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Not sure I will ever trust auto pilot cars.
This is not big break through because everything is already invented.
But always had the idea that if you took the highway land already owned by government and installed a monorail running on magnets alongside the roads.
They could do away with over the road semi trucks by hooking them up like trains and shooting them down the road to hubs where trucks can pick them up for local delivery.
Would save tons in rubber, fuel, oil, wrecks, traffic, and such. Plus keep all truck drivers local and at home every night.
Simplicity equals complexity.
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Oh, I know!
Full automation of manual labor/transportation jobs.
Massive poverty among the majority of American population.
Political violence on a major scale and extremism in electoral politics.
Drug addiction as a way of life for a majority of Americans, illegal drug trade as the only real way to obtain money.
A bunch of dumb gadgets that nobody will be able to afford because there's no middle class.
A bunch of people blowing their brains out.
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You can buy your own for around $150,000.00 I think.
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They exist, but not near as common as they will be.
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(02-14-2018, 02:15 PM)CKwi88 Wrote: Just give me self driving cars and I'll be happy.
Big fight over the self driving semi trucks. Unions are going nuts.
Overall soon it will be all self driving.