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I think we'll crack fusion power before level 5 self-driving cars. And that's been ten years away since 1950. :-)

gremlinsinc 5y ago
Not if we had smart infrastructure/roads. That's the only way, Musk needs to bite his pride and team up with Toyota, GM, BMW, VW etc go to D.C. talk to Biden, go pay off McConnel, and get an infrastructure bill that includes all roads in America replaced with smart roads in next 10 years. Roads that: - Self-repair via drones / automation - Self-fix weather conditions like flooding (pumps in locations where flooding is likely?), or ice (lasers that heat melt it, drones that drop salt/sand, self-driving plow or drones that plow and sand, heated roads with deep drains or that slant on either side with a nice drop off for excess fluid to drain. - Mapping/tracking of EVERY object on the road ..if a deer crosses the highway in Wyoming all cars within a mile are aware of it. - All cars around you know your speed and can adjust. - Your license/speed/etc are all known by the grid at all times. - Break a law no police will pull you over, you'll just be fined. However, speeds can be adjusted or removed in places on highways while in self-driving mode, the car will never go faster than is safe in an area/weather but can drive faster and cars could "link up" i.e. drive exact same speed and move like a "train" to increase aerodynamics. - You'd be able to drive yourself, but speed limits/etc would still be tracked and dangerous driving would be finable. Some of these have many ethical / dystopian concerns... frankly the "authorities" always knowing our location/speed, but on the other hand less police stops means less likelihood people are killed for being black/minority... it's a catch 22 on liberty vs equality. I mean if you haven't recently robbed a bank or something I think there's no problem and it's not like there's not traffic cams everywhere where we're already tracked by, at least this way you can take a road trip and snooze through all the "Dad are we there yet?" complaints lol.
- matt-attack 5y ago
  Pretty sure Rush wrote a song about the future you’re describing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Barchetta https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Barchetta

Not if we had smart infrastructure/roads. That's the only way, Musk needs to bite his pride and team up with Toyota, GM, BMW, VW etc go to D.C. talk to Biden, go pay off McConnel, and get an infrastructure bill that includes all roads in America replaced with smart roads in next 10 years. Roads that: - Self-repair via drones / automation - Self-fix weather conditions like flooding (pumps in locations where flooding is likely?), or ice (lasers that heat melt it, drones that drop salt/sand, self-driving plow or drones that plow and sand, heated roads with deep drains or that slant on either side with a nice drop off for excess fluid to drain. - Mapping/tracking of EVERY object on the road ..if a deer crosses the highway in Wyoming all cars within a mile are aware of it. - All cars around you know your speed and can adjust. - Your license/speed/etc are all known by the grid at all times. - Break a law no police will pull you over, you'll just be fined. However, speeds can be adjusted or removed in places on highways while in self-driving mode, the car will never go faster than is safe in an area/weather but can drive faster and cars could "link up" i.e. drive exact same speed and move like a "train" to increase aerodynamics. - You'd be able to drive yourself, but speed limits/etc would still be tracked and dangerous driving would be finable. Some of these have many ethical / dystopian concerns... frankly the "authorities" always knowing our location/speed, but on the other hand less police stops means less likelihood people are killed for being black/minority... it's a catch 22 on liberty vs equality. I mean if you haven't recently robbed a bank or something I think there's no problem and it's not like there's not traffic cams everywhere where we're already tracked by, at least this way you can take a road trip and snooze through all the "Dad are we there yet?" complaints lol.

matt-attack 5y ago
Pretty sure Rush wrote a song about the future you’re describing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Barchetta https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Barchetta