You need to get up to speed my fellow countryman, it's now Europe and particularly drunk Polish we're supposed to hate. At least, I think so, our beloved friend has been rather quiet lately, must be getting ready to join a US "think-tank" :)

Then again we're back to seeing Wilders and his buddies scream from the fringes, so who cares. Guess there's some advantages to actually having more than 2 parties to choose from.

But tablets and other toys will make the PC go back to it's early days price tags because most people only want the toys, especially now thay have to work all day on this shitty PC at their work.

Not kill, but inability to buy due to price make the same outcome.

You mean like in torrent?

You walk in a desert when you see a turtle lying on its back...

I see the qualification of the grandparent post is changed from troll into interesting, this is a good thing.

Their country to be critisized...

If you qualify a question as troll, even as biased as is, it means you have verry little self esteem...

If that means it manages to actually start plant life on Mars, I'm all for it.

Terraform away!

It says that your stuff is of less value than something other that is free.

You could start try to compete on merit

How long will it take before all the legalese crap breaks loose?

Sooner or later powerful people will want to appropriate this while shielding and litigate the rest of us.

My experience of internet untill 2000 was much better than the "free shit" era that came right after 2000.

No language getho's, everybody spoke english and tried to understand each other and respect each other most of the times.

This "Free shit" era also brought the worse audience to the internet, there is no coincidence that the 2 came together.

I paid through my nose in those days to get online, but it was worth every penny, nowadays I stay online only because it is dirt cheap, internet for me became more or less worthless over time, and the "free shit" bringers are largely responsible for the devaluation of internet.

This automation of checking and acting on that is quite scary stuf.

It can ultimately lead to the opening scenes of Brazil, the movie made by Terry Gilliam.

Highways? Highways aren't fun. Empty B roads are fun. Roundabouts can be fun.

But hey, go ahead, decide what other people do or do not enjoy. I'll just go and have fun out there, within the rules of the road, while you look on disapprovingly. Deal?

New roads that aren't in the GPS system, for example, or private driving areas (e.g., parking lots) that aren't well-mapped.

Once these AI's take off, it'll only be a small amount of time before the signs next to roads will be modified or added to so automatic cars can "read" them and follow their instructions. Relying on GPS as the sole means of plotting and following a route would be ridiculous. Think roadworks, reduced speed limits due to all sorts of conditions, etc.

As another situation, I am very interested in how these cars handle icy driving conditions.

Modern cars already use ABS, TC and ESP to monitor the amount of grip the tires have and adjust braking and throttle, effectively overriding the driver, based on that.

If I floor my 14 year old car in slippery conditions and the tires start to spin, it'll decide all by itself that the trottle needs to be reduced. By the time my vastly slower human senses have figured out what is going on, the whole thing is over already.

wouldn't you rather be reading, talking on the phone, texting, preparing for your work presentation/speech, doing your homework, etc?

I thoroughly enjoy driving, so no, not really, but having the option available would be wonderful, especially if we reach the point where it's legal to have the car drive you home while under the influence.

And no, there's no doubt in my mind that the AI will do a better job of driving than I will ever be able to. There's nothing like have actually having eyes in the back of one's head(or in this case, car) for making the job easier.