Sure, you claimed kitty Genovese as an example of New Yorkers not being neighborly and that it’s better outside of New York. I gave you two famous more recent examples that proved that New York is plenty neighborly. You asserted that crime is somehow worse now (it’s not, I’m tired of googling for you you can find…

Yes, and no one commits violent crime in Texas right? Lets check the rates between Dallas (near where the flooding is) and NYC per 100,000 people

First of all Kitty Genovese died 52 years ago, maybe things have changed since then? The only reason you know who she is, is because there was an article on Gawker last week about her killer. I seem to recall NYC neighborhoods coming together after hurricane sandy and 9/11, and I could link to about a billion good…

Guessing she didn’t whisper “don’t kill me”

Yes they think that. Because Margaret Sanger supported eugenics 100 years ago, since she founded the basis of Planned Parenthood they think that this is a driving force in the pro-choice movement.

Rice University is in Houston, can you cite something that isn’t biased by where you live? NY has 6 michelin 3 start restaurants, and 10 2 stars. The food in NY is close to tops in the world, and if you think there isn’t food there from other cultures you have a serious problem. We get it, you like living there, maybe…

The girl to guy ratio in Denver keeps it out of the top 10, its a sausage party with weed.

Houston is not the most ethncially diverse city, #1 is Jersey City #3 is New York.....Houston is 16th. by great food you mean great BBQ. New Orleans will kick Houston’s ass in food and music as will Nashville. Theater and Museums? you want to compare to New York? this is preposterous.

maybe they have body image issues? confidence might not be their strong point... but lets kick them while their down anyway.

Warren Buffet floated them a loan in the middle of the great recession because the banks that provided loans to their customers weren’t doing so well, so what. Everybody’s sales were down globally. HD stock price is down recently but that doesn’t mean they are quickly dying, when they no longer have a profit margin…

I live closer to work so I have more time during the day, 2o miles on a bike is about 2 hours of time. no thanks.

Pull door handle twice to open? “let me facebook this so other brand nerds can stroke my ego”

well, less visible damage. The crumple zones are probably comprimised, which means a bunch of structural work, which equals $$$.

I didn't think you were bickering. It's actually complicated, but I also don't think how disruptive this will be is apparent. I replied to 20 comments that mentioned parking. if it's a service the car never needs to stop, you might never park a car again. Google has an autonomous car on the road, I know it got hit by…

Labor unions and the public’s fear of robots. That and taking off is vastly more complex then driving a car. Plus there really hasn't been the need, or the investment. The case isn't the same now for autonomous cars.

Yes. commercial airliners can land by computer and have been able to for decades, the computing power to do that in 737s a decade ago is dwarfed by what is in your average smartphone. you can already summon a tesla, you can drive cars with apps, this is moving much faster than you realize.

I get what you mean, and what you describe is definitely and edge case, but I also don’t understand why if you drove a regular car there why you think an autonomous car wouldn’t be able to drive exactly where you needed it to. there seems to be some idea that somehow driving in a field is impossible for an engineer to…

Of course they do, you said yourself that the cars are communicating with each other, does a NASCAR driver get real time information constantly from the car driving ahead of him? how about from all the cars on the field? or a satellite above them. Humans have implicit limitations. If your transmission drops on the…

Why do you assume that someone at google has only experienced a rural area from street view? did no one from your town ever leave and get a job somewhere else? People said the same thing about horses and cars, I’m assuming since you are driving on these roads that you know which one won out.

sure a seasonal road might be a use case that isn’t appropriate for the steeringwheel-less car (at first, I think they can engineer pretty much anything at this point), but this idea that you need google street view to do autonomy isn’t correct.