Perhaps they could call the product, "Beyond Meat"...Oh, wait.

I remember.

Do you remember (before Waymo existed) what happened to traffic in SF anytime the power went out?

I remember. It was pretty much the identical situation.

Traffic goes to hell when the traffic lights stop working properly (without Waymo and also with Waymo).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4BxP5IEyzw

I'm curious if you had planned or intended to spend 16 hours doing it on these days? Or did you simply find it very difficult to stop?

Stupidity and gaslighting are not the same thing, but MS seems to have plenty of both for us.

You seem to think this guy is going to go ask Nadella "hey, did you read my blog post?"

..and your job is to allocate the resources you have been given.

The original Luddite movement arose in response to automation in the textile industry.

They committed violence. Violence was committed against them. All tragic events when viewed from a certain perspective.

My rhetorical question is this: did any of this result in any meaningful impedance of the "march of technological progress"?

66 years later we see California struggling terribly with implementation of a high-speed rail system -- where the placement/location of the infrastructure largely is targeted for areas far less dense than the Bay Area.

I don't think there is any single reason why this is so much more difficult now then it was in 1960 -- but clearly things have changed quite a lot in that time.

I'm willing to wager that you might not actually believe it at that point either.

I think you meant, "Attempt" to limit what people can do.

Driving in SF (for example) provides many opportunities to see "free will" exerted in the most extreme ways -- laws be damned.

I think this is correct and I want to point out something that I have not seen mentioned elsewhere in the thread.

If and when Uber/Lyft move heavily in this direction, the cost/operational benefits of having their "fleet" of vehicles be privately owned-vehicles will almost certainly disappear.

It seems that many people, after trying out the service for themselves first hand, in a locale that has it available today, are very eager to have the service available to them in their home locale.