Sorry, the asterisks should have been <i> tags. I was quoting the GP.

*Can't say that we've seen a tech boom here in Massachusetts*

Well, you had a confounding variable, in the form of the asinine "IT tax" that is now slated for repeal.

If he had guts, he'd take the job, and deal with the limpet mine that the Mossad plants on his car...

Citation needed. Specifically, exactly where did this "million miles of driving" with no human intervention occur?

Navigating the traffic I just drove through, which included a construction zone with flagmen, police, and multiple unmarked lane shifts, would be classified as a hard AI problem. If the Google cars can handle that without human assistance, then I'm genuinely blown away.

Google's fleet of self-driving cars have logged over a million miles driving on the same roads as human-operated cars.

Not without a very alert, cautious human ready to assume control at all times, they haven't.

Those experimental self-driving cars still have a human at the helm, paying close attention to everything that's going on. Rest assured that this is not a model for how those cars would actually be used by everyday drivers.

Agreed. There is simply no way that autonomous cars can safely be used on the same roads as human-operated ones. It just isn't going to happen. You might as well try to mix human-driven cars with 60 MPH horses.

A lot of interesting technical feats are about to become practical, but not implementable due to human factors. We'll have to eliminate human drivers at some point, whether we like it or not.

Exactly. I'd rather stay here, and live forever. Don't those morons know GTA5 just came out?

You sound concerned.

I'm sorry...the car is hideous. Let me make it a little more clear: it's like a decade old Kia body with a 90s Chrysler roof-line and an 80s Maserati front-end glued on. Its styling is anachronistic--it looks like it was designed awhile ago and took a long time to come to market.

Sober up, then post.

Lots of accusations, no citations.

Yes, but if I'm giving up something of mine (e.g. 80% of my house) then the process is not creating anything for me.

Here's a wild idea: why not let the homeowner make that call?

What dog do you have in this fight, exactly?

It was only legal for Starfleet crews, not civilians, This, despite over a century of pan-galactic lobbying by the NPA.

US authorities have a long history of peddling pornography through the mail, whatever kind was most offensive to society at the time. Nowadays it's kiddie porn, but that wasn't always the case.

Goes back a hundred years at least.

And my keyboard!