It is called a Traffic Light!

Nerfherder

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Take a look at the 7 series... its basically a robot. Park assist, drive assist, GPS, onboard computer, cruise control. Its controlled buy a human but only just.
 

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Take a look at the 7 series... its basically a robot. Park assist, drive assist, GPS, onboard computer, cruise control. Its controlled buy a human but only just.

Ok lets see it do its job without you turning the key, stepping on the petrol pedal or actually steering.
 

Nerfherder

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Ok lets see it do its job without you turning the key, stepping on the petrol pedal or actually steering.

Thats not its job.... its job is to move where you want it to go and the 7 series doesn't have a key.

What I was pointing out was that it is ALMOST entirely automatic, its pretty much a robotic car.
 

Devill

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Thats not its job.... its job is to move where you want it to go and the 7 series doesn't have a key.

What I was pointing out was that it is ALMOST entirely automatic, its pretty much a robotic car.

Lol, no its an auto mobile.

Not a robot, a robot can function independantly, BMWs need pricks inside to function :p :D

J/K
 

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What do the English call robots? because we use British English. Americans are lazy and leave out letters. Colour is Color etc
 

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ROBOT - a machine devised to function in place of a living agent(person), one which acts automatically or with a minimum of external impulse.

Robots were implimented to replace the need to have a person at an intersection to direct and control the flow of traffic.
The automated system was supposed to improve the flow of traffic, and reduce congestion during heavy traffic flow.

Traffic lights, also known as traffic signals, stop lights, traffic lamps, stop-and-go lights, robots or semaphore, are signaling devices positioned at road intersections, pedestrian crossings, and other locations to control competing flows of traffic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_light

Ya nee! Ja well no fine!
I get gatvol with people who who want to change everything into proper English or worse want to Americanise our language.
 

Devill

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ROBOT - a machine devised to function in place of a living agent(person), one which acts automatically or with a minimum of external impulse.

Robots were implimented to replace the need to have a person at an intersection to direct and control the flow of traffic.
The automated system was supposed to improve the flow of traffic, and reduce congestion during heavy traffic flow.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_light

Ya nee! Ja well no fine!
I get gatvol with people who who want to change everything into proper English or worse want to Americanise our language.

Nice :D

:eek: Wiki is not a trusted source though :p:D
 

Bizkit87

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well... the rest of the world 'text' each other.... saffas send sms'es?

it's something unique to us, i have a friend who lives in wales for the past 10 years, and when he was here, he found it very strange that we 'sms' each other, and not 'text'....

to qoute someone earlier in the thread... deal wif it....
 

Sly21C

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well... the rest of the world 'text' each other.... saffas send sms'es?

it's something unique to us, i have a friend who lives in wales for the past 10 years, and when he was here, he found it very strange that we 'sms' each other, and not 'text'....

to qoute someone earlier in the thread... deal wif it....

I remember when Will Smith came to this country for the 46664 concert and he was on stage, he told the crowd to "text" 46664 to donate some money, at that time I had no idea what he meant by text.

I'll stick to sms, and robot, and braai, and cellphone, etc :D
 
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