> The Obama administration has proposed spending $4 billion to accelerate autonomous-car technology during the next decade. Hmm, what are they spending it on?

> The Obama administration has proposed spending $4 billion to accelerate autonomous-car technology during the next decade. Hmm, what are they spending it on? There's a lot of money being spent on developing this technology already by multiple private companies. I assume it's for something else... IMO government research money should go into stuff that private industry is unwilling to fund, like pure math, theoretical physics/CS, and other things that have very long-term yield/results timelines.