[FRIAM] A million year old driving assistant

[David Eric Smith]

I have an idea; sure to make millions.

In Japan a dumb thing that is popular is grooves in the road that play songs as you drive over them.  Mostly if I owned the car, I would be deducting time to the next alignment, bearing replacement, etc., but I don’t own the car.

Also in Japan, all things that turn talk to you to make sure you know they are turning (as do fire extinguishers, and much else; very Philip K. Dick).  

So cut voice tracks into the rumble strip.

Fuck’s wrong with you!  Get back in your lane!  You don’t get enough sleep have no business being out here in the first place!  Gonna take that car away from you and make you ride a Tesla Uber.

We could hold competitions for what goes into the grooves, sell them like billboard space.  Businesses would advertise.  Cracker Barrell has really lousy coffee; five miles ahead.

Eric

> On Apr 25, 2022, at 6:59 AM, Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 4/24/22 12:31 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
>> I am reading at the moment the German translation of "The Museum of Abandoned Secrets" from the Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko. It is a long novel about the history of Ukraine. She writes sentences as long as pages where one metaphor follows the next like pearls on a necklace of beads.
>> 
>> One of these metaphors made me think if we can describe emotions as a "driving assistant" for the vehicles created by our selfish genes. A driving assistant shaped by million years of evolution which wakes up in the right moments and guides us in the right direction (whenever it is supper- or pairing time). If we select the right direction, then it rewards us by a boost of energy or fuel.
>> 
>> Does it make sense to extend Dawkins' metaphor like this? Our BMW 330E has for example a system that warns the driver if he comes to close to the edge of the lane. Then the wheel starts to vibrate.
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_driver-assistance_systems
> 
> Jochen -
> 
> Thanks for the reference, Zabuzhko looks like a fascinating novelist/philosopher... I tiny good thing that comes from the Russian Invasion is a newfound awareness of all things Ukrainian
> 
> It is obvious but fascinating for a virtual "driver assistant" to emulate the "rumble strip" which emulates the "rough edge of the highway" itself...
> 
> In our own back yard, an FM encoding of our national anthem:
> 
>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l2vSsavVZs
> 
> 
> A recent poem I wrote on the topic of "rumble strips"
> 
> <h2>Ode to the Rumble Strip</h2>
> 
> <blockquote>Before seat belts and car seats, <br />
> we slept curled on a back seat <br />
> driving late into the night to get home<br />
> when the whine and hum <br />
> goes to sizzle, then a low rumble<br />
> not the flap flap flap of a flat<br />
> you know dad let the car tire touch<br />
> loose gravel, random edges of asphalt<br />
> correction!  Back to center... ahhhh...<br />
> The inventor of the rumble strip<br />
> must have done time in the same back seat<br />
> I've driven across NM/OK/KS with my eyes closed<br />
> feeling my way along<br />
> by rumble strip alone.<br />
> how many lives saved<br />
> or lost<br />
> to the humble rumble<br />
>     ...strip?<br />
> </blockquote>
>> 
>> -J.
>> 
>> 
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