Matt Jones

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Rise of the Robo-cones

Engineers in the US have developed a robotic traffic bollard, groups of which can control traffic flow by being deployed on roads using a satellite navigation system.

Well there’s plenty of scope for sci-fi/horror/techno thriller stories here. At first they will be dumb machines controlled remotely by a laptop, but what about in the future when they’re given more intelligence to become autonomous units? There will be armies of them rising up against their four-wheeled oppressors.

They could terrorize innocent motorists by configuring themselves to send traffic in the wrong direction, like over a nearby cliff!

They could create road blocks on major trade routes, stifling the economy and bringing poverty to the masses.

They will learn how to replicate themselves until they out-number the human population, enslaving us to do menial tasks for them, like direct Robo-cone traffic.

Young student cones will steal humans and keep them in their homes for other cones to laugh and jeer at. There wil…..

I’ll stop now.

5 Responses to “Rise of the Robo-cones”

  1. 5:26 am on 4 February 2003 :::

    Stu Says:

    Glad to see the license fee isn’t a total waste. Mixing It is fantastic!

  2. 9:29 am on 4 February 2003 :::

    Matt Says:

    I don’t think you need a license to listen to BBC radio. For the first few months of living in my new flat, we had no TV and didn’t pay a license. Instead, I listened to the radio and came to the conclusion the quality of BBC radio programming far exceeds that of BBC TV.

  3. 1:07 pm on 4 February 2003 :::

    natis Says:

    man, i wish there was a way to get Xfm here in the states other than streaming it. The idiots that maintain the site don’t support the mac for streams and every so often I have to sift through their code to find the server and plug that into M$’s media player crud.

    –natis

  4. 3:03 pm on 4 February 2003 :::

    Tommy Says:

    Cool speakers. Retro is good. I’ve got a Bose sound system planned for my Mac. Now all I need is money. Damn. ;)

  5. 8:51 am on 29 April 2004 :::

    Stu Says:

    Fear not – Will Smith will save us. (Actually I think I\’d prefer enslavement by our robot masters). Alternatively, we could just send someone back in time to kill the inventor of these robot traffic cones. On second thoughts, that\’d never work ;-)

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