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Technology Stocks : Driverless autos, trucks, taxis etc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: slacker711 who wrote (40)	3/19/2017 6:24:09 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 567

I think a big benefit is we won't have to give up driving but the cars will be there to "assist" us. Many in the 80s drive just fine while many in their 50s start to have troubles such as cataracts affecting night and low sun driving ability before they are ready to have the surgery. Also, I hear a lot of nonsense from "critical thinkers" about what the young want. The thinkers seem to miss is it isn't really what they want, but what they can afford. If you are living in your parent's basement or two to a room in a 2b/1b apartment, you probably can't afford your own car,have no room to store great "stuff" you would like to buy and so when you want to splurge, you spend on "experiences" that you can store on the one "thing" they spend most of their disposable income on.... selfies in the smartphones! It reminds me of the discussion about high end audio in the 1980s on rec.audio.high-end with the Europeans and Japanese.... They had tiny speakers and amps.... They spent money on stupid, worthless cables to "improve the sound" while I'd spend money on a big amp to drive a big pair of quality speakers that made a piano sound like it was in room with you. You see, in Japan it is considered extremely rude to make enough sound for your neighbors to hear you in the next tiny apartment (must not be good for great sex) and it is similar to Europe where they don't live in ranch homes on a quarter acre lot. SO, yeah, they might really want to spend the money to recreate a live concert or movie experience in their homes, but they can't.... so the marketers came up with others ways to get their money. The smart ones spent money on equipment that sounds really good at low volume.... Anyway, I digress.... I'd love to have a car that lets me drive when the roads are open but takes over in traffic so I can read, watch a video or even do some work while the car takes me to and from windsurfing. Then when I'm too old to drive safely, it can drive all the time.