Robocars - Autonomous Drive, Self-driving, Driver-less cars

http://www.cyclealert.com/

that looks to be the jobby.

Erm, no. Most definitely not.

http://lcc.org.uk/articles/cycle-alerts-system-attempts-to-design-out-risk-from-large-lorries-but-concerns-over-its-potential

http://lcc.org.uk/articles/lcc-lorry-expert-asks-whether-some-new-technologies-could-increase-danger-to-cyclists-not-reduce-it

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/why-is-cycle-alert-causing-alarm-23731

Note that there's another company, Cycle Safety Shield, which designed a similar system initially and took the LCC's concerns on board (dropping their product and designing a new one), whereas to the best of my knowledge Cycle Alert haven't (see their reply in the comments to the second link, which clearly shows that they haven't taken the point). (This is all some time ago, so perhaps something new has happened in the meantime.)

tl;dr, Cycle Alert would put the onus on riders by requiring them to have these tags on their bike/their person. This would never work.

Yup. Ridiculous idea really. My knowledge of its existence was not to be seen as condoning it. Hope that was clear :/

Ah, OK. I thought 'that's the jobby' sounded like endorsement. Things like that should always come with a comment/health warning. :)

Ah, OK. I thought 'that's the jobby' sounded like endorsement.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Jobby

Ah no, 'that's the jobby' as in hippy successfully identified the product. It's obviously ludicrously flawed, as the LCC commenters duly picked up on (and cycle alert duly ignored). A future with compulsory bike beacons is not really one I want to live in.

@Greenbank's definition is new to me.

Ah no, 'that's the jobby' as in hippy successfully identified the product.

Yes, got that.

@Greenbank's definition is new to me.

To me, too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-35511980

theyve been around years
https://twitter.com/PaddlerMike/status/695265754221002752/photo/1

כל הכבוד. טוב לקרא עיברית כאן מדי פעם 😉

It's the piss about with safety side of a demolitions company.

http://www.endole.co.uk/explorer/postcode/sw11-3uz

Cyclists are the traffic flow. They just need to get their engineers to lift their game.

Roads in the future will be functionally segregated and keyed wholly, I think, to autonomous vehicles being directed by smart traffic control systems. The vast majority of these vehicles will be "public" and not private. I see an integration of self-driving cars and trains as part of a revamped national and metropolitan transport. People won't drive cross country but be transported cross-country. The key will be intelligent integration.
Bicycles, if tolerated as part of the system, shall be in urban centres fully bannished to bicycle lanes and bicycle specific roads and highways. Since street parking won't be needed I suspect the "cheap" solution will be to turn the space currently allocated for curbside parking and pedestrian sidewalks into bicycle lanes and embarking zones. We'll, I think, see a lot of reclaiming of land currently burried by cars.

I'll be long gone before any of that happens.

very Minority Report.

There was a really cool piece I read some time ago that was going down this route of Infrastructural development. The whole idea behind it was the removal of the concept of 'ownership' from being the norm. Which leads to a smoother transition to automation.
Look at any road and imagine them without any parked cars!

Roads in the future will be functionally segregated and keyed wholly, I think, to autonomous vehicles being directed by smart traffic control systems. The vast majority of these vehicles will be "public" and not private.

"public" as in owned by corporations, who will then control the road space. Pedestrians will only be allowed to cross the road at the designated crossing points.

Nah...
Urban spaces will be populated by human powered machines with some electrically assisted. The ton of metal fad will die out as people realise the huge benefits to moving around on their own steam.

Freight will be delivered on cargo bikes and 3d printers will 'print' larger things like buildings on site.
#rosetinted

I'll be long gone before any of that happens.

I think it will happen in some places much faster than most pundits expect. While it would take at least 20 years to phase out automobiles alone due to production capacity I expect more affluent urban hubs such as London, Munich, Paris, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Doha,.. to make rather swift transitions. The shift from horses and streetcars to personal motorcars in 20th century was amazing fast. In NYC the paradigm shift took place over just a few years. Just as there was massive political will to "clean up" NYC and replace horses there is massive political will in many countries to shift to electric transport. Individual electric cars have a number of central problems such as range that fleets of shared electric vehicles don't have. BMW, for example, in the context of their electric car development has been busy building a car sharing business ("Drive Now"). German Rail (Deutsche Bahn) has created not just a network of shared bicycles ("Call a bike") but also shared autos (Flinkster). With a German government target of 1 million electric cars by 2020...

I very much doubt it. It takes councils months to repair a simple pothole. Rolling out a new 'magic motorway' will take them decades.

"amazing fast" was still decades to fully replace horse and cart and longer for trams and the like and like I said, I'll likely be gone before it happens.

The sorry life span of the world class athlete?

World class alco

No, even if I live to 100, I'll bet you this shit won't be implemented in anything other than small test towns (and Dubai).

Tenner?

Deal.

kills self

WINNER!

Oh.

He was never the brightest tool in the cookie jar.