and you ll see cars sponsored by e-cigarettes.##Those efforts to#oere-glamorize#smoking,
You shouldn t give up on flying cars or hoverboards just yet. As technology continues to march on,
While currently focusing on people and cars, they d like to add animals and weather conditions soon. 3. Wireless Electricity The notion of wireless electric power has been around far longer than one might think:
self-made billionaire who has led the design of revolutionary cars and rockets and he needs no introduction.
4 3#high and 16 2#long, not far off the dimensions of a midsize car.
occasional linear motors en route maintain gaps between cars and subtly adjust speed, and linear motors at the destination do the braking,
winning back much of the acceleration energy through an analog of a hybrid car s regenerative braking system.
The cars are bigger roughly six feet high by 4. 5-feet wide, and long enough for 28 passengers.
one that could carry three cars). The tubes would host the vacuum-pressure equivalent of an altitude of 150,000 feet.
Rather than using maglev technology, Hyperloop cars float on a cushion of air. As with ET3, Hyperloop s minimizing air resistance
Oster says ET3 is 50 times more efficient than the best electric cars or trains; a 57-megawatt solar array atop the Hyperloop route would produce more than twice the average power needed to run the system, Musk estimates.
Musk went back to work on his spacecraft and electric cars; Oster is forging ahead on ET3. In his Rand report of 41 years ago,
more than 90 percent of the rest#verything from clothes to cars to computers#ow travels inside shipping containers.#
Even cars and trucks#nown in the trade as#oeroro,#or#oeroll-on roll off#cargo#re increasingly being loaded into containers rather than specialized ships.#
found themselves chartering planes to bring in parts they otherwise would have had shipped, at a cost of $600 per car.
and will be car-free. Mankind is rethinking how we build the structures we live and work in which is changing the way our cities look and feel.
but we also want to drive that dazzling car, go on that dream vacation, or get those gorgeous shoes.
What our team did initially was cannibalize a kids remote control car to send a signal to the device worn by the animal.
as they fall on cars, houses, and people. In the long term, their disappearance means parks and neighborhoods,
trees remove nitrogen dioxide to an extent equivalent to taking 274,000 cars off the traffic-packed beltway, saving an estimated $51 million in annual pollution-related health care costs.
Sure we have heard all of connected cars, wearable devices, and appliances with sensors, but what has not been marketed enough is the real business value that thesethings create.
Connected cars is another hot topic. Again, many people see this as a luxury but when you connect smart cars to smart cities you can start to see the value.
Big cities tend to have many traffic bottlenecks. Long commutes impact the quality of life and can have a negative impact on commerce.
have your car schedule an oil change, or have your refrigerator order your milk. Once the general public starts getting exposure to use cases like the ones
8. Driverless cars How long will it be before we see the first highway in the U s. to be designated as adriverless-cars only highway?
Who are some of todays best-known celebrities that would likely show up as downloadable personalities for your computer, car, or robot?
Invisible fences, invisible screens, invisible cars and windmills will all be possible. What kind of market will there be for invisible netting like this?
#Solar Forest provides a charging station for electric cars Solar Forest We aren t out of the woods yet
while providing a shady spot for cars to park as they charge. Each of the trees in Neville Mars s solar forest is composed of a set of photovoltaic leaves mounted on an elegantly branching poll.
and Alexandria, Va.,places designed before automobiles arrived. Several of the most popular cities have become an important part of New Urbanism,
not for automobiles, says University of Nevada-Las vegas demographer Robert Lang. And the 20-somethings love the people, not the automobile.
Using recent U s. Census data, USA TODAY has identified 289 cities that have more 20-somethings than teens in the case of Charleston and about a dozen other cities, it s 2-to-1 or higher.
a young developer who is working with the city to build acreative corridor on Meeting Street, an industrial thoroughfare once dominated by car dealerships.
the electric car company, is slowly reshaping how people think about driving. Following the same pattern can help any social entrepreneur get people excited about world-changing products.
ELECTRIC CARS AND THE DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS THEORY Elon musk is the man behind Paypal Spacex, and Tesla Motors.
to build a market for electric cars, beginning with luxury cars, and then expanding over time to reach a broader consumer base.
that is, it wasn t simply about building an amazing electric car, it was also about creating an environment in
and he understood what it would take to get that group behind the wheel of an electric car.
