It took seven miles to pull over a Tesla with a seemingly asleep driver

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[–]Mnemonic[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Oh woow, I just got a new Idea. Instead of horse being cool and taking you home, you attach a bomb.

Can I Sue ISIS when they use my patented TESLA-SELFDRIVING-BOMB plan?

I mean, wooow, people hacked doom into Porches, altering the firmware code of a Tesla to ingore speedlimits and ignore 'people' while driving full speed into a building before the airbag triggers a bomb... Also, /u/Chop_Chop might help me out, lithium-Ion batteries are a bad, BAD fire hazard.

I'll stick with bicycles ┐(‘～` )┌

On a more serious note:

Sometimes I think we've moved backwards in some respects

No we regressed beyond redemption, A horse (delicious when the meat is smoked, I admit) is more human than a car. That we can see a car (not saying you, but I'm sure people are) as more human than a horse... We are entering an age in which compliance is seen as human and having your own mind as a horse. (Not a personal pick, just a general observation about the general talk about 'smart' cars, nah, Horses are smarter, top level is still the cats though).

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Haha goofy idea. But you have to train the horse to know that route by heart first. I don't think it would work very well.

Yeah and horses are definitely smarter than smart cars, that's a good point. At least my car doesn't poop on the floor and have to be fed every day though I guess

[–]Mnemonic[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

True, true, but I can't eat my lithium-ion battery when I'm starving, can't make a jacket out of the skin, or condoms out of the intestines when I have to sell my body...

And I believe I've seen a western with a horse (or carriage) strapped with glycerine heading to blow up something?

At least my car doesn't poop on the floor

Ah! Yes, but just like a car you don't take a horse indoors :p

[–]happysmash27 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Many cars poop in the atmosphere though, which is a bit harder to clean up :/