Ten percent Devil's advocate here and ninety percent real: I'd be interested in the opposite of this. Driving in town (especially here in Thailand where drivers are completely insane, but really anywhere) annoys me / raises my blood pressure. But highway roadtrips are actually rather fun, nice scenery and fun roads. So a whole lot of the time, if I had to choose one or the other, I'd take the highway bits and let the auto-drive handle traffic and stop lights.

The progress shown here is impressive, but overall I think that things will only get really useful when the car can handle as much (or as little) of the drive as you want it to, all the way on up to driving 100% of the way from driveway to parking at the destination.

Well... My mom filled out a raffle ticket on my name when i was two, we won a SAAB 96 and traded it for this model, 99. Almost the same color (metallic paint was for US export model...). My family kept it for 25 years, it served us really well. I learned to drive with it and that thing handles like a dream (it has heavy steering but is is so stable and responsive, just wonderful, plus ours had aftermarket short gearbox from police unit and bored cylinders, small tweaks to oomph the torque for caravan use. Finnish police used SAAB for a loong time, it accelerated like a rocket..).

Seeing the inside of that just brings me memories. Mom, Dad, my big brother and me and a full sized double bass, all inside (you can't transport it outside when it's freezing, the thing can explode..). It meant that i had to ride shotgun, seat fully front and back against the front door, head on dashboard. Backseat folded and mom and bro at the back, equally cramped. We used to say that first comes the bass, then the family if they fit in and there is always room in the boot (joke.. ). The day he started to play cello was a blessing and a curse. Have you ever had to live with a person that learns to play cello? It's horrible but i paid him back when i got full blown PA in my room, cabinets from floor to ceiling.. Musicians family is always a bit eccentric and weird..

My dad still has SAAB (fourth one) as they are just amazing to drive, handles winter conditions like nothing and are great for long roadtrips. I just hope i can get him the Citroen CX he has wanted from his teens...

@Quboid - I dunno about "Luddites", but to each his own. If people don't find a smartphone/tablet/whatever useful, then they shouldn't buy one. Cost/benefit isn't the same for everyone.

I have a Galaxy S 2 also, but I'm not much of a "cloud" person. I have gmail and some picasa galleries to share photos with my folks, and that is about it. No facebook or anything like that. I mainly use the phone for games, eBook reading (took me forever to be a convert to this, but "night" modes with white text on black background fixed eyestrain issues I originally had with moving away from ink on paper), music, and roadtrip GPS.

None of that is exactly universal must-have functionality. So while I'm personally happy with my purchase, I fully understand the folks that are resistant or hesitant to jump on the new-tech bandwagon.

Emily Louise Church who featured in the programme has this to say about her experience and the Biased Broadcasting Corporations editing. http://theglobalawakening.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/911-roadtrip-my-perspective-by-emily-louise-church-on-friday-09-september-2011-at-0327/

Yes, much of this photography seems to have been in my own backyard.

G'bless California.

>> ^Issykitty:

I do believe I've been to that lighthouse on a roadtrip up the coast.

I do believe I've been to that lighthouse on a roadtrip up the coast.

Okay, I just past the half way point of this documentary, and I am beginning to get the feeling that the original filmmaker, Erin, REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY wants this issue to stay alive, despite the fact that it's been naturally dwindling down drastically after the 1st week.

Restoring the vandalized sign? Really???? I mean that was just weird. And the roadtrip and the stickers, I can see that to someone else it wouldn't make sense. It seems like a personal thing than actually trying to solve the problem. She's tackling the problem in her own way, but to someone else it may look inefficient. Getting as much media coverage and exposure of this matters is good (for example, THIS DOCUMENTARY), but yet she is also doing a lot of extra things that are actually counter-productive. Erin is angry, and rightly so, but it's preventing her from thinking things through to become more effective. She's already lost some of her close friends because of her confusing acts, and I wouldn't blame them.

Take a look at 00:36:55 when the woman being interviewed thinks your car had been vandalized because of the car's license plate. Trying to change the licence plate to 'Fag Bug' would make it look like you are actually like the term, yet the very point of this trip is to speak against calling gays/lesbians 'ur a fag'. It's just confusing as fuck.

Obviously she didn't plan this trip months ahead, and it was a spur of the moment thing. And I am starting to get the sense of her personality, someone who reacts emotionally and fatalistically and dive into the cause. at 00:42:00 she talks of how her lease is ending and her girlfriend won't be there when she comes back from the trip. She's putting everything on the line, meaning that she took this trip without resolving these matters before hand. A lot of loose ends that creates all these problems for her. She suggests that this is the kinds of sacrifice she's making for this trip, but I personally think these 'sacrifices' could've easily been avoided had she though things through a bit. A different person could have gone on this trip and things may have been a lot more organized.

Starting from 00:45:50, She also mentions that 99% of negative feedback came from the gay community. Now she never gets into why that's happening. That's probably because she doesn't understand the phenomenon herself. I may have a wild guess as to say that the gay community may have the same issue I am having with Erin. Her whole trip and this 'movement' is very self centered and unorganized, and even though the goal of this project may be clear to Erin, the portrayal of the message is unclear and confusing for others. Again, this is another case where a bit of organization and less complication would have eased the tension between her and the gay community.

I commend her for putting all the efforts to fight for what she is passionate about. But frankly, she's doing some weird shit to try to keep this thing alive, nor is she making it easy for people to understand it.

I go to North Beach and stare at Vancouver Island. Perhaps you have seen me waving?

>> ^nanrod:

Hey I'm like Sarah Palin, I used to be able to see you from my front porch. Well, only in the winter when the trees in the cemetery lost their leaves, and only with a decent set of binoculars. Looks like a beautiful little town, closest I've come to it was a roadtrip from Victoria to Seattle via Port Angeles to see Aerosmith.

Hey I'm like Sarah Palin, I used to be able to see you from my front porch. Well, only in the winter when the trees in the cemetery lost their leaves, and only with a decent set of binoculars. Looks like a beautiful little town, closest I've come to it was a roadtrip from Victoria to Seattle via Port Angeles to see Aerosmith.

5 minutes prior to this roadtrip video they kicked their wives out of the cars.

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The world certainly won't become a better place if people sit around and do nothing.

Can you be so sure? Do you realize--had they done nothing--how many drunk-driving, road-raging shitbirds wouldn't have killed innocents? How many tragic idiots wouldn't have been born because their breeder/keepers did nothing instead of fook? How fewer pieces of highway litter there would be due to canceled roadtrips?

The mind can make a heaven out of hell or a hell out of heaven. --John Milton

I'd love a nice safe road to Brazil. Does that make me part of the New World Order? ROADTRIP!