He would need to design a car that could be compelling enough to act as a status symbol for young professionals in the insular community of Silicon valley.
He knew his audience would be highly technologically literate and very social in both how they bought the car
He needed a luxury car that would be theit car in Silicon valley. But perhaps as importantly, he would need to find a solution for the incredibly expensive battery technology needed for the car to work.
Just the battery for an electric car costs more than double the price of an entry-level car in the market.
For this reason alone, Tesla would have to focus on the luxury end of the market.
Tesla s cars are designed and built for the Google or Apple executive. The Apple headquarters boast more Teslas than a Tesla showroom.
Five years after the introduction of its Model S car Tesla was reporting a profit,
and the Model S had become the third best-selling luxury car, behind only the Mercedes E Class and BMW 5 Series.
ensuring the car is safe before it gets on the road, and in turn bringing along the more risk-averse parts of the population.
Tesla is building a network of car superchargers so that owners can drive coast-to-coast without range anxiety.
he needs to invest in the electric car market, and not just his cars. Tesla won t succeed just by selling electric cars.
They need to grow the overall electric vehicle market. They need to remove barriers for their competitors so they can join them in moving away from gas-fueled cars.
To this end, Tesla now sells their patented powertrain components to competitors. They are concerned less about the competition taking up market share than building the market
and creating scale that will bring the prices down enough to be viable options for the average car buyer.
By selling luxury electric cars first Musk and his team at Tesla have accelerated actually the development of technology for the market.
Tesla s success has created further hope for electric cars and spurred investment in research and development. Musk s initial customers were largely in Silicon valley
and connected to venture funding, a proximity that ultimately increased investment in batteries and renewable energy.
and ultimately it will need to be easier than owning a gas fueled car. In order for the laggardsthe most risk-averse group of allto come along,
or simply no more gas stations left to fuel their antique cars. But if Musk sluxury cars for the tech-elite strategy works, it will ultimately allow Musk to sell electric-powered sedans and minivans to families in Ohio.
It sounds intuitive, maybe even obvious, but most entrepreneurs (particularly those working on social issues) don t follow this model.
why Elon musk first entered the electric car market by focusing on luxury cars, and other social changes like sustainability, same-sex marriage, andin my casepro bono services.
has positioned itself to sell drones in much the same way as General motors works with its dealers to peddle cars.
First as an expensive option for luxury cars, but eventually it will become a safety feature stipulated by the government.
or to property although occasionally a car parked under a cicada-infested tree could get covered in small droppings.
Who cares that we might try to sleepwalkâ our way behind the wheel of a car?
and buying better cars like hybrids or electric vehicles powered by renewable sources. You can also do simple things like turning off lights
See Images of the Buggy Treats Healthy option Insects are chock-full of protein and nutrients such as iron and magnesium and unlike beef or pork most bugs require little energy water or space to raise.
Those who are interested in making their own buggy treats at home can take a look at the museum's brochures which list suppliers for the insects
and more dark trees the Earth gets warmer just like a dark car gets hotter in a warm parking lot than a light car does told Beck Livescience.
New roads guns and cars also enable people to hunt gorillas and bring carcasses to city markets where they fetch a handsome sum Olsson said.
and automobile collisions involving deer. That's why The HSUS urges all Michiganders to support two referenda one to nullify the wolf trophy hunting season set to start in November
Manufacturing industries and Beijing's 5 million-plus cars all contribute to the city's crippling air pollution
While items like red meat liquor and automobiles were considered once forbidden luxuries more and more families are driving their car to a market to buy tenderloin beef 120-proof baijiu liquor and other consumer goods.
Because stimuli throughout the day such as car headlights will set off a rooster's crow at any time it was also possible that increasing light was the trigger for the cock's crows.
Costa rica is also implementing a number of strategies to reduce emissions including converting solid waste to energy switching to cleaner fuels in cars trucks
and gardening activities such as home repairs mowing/cutting the lawn and hedges car maintenance and gathering mushrooms or berries.
and creates holes in roads that serve as hazards for cars and tractors. Â $1 million hunt But the state of New mexico isn't letting the pigs get away with those antics.
and they can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph (97 kph) in three seconds faster than most cars.
In his words oeit is not the style of clothes one wears neither the kind of automobile one drives nor the amount of money one has in the bank that counts.
The South took its time jumping on the Thanksgiving bandwagon as the holiday was seen as a Yankee invention.
