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> In 2007-2008, I remember polling friends and coworkers about smart phones. Just as you suggest, most said they were fine without it and didn't want to carry around a computer.

things changed when a computer appeared that people really liked to carry. The same wait is here - for the iPhone of autonomous cars. What right now drives around in Mountain View seems to be more like HP Treo.

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You really think people will prefer driving themselves to