Yes! I was hoping this response would be here. An MacOS compiled free version called Barrier exists -- should you ever need it.

That is -- I think -- exactly what this feature does.

The MacPro would run the client software for the feature. The MBP would run the server. Clients regularly check to see if the server is available. When the server becomes available the client (MacPro) accepts keyboard / mouse input directly from the server (MBP) once focus is given to the client. Focus is usually handed off either by a keyboard command or by scrolling the mouse off the edge of the screen of the server. Check out Barrier.

I believe you can install Barrier through HomeBrew (via a 'cask' -- and I'm still not totally sure what the difference between a straight brew and a cask is .. except in real life. i'm very familiar with that difference).

I've used synergy (in various forms: barrier / synergy / synergy-core across multiple OSes for a long time. It's amazing and works exactly how I expect it to every time.

With my birthday recently passing I'm trying to figure out if the fact that this headline makes me slightly irked is a sign that I'm becoming a old curmudgeon of technologist.

No no -- I don't mean at a driver determined level. The roadways would be a routed grid taking into account all current desired destinations/locations/etc. The idea would be that with all that data a roadway router could determine the most efficient way to move all of the vehicles to their desired destinations. Though I'd like to think the system would just tell everyone its best to walk.

Safe use of automated vehicles requires all vehicles to communicate. An individual car with an automated driving system is capable of interpreting a street sign or determining where other objects are around it -- but that does nothing to express the intent of the other vehicle. All vehicles need to express not only their position but also their 'next hop' and their destination. Vehicles need to express routing information and broadcast it to other vehicles around them so that a consensus judgement can be made by all vehicles about their best next move.

Great coffee this morning. Eight O'Clock brand. Fantastic coffee.

We need roadway-routers. And then the uber/lyft/amazon/grubhub war can begin over vehicle routing preferences across the world.