Boats and cars were tossed around like toys roofs were torn off houses and glass shattered everywhere;
There are races for off-road vehicles Formula 1 race cars and snowmobiles. There is a competition for high-mileage vehicles
Consider a new college graduate who purchases a human-powered vehicle rather than an automobile.
If 5 percent of the U s. population were to switch from automobiles to human-powered vehicles for most of their trips the aggregate difference would be a reduction of 31 million tons (28 million metric tons) of greenhouse
A lack of infrastructure and prohibitive cost often make the automobile a nonviable choice and transit systems may not exist.
when defending their hive and minor disturbances like a lawn mower or a moving car even as far away as 100 feet (30 meters) can trigger an attack.
In the event of a bee attack victims are advised to run as fast as they can toward an enclosed area like a car or building;
Someone gets into the car to go to the grocery store and suddenly can't remember how to get there.
Ash clogged sewage systems damaged cars and buildings and temporarily shut down air traffic over the Northwest.
According to a study published in October in the journal Epidemiologic Reviews marijuana use increases the risk of car crashes.
-risk-of-car-crashes. -html>involved in a car crash</a >.And that risk increased for those who smoked more frequently and those showing a higher level of the drug in their urine.</
</p><p>Sorry but that double cheeseburger is still not your friend. Scientists found that eating lots of saturated fat-filled red meat
or driving one's own car was slower than an ambulance ride and delayed crucial treatment the study found.</
Central african republic (CAR) has been rocked by violence and chaos since the beginning of the year and the 17 poachers ominously presented themselves as part of the country's transitional government forces.
But with the help of Mekema and his people the government of CAR was able to protect Dzanga Sangha
Though the United states phased out leaded gasoline in cars and trucks during the 1970s and 1980s soil in high-traffic
After Evalyn Walsh Mclean bought the stone in 1912 her son was killed in a car accident her daughter committed suicide
It was like licking down a car. The greatest numbers of fish balls in 2013 showed up on the northern beaches where wind-driven waves pushed the balls up to the high-water mark said Elizabeth Heness a collaborator who is now a graduate student at the University of Texas at El paso. The rotting fish balls
How many times have sat you next to someone who has their car stereo at full blast?
when he warned that trees cause more pollution than automobiles do. Go ahead snicker. I sure did.
What music do you play most often in your office or car? Anything from Modest Mouse to Johnny cash to classical depending on the mood of the day.
If you do decide to hop on the latest bandwagon whether it is garcinia cambogia or some other plant-based extract proceed with caution.
and move from the countryside to the cities they demand energy-using technologies such as lighting appliances cars and electronics.
They get people out of cars by enabling walking biking and public transit; they lower building energy-use per person;
Transportation impacts Research shows that densely-populated cities use less transportation energy the reason is less reliance on car travel.
The city emissions numbers take into account the direct combustion of fuels including from small mobile sources (like cars)
Almost all cars trucks ships trains and airplanes run on gasoline or diesel fuels. Manufacturing and other industries contribute about 20 percent of U s. greenhouse gas emissions followed by residential and commercial sources (11 percent) and agriculture (8 percent.
A similar phenomenon takes place in a car parked outside on a cold sunny day.
Incoming solar radiation warms the car's interior but outgoing thermal radiation is trapped inside the car's closed windows.
The gases in the atmosphere that absorb radiation are known as greenhouse gases because they're largely responsible for the greenhouse effect.
There have been problems from turkey droppings on the lawn to roosting on the roof to pecking the side of a car where they see their reflection to chasing the mailman from time to time Hughes told Livescience.
and there is a $20/car entrance fee
#Your Holiday Table: Fresh, Frozen or Canned Veggies? The holiday season is a time when our daily agenda items can be trumped by longstanding traditions such as baking Christmas cookies from scratch
Then there are foods that seemingly jumped on the probiotics bandwagon. They aren't naturally fermented
(and while Turner was pregnant) and a car accident that totaled Turner's field vehicle.
and car stay closed as much as possible during allergy season Patil said. When you come inside after gardening
that power most cars on the road today only four out of every 20 gallons of gas actually go towards moving the vehicle forward.
Stars of the Animal kingdom Cockroaches When you see a cockroach crawling toward you have wished you ever you could just steer it away like a remote-controlled car?
This time the car industry s interest in light natural fibre promoted its use. For such industrial use modern varieties with insignificant content of psychoactive compounds are grown.
In 2007 for example dense fog on California's Highway 99 near Fresno caused an 108-car pileup that killed two people.
And if somehow you find one in the wheel well of your car (as Krieger saw
To further differentiate themselves from traditional fast-food burger chains some premium burger chains have jumped on the sustainability bandwagon.
All told tropical deforestation currently accounts for a whopping 10 percent of the world's total global-warming emissions equivalent to the annual tailpipe emissions of some 600 million cars.
When we design a component for a car or aircraft we need to ensure that the probability of failure of that part per year is something like one in a million.
This is important because shaving a few percent off the weight of a component in a car means lower material costs less fuel usage less CO2 emissions and so on.
Car-mounted devices sample the air and can locate leaks and estimate their magnitude from a distance which avoids the challenge of acquiring property owner permission that bedevils direct on-site measurement.
Google usually uses camera-equipped cars to take images for its Street view but because the Rio Negro region is inaccessible by car the researchers had to come up with an alternative method.
To capture the images the teams strapped a camera onto a bicycle and pedaled it down dirt paths through the forests
and lining them up like parked cars the industry's trajectory is clear if it wants to remain a competitive American enterprise.
*More people die every year from smoking than from murder AIDS suicide drugs car crashes and alcohol combined.
But when the weather gets warm it's tempting to let fresh air and cool breezes into your home or car.
These effects have lent sometimes themselves to misconceptions perhaps most famously President Ronald Reagan's 1981 statement that trees pollute more than cars. 6 Politicians Who Got the Science Wrong
I would shovel my car out and make it to work only to shovel some more to ensure the animals were fed
The residents breathe in benzene and other pollutants from factory and automobile emissions. Broccoli sprouts are rich in a cancer-fighting phytochemical called glucoraphanin
I can claim water conservation as an excuse to avoid hand-washing dishes or the car.
when you're not using it. 6. Go to the car wash Washing a car at home can easily use 100 gallons of water not to mention an awful lot of time and effort;
commercial car washes often use only 40 gallons or less of fresh water. 7. Get a rain barrel Collect the water that streams off your roof
We all are afflicted by the one-action bias which means we will buy a hybrid car
To feed its booming automobile and tyre industry China plans to increase its natural-rubber production by 30%from 2007 levels to 780,000 tonnes per year by 2010
That decision focused on automobile emissions but opened the doors to broader regulations. Only one thing was required of the EPA:
'which says that petrol for conventional automobiles can contain no more than 10%ethanol by volume.
2007) has been used in test cars belonging to the project and in collaboration with General motors. Ghosh's team has been working to improve the genetic stock of their jatropha,
Nature Newsthe Obama administration released new automobile standards on Tuesday, proposing regulations that would curb greenhouse-gas emissions and ratchet up fuel-efficiency standards beginning in 2012.
Greenhouse-gas emissions for an automobile company's entire fleet would be limited to an average of 250 grams of carbon dioxide per mile,
3. The greatest health gains would result from fewer cars and increased walking in Delhi, reducing DALYS by 13,000
Automobile emissions are likely to be the first to be regulated. Appeal lost: Italian scientists have lost a final appeal against a government research call that explicitly excludes human embryonic stem cells,
That'endangerment finding'was spurred by a 2007 Supreme court ruling that the EPA has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles and, by extension, from power plants and other sources.
particularly if coupled with separate greenhouse-gas regulations that the administration is developing for automobiles,
A123, meanwhile, says that it has ended a deal with Chrysler to provide batteries for the firm's electric cars
had torched his car last year. I will not feel fear in response to your increasingly desperate and puerile attempts to frighten,
Canadian biofuel plans deraileda leading biofuels company whose products have powered Formula 1 racing cars has hit a major bump in the road.
Iogen Corporationiogen's cellulosic ethanol has powered Formula 1 race cars. Fluctuations in the price of oil also pose a challenge for the industry,
China s largest maker of automobile parts, based in Zhejiang. Formed in 2001, A123 is a spin-off from work at the Massachusetts institute of technology, Cambridge.
The price of pure ethanol at the pump is so high that in most states it is cheaper to fill up flexible-fuel cars with petrol blends that contain about 20%ethanol.
The shift back to fossil fuels, combined with rapid growth in the number of cars on the roads (see Fuelling Brazil s transport boom),
Meanwhile, the government has tried to stimulate the economy with tax breaks on the sale of new cars.
agricultural land is responsible for about 14%of the world s greenhouse-gas emissions, slightly more than the global contribution from planes, trains and automobiles.
and there is growing interest in alternatives such as battery-powered cars. Cellulosic ethanol may now be arriving,
perhaps spooked by car-industry studies claiming that the fuel damages engines. Another way over the wall might be exports to the European union,
I left my car and I ran the whole way. about twenty minutes afet leaving the howling started. it lasted at least thirty more minutes before it just stopped.
Twenty minutes after that I made it to my car just as the wolves bolted out of the trees.
but my car started after sitting four days in minus 20 degees or colder weather and
Bracing for the five hour drive from Edinburgh through steeply rising rocky hills we rent the largest car our transatlantic cousins have on offer.
Frosttty If you walk behind your car then see the exhaust you could be told YOU are polluting the world.
UN FAO official Henning Steinfeld stated that it was LIVESTOCK not cars that should be taking the blame.
By the time he points his car down the street it has used its GPS and other sensors to determine its location in the world.
Levandowski's car and those around him are represented by little white squares. The graphics are reminiscent of Pong.
The car's computer is now driving him to work. Self-driving cars have been around in one form
or another since the 1970s but three DARPA Grand Challenges in 2004 2005 and 2007 jump-started the field.
It's the all-seeing eye mounted on top of Levandowski's car and it's used by virtually every other experimental self-driving system ever built.
and mandates for car-borne beacons that will broadcast location information to other vehicles on the road.
when the car ahead breaks hard for example or another vehicle swerves erratically into traffic. Automakers may then use this information to take the next step:
He's the business lead of Google's self-driving-car project an initiative that the company has been developing for the better part of a decade.
Commuters in Silicon valley report seeing one of the cars easily identifiable by a spinning turret mounted on the roof an average of once an hour.
Google itself reports that collectively the cars have driven more than 500000 miles without crashing. At a ceremony at Google headquarters last year where Governor Jerry brown signed California's self-driving-car bill into law Google cofounder Sergey Brin said you can count on one hand
the number of years until ordinary people can experience this. In other words a self-driving car will be parked on a street near you by 2018.
Yet releasing a car will require more than a website and a click here to download button.
For Chauffeur to make it to your driveway it will have to run a gauntlet: Chauffeur must navigate a path through a skeptical Detroit a litigious society
In the language particular to Google the researchers are dogfooding the car driving to work each morning in the same way that Levandowski does.
Google needs to put the car in the hands of ordinary drivers in order to test the user experience.
This spring Chris Urmson the director of Google's self-driving-car project told a government audience in Washington D c. that the vast majority of those are nothing to worry about.
A self-driving car near Google's headquarters rear-ended another Prius with enough force to push it forward
and impact another two cars falling-dominoes style. The incident took place two years ago the Stone age in the foreshortened timelines of software development
and according to Google spokespeople the car was not in self-driving mode at the time so the accident wasn't Chauffeur's fault.
Google has been uncommonly secretive about its self-driving-car program. Though it began in 2009 the company first announced the project in a blog post a year later.
Hands-free driving cars that park themselves an unmanned car driven by a search-engine company.
But at $75000 to $85000 each Google's lidar costs more than every other component in the self-driving car combined including the car itself.
Self-driving cars should be achievable in five years. It takes more than five years to engineer a new car from the ground up.
If Detroit started designing self-driving cars now around components that actually exist there's no way the technology could get to the showroom by 2017.
Google is not a car manufacturer. Nor does it intend to be one Levandowski says. So what's the plan?
It too is filled with catch-22's. Hall described a Powerpoint presentation containing the automaker's analysis of self-driving-car technology.
'âÂ#ÂDETROIT doesn't want to start making self-driving cars without legal clarity. And legal clarity will not arrive until self-driving cars test the law.
In Smith's analysis the legal concept of driver goes back to an international agreement called the Geneva convention on Road Traffic ratified by Congress in 1950.
And under the Geneva convention a basic legal requirement for drivers whether of animals or of cars is the same.
The Google car doesn't work without one as Chauffeur needs to be able to hand back the reins with 10 20 or maybe even 30 seconds'notice.
