Hang on Clara!
Suddenly the Doctor understood why he'd had the strange compulsion to visit Charles Atlas in 1937.
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"Science and religion are two windows that people look through"
Except that religion's window is stained glass. Lots of pretty pictures to look at (along with an occasionally nice but more often horrible story) but essentially useless if you want to see the outside world. Meanwhile science is working at reducing the reflection on its window to one part in ten billion.
My car is old and falling apart. I want a new one. Ram the driverless Volvo!
Then I look forward to seeing you on "The World's Craziest Drivers - It's Not Just Russia Anymore" compilation coming soon to Youtube.
As for hacking - if you have access and intent why not just cut the brake line. It's a more plausible method of causing mayhem than trying to make a car drive on the wrong side of the road.
"Since Batman and the Batmobile were created in 1939, I think it is wrong that they are still considered to be owned 76 years later."
Then complain about Disney not DC. US copyright are largely created to the end that the sacred Mouse must forever remain under Disney control.
very few people actually believe those two things. First, reducing congestion is pretty far down on the list of proposed benefits. My number one is not being run down by some idiot fondling their phone when they pretending to be driving. The car sharing idea is an unrelated fantasy. Sure, A.I. cars might make it a little more effective, but if it were such an attractive idea we'd all be using taxis already.
Second, this has nothing to do with "strong" AI. What is making self-driving cars possible is the Google approach of throwing massive computational resources and some clever domain specific algorithms at the problem and observing what works.
Finally, I'd take an AI car that sits there confused at a show-off cyclist (or whatever) over the Natural Idiot who plows on confident that their "above-average" skills will get them out of anything their stupidity can get them into.
Thing is, if you're a well paid doctor in the first world why wouldn't you pay $200 extra for a well made example something that is after all a symbol of your profession. The desire to have something that's attractive beyond it's functionality is, after all, how Apple made it's fortune. The real shame (and surprise) is that there isn't already a cheap plastic stethoscope for situations where functionality is the only concern. Unless of course, there already is, and the article is just yet-more 3D printing hype.
I might find it more Orwellian if I could stop thinking about the giant kitten.
Maybe I should watch The War Machines a few more times. That should do it.
Overhead bus stop charging systems already exist and are almost certainly more efficient (and therefore faster) than this system. This looks to be very niche. It has the advantage of being weather sealed but where that's not needed a simple mechanical arm is likely a better solution.
that the developers in question were using the API to discover new and exciting* sex acts. (Or at least the latest terminology for them.)
*For values of 'excitin'g hovering around utterly gross. All the worthwhile sex acts were probably invented by Ugg and Uggette during a particularly steamy night in the cave.