But that IS the car of the future. Fully automated, but due to bugs it never shows up to give you a ride.

It also deals with the parking issue. If you don't have to walk to / from parking then it doesn't matter if it's inconveniently far from where you need to go. So you can reclaim urban space. Also, automated driving would be a big time saver in many ways - for example, letting the car drive the kids to school or things of that nature. It'd also greatly facilitate shopping services - aka, if you want to buy a stack of plywood from a hardware, it's not like the store has to pay a courier to ship it to you, they just have to load it into the empty pickup truck. Rapid end-to-end personal delivery of goods would be expected to skyrocket. I'd expect that tiny automated delivery vehicles would then become common to meet the needs of small deliveries. Yes, there would be more vehicles on the move, but they'll be able to be on the move much more efficiently, with close convoying significantly increasing road throughput and decreasing aerodynamic drag. When all traffic is automated on public roads, you can even have roads automatically reconfigure themselves, with most roads being one-way but that way changing in accordance with need.

People will still own cars. Because you can't store things in other people's cars, you don't know if someone else's car will be beat to heck or smell bad or whatnot, etc, plus the certainty that you can have a vehicle that meets your needs on call right when you need it. But it'll be more of a luxury than it is today, not so much of a necessity. Also, people are still going to want to drive - for fun. Just like people boat for fun and fly for fun - lots of people quite simply enjoy driving and that's not just going to suddenly change. But this will come into conflict with everyone else's needs. The end result will vary from road to road, with most busy urban roads automatic-only but many rural roads, especially scenic ones allowing mixed traffic. However, the more automated traffic there is on the roads, the more one expects non-automated traffic to have to "play by the rules" - for example, in-vehicle transponders to help the automated vehicles know exactly what you're doing, potentially automated overrides if you try to do something crazy that would put automated drivers in undue risk, etc. People driving for fun aren't going to be allowed to endanger people going about their everyday lives any more than pilots on a joy ride are allowed to.

These things are just the logical evolution of the transportation system should self-driving vehicles prove themselves.

they seemed to have forgotten the part where the employee has choose to use it. i wouldnt be surprised if they lose all their users in a month's time to a similar application that isn't spyware.

Cool, good luck. If you need help, let me know.

Maybe you should look again. Military spending is no where near "half its budget". Not even close. America spends 3.8% of its GDP on the military, which is near to the all time low. The world as a whole spends 2.4% of world GDP, which is far lower than at any other time in history.

I am not sure I understand your logic. Are you saying that our enemies will refrain from using robots unless we go first?

Different people are in office now. People are turning against it. Even the lead architect says it's time for it to expire.

You're the guy who mischaracterized the statement "the west side highway will be underwater" to mean "the west side highway will only be underwater during tremendous storms."

If you are not a shill, then you're the kind of guy who will misunderstand anything to avoid changing his position. Because you deeply misunderstand that statement there.

I know exactly how you feel.

I did. I went to the same school your kids are going to.

Uh, what exactly do you want me to say, that your reading comprehension sucks? I'm sorry that you can't see it.

Why do you think it will be renewed? I don't think they have enough votes.

The predictions are poor. Or do you just ignore the studies that have shown that the computer models don't match reality?

I'm not seeing how that's the problem. Ultimately it's all going to go across (roughly) the same IP pathway, right?

Oh, yeah, I just got emails from all my responses for the last week.