Are we to old to drive this car?

[chrisy]

Are we to old to drive this car?
No joke! Scary, but true?
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presenting the new Mercedes Benz SCL600

Pretty, isn't it?

So?
What's different about this car?

Not this...

???
Here is the real difference

Whoa! No Steering Wheel
No Pedal either

You drive this car with a joystick Do you think that you
can drive with a joystick?
Your kids and grandkids can.
The influence of video games in our lives
has really arrived, wouldn't you say
But there is more!
Now a 3year old can steal your car

 

[john250]

We two are too old to drive this car. You're younger than myself, but still of a generation which prefers mechanical links to important things like...steering. And brakes and the throttle. I watched "2001 A Space Oydessy" and I'll never let HAL drive my car.

If I had Bill Gates money I still wouldn't buy this thing in that color. Add a steering wheel and paint it pearl white and I'll take two. :lol:

 

[ALACOWMAN]

i cant even opperate my sons cell phone.. let alone take my eyes off to see what button to press.. by the time i figured it out id be buried in the ass end of a semi :cowboy:

 

[Jogeephus]

If this becomes standard I'm in a mess.

 

[kenny thomas]

Did not take me too long to learn to run a bulldozer with a joystick but I believe this would be harder. At least with the dozer I was going slow when I hit the tree. No thanks.

 

[I luv herfrds]

Yes!
Forget it. I wouldn't buy any vehicle with that set up.
Will drive hubby's 1924 Model T Roadster pickup before I drive that thing.

 

[MO_cows]

Everything old is new again. If you look back at some of the early cars, they didn't have steering wheels. Some of them had levers, not exactly a joystick but not a steering wheel either.

Jeez if you coughed or sneezed with your hand on the joystick you could be in real trouble. And how about if your front seat passenger gets cute and tries to take over the controls??

From the car makers perspective it might be cheaper to manufacture, they wouldn't have to build them different for the countries that drive on the other side of the road.

 

[Anonymous]

I don't think it would be too bad depending on how sensitive the controls are. Kinda like the old stick steer boats..cross between a tiller control and helm control. I had the joy of running a 33 foot offshore center console fishing boat and the throttles were "fly by wire"...no cables. Tripple 300 hp engines where the throttle position was sensed by a computer. Now that was touchy. Everytime you came off a swell or wave it would throttle up because of sea conditions and having to work the throttle all the time.....got kinda scary when seas got to 5-7 ft...no thank you

 

[ChrisB]

So if your left handed do you sit in the 'passenger' seat? If your a left handed mailman this might be just the ticket.

 

[john250]

So if your left handed do you sit in the 'passenger' seat? If your a left handed mailman this might be just the ticket.

I'm a lefty, but I'm so conditioned by my tractor to use mostly the right hand (tranny and hydraulic remotes and hitch) that I would likely prefer to use my right hand on that car.
BTW, some of the high end tractors and combines have used this sort of thing for years. But as Kenny said, at least you're going slow when you hit the tree.

 

[JHH]

:roll: Can you say RECALL.

Toyota got in a mess with the drive by wire throttle. What do you think is going to happen to this when Mr brown who has alot of money drives it home down his gravel road and in a year or so everthing stops working. I see big flaws here not to mention law suits.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

yep like the eletronic power steering assistt motor were having to replace on the colbalts

 

[dieselbeef]

drive it like ya stole it

 

[ALACOWMAN]

drive it like ya stole it

trust me, if you see me in it ..........i did

 

[Angus Guy]

Lets think black ice. Joystick could get real interesting.

 

[1982vett]

Don't worry...the computer is going to over ride what you tell it to do anyway. :lol: