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Unless it is a thrill ride at an amusement park, does anyone know what is the point of making a self-driving sports car? The decision to include a drone is strange too.
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I agree, self-driving cars should be like a Prius. Small, efficient and not for people who like cars.
It has become so bad that especially cars from Ferrari are pretty much undrivable without the electronic assist systems. It's why even if I had the money for a toy I'd rather spend a quarter of the money on something like a GT350 which, beyond having electrically-assisted power steering, still embodies pretty much everything I associate with a real sports car.Most "sports cars" now don't even have manual transmissions, and everything is controlled by a computer making the driver take a back seat (pun intended) to technology. A self driving sports car is a logical progression, though in my opinion not a good one. To me a computer doing the work is the antithesis of a sports car.
Disagree. Maybe I like cars and like to carve up the canyons on weekends but I can only afford to have a single car. I don't want to have to drive that car home during rush hour. Let the computers do that shit. Besides sports cars have basically been mostly computer driven for awhile now. Gone are the days where you would spin out your beastly over-powered Lambo around every corner. The computers kick in to make sure of that.
Not sure about the drone but I love the helipad they put on the back of the car for some reason.
I would assume the drone is a "Go-Pro" style recording device, although I would also use it to look up the freeway for cops or, say you are stuck in a huge backup...let's go see how long it is and if I should turn around and find a different route. I watched a review once where the journalist used a drone for that. Pretty cool, he just opened the sunroof and off it went, saw it was a 2 mile backup from a wreck and took off.
There was a TV show back in the 90s called Viper. This isn't too different that that show. Click here It had a drone in the back of the car that would come out.