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Ford plans to build cars capable of SAE Level Four autonomous driving and have them hit the road as part of a ride-hailing service by 2021:
Building on more than a decade of autonomous vehicle research and development, Ford's first fully autonomous vehicle will be a Society of Automotive Engineers-rated level 4-capable vehicle without a steering wheel or gas and brake pedals. It is being specifically designed for commercial mobility services, such as ride sharing and ride hailing, and will be available in high volumes. [...] This year, Ford will triple its autonomous vehicle test fleet to be the largest test fleet of any automaker – bringing the number to about 30 self-driving Fusion Hybrid sedans on the roads in California, Arizona and Michigan, with plans to triple it again next year.
Ford was the first automaker to begin testing its vehicles at Mcity, University of Michigan's simulated urban environment, the first automaker to publicly demonstrate autonomous vehicle operation in the snow and the first automaker to test its autonomous research vehicles at night, in complete darkness, as part of LiDAR sensor development.
Ford also announced investments/partnerships with Velodyne, SAIPS, Nirenberg Neuroscience LLC, and Civil Maps, as well as an expansion of its Silicon Valley presence with a new campus in Palo Alto.
Reported at BBC, NPR, CNBC, and Bloomberg, which notes that the company is skipping driver-assist steps.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday August 19 2016, @06:27PM
The answer to this problem is simple: it's called the Universal Basic Income (I'll let you google it).
Without it, yes, we're going to have a lot of extreme poverty.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Friday August 19 2016, @07:39PM
That's not simple at all. That UBI needs to come from some place. Where?
Over 90% of the wealth is in the hands of 63 people. Poor people and the middle class make up the bulk of taxation. You can't tax these demographics AND give them UBI. It's impossible as the total amount of money required doesn't actually exist within that system.
You add money to that system by rising up and killing the entirety of the 1%. That 90% of the wealth will then flow back into 90% of the people. You'll have so much fucking money you won't know what to do with it.
Sure, the killing sounds a bit violent, but then again, the violence of the 1% will never stop. If they can't even budge on paying people living wages (meaning average, normal, MODEST standards of living) FOR ACTUAL FUCKING WORK OVER 8-16 HOURS, then why could we ever believe they would pay us to do nothing instead?
I'm not fucking interested in UBI. I can work for a living, once I'm allowed to see some doctors and hopefully get better (if not I'm just shooting myself). All I'm asking is that people be allowed to work for a living wage. Then you don't need all the fucking drama over social programs, as the living wage implicitly provides the resources that average Joe and Sally need to live. Once that happens, you can tax these people reasonably and provide the social programs for the part of our population that will always need it. We're going to have sick and disabled people living around us, and I'm not a fan of eugenics, or giving some poor soul ~$500/month to survive on an acknowledged medical disability, when the average rent is over 3x that. Nobody can survive when average rents are > 100% of monthly income, let alone take home pay.
UBI is interesting, but always remember that the money for it needs to come from the elites. They only give one thing to us: Oppression.
Once the civil war happens and we kill all those fuckers brutally, you won't see a need for UBI. We have more than enough resources to take care of ourselves in style, and still completely fund all the social programs, but only once you get rid of the parasites.
Get rid of the parasites and you will realize that you were starving while giving Fat Bastard a run for his money on how much you could consume....
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.