Pretty much this. "We fucked up and embarassed ourselves, so we're going to take it out on you because we can". That's what it reads like. Was the guy who owned the car black, too?

That's all you needed to read, you can stop right there.

I do not believe there will ever be 'driverless' trucks, any more than there will be 'driverless' cars. The safety risk is too great, especially when you're talking about a vehicle with a combined mass of over 40 tons hurtling down the road at high speeds. The potential for dozens or even hundreds dying because hardware or software went haywire is just too great to ignore. There needs to be someone there to at least hit the brakes.

In a world where many seemed to be moving towards things being less disposable, I was shocked at this 'Keurig' thing to start with. More waste? More 'single use', throw-away, non-biodegradable food-related things? What the actual fuck? Seriously, there needs to be LESS of this sort of thing, not MORE of it, and I'd be happy to see this whole 'K-cup' thing go away for good. Get a decent French press and make your coffee that way, it's 100% reusable and makes excellent coffee to your specification, and they're inexpensive. Want only one cup? They make little French presses that are appropriate for a single serving. Everything else this article is about? Screw that, make your own cocktails and whatever else the way they've always been made, there's NO reason to change it. Stop being lazy, people! We don't need more shit in landfills!

I was listening to rock and metal as a teenager, things like Motorhead, Judas Priest, Blue Oyster Cult. I still enjoy hearing the 'soundtrack of my life' from back then, but I can think of nothing more boring and tedious than listening to nothing but all of that for the rest of my life. I enjoy hearing new music on a regular basis. Of course there is some utter and complete crap out there, too, that I can completely do without, but that's not different than it ever was for me either. Looking at me, you wouldn't think that I'd've latched on to Beastie Boys or Kid Rock or Rage Against the Machine, but I did.

My bottom line: You want to preserve your youth? ACT LIKE IT. Don't allow yourself to 'calcify' in any way, physically or mentally, and you won't. Keep reading, keep learning, keep hearing and seeing new and different things, and for fuck's sake keep moving. You let your body turn to shit? Your mind will soon follow. And vice-versa.

There's also this magic device called a 'volume control' that allows you to turn the sound all the way down. Some even have a more magic button called a 'mute' button.

Get over it, Nancy. People will eventually get tired of having to pay for 'streaming services' one way or another, and they'll come back to free broadcast radio.

The 'trouble' with modern religion in general is that it has nothing to do with spiritual beliefs or helping people, it has to do with a few influential people consoldating power over entire groups of people by leveraging their pathological need to believe in an all-powerful, all-knowing supernatural being. Of late this has resulted in women being kidnapped and turned into sex slaves, children stolen and turned into suicide bombers and 'child warriors', and a growing number getting their heads chopped off on YouTube. It also seems to be resulting in people being encouraged to turn away from logic, reason, fact-based learning, the sciences, and education in general, and turning towards ignorance (sometimes willful), superstition, and mysticism. I'd be perfectly happy to see religion in general go the way of the dinosaurs. We, as a species, need to finally grow out of any need for these things and embrace reason.

Bracing for the inevitable hate that will follow..

There's this little thing called 'presets' that allow you to jump around between stations with a simple push of a button, you should try it. I don't listen to commercials. :-)

I have a better idea: Don't buy any 'Internet of Things' devices in the first place. Nobody needs them.

The more stupid crap like this I read or hear, the more and more I'm glad I still listen to nice, free FM radio, and my own collection of CDs.

Take the 'recycled' water and use it for agriculture, industry, and landscaping, and leave the 'first use' water for people.

There WILL be a driver, they WILL need to see outside. Seriously where do you people come up with this crap? Let's just put people inside a closed metal box they can't see out of and have zero control over. Yeah sure great idea, what nightmare Universe did you come from anyway?

Why is it so many of you people seem to have been born completely deficient in any sort of sense of humor, and instead someone substituted this rediculous level of absolute literalness? For fuck's sake, loosen up! People like you give me a headache.

You're either poor and terminally butthurt over it, or you're just another shitty troll, in which case please voluntarily return to your containment unit (aka 4chan/b) or we'll be forced to use The Hose on you. Again.

Elon Musk built this car in a cave!!! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!!!

That's why.
Say what you want about the man, but he's probably the closest thing to a real-life Tony Stark as we're going to get. In a world that seems to otherwise be content with the status-quo, he's pushing the envelope and bringing us the future of things. THAT'S why.

Come up with a Tesla motorcycle and a Tesla light pickup truck, and then we'll have a conversation. Especially a motorcycle.