[ExI] hey they stole our idea!

[William Flynn Wallace]

I don't know about the motion sickness.  Is it like those people who can't
read in a car because it makes them dizzy?  Is it worse for some because
they are not in control of the vehicle?

bill w

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 11:19 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of
> BillK
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> Subject: Re: [ExI] hey they stole our idea!
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> On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 at 15:35, spike wrote:
> >
> > Remember hashing this out about 5 yrs ago?
> >
> > https://nypost.com/2018/11/12/self-driving-vehicles-will-lead-to-more-
> > car-sex-study/
> >
> > Well what the heck else are you going to do with all that extra time?
> > You can’t go anywhere, and a lotta people can’t read in a moving car
> > or even watch a video, and it doesn’t take all that long to eat a
> > meal, and a typical commute in from the central valley to the cool
> > stuff around Palo Alto is about an hour and a half, so…
> >
>
> One snag that I don't remember discussing ---- <
> https://theconversation.com/driverless-cars-will-make-you-sick-but-theres-a-fix-106646
> >
>
> Quote:
> My PhD research suggests we’ll never be as comfortable or productive as
> these visions portray without finding a way to combat motion sickness.
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>
> So you'll both have to look out the window to try control queasiness!
> :)
> BillK
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>
> Eh, entirely possible with some people, but... this too may help a
> particular class of harlot: those who don't get motion sickness.
>
> I was on a cruise with a dozen friends and noticed great variation in the
> impact of rough seas.  We had one friend turning green with every pitch and
> roll, but I scarcely noticed and never once experienced even mild motion
> sickness.  I have been on some pretty wild plane rides where I looked
> around and noticed I was the only one eating.  {8^D  I'm lucky that way.
>
> The notion of Meals on Wheels would reduce the harlot's overhead.  She (or
> he) need not provide the "office" since the customer does that.  She (or he
> (xe)) could make a fine living at 2/3 the price and still be a preferable
> deal for plenty of customers, since it carries the benefit of additional
> safety (the customer doesn't need to go into that part of town) and
> additional privacy (because anybody could be (and probably is) making video
> of who is visiting that part of town.)  A customer could have something as
> simple as a self-driving version of a Toyota Sienna, which isn't that
> different from a sedan but is big enough to put a bed back there behind the
> passenger seat.  Since that is about the most generic vehicle on the road,
> the local rising executive who really doesn't have time for romance could
> pick up a harlot on his way to or from work, and no one would know who
> hired her or him or xim.  Privacy!
>
> Then variations on a theme can be imagined: a harlot with her or his or
> xis own self-driving vehicle, which has its advantages as well.
>
> Regarding motion sickness: it can be imagined that a self-driver can be
> written to be a patient driver: its accelerations and decelerations can be
> milder, and there is none of that impatient switching lanes we carbon units
> do.
>
> I am coming from the viewpoint of one who lives next to a Silicon Valley
> interstate freeway, where the speed is seldom very high, so a lot of
> driving motion is pretty mild.
>
> spike
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