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> Buy a fully autonomous car Make sure you put a winged pony on the shopping list too. They're a great fashionable match any time you're making fantasies of ac
by CPLX 9y ago
> Buy a fully autonomous car
Make sure you put a winged pony on the shopping list too. They're a great fashionable match any time you're making fantasies of acquiring things that don't exist.
- jhall1468 9y agoAt least one of those is far closer to reality than the other.
- chipotle_coyote 9y agoWhile that's true, the less flippant question is whether fully autonomous cars -- where "fully autonomous" is defined as being able to climb in one, kick back and do your work with no concern the way you conceivably could on a train -- will (a) exist, (b) be road-legal, (c) be widely available, and (d) be generally affordable within a timeframe that makes a high-speed rail line moot. I don't think that's remotely a given.
- Animats 9y agoWe're going to have autonomous cars that can drive SF-LA long before we have high-speed rail. Self-driving cars from the big players are planned for the 2020-2021 model years.
- CPLX 9y agoI have this weird feeling that before we have many of them in mass production, we'll have a single car that fits this description.