Not everyone will be using autonomous vehicles... the government will make it's money from the autonomous vehicles themselves. The autonomous vehicles will report to the authorities when other non autonomous vehicles break traffic laws. If the autonomous vehicles sees you not come to a complete stop... you get reported. The autonomous vehicle sees you switch lanes without signaling... you get reported. The autonomous vehicle sees you speeding... you get reported. See what's gonna happen?
Towards the end you were talking about stories about stuff found on the moon. I would like to add my favorite story to the list "Inherit the Stars" by James P. Hogan.
You are correct, Business's will move to them fast for fleet savings etc. Over time the safety for driverless vehicles will be on record as history and it will cause all vehicles to be driverless.
sigh one more thing a missed by not going to Quakecon. Next year, remp, next year. Autonomous vehicles = cool for urban settings, but I will always love driving through the countryside. Even more so when I get a new, street legal bike.
Your using a Gigabyte instead of the MSI laptop? Great machine if it doesn't set the table on fire. I love my P35W v3, but I think it might be getting hotter as it gets older. But you might not have as much of a problem if your GPU is Maxwell instead of Kepler like mine.
+Tek Syndicate ur reference to urbanisation and the widening of the gap between rich and poor is incorrect. read articles relating to 'modernisation theory' which is the study of the impact of economy/industrialisation/urbanisation/modernisation/wealth distribution etc... and its role in promoting/not promoting democracy etc deals specifically with topics u were talking about.... Chu, Yun-han. 2012. "The Taiwan Factor." Journal of Democracy 1:42-56. Huang, Yasheng. 2013. "Democratize or Die: Why China's Communists Face Reform or Revolution." Foreign Affairs. Inglehart, Ronald, Welzel, Christian. 2009. "How Development Leads to Democracy." Foreign Affairs 88 (2):1-11. Li, Eric X. 2013. "The Life of the Party: The Post-Democratic Future Begins in China." Foreign Affairs. Pei, Minxen. 2012. "Is CCP Rule Fragile or Resilient?" Journal of Democracy 23 (1).
Whenever the subject of tax evasion by multinationals comes up a lot of people will present the corporation's side of the issue as something along the lines of "well, we already paid taxes overseas to other countries, so it's not fair that we also have to pay the US government." What gets missed is that while it's true that these companies "operate and do business all over the world" is that the US government does too. In fact much of the reason the US military is deployed to over 600 bases globally is to protect the interests of our businesses overseas. Interests like having their executives and agents remain free to roam the globe, rather than being restrained in some tyrant's prison or terrorist safe house. In fact that's one "pro business" mandate that's enshrined in the US Constitution, where Congress is required to "maintain a Navy" to protect overseas commerce. All these multinationals enjoy the benefits of that protection, on which almost 1/4 of US tax dollars are spent. They should all be made to pay, or move their headquarters to Somalia -- I'm sure they'll be able to get plenty of help maintaining their businesses overseas from that country's government.
@Logan you know what Luxemburg is? Most people have no clue. i'm interested in what you think of it because it sounded like it would just be a place to depostit tax money from what you said. If you ever get the chance come and visite our little paradise you might like it.