As a result, the company is entering uncharted waters in terms of its product line. For instance, Intel’s investment of $250m into developing self-driving car technology is somewhat of a gamble on the company’s part.

Read the full article at: seekingalpha.com

Any insider knows the $250M is a fraction of what it will take and Intel Capital will dole out the investments only for a large direct return over years. There is no handout here.

The only real limitation here would be that it includes a provision that carmakers and its suppliers (the creators of the autonomous driving system used, for instance) be held liable for any resulting accidents

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Ok, is this not a big obstacle? Does GM or any other automaker want another congressional hearing with engineers explaining how one line of code included a bug?

The car has actually become more like a $9,000 ball and chain that gets dragged through our daily life. Owning a car means monthly car payments, searching for parking, buying fuel, and dealing with repairs.

Read the full article at: medium.com

The ball and chain is accepted as a part of freedom, a strong desire for most people. How can a shared car meet the need? Public transport seems to work fine for many, but it is not in your own garage each day at your disposal.

This is one reason many secure websites use Captchas — those pattern-recognition tests typically consisting of oddly shaped numbers and letters — to prevent computers (“bots”) from automatically registering on websites, spamming comment sections or joining email lists.

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Here’s a case where human capabilities cannot be matched by robots, although “artificial intelligence” promoters see this as only a matter of time. It reminds me of how quantum computing will be most useful for criminal hackers to break complex crypto codes faster. Is this really an innovation?