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Return from 2020: Super Cruise Control

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Return from 2020: Super Cruise Control

from JoeUser Forums

The time machine worked like a charm (this time anyway) and I got to spend a few hours in 2020.

Things haven’t changed nearly as much as I imagined (I was hoping for Amazon delivery drones, but alas, none to be found).  But my friend drove me up north and showed off a relatively new feature on his BMW: Super Cruise.

Now, admittedly, I had hoped there would be self-driving cars by then but apparently they still aren’t a thing in 2020 which was a big bummer.  However, most of the high end cards do have Super Cruiser (different companies call it different things – Ford calls theirs “Smart Cruise”).

Anyway, the way it works is that you get on a highway, get to the speed you want and set “Super Cruise” which will then keep you on the road at that speed, in that lane and handle acceleration and deceleration as well as steering.  It only works on certain highways under certain conditions (all GPS / road condition based – which has come a long way) but otherwise it’s pretty neat.

I wasn’t there long but if anyone has any questions on 2020 I’ll try my best to answer. Smile

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Reply #26 from LittleTinyFrogs Forums Top

Like Paul says, there are a lot of languages that are viable for writing games, including Python.  Civ4 used Python for UI and scripting (although as Kael will tell you, one of the most popular mods turned off Python scripting support so that it would run faster).  Civ4 used C++ for its engine as well as its gameplay and AI processing.  Civ5 used a combination of Lua and C++.

We use C++ because perf and control is important to us.

Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Ah yes, 2020, when cop cars have intercept mode and nothing can outrun them... despite 'super cruise' mode.

2020 is also when their batons are replaced with light sabres.

Instead of beating the crap out of perps and facing police brutality charges, they slice 'em up into small pieces with their light sabres and dispose of the evidence.  Cops on the dog squad 'll have it easy, but other cops 'll have to be more inventive.

:-"

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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top

It's always 'interesting....define interesting...oh, god, we're all going to die?' - how a thread wanders off-topic.  What began as a discussion re self-drive cars ended up about program languages....

...back in my day 'program language' was...grab-a-paperclip-and-punch-holes-in-cards ...;)

Reply #29 from Elemental Forums Top

Thanks TheRealWarpstorm.

Reply #30 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 28

It's always 'interesting....define interesting...oh, god, we're all going to die?' - how a thread wanders off-topic.  What began as a discussion re self-drive cars ended up about program languages....

...back in my day 'program language' was...grab-a-paperclip-and-punch-holes-in-cards ...
End of Jafo's quote

Kafkaesque story incoming: I work at a big government institution with information security. One day a guy brings by one of those big cardboard-boxes meant for moving stuff. Inside are a couple of tens of thousand of those punch cards. Nobody knows what is on them - the only description we have is "borrowed IBM punchcards" written on the box. The guy that left them retired and expired. So now I have this big box in one of my offices because I can't make anyone take a decision to get rid of them. There aren't any resources to actually find out what it is, but there COULD be something valuable on them. The archive won't take them because they demand that there is a good description of the contents. And then there's the dreaded possibility that whoever we borrowed them from (if we even did so) will come looking one day.

I sometimes think this box will be around for decades or more.