Originally published at: New study shows that goldfish can drive cars | Boing Boing
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Put them in an M1 Abrams and it’ll be a fish tank?
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When they can navigate the California freeway system I’ll be impressed.
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Goldfish have advanced pretty well since 1988.
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And folks who drive for a living now have an even worse enemy than Uber and Lyft.
The good news is, goldfish can’t operate a navigation system, and they’re notoriously stubborn about not stopping and asking for directions.
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But they don’t need bicycles.
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They can also play fetch
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The average goldfish is probably a better driver than the average around here!
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It would have been easier to put the fish in a Tesla with autopilot. Then they’d just have to teach the fish to enter the GPS coordinates of its destination.
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Wait until they scale up to salmon!
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I assume Gary Larson was the inspiration for this.
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Or Megamind
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yeah, sure, but they’re shite at parallel parking
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Huh, I remember reading about a project like this years and years ago. I wonder if it was the same group, or it was another group entirely… [After some Googling that discounts the flood of recent results]… it looks like a number of different groups have done the same thing (created a moving fish tank that is controlled by a goldfish), going back at least 8 years, but no one was demonstrating that the fish was moving in a purposeful way to control the vehicle, which is pretty significant.
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And if they get in an accident they forget about it 90 seconds later…
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Be careful what you wish for.
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Remembering where they have to drive to can be a problem.
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