Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats

Re:Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats by ape4 on Saturday November 02, 2019 @12:36PM (#21428594)

We have posts today about self driving cars (that cost billions in development) and rat driven cars (that probably cost under a thousand). Rats have a native understanding of snow, rain and other bad weather.

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Re:Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats by maxerickson on Saturday November 02, 2019 @12:50PM (#21428663)

And poor distance vision.

http://www.ratbehavior.org/perception.htm

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Re:Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats by ape4 on Saturday November 02, 2019 @07:14PM (#21430784)

Rat glasses

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Re:Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats by SlowRobotAhead on Saturday November 02, 2019 @01:33PM (#21428904)

Well... that’s the annoying thing about horses. We had self-driving transportation for the past 10,000 years.

Atrocious ethics aside... I do wonder what the progress of horse-brain autonomous vehicles would look like.

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Re:Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats by manicdee on Sunday November 03, 2019 @06:13PM (#21437438)

I’d prefer my car doesn’t get spooked by cyclists and loud noises.

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Re:Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats by rantwasp on Saturday November 02, 2019 @01:05PM (#21428752)

what are you saying? self driving rat cars?

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Re:Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats by sillysaurusx on Saturday November 02, 2019 @01:25PM (#21428859)

It would be pretty interesting to scale up the experiment. Making a control scheme for rats in a full-size car wouldn’t be too hard. But you might have to progressively train them on larger and larger vehicles.

Careful not to let it out of the lab though, otherwise it might become aware of how much power it’s been given. Most powerful rat in history. :)

Imagine being a rat in a full-size car. It must feel like you’re driving a house.

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Re:Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats by rantwasp on Saturday November 02, 2019 @01:47PM (#21428989)

talking about the rat race

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Re:Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats by sebastos on Saturday November 02, 2019 @02:02PM (#21429067)

I'm not sure exactly why but this question has left me breathless in hysterical laughter.

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Re:Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats by rantwasp on Saturday November 02, 2019 @02:15PM (#21429133)

you’re laughing now, but wait until uber will be driven by an all-rat tight knit crew of hackers

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