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Each car would have an extreme magnetic field, each being magnitized with a south pole magnet. When the cars came close together they would bounce off because of the reppelling magnets. To solve the problem of driving off the road there would be poles on either side of the field, each magnitized like the cars. When the cars started to drive off the road the poles would reppel the cars back on. On the bottom of each car would be a magnet detecter that would dettect magnets of the opposite force. it would notify the driver so the object would not stick to the car.
that's a start. But a few questions if I may.
First, how would it detect traffic lights?
Second, how about road signs such as stop signs, speed limits, street names, etc.
And third, just how are you supposed to know where your going in the first place?
I'm sure I'll think of more but let's start with those questions.
I suppose the street names could be done with GPS but i also have got the questions about speed limits etc.
Blind people should not drive cars, end of story.
Seconded, Jared.
Hmmm will these cars be programmed to deal with animals straying on to the road, will they work in extreme weather, heavy rain snow ect, will they always be completely infalible?
And who exactly is going to be daft enough to take a blind person through their driving test.
The best place to drive is off road, or down an airfield, very quickly in an Aston Martin DB9.
Well the only that could be done is crashing into walls of buidlings/houses or perhaps a flying lesson off a bridge. so yeah it may not be such a good idea for blindies to drive a vehicle.
Unless... They come out with a car that could travel on it's own, like tell it where to go by telling it voice cammands or computer commands whatever. However I'd still be skepticle about that even then. That sounds futuristic I guess.
Well perhaps the V.I. civilians could drive, that could be a possibility.
I think we couold drive normal cars like sighties, just with a few little aditions to sat nav systems. They'd tell us if there were traffic lights up ahead, a car stopping in front or turning in to another road, car park or driveway and if there were animals or children running in to the road so you could stop the car and avoid hitting them.
It's an exciting idea until you take into consideration all the variables. It's near impossible. Not to rain on your parade but it's not a realistic idea at this point. technology can and does fail. it wouldn't be a question of if, but when.
I totally agree with Cam, we all know technology fails from time to time, so this is not a realistic idea at the moment.
With all those powerful magnets around I'd hate to take my laptop to work with me.
Bob
yeah. magnets would not be the way to go for many reasons. What has potential to work is very accurate gps and info red but that would be so hard to implament. and again, many variables which are beyond the equipment/passengers control could cause major perhaps fatal problems.
What effect would they have on normal cars it's daft.
The problem on detecting animals and small things on the road has already been solved on cars today. My grandparents have a detecter on the front of there car for things like that and they say that it works well.
Really but eh they can see.
The beasties would the magnets detect something meandering on to the road in time..when I'm doing 190mph in my Bugatti,I'd want to be sure.
Also in adverse weather would they work as well how about deviations in the surface or an alteration in road camber, due to maintenence, would they keep pace with constantly changing conditions?
How about earthquake zones where the road shape is constantly changing