Talk about your poisoned chalice.

Oh go oooon. Look at all the oil!
And gold!

Who them? Friendly locals, nothing to worry about...

I reserve the right to steal that and change it to:

There are two types of Tory, Millionaires and Suckers

Suckers' not very British is it.

Um...

and Idiots.
and Morons.
and The Gullible Working Classes
and The Racist Underclasses
and The Great Unwashed ...

I'll work on that.

WHAT IN THE EVER LOVING F IS GOING ON?!?!

I thought slashdot was a tech site for tech people.

Yet I see statements saying "AI goes slow"...

Jesus wept...

Other things self driving cars will do (apart from erode liberties apparently *laughs*)

1) Automatically drive to where *you* are and pick you up.
2) Drive you home if you're drunk.
3) No parking in the centre of town? No problem, car drops you off and goes home
4) Done shopping? Car picks you up, or collects the shopping.
5) Taxis? Out of business.
6) Uber? How about your car earns you money ferrying people about while your sat at your desk at work.
7) Highway speeds? 200mph, manual drive cars are banned.

I look forward to the day.

Exactly!
And think what it would do for unemployment, it would be amazing!
You'd have to find more people there would be so many roles to fill.
Not many bridge watchers, but lots of elevator operators.
And emergency traffic light operators. Sitting in their little booths.

So, a tiny fraction of what roads are used for then...
And no, goods transport will be automated.

Fact of the matter is a computer will always be better an a monitoring duty than a human.
END of discussion.

I'm not young, but I know dumb.
These little-americaners thing the "the guv'ment" will be coming in black helicopters to take away their freedom (cars).
What they don't understand is that's not how it will happen.
What will happen, is people will buy self driving cars and stop driving manually.
Simply by choice.
Just in the same way people stopped riding horses.
The down side of all this is, of course, the horse went extinct and nobody can ride a horse any more. ..oh wait..

And have Bill Gates switch off the internet to save your children.

After a bad experience with a 2 year contract with a phone that was only really good enough for 1 year (Android 2 days)
I vowed never to pay for a contract that wasn't a monthly sim only plan.
Saved up for and purchased a Nexus 4, still using it.
Now that official support has ended I'm using CyanogenMod 13 (Android 6)
It works.
I use the thing endlessly, handy camera, social media, media player, tv, web browser.
It's literally my only computing device now.
Batteries a bit naff but at least with Android 6 it doesn't use much when you're not using it.

w0000! 8D

You're right!

I'll go let the MD and the shareholders.... ..oh wait.

*annoyed grunt*

hear, hear.

"Dimbulbs" is my new favourite plural.

Only if you don't run the add-in which puts "Beta" back in the corner.