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[Syriel]

Dunno, animals are pretty stupid.

Probably just loud dangerous containers.

It's like you didn't even read the thread.

 

[Sylver]

Bad premise "think".

 

[Rabid-Coot]

Meerkats send subordinate members of the group across first to test the road. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130218173226.htm

 

[Len Dontree]

 

[daveo42]

Probably either wild animals with other wild animals inside or large cages that move real fast.

 

[Ravensmash]

Loud angry animals with wheels for legs.

 

[QuickSilverD]

Dolphins, whales, chimps, dog, bees, ants are just some of the species known to pass along information to each other. Dolphin language is estimated to be as complex as human language in terms of grammar and vocabulary.

They dance at each other. From the wiki page on Bee Learning and Communication:

So does this means some animals can actually pass down MEMES ?!

 

[Rabbi_Vole]

Pigeons here in SF are too lazy to fly. They will wait to cross the street at the crosswalk and cross when the light changes.







It's not like you can't train a dog to drive a car on a track. Have to reconfigure the controls so he can reach, but Porter knows what's up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWAK0J8Uhzk


Monty's not too bad either:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRN_L3nTlLQ




Dolphins, whales, chimps, dog, bees, ants are just some of the species known to pass along information to each other. Dolphin language is estimated to be as complex as human language in terms of grammar and vocabulary.

You can train a dog to do most anything with a few dollops of peanut butter.

 

[Pandaman]

It's not like you can't train a dog to drive a car on a track. Have to reconfigure the controls so he can reach, but Porter knows what's up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWAK0J8Uhzk


Monty's not too bad either:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRN_L3nTlLQ

now take away the trainer telling them what to do and when to do it.

 

[ZealousD]

It's a small human shelter that moves around and makes loud noises.

 

[Raonak]

Depends on what animal and how long they spend around the vehicle.
saying that animals don't think is a massively ignorant thing to say.

I think great apes, dolphins, maybe crows and octipii could grasp the concept of a vehicle. I think tool using animals could drive a vehicle if they were custom built for them.

 

[Necromanti]

It's like you didn't even read the thread.

Well, animals are pretty stupid.

 

[Herne]

I think animals are mostly on instinct and reacting to their environment through those instincts only, or near to only - this loud thing coming my way (a car) might be dangerous, let's avoid it. Or this big thing isn't making a sound, sniff for danger, if no danger, come closer and sniff more. Curiousity may be one of the few things, other than their instincts, that they feel, as many (all?) animals are often curious. There are others - some animals appear to feel they should protect the young of other species - I'm pretty sure I saw some video on YouTube where a lioness came across a baby antelope next to it's dead mother and stayed around to protect it for hours, or some such.

Some primitive form of compassion as might have developed in our own brains at an early stage in our development, or just the maternal instinct coming through strong? Who knows.

 

[FUME5]

An animal can temporarily fake its own death in order to escape a predator, camouflage patterns exist to fool predators and facilitate the outmaneuvering of prey, some animals have adapted actual physical organs in order to deceive and lure prey or intimidate predators away; the seed of potential?

Can we unlock the intellectual potential of crows, chimps, squids and dolphins by conditioning them to respect the value of lies and fabrication beyond the art of deception, into creation?

If we grafted mechanical limbs and hands onto them, and released these augmented individuals into the wild, would this heightened ability for physical manipulation increase their brain-power by mere virtue of new tactile ability?

Barring genetic engineering and biological means, could we create a Von Neumann-type of self-replicating surgical bot that detects new offspring of these chosen species and grafts mechanical limbs onto them, thereby perpetuating the proliferation of this ability; would this accelerate the process of artificial intellectual uplifting?

Would we eventually see the augmented parents teaching their augmented offspring how to use these augmentations?

I'm smoking some pretty good shit myself Blargs.

 

[-Plasma Reus-]

Seriously. Humans are SHOCKINGLY arrogant, and we've seen some fine displays of that arrogance in this thread.

Watch this short TED talk on bonobo chimpanzees (untrained) and come to terms with your ignorance:

http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_savage_rumbaugh_on_apes_that_write?language=en#t-994646

What do non-human animals think when they see a vehicle?

Is motherfucker driving the vehicle?!

 

[Surface of Me]

Actually, I would be surprised if most animals with brains more advanced than worms understood the difference between alive and dead. Instinctively, they want to survive and reproduce, but I doubt they understand that intellectually. Without the vocabulary to describe it, how would they know? How would an animal discern that another animal is living but a rock is not? Or even what living is?

how does animal know not to eat rock?

 

[Anteater]

a stupid moving dog house

it's probably not that much different to them as seeing houses or caves with living beings in them

 

[Ganzlinger]

OP step away from your humans computer and put their car keys down.

It's not like you can't train a dog to drive a car on a track. Have to reconfigure the controls so he can reach, but Porter knows what's up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWAK0J8Uhzk


Monty's not too bad either:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRN_L3nTlLQ




Dolphins, whales, chimps, dog, bees, ants are just some of the species known to pass along information to each other. Dolphin language is estimated to be as complex as human language in terms of grammar and vocabulary.

LMAO

I never thought that dogs driving cars would crack me up. I'm dying here.

 

[Catdaddy]

They think it's a people container. Like when you open a can of food they get excited, same concept.