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…

It’s a natural evolution of technology. Same reason why we moved away from fax machines, manual flight check-ins and so on. We also need it because people are horrible at driving when we think about it. 100 years from now, we might not even have traffic lights because cars would be able to communicate with each other…

Video from the car (referenced in another article) shows the person popping out from the darkness on the side of the street. Sources say it most likely wouldn’t have been avoidable regardless of who was driving (human or computer)

Being a car guy and owner of several Nissans, I have, of course heard of this story many years ago, back when the battles were still being fought.

The lawsuit was a bit much, but why was he so opposed to using nissancomputer.com? It actually makes the site’s purpose clearer than nissan.com, and they did register the name for him and offer to trade, which seems like a perfectly fair deal to me. Why didn’t he take it?

Do you seriously believe that Nissan —a multi billion dollar company never offered money to buy the site?

This is the opposite of being a stubborn asshole... look they even copped the font. Probably making tons of money along the way.

I probably would have settled for a second free lunch.

Wow, I have friends with almost exactly the opposite story. They took a multi-million-dollar buyout from WorldCom (though for the name, not the URL), then of course WorldCom went under. I admire this guy’s principles, but man... Also, having been involved in a couple legal adventures myself I am shocked that he…

btw, worth remembering that it wasn’t actually up to Uzi Nissan to be “reasonable” here. He had the domain first and operated a legitimate business from it. Nissan USA didn’t have to be dickish about this and could have tried a good-faith negotiation.

As much as I admire Mr Nissan for his willingness to fight, I can’t help but feel he would have done a lot better to negotiate a deal on the domain. Initially, it sounded like Nissan was definitely willing to pay money for his domain and while it might have been ridiculously lowballed, a half competent lawyer would…

you would have held out for 2000 in freebies. not lost 10 years and 3 million.

What? Did you not read my last sentence that said I would have not gone through all of this to prove a point.

Would you spend $1000 to try to get your $40 back? No. Principle be damned, as an adult you need to be level-headed and stow emotion when making life affecting decisions. This guy wasted a decade of his life, $3m, lost his businesses, for what? The juice wasn’t worth the squeeze. And you can bet his attorneys told him…

Seriously, is nobody reading the article today?

I’m huge on principle. A lot of things bother me because of it.

While I’m glad he didn’t let Nissan bully him, I feel that he was also super foolish. He could have easily negotiated to sell the domain for several hundred thousand, or even a few million. He would have still stuck it to Nissan and made out.

Proof to me that you can be right or happy

A day will come when Nissan makes a car and names it Uzi and this guy sues them.