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Well, more like “Tesla’s autopilot drove into a concrete wall that was visible half a mile away.” I mean whether you think the driver is responsible or not their super-duper system could handle a freakin’ static obstacle. 

fantasy was very niche

It’s not like Amazon is going to see their Prime subs skyrocket to make this worth it,

Yeah, when I was reading the book I always pictured Legolas surfing a shield.

That’s ok, I like pretending Peter Jackson’s movies never happened.

Well what are the big licences still up for grab?

LotR Park, -life finds a way-

With all that was cut for the movie I’m fairly confident they could make a season out of each book.

-Aragorn, a LotR story-

The hobbit was 250millions. If want movie production value, streched other a 12 hours season it is not that huge. Also there’s a lot of material from the book that was cut from the movie, plus a lot of parallel narration. You could easily make a season out of each book.

Where’s Brett Ratner when you need him?

Yeah, there’s some of that too, I think those big companies are rushing to corner those big popular licences. It’s like any other asset these days.

They don’t aim at making money for themselves, at least directly.

And leave a note to a relative to post results in case you’re no longer in position to do it after that.

And leave a note to a relative to post results in case you’re no longer in position to do it after that.

You moved from “never used for traffic detection” to “not the most common on the east coast”.

Well since you want to be pedantic about it, laser and IR are pretty common. Also magnetometers are growing.

Actually there are many more including laser, piezoelectric sensor, acoustic active and passive, magnetic active and passive... People keep coming up with ideas, many of which are pretty bad.

I know, right. People pay loads of money to Tesla to have them collect their data in the most opaque way and then blame customer with one-sided arguments. And people applaud at that.

Autopilot: short for automatic pilot.