so cute

until you have to change the first diaper

See, this is what happens when rings are knotty.

It's just a big zit; relax

Sadly almost all of us live in the lower atmosphere, you insensitive clod.

Clean your own damned dirigible; we're not your maid.

I see way too many examples of people not understanding how to drive their car in 2D.

No no no. Like I said, the computer does the actual steering (for non-rural usage).
   

Sorry to be blunt about this, but tech support is the shit end of the tech industry.
"computer user support specialist" It's that one. Don't ask me why they gave it a funny name. They also call cable-pullers something weird. Maybe it's like "janitor" and has connotations.

Dealing with users, especially the typical sort that call tech support, is a horrible experience. You know, the PEBCAK sort. The ones which make for humors commentary if you didn't have to live it every day. Not something that people with options choose to do because they enjoy it.

If I were in your shoes, I'd avoid college (STEM) degrees, and stay the hell away from PHDs, as they'd probably just get bored/bitter. For as much shit as they shovel, I'd imagine most fortune 500 CEOs would do a pretty poor job of spreading manure. As much as the term "overqualified" stings, this is exactly the sort of situation it applies to.

So when you say that, as a guy hiring tech support workers, you don't look at education... that just kinda lends weight to my point.

Are you saying this project can't get off the ground?

90% chance you are right, but dreamers take risk on the 10%. Dreamers risked their lives to build the first airplane, risked their career on the first microcomputers (Woz at HP), risked their presidency on the first national health-insurance system, etc.

We owe a debt of gratitude and appreciation to the dreamers and risk takers. They gave us our future.

In bigger cities, such a contraption would have to be computer-controlled to reduce the risk of human error to an acceptable level. But perhaps if something gets going in a rural area, investments in city-friendly control infrastructure will follow. Thus, it doesn't have to start out being city-ready; it just has to start out (and gain usage).

Something like NASA's vertical-takeoff Puffin design sounds like the way to go for those without big yards or landing spots. Although, that's not really a "car". But "mass commuter planes" is close enough. 2D traffic sucks here; time to up-grade.

I don't understand why they would fixate on old technology...

Revoke his Nerd Card immediately. He is not one of us. I bet his computer chair is completely free of pizza stains too.

Man, the hoops people jump thru over nostalgia for pixellated pr0n.

"In order to separate human-caused global warming from the "noise" of purely natural climate fluctuations, temperature records must be at least 17 years long, according to climate scientists." - we're at 17 years, and we're not seeing the human caused signal. What part of that is difficult for you to comprehend? I guess the first sentence of the press release you link is too difficult to follow...

Thank you sir, for your incredibly lucid and applicable argument.