From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-21 06:58:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed1.uni2.dk!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:58:33 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PVV Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.241.82.81 X-Trace: orkan.itea.ntnu.no 1082555913 25934 129.241.82.81 (21 Apr 2004 13:58:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:58:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7382 Date: 2004-04-21T13:58:33+00:00 List-Id: On 2004-04-21, Marius Amado Alves wrote: > The steering wheel, the interface, is a normal steering wheel, but > that may be an atavism from the old days when everything was > mechanical i.e. I don't know if the communication to the real wheels > is mechanical. I know it is "assisted" i.e. there is some kind > (mechanical, possibly hidraulical) of augmentation of the human > driver's force--a standard feature in all modern cars. If I remember correctly it is not allowed to have a steeringsystem in a car in Norway that isn't mechanical. I mean servo-steering is allowed, but you cannot put a joystick in your car and use this to steer with if you understand what I mean. > (Personally I'd prefer a joystick or a touch screen or something like > that if the communication is not mechanical, but that's a clever I would never want this as I bet the cars would have a C/C++/Java steering system. And of course : "All electronic equipment such as mobile telephone, radio transmitters and receivers must be turned off during this drive ..." > A rational modern car would have *all* controls on a touch screen in > front of the driver. Ok, maybe leave something for the feet, to free > your hands a little. Let us hope for your sake that the battery doesn't malfunction. It is not for nothing that modern cars with electric windows is equipped with a small hammer so you can break the glass and get out in case you crash/drive into a lake and cannot get the window open due to the electricity failing... -- Preben Randhol -------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ () "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent" /\ - Isaac Asimov