There are no rail lines to be built out with existing right of way so that’s not realistic. To build a new line in an area with a population density that can support a rail line will cost tens to hundreds of millions of dollars per mile.

Think about how we could improve our national rail system with only half of the $19 billion invested in Cruise.

I know everyone likes to make fun of a $30k engine but for what you get it’s really not a bad price.

Well, why don’t they?

LOL, you were just mentioning you were an engineer out of habit and not as an appeal to authority?

Ah, the appeal to authority. The last refuge of the intellectually downtrodden.

It’s paperwork only needs to be good enough to get exported to some “less discerning” country.

So you don’t have an example?

I see the problem, you’ve never actually fired a rifle before and are ignorant of the process. Step 1, load magazine into rifle. Step 2, charge rifle to load a round into the chamber. Step 3, shoulder rifle. Step 4, aim rifle. Step 5, squeeze trigger. All manual processes that require significant human intervention to…

How is that different than pushing a button in an elevator?

Without holding the rifle? How effective is that?

By making cheaper cars and making more of the cheaper cars compared to expensive ones

If you were fully aware about what software has an effect on you, you’d realize how ignorant that statement is. It’s not about what software you use, every major aspect of your life is controlled by software that you’ve never seen. Do you trust traffic lights to only be green in one direction at a time?…

A rifle will not shoot anything without significant human intervention, ABS works without a human doing anything.  That’s why one is automated and one is not.

You already trust your life to software everyday without even thinking about it and in ways you don’t even know.

Self driving is an active safety device that is being developed to compensate for a near total lack of appropriate driver training. 

You can dig a hole faster with a shovel than you can with your bare hands but that doesn’t mean shovels are automated. 

I’m not talking about your car. Right now there are millions of cars on the road that can apply the brakes themselves or steer themselves. They are using radar and infrared sensors to look at the road ahead of them to decide what to do and where to go.  It’s been happening for over a decade. Yet how many times have…

If you have a car with those features every single driver input goes through a computer to determine if that input is allowed. That’s already pretty automated. 

Cars are already automated, it started decades ago with ABS. Since then we have adaptive cruise, self parking, stability control, hill decent, adaptive headlights, lane keep assist, automatic braking, and now we’re moving into self driving. Predictions of doom haven’t come true yet and there’s no evidence they will in…