Solar is definitely still a rounding error. Wind is a doing little better but depending on what level you’re rounding to, it could still legitimately be claimed as such. While seoultrain was taking a little artistic license, it’s not like solar and wind are truly major contributors on a national scale.

Ford didn’t get bailed out.

Ford just lost one of their own employees as a customer. That takes real effort.

As someone who loves driving, here’s what I’d love about this:

Outside of people on this site that enjoy driving, the vast majority of the population does not. Outside of that, over 100 people/day, 37k+/year die in car accidents just in the US. Plain and simple, people suck at driving. Add on to that traffic is mostly caused by the same basic principle, people not knowing how to…

My mate who is a firefighter has a perspective on self-drive cars. He says they can’t come soon enough. He says all the driving enth-yew-siasts who want to think of themselves as superior humans because they can change their own gears (a vastly overrated skill) can still do that, because taking the millions of “I…

Do you wash your own laundry by hand and wash your own dishes by hand? I thought not. This is progress, imperfect, but progress.

I like driving, but most of the time it’s really boring! Things that are mind-numbingly boring but also require ones full, constant attention to avoid death are very rare for a reason: it’s a low-reward high-risk situation. Boring + can kill you = bad idea.

haha are you serious? Who doesn’t want to be able to pop a car in self driving mode and watch a movie on a 6 hour haul to Disney World? Or catch up on some work, or surf the web while stuck in traffic at rush hour?

There is going to be a huge elderly population for the next 20-30 years, with the boomers cycling through. So I’d say that is one pretty compelling motivation

Why would we want this?
One death in 2 years with these prototypes (in a situation no human driver would have been able to avoid, by the way) is orders of magnitude better than human drivers are capable of.

Additionally:
* There are many people who would love to never have to drive, ever. If I could have that time…

I want this.

It would massively reduce traffic, which would increase productivity and quality of life. That seems like a pretty good reason.

Because it’s easier to reprogram computers than it is to reprogram people

Answer: People suck at driving. One accident involving a thoughtless pedestrian jumping out into the street is not a reason to stop progress.

Imagine HOV lanes that could allow full autonomy while in them. That’s probably the closest horizon. I would love to buy back 30 minutes each way of my commute to start meetings or just watch some TV.

Many technologies are driven by desires, not needs. Why have smart phones? At the time, getting email and surfing the web on a cell phone would have been nice!

Spoiled rotten sportscasters who get into games for free and rich folk who,go,to a game for the business write offs... they are the ones clambering for a clock on baseball... not the guy who has to save up for that one special,strip,to The Ballpark, tickets, parking,food,liquids,tolls,gas... that fan wants free…

Are there going to be any new rules pertaining to batters? Do they really need to step out of the batters box and un-velcro/velcro their gloves after every swing? Is there going to be limits on how many times players on a team can call “time” in a game? It’s not just the pitchers slowing everything down. I hate it…

This is really the BLUF of the article - “As long as you have one of those Android phones and you’re in range of a Gigabit LTE signal it should work automatically.” Title is misleading, like you’re going to tell me how to/enable gigabit but really I just need to buy a new phone.