05/19/2024 8:17:09 AM PDT
· 35 of 55 fso301
to MtnClimber
Personal automobiles, long a symbol of freedom and prosperity, especially in the United States, are coming under increasing attack, as are the internal combustion engines which have historically propelled them.
The government owns the public roads and has authority to set usage rules.
The Left has long pushed for rail and other public transit as a means to eliminate the automobile as a symbol of personal freedom.
I now sense a switch by the Left towards embracing self-driving vehicles as a means to their end of eliminating personal transport.
I can see a time in the future where only self-driving vehicles are allowed on certain public roadways. Because they can operate as a hive, the vehicles can be tightly spaced, communicate with each other (and the mothership) and move a lot of people quickly.
Ultimately, the government will take complete control of such system and declare it a new form of public transit.
In such future system, if you want to get to work quickly and inexpensively, just purchase tickets and one of the government transport units will arrive to take you to work and bring you back home.
Otherwise, good luck finding and paying for gasoline, and using back roads and paying increased taxes for among other things taking longer than 15 minutes to get where you were going in the new 15 minute city.
05/10/2024 2:25:17 AM PDT
· 25 of 29 fso301
to Tench_Coxe
how many places can you walk into and buy electrical components with cash...?
During Radio Shack's glory days, hardware was king. It was a big deal for a young kid to buy a battery, resistor, capacitor, and bulb and make a flashing light. Parents would see that as sign that their child might become an electrical engineer.
Since those days, software has pushed hardware aside. Now, kids accomplish the equivalent of an RC circuit by writing code to flash "Hello World" on a monitor.