If the same benefits were not seen in other driving occupations, the other factor with taxis and ambulance drivers is communicating with a diverse group of people in a generally friendly manner. It seems like that might play a bigger role that navigating. Taxi drivers and ambulance drivers have to engage with their customers, but they aren't trying to sell something.

Die Another Day (and all the Bond movies) have been playing on the TV. Someone must have liked the Icarus weapon and thought, "let's work up to that".

I managed an IT team of 6. Only one had a masters degree, the others were all bachelors, college, or high school grads. It was the one with the masters degree that was clueless enough to utter a threat of physical violence to an employee of a photocopy repair company. Pretty sure he meant it as a joke, but it didn't come across to the repair guy as a joke. The repair guy reported the incident, the incident was reported back to our company, and HR said he has to go. Not bright.

How about just having a radio or transponder kept off most of the time, and turn it on occassionally to communicate? He also couldn't have gotten to far, so the search area wasn't huge.

General Beringer: "What does the Whopper recommend, Mr. Mckitrick?" Mr. Mckitrick: "Full scale retaliatory strike" General Beringer: "I need some machine to tell me that?"

It's going to get to the point where you are assumed to give consent to being recorded just by going through the drive-thru. #1984

Humans have angst and many might view that as bad, but a healthy fear keeps us out of trouble. AI doesn't have that, no matter how much it tries to simulate that. I code with AI but I would never let it be a sys admin.

If this is left to some algorithm, this will likely prevent any cosplay guns like the Star Wars stormtroopers, etc.

A good percentage of slashdot reader grew up when there were no smartphones, so a smartphone is more likely a tool to look up stuff, email, etc. For the generation that grew up with smartphones, they were not taught to use it as a tool, but as an entertainment device. Walking around with a TV stuck in your face all the time is a huge distraction. So I can see the appeal of ditching the smartphone to break habits.

Oh, that is what Lobot is wearing!

As one other comment mentioned, it's a nice stunt but what would be the real world use case for this? Even if this was a server it seems unlikely that anyone wants to risk swapping for a different part in an environment demanding that level of HA

Yes, because the morning walk to school is the only time kids can get sunlight... There are plenty of kids in northern latitudes that go to school in the dark, or school just starts at a later hour. I'm guessing the teachers wouldn't mind a later start too.

This is a privacy nightmare. There does not seem to be any practical reasons for the screen, but it is a great way to help broadcast data 360 degrees.

You bring up a good point. One of the reasons cited for the housing crunch is lack of labour. Why? Not as many people that were born in Canada see trade skills as a good career, AND we keep asking for high tech immigrants, not trade skills. So we've created our own housing shortage in some ways.