And even if self-driving cars do not violate an international treaty myriad state laws imply that the driver must be human.
and looking to get ahead of the curve have made the cars explicitly legal. The doctrine assigns driver-hood to the person
What's going to happen no matter what the law says is people are going to get sued Urmson the director of Google's self-driving-car project allows.
There's one last hazard to engineer out of the modern car: human error which according to NHTSA is the certain cause of 81 percent of all car crashes.
Cars kill roughly 32000 people a year in the U s . and in 2010 Levandowski's life partner Stefanie Olsen was one of the 2. 2 million per year injured.
She was nine months pregnant at the time. My son's name is Alex and Alex almost was born never says Levandowski.
He credits the safety features engineered into the car a Prius for saving Alex's life.
Self-driving-car boosters talk about a virtuous circle that starts when human hands leave the wheel.
Computer control enables cars to drive behind one another so they travel as a virtual unit.
which its cars autonomously follow a professional driver. It uses technology that's already built into every high-end Volvo sold today plus a communications system.
Wayne Gerdes the father of hypermiling can nearly double the rated efficiency of cars using fuel-sipping techniques that could be incorporated into auto-driving software.
and its newest cars already start driving themselves if they sense imminent danger either by steering back onto the roadway or braking in anticipation of a crash.
Mercedes offers Distronic Plus with Steering Assist as an option on the 2014 S-class luxury sedans.
and maintain a safe distance from the car in front of it. But the real engineering challenge is making sure the driver stays alert.
All kinds of problems crop up in real-world testing says auto-drive consultant Brad Templeton who worked with Google on its self-driving-car project for two years.
the car must be able to hand back control with no warning. But the temptation for drivers is to simply zone out.
As the car gets more and more capable we want the driver to maintain driving expertise. Advocates like to say that there is no technical reason the new Mercedes needs hands on the wheel to steer through a turn.
It believes its level-three system will make cars safe enough for people to daydream
NHTSA's former deputy director Ron Medford has signed just on as Google's director of safety for the self-driving-car project.
I'm not sure it will be that much fun to drive behind a self-driving car that just dropped off the human driver
and stand in it until the self-driving car stops. Then I'll drive around and take the parking space.
or 4 of the Microsoft Kinect devices put in various parts of the car to determine a 3d area?
if it was the person at fault or the car. I guess the car company would take fault
The first wave of the attack of the machines will be these autonomous cars running people down(:
The only way to get a Leap Forward with this technology is fully self driving to the point a 13 year old can jump in the car
or build a complete small town and engineer it for completely autonomous cars from the the ground up.
Design all the streets and topology as you would assuming that your cars were never going to be driven by people
My concept car ecologically friendly and low CO2 footprint will be an external combustion CNG fueled car made almost exclusively of wood
For the self driving car it may take much longer because it is complicated much more and litigious.
Self driving cars are getting a lot of press right now but there is something existing that will do everything a self driving car will ever do and a great deal more.
It is a form of duel mode transportation which is powered by electricity from the road bed in 2 protected automated lanes and an access and exit lane
This can happen quickly without having to replace most of the cars being driven. Why doesn't Popular Science cover this kind of development
or anyone for that matter would be required to have a lot of practical driving experience prior to being permitted drive one of these robo-cars.
It would be nice to be able to just call your car to come pick you up
Please don't make us all car sick with jerky steering. Traffic light timing is another good project.
and reduce the number of stops than to put a regenerative braking system on every car
Thanks-Tonythis pipe dream of self-driving cars is very nice & all kind of romantic in an early 20th century sci fi way but for all practical purposes it will not happen.
but unless the concept of liability changes significantly we will never see public streets filled with robo-cars.
and the now pilotless vehicle causes a multi-car pileup? So create them so that the driver can take over you say?
and gain control of the vehicle he/she would have been having to pay attention to/what the car is doing at all times/(like you do
which kinda negates the main point of having a self-driving car i e. being able to focus on something other than driving.
when the car ahead breaks hard??I'll trust a self-driving car when you can get spell-check right. bike/train/bike commute beats any self driving car option. yes that would be bad short term for an economy based on consumption
but changing the infrastructure to make a mesh of high speed trains should ease transition from 1-ton-metal-can (2
if you're in US) for 1 person to 20 tonnes for+100 people..3-4 years ago I saw a Nissan Altima driving itself with the driver snoozing in a reclined seat;
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