Continuing on AI…. Dembski writes about autonomous cars, with a historically obvious point. The monsters who are depopulating the world are ready and willing to change everything. ALL MUST YIELD to the Supreme Will of Zuck.
The easiest way to insure that cars can be autonomous is called TRAINS. Elon appears to have concluded that laying out permanent tracks, possibly with wifi or magnetic fields, is the way to go.
The earlier efforts at autonomous cars, like the Future City in the 1939 Worlds Fair, used visible tracks.
And this leads to a new thought. For thousands of years all vehicles were self-driving. Horses need only occasional guidance, and on a familiar route no guidance at all. A mailman’s horse knew all the stops.
When motors were added to vehicles, nobody wanted to let a human do all the driving. Trains in 1850, then streetcars in 1880. Both were MORE self-driving than a horse, not LESS. Railroads quickly developed complex electrical networks that could control speed and force a train to stop before an obstacle. The Internet of Things was fully active in 1900.
A few trackless buses started to appear around 1880, but individual buggies with full human steering didn’t show up until 1893.
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