Mortgage free by 2021?!

hiddenshadow

DH passed his test! :j :j :j :j

Have enquired about car inspections with AA and started looking at local(ish) cars to potentially see this weekend.

Have been spending a bit more than usual to take advantage of being home for deliveries this week. It'll all even out next month as we won't need to stock up on pet food/meds/etc for a while.

BookWorm

hiddenshadow wrote: »

DH passed his test! :j :j :j :j

:T Congratulations! :T

Ali-OK

Well done DH :T :j

Happy car shopping and good news getting those holiday days owed paid as well

All sounding good

Petal88

Congrats DH! Keep us updated on what car you end up with

hiddenshadow

Thanks all! He seems very relieved, and maybe even a little excited to shop for/own a car?

May investigate lessons myself now, too - DH thinks I could read the licence plate at the distance they had him at so we may drive up to the testing centre one day and check. I already know how to drive a manual, so it wouldn't take too many lessons to get me up to speed with the road laws here, and it would be handy if we both had licences. At least my backup plan will be self-driving cars, whenever they become widely available. :cool:

Watty1

Congratulations to DH

Petal88

haha does that mean you read MMM's latest blog post too?

hiddenshadow

Haha, just read it now - very interesting! DH and I happened to be talking about self-driving cars over the weekend so it was on my mind anyway...I definitely love the idea of just being the "backup driver" and letting a computer do all the decision/analysis work for me (not to mention the monotony of paying attention to everything on the road).

Petal88

I loved his assumption that all cars will be fuelled by solar powered electricity/hydrogen etc in the near future, but in terms of self driving cars I think I'm too risk averse to find it appealing yet. With all the teething problem some car manufacturers have had of people hacking into systems and making your brakes stop working/driving the car on your behalf, it terrifies me :eek:

hiddenshadow

Yeah, as a software developer I can see plenty of risks in having AI drive cars around!! I do like the idea of you "driving" but the car actually doing the moving, though. I think that's what he was describing with the Tesla? You still had to be in the driver's seat and aware of what's going on, but the car handles noticing cars slowing down ahead, safe distances to merge/pass/etc, all that good stuff where a computer's reflexes (or response time) would be far better than ours.

In the meantime, I'll "self-drive" a car via DH. :cool: