no one conducting the study is old enough to know that road rage and incredibly aggressive and stupid driving is not normal.

I canâ(TM)t wait for AI so we can have cars using turn signals again like they were decades ago.

Iâ(TM)ve been out of the country for a while, so I didnâ(TM)t realize that American car companies stopped installing turn signals.

Will AI cars rush as fast as possible from red light to red light, just so the passengers can get home really, really fast, so they can sit on the couch and eat potato chips?

How many Olympic-size swimming pools does this equal?

It's about as remote and out of touch as anywhere on Earth?

My first internet connection started in Japan in 1994. 100 Mbs fiber since 2000 and never had a virus, never had a data cap, never paid more than about US$ 60/month (now US$ 35/mo.), never had a browser hijack, never had malware, never had to reset a modem, never had less than 3 companies to choose from and only had service go out once and that was because of a massive earthquake 6 years ago.

Came back to the US and I'm loaded up with hijacks and malware every time I turn on my PC. Have to reset the modem every week or so, service is spotty. Slow and expensive.

It doesn't have to be that way.

I've got rooms of PhD developers in Beijing, all of whom make almost Silicon Valley salaries, are smart enough to understand tunneling and VPN's like most everyone except maybe hairstylists and bicycle mechanics.

It's so hard to tell...

There was an unspoken rule at the time that Japanese employees had to go buy new consumer products when they're released. Kind of like the ultimate corporate Ponzi scheme - tens of thousands of people buying their own products with the salary from sales of the products they're buying. Or something like that . . . ;)

I was a consultant for Panasonic in Japan about 20 years ago and I can tell you that after Matsushita Konosuke (the founder) died, it has been run by idiots.

I was doing a walk through at a (now bankrupt) subsidiary that was the darling of the company at the time. I asked about trading data backup between locations in western Japan, since all of their designs and corporate history was on PCs. The vice president I was with was perplexed by the question. I asked an engineer beside us at his desk about back up, and he smugly pulled a CD-R out of his desk drawer and showed it to me with a smile.

I took the CD, then the lighter on his desk and started melting it.

Anyway, I remember the spirited discussions as they said the "Internet Refrigerator" was going to be the hit product for a decade. A housewife would look in the refrigerator, them make a shopping list on the computer built into the door of the refrigerator, then keep the list on the internet because it was the internet!

I was a heretic who said it would never replace the paper, pencil and magnet. They spent GDP of small nation on that piece of crap.

That engineer is probably a top executive now...

I'm not so sure it's a good idea to upgrade to something more modern and hackable so we can all get killed faster through big data, crowdsourcing, the cloud and an app (iOS and Android - $1.99).

People with even a cursory knowledge of Japan know that Japanese are voracious readers. I don't feel sorry for Amazon. They should have to pay up and chalk it up as a stupidity tax.

It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold.

But, how does it know?

I have a Time magazine from 1948 and the cover article said the same thing.

and make the mosquitos pay for it.

The intro says: "The problem isn't that people are idiots..."

Let's stop right there. I know for a fact that this premise is wrong.