Telepresence is the real threat. By the time usable driverless cars are available, there won't be much demand for them. Skip the tedious travel part, and just rent a drone wherever you want to be.
The first thing he asks me about any car I buy, going back to he 80's, is how good the stereo is. So yeah, the "car entertainment system" sells cars.
To be fair, the reason we decided not to buy one car last year was that the stereo took several minutes to start up if you plugged in a 32GB USB stick full of music. I'd be half-way to work before it started playing.
He is supported by the establishment but has no credibility elsewhere.
Hey, it worked for Romney!
The only "guarantee" is that people will always need plumbers, electricians, and other tradespeople.
Yes, but, in ten or twenty years, Indian and Chinese plumbers will be doing that work over the Internet with plumbing drones.
Isn't it odd? Seems like a person having a talent for something is somehow bad today. But today we seem to believe that anyone can be Einstein if only we apply ourselves.
Modern left-wing dogma is based on 'we're all the same under the skin!' and there's no inherent differences between people and some just succeed through luck so we must take all their stuff and give it to the unlucky ones.
Admit that some people just aren't as good as others at some things, and the whole scam collapses.
Politicians hate freedom. Full story at 11.
If it's no big deal, they're working on a non-existing problem, right? There's no need to avoid the populated areas at all.
Yes, exactly. Sonic booms from airliners have never really been a big problem, because airliners want to fly as high as possible to minimize fuel consumption. Most of the damaging booms are from military aircraft at lower altitudes.
But, unfortunately, saying 'it's no big deal' isn't good enough for the NIMBYs.
The problem is 90% or more internet users are unwilling to pay for content.
The problem is that 99% of the content on the Internet isn't worth paying for.
And finding actual, useful information on the Internet was much easier in the days when there were no ads to fund web sites that exist solely to grab search engine queries to sell advertising.
This doesn't mean it's work spending billions of dollars to get more. We can manufacture them here, cheaper than going out into orbit, much less another planet.
But these are SPACE DIAMONDS, and clearly far more likely to get you laid than those silly artificial diamonds.
Older cars were generally more reliable because there were fewer things to go wrong.
Uh, no, they weren't. You might be able to fix a 1970s car when it broke down, but they broke down a lot more. Go back to the 1930s, and there were even less things to go wrong, but you were probably doing maintenance on those things every weekend to ensure they didn't break down.
Why connect EVERYTHING?
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
What more reason do you need?
Good to see they're working on the important stuff, rather than fixing bugs. No wonder their market share is rising so fast. Oh, sorry, I meant sinking.
Anyone else sick of driving a REAL car and NOT being able to see around super-oversized SUVs at a safe following distance?
I'm sick of driving a REAL car and NOT being able to see around your Corolla.
REAL cars have the engine in the middle, where Newton intended, and are as low as possible to reduce drag.
Installation of the windows was a factor, true, but the square windows was the primary point of failure.
The corners had higher stress than expected, which is why they were redesigned once they discovered the problem. But the cracks started from rivet holes, where the windows were incorrectly installed; AFAIR the design specified different rivets, and glue as a backup, and would probably have at least survived long enough for an engineer to notice any cracks during normal inspections, if they'd been installed that way.
The passengers in a plane do not need windows but clearly because planes have windows at considerable cost to design properly (remember the Dehavilland Comet?) there's clearly a want for them to be there.
If I remember correctly, the Comet windows were designed properly (though they turned out to have less safety margin than intended), but they weren't installed properly. And I believe the window that failed was the one used for navigation fixes, which would have been hard to live without in the days before GPS.
"All the people are so happy now, their heads are caving in. I'm glad they are a snowman with protective rubber skin" -- They Might Be Giants
