have all the dead yet undead celebrities, traditions etc right alongside tesla cars and such.
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its a fascinating inquiry. one i have been pondering as well, my quick answer is: like the phonograph or the vcr, the cars we love to drive ourselves wont just disappear; rather, they will be filed into the timeless history we now all share where, if you want to be stuck in 1955 with those tv shows, cars etc or on the bloody cutting edge of ubertopia, you can. it is without a doubt super weird but because of tv and the internet we have all the dead yet undead celebrities, traditions etc right alongside tesla cars and such.
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StopFear
People who are well off and who can afford all the costs associated with driving really do not understand that for many poor people it is simply not an option. People who judge others and just say why dont you get a car? are privileged elitists who do not understand what poverty is. Dont forget that also a lot of people cannot drive due to physical or psychiatric limitations (or maybe they shouldnt drive for their and others safety. Old people have those limitations also and I think they shouldnt drive since they endanger others.
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People who are well off and who can afford all the costs associated with driving really do not understand that for many poor people it is simply not an option. People who judge others and just say why dont you get a car? are privileged elitists who do not understand what poverty is. Dont forget that also a lot of people cannot drive due to physical or psychiatric limitations (or maybe they shouldnt drive for their and others safety. Old people have those limitations also and I think they shouldnt drive since they endanger others.
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StopFear
There is also a very serious problem with the concept of private vehicles in general (as well as with planes. You can check online how much world wide smog pollution cars have been creating over decades. The worst is that the smog is carcinogenic and people who live in cities and are exposed to car exhaust have higher rates of cancer. I am not even talking about how the world was shaped by (and much suffering) the oil and gasoline industry has created. Well, it will run out very soon.
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There is also a very serious problem with the concept of private vehicles in general (as well as with planes. You can check online how much world wide smog pollution cars have been creating over decades. The worst is that the smog is carcinogenic and people who live in cities and are exposed to car exhaust have higher rates of cancer. I am not even talking about how the world was shaped by (and much suffering) the oil and gasoline industry has created. Well, it will run out very soon.
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