My Car Quest

December 6, 2024

A Warning About Self-Driving Cars

Tesla's Autopilot may have a Blind Spot that can kill you…. by Wallace Wyss - When I first saw the headline referring to a Tesla hitting a semi tractor-trailer, I thought “Oh, that’s old news—didn’t that happen like three years ago?” … [Read more...]

Twilight Zone of the Automobile

Submitted for your perusal: Two Scenes of Tomorrow Text and images by Richard Bartholomew - Scene one Autos are all self driven, all completely safe, the mandate of the year 20xx made all 'antique' cars illegal. Most cars have become … [Read more...]

Driverless Cars – A Game Changer For Cities

by Rilind Elezaj - First came the train, then the public transport vehicles, and now the personal cars…all these are on the brink of being substituted with the more efficient and sophisticated autonomous cars. Tech futurists predict that all … [Read more...]

Should We Worry About Hacking Of Autonomous Cars?

by Scott Huntington - Self-driving, autonomous cars are the wave of the future — the perfect example of science fiction becoming science fact. Technology giants like Google and Tesla have been leading the way, producing either completely … [Read more...]

Automobile Luddites – The Second Part

by Mike - In Automobile Luddites The First Part I wrote about the difficult transition from horse powered carriages and wagons to gasoline powered cars and trucks and why some people resisted this inevitable change. The automobile evolved … [Read more...]

Automobile Luddites – The First Part

by Mike - Technology transitions tend to create upheaval in human society; few more so than the transition from animal power to machine power in the late 19th and early 20th century. The transition was not only a change in the way we move … [Read more...]