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There were no self-driving cars in 2006, and electric cars seemed like a far off dream.
by nwjtkjn 11y ago
There were no self-driving cars in 2006, and electric cars seemed like a far off dream.
- marvin 11y agoMoreover: We're talking about a decade here. It's not a very long time. For more than 99.9% of human history, you would expect one decade to be pretty much identical to the previous. But you could make a pretty long list of the changes in life from each decade to the next since 1900, so at this point I think the onus is on the people who want to prove that the next decade will not be materially different from the current. I'd certainly bet on change, and probably accelerating change.
- ocdtrekkie 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1 - Available to consumers (for lease, and they were recalled) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge_%282005%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge_%282005%... - Competitions of self-driving cars for over a decade We really haven't taken the magical leaps some people believe we have. We just learned to market them better. :)
- nwjtkjn 11y agoSo since the "internet" existed in the 70's, nothing exciting happened in the 90's?