It's already happening. Zuck is replacing himself in the boardroom with AI Zuckerberg. (and in the bedroom with Black Guy Cuclkeberg)

Sport driving will not go away just the same.

I like and want a sports car for DAILY driving...

I like to drive....and every day when I get into it and fire up the engine, it's an adventure for me.

I don't just go from point A to point B....what a boring life that would make for....

I was listening to the original summary of this article...till they used the word "equity".

I immediately shut off anytime that word comes up.

Now...if they start once again to go for equality...well, then, I'll listen again.

Pride is important because in the old model, people were proud of themselves for doing a difficult job that paid a lot of money. When machines replace human labor, we will need to find something else to be proud of. Boomers and Gen-Xers won't get it, they will feel ashamed of their non-working children. Millennials will have mixed feelings, Gen-Z will mostly embrace it...

Gen Alpha and beyond will wonder why people ever felt proud of having to slog through 8 hours of office work every day.

I don't remember any politicians running on UBI for displaced telephone operators. Hillary ran on retraining coal miners to be coders which is even more laughable now than it was then (but for very different reasons).

I think the bottom line is that we live in a democracy so as soon as UBI resonates with a majority of voters, it will happen. I don't expect it to happen in the next cycle though.

I'll need it for my motorcycle.....hoping it all lasts till after I'm dead and gone, so I can enjoy the "old ways"....

I love paying $5 a gallon for high test and $7 for diesel. Although dear leader is telling me prices are lower than ever.

Just recently at Costco I paid $3.99/gallon for premium.....I live in LA in the New Orleans area.....hasn't gotten very bad here yet....

I am not wealthy by any definition, rent a flat, have no garage and no second car, just my Hyundai Inster. And will rather use public transport than get a car that burns fuel.

Aren't you tired of whining about how electric cars are bad since they are impractical in some edge cases that don't even apply to you over and over and over again in every slashdot discussion about electric cars? Or are you being paid for doing this?

With your references to living in a "flat" and taking public transport....you can NOT live in the US.

Somehow you don't understand that what you consider an "edge case" is NOT an edge case over here...it's real and widespread.

For most people

If they did (in the US), then most people would have them or be actively pursing them....

Even if I could charge at home, I'm not willing to give up the driving experience that I have enjoyed since I was a teen.....2-seater sports care with manual transmission.

I know I'll lose the transmission with EV some day...but right now, there's no such thing as an EV that is a 2 seater sports car, everything is 4 seater family car and I'm just not interested in a family truckster.

And an EV motorcycle...would just kill the experience completely....ugh....

I'm not set up to "charge at home"....so far here in southern LA, it hasn't really gotten that expensive for gas yet, I hit Costco the other day and was just now up to $3.99/gal here.

To take the strain off, I try to ride my motorcycle whenever I can, which I enjoy more anyway.....

We still had $5/gallon gas back then due to Trump's shitty economic policies.

Where the hell do you live where gas was that expensive before the Iran war?!?!?

We're just not $3.99/gallon at Costco here where I live (New Orleans area)....

Prior to this we were in the $2's.....easily.

Insurance adjusters are experts because they have access to actuarial data. They do not have data on how likely AI or bad actors are to get access to nukes.

There are youtubers who have eaten WWII spam. Anyway it doesn't need to last 50, just the last stretch to 50.

Ok, and you trust them to know and tell you their odds of them using a weapon that's supposed to be only used as a deterrent? That's ridiculous.