Short, but interesting video on sci-fi inventions from the Associated Press archives first posted by the BBC last year, including a self parking car:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33508830
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I love the self parking car from 1961.
The blistering heat of advances in the motoring industry still means that it is just now becoming common place in cars as an expensive optional extra!
:-)
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If you can't park your own car you can't claim to be able to drive. A pointless gizmo, sure to go wrong before the jalopy's worn out.
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It wasn't me who had the accident, the car decided to self park in the hedge after demolishing the garden wall...
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>>If you can't park your own car you can't claim to be able to drive.
I have had my clean licence for 52+ years and really feel I could park any car in even tight spaces given 2 wing mirrors & some light.
Almost 4 years ago I bought a new CRV with sensors back & front + reversing camera etc etc & at first I dismissed them as gizmos I did not need.
Over time I have got used to them and fairly recently tried to park a friend's car which had only 2 wing mirrors. I managed but really felt unease at not having the assurance of the "parking gizmos"
It seems yesterday's luxury add-ons are today's necessities.
How would a 17 yr old driver of today fair without power steering, power brakes, no wing mirrors, no heated rear window, no reversing lights, no synchromesh, no windscreen washers....... and deal with a choke, crossply tyres, drum brake fade,
Can you add anymore?
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Can you add anymore?
A Watney's Party Seven!!!
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>> Can you add anymore?
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>> A Watney's Party Seven!!!
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Red Barrel.
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>> How would a 17 yr old driver of today fare...
Electric windows, central locking, sat nav? Headlights that you can see with?
Most of all though the roadholding and braking of today, which are in a different league to that of 1970s cars even without the support ABS and ESP.
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>> >> How would a 17 yr old driver of today fare...
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>> Electric windows, central locking, sat nav? Headlights that you can see with?
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>> Most of all though the roadholding and braking of today, which are in a different
>> league to that of 1970s cars even without the support ABS and ESP.
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I was a bit older but my first company car was a red Ford Escort diesel. Not turbocharged and no power steering but it did have a sun roof that leaked.
The Ford radio got so hot that heating wasn't needed in the winter! Goodness knows what generating all that heat did for fuel consumption! The rear windows would wind themselves down over the course of a long journey and I had to stop a couple of times to wind them back up,
I don't miss the lack of ESP, ABS, power steering, cruise control, power windows, heated wing mirrors and the ability to regularly break down on some godforsaken A road in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the night before mobile phones were commonplace!
Last edited by: zippy on Mon 25 Jul 16 at 22:27
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>How would a 17 yr old driver of today fair without...
They'd end up in a ditch because they were too occupied posting a moan to their twitface account.
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>>How would a 17 yr old driver of today fair without
>> power steering, power brakes, no wing mirrors, no heated rear window,
>> no reversing lights, no synchromesh, no windscreen washers....... and deal with a choke, >>crossply tyres, drum brake fade,
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No heater, vacuum wipers, a tiny interior mirror but worst of all no radio/multi speakers.
I guess they are all wired for sound these days.
Often better sized windows in the past plus a lack of head rests and seat belts should also compensate/ improve vision :-)
My Cortina 1600E was not fun to park with fat wheels and no power steering.
Mine developed a common 1600E fault, the standard steering box tore its fixing bolts out and that was not due to rust.
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>> My Cortina 1600E
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Huh! Cortina 1600E
Pah!
!959 Ford Popular 1172c.c. side valve engine, with those cute vacuum operated wipers.
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Interesting recall of new inventions... - zippy
