My Car Quest

April 23, 2024

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...]

Autonomous Cars – Question No. 5

by Mike - Wallace Wyss, a frequent contributor, is sending yes his last question about what can we expect from autonomous cars when they "take over" around 2020. THE SCENARIO You are a passenger in a fully autonomous car--no steering wheel, … [Read more...]

Autonomous Cars – Question No. 4

by Mike - In connection with research for his upcoming book on autonomous cars, author Wallace Wyss has posed another scenario he envisions could happen as we enter the vaunted age of autonomous cars. Readers are invited to loose their slings … [Read more...]

Autonomous Cars – Question No. 3

by Mike - In connection with research for his upcoming book on autonomous cars, author Wallace Wyss has posed another scenario he envisions could happen as we enter the vaunted age of autonomous cars. Readers are invited to loose their slings … [Read more...]

Autonomous Cars – Question No. 2

by Mike - Contributor Wallace Wyss, hard at work on a book on autonomous cars, has volunteered to publish five different scenarios on My Car Quest, one every few days, to see what readers think about what will inevitably happen once the robots … [Read more...]