I read the headline as connecting cars to nearby cars to optimize traffic flow. I got excited. I was sitting in stop and go traffic on the way to the airport last week, fantasizing about a system that would allow entire swarms of cars to suddenly just decide to speed up to highway speeds without crashing. Around the same time, I heard my local (Portland, OR) station talk about the billions of dollars it was planning to spend on widening the highways. Just a fraction of the money that the world spends on widening highways could probably be used increase the carrying capacity of existing highways. At least in the long run of about 10 years, which is about the amount of time it would take to widen them.
Not every car could participate at first, but even partial adoption might help. Especially as we are striving to replace all of our gas guzzling cars with shiny new electric cars.
Challenge to the Google / Apple / Tesla: In addition to bickering about Infotainment systems, come up with a hardware / software framework for connecting cars together to optimize traffic flow. Bonus if it's simple and cheap and can be partially retrofitted to some existing cars.

So far, I haven't found any browser that implements this well. On a small screen, it's highly desirable to zoom in on a block of text in a web page. Ideally, the text block will re-flow so that you can read the paragraph without panning back and forth. There are some Firefox plugins that try to do this, but they don't work well. In many cases, even slight zooming causes the entire page to get re-drawn, and everything jumps around, and the paragraph jumps out of view. I hope Vivaldi can do better.

The thing is, Firefox prohibits one of the most basic customizations: You can't set the default new-tab page to be your own custom html file on your local disk. They claim that it has something to do with security. A better guess is that they want to control your access so they can serve advertising and customization suggestions.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Useful and amusing to find a random group of 3 words that locates you house.

https://ai.googleblog.com/2015...

I spent a few weeks in Vietnam this Winter. Free enterprise was rampant. The economy seemed to be doing very well. On average, the people were happy. Probably happier than the average American. I didn't see the desperate poverty that is common in third-world countries. I didn't see beggars like you'd see in most third world countries and large American cities. However, they apparently still punish people for thought crimes (As they do in Thailand, for example, for saying bad things about the King, or in other countries for saying bad things about their invisible superbeing in the sky). So I probably won't be going back unless that changes.

See: https://www.express.co.uk/news... "SCIENTISTS have concluded a spike in banned chemicals which threatens to cause fresh damage to the ozone layer can be traced to badly recycled air conditioning units and fridges in China."

The reason for the spike is that 19/20 of the calls to my phone are spam. You'd think the NSA could use this info to track down and terminate the spammers with extreme prejudice.

Define "Happy". I don't see lots of happy people in airports waiting an hour for a 90 minute flight. Sure, there are a few people that use mass transit because they typically don't have a better alternative. But there are many, many more people who have tried mass transit and discovered that they could get to their destination faster by car, even if they sit in traffic for 30 minutes. Typically because they don't have a better alternative. The real selling point would be to make transit more efficient, and thus offer a better alternative.

The real selling point of Musk's plan was not the speed, but the plan to eliminate wait times and the first/last mile. Especially for short-haul mass transit, there's not much benefit to traveling at 1 billion KPH when you have to wait for 15-30 minutes to catch a train. An optimal system allows you to:
* Ride from your house to a local transit hub in your small electric pod
* Get bundled into a meta-pod and zipped off to your destination transit hub with low delay
* Ride (or walk) a short distance from the destination hub to your final destination
Creating a train that goes 600 MPH is a small part of this.

Sounds perfect for me. I've been looking for a place with high tech jobs and good windsurfing and kiteboarding. Last time I checked, tough, NZ didn't have any chip design jobs.