It's obviously lack of walking. People in America were eating piles of (possibly worse) junk food in the 50's and 60's, and everybody watched TV for hours a day, and way fewer went to the gym. But people walked to work or the train station or the park, and kids walked to school or at least the bus stop. Today just looking the population of places people walk (NYC) should make it obvious. You think NYC does not have lots and lots of junk food?

Unfortunately people are so in love with their cars they refuse to see it. The reaction to even the most mild attempt to restrict the ability to drive your personal car as close as possible to any location is pretty telling.

Actually your decomposition produces more carbon dioxide and methane.

Is it possible to use the patients own stem cells? Would that solve the immunosuppressment problems?

The idea that a shared taxi fleet would be more profitable than private cars seems very dubious. I would guess there would only be about 1/10 as many taxis as there needs to be private cars so they would have to somehow cost 10x as much as a private car.

The average person will be able to rent a self-driving pickup when/if they need it. This completely removes their pathetic excuse to buy monstrosities that are only used to commute to work.

The gardener will most likely own their vehicle as they use it 100% of the time (even when sitting there holding their equipment, it is being used). There may have to be special licenses so that the private vehicle can be operated on public roads, and it will be self-driving as well.

It should not be hard to set up luxury status-symbol self-driving taxi service. People will be in awe as you arrive in the self-driving Rolls which costs ten times what the Teslas that all the plebes ride in.

As you point out, they are already using minivans when there are few passengers.

However the enormous expense of the human driver is removed if it is self-driving, that is the big difference, even compared to a minivan.

Cities build transit in rings around the city nowadays. See Paris and London, and many others.

I do believe self-driving taxis will be extremely useful to deliver people from/to the train station, and will be very good addition to public transit. It is possible it will lead to the transit stations being further apart and much greater speed between stations, I'm not sure if that is a win or not.

This is a nonsense fantasy idea from Musk. The taxi fleets are NOT going to be individually privately-owned vehicles.

The obvious reason is that destruction of a car is pretty devastating to a private owner. However it is just a line-item to a company that owns a fleet of them.

Robotaxis will also be able to store themselves in very dense parking garages if they become reliable enough that we don't need humans to be able to get into them while stored. This will not work however if there is some requirement to be "fair" about who's car get used to provide a ride, or if the private owner is allowed access to it.

I actually thought it was higher than that. I checked and Google AI says it is 58%, other sites seem to round up to 60%.

How do they send the bribes to the call center workers? Or are they possibly screwing them as well and just convincing them they will receive something?

Initially I thought it would be more prudent to wait for the next model, but the tariff threat got me to buy asap. It seems likely this is a big part of the surge.

I think he means "using rocket engines to land". In which case he is right, nothing that goes to orbit lands using rocket engines, they use atmospheric friction and parachutes. All things landing under power, including boosters for orbital spacecraft, are sub-orbital.

I would not count on this requiring the app to update.

The fact that "walkable cities" scare you indicates the problem is on your end, not your fantasy Europeans.