Submitted by Little-Ditty on Wed, 03/08/2011 - 23:11.
Stupid. Why take all the fun out of riding with these automatic gimmicks? This is the same sort of rubbish that will be making their way into car design over the next 20 years where you can take your hands off the wheel, read, and drive to work without doing a thing.
What is the actual point of automatic gear changing? Surely this has the potential where you have a stray thought and the gear changes by accident? Was this new technology the answer to the question that no cyclists were asking?
Don't tell me, Toyota is now designing a self-steering bike as well?
@Ben... yes, yes, that's fair enough. But the number of idiots capable of hacking software in their car would no doubt be much, much lower than the number of idiots currently not paying enough attention on the road.
'driving' is a method of transport. It's not a game.
Well - it can be a game if you visit your local closed race track or the Nürburgring, but on public roads... I'd rather avoid people having 'fun' in V8s thank you!
Agreed, not a lot beats a full tank of fuel and a few sessions at Eastern Creek.
Nurburgring is a little far to take the ute! - Wish I'd gone while I was living in England, but I didn't have a V8 back then.
Even driving to a from work can be involving, interesting and fun in the right vehicle. As soon as the car you drive becomes boring, less involved and hum drum, that's when complacency and therefore errors are made.
'cycling' is a method of transport. It's not a game.
Well - it can be a game if you visit your local closed velodrome or MTB park, but on public roads... I'd rather avoid people having 'fun' on bicycles thank you!
The problem these days, as I see it, is everyone's trying to stop everyone else having 'fun'.... :/
@pancakes... why don't you check out some statistics about how many people die or are inadvertently killed as a result of 'playing' on the road in cars. Then compare this with deaths caused by cycling. Then see if you're feeling quite so smug.
Dismayed maybe that there's an overabundance of narrow minded myopic narcissism pervading our society (and these very forums...)
Since when is it unsafe to enjoy driving a motor vehicle?
Seems people can't have fun doing anything these days...if you're not self flagellating before/during/after doing something you enjoy you're obviously doing something evil!
Q: Since when is it unsafe to enjoy driving a motor vehicle?
A: It's unsafe when the driver is inexperienced, with too many distractions, on unsuitable roads, with innocent bystanders in close proximity, in a vehicle that is too powerful for them to master.
I'm all for having fun, when it's done safely and in the right place. And this goes for everything, not just driving
BTW, I don't see how not wanting myself, or any of my friends (or anyone else for that matter) to be killed by 'joy' riders or other fools who cannot drive safely makes me narrow minded and myopic,
Stupid. Why take all the fun out of riding with these automatic gimmicks? This is the same sort of rubbish that will be making their way into car design over the next 20 years where you can take your hands off the wheel, read, and drive to work without doing a thing.
What is the actual point of automatic gear changing? Surely this has the potential where you have a stray thought and the gear changes by accident? Was this new technology the answer to the question that no cyclists were asking?
Don't tell me, Toyota is now designing a self-steering bike as well?
@Ditty... I completely agree about riding - keep it manual, but...
... the sooner we get self driving cars the better. You know what I'm saying here!
@Rob
How long will it be before some idiot re-progams their self driving car, runs down a cyclist and gets away with it as the car was in charge......
@Ben... yes, yes, that's fair enough. But the number of idiots capable of hacking software in their car would no doubt be much, much lower than the number of idiots currently not paying enough attention on the road.
Self driving cars? - NEVER!
The fun of driving is a manual 'box, rear drive and V8 under the bonnet.
If I had my way, auto's would be banned - it just makes for lazy drivers.
'driving' is a method of transport. It's not a game.
Well - it can be a game if you visit your local closed race track or the Nürburgring, but on public roads... I'd rather avoid people having 'fun' in V8s thank you!
Agreed, not a lot beats a full tank of fuel and a few sessions at Eastern Creek.
Nurburgring is a little far to take the ute! - Wish I'd gone while I was living in England, but I didn't have a V8 back then.
Even driving to a from work can be involving, interesting and fun in the right vehicle. As soon as the car you drive becomes boring, less involved and hum drum, that's when complacency and therefore errors are made.
The problem these days, as I see it, is everyone's trying to stop everyone else having 'fun'.... :/
@pancakes... why don't you check out some statistics about how many people die or are inadvertently killed as a result of 'playing' on the road in cars. Then compare this with deaths caused by cycling. Then see if you're feeling quite so smug.
uglier than a Prius bicycle?
Not feeling smug at all, Rob.
Dismayed maybe that there's an overabundance of narrow minded myopic narcissism pervading our society (and these very forums...)
Since when is it unsafe to enjoy driving a motor vehicle?
Seems people can't have fun doing anything these days...if you're not self flagellating before/during/after doing something you enjoy you're obviously doing something evil!
Since when is it unsafe to enjoy driving a motor vehicle?
Exactly, if driving was meant to be boring, we'd all be driving Toyota's.
Q: Since when is it unsafe to enjoy driving a motor vehicle?
A: It's unsafe when the driver is inexperienced, with too many distractions, on unsuitable roads, with innocent bystanders in close proximity, in a vehicle that is too powerful for them to master.
I'm all for having fun, when it's done safely and in the right place. And this goes for everything, not just driving
BTW, I don't see how not wanting myself, or any of my friends (or anyone else for that matter) to be killed by 'joy' riders or other fools who cannot drive safely makes me narrow minded and myopic,
This is very easy to resolve - Cars stay on bitumen, bikes stay on dirt!
No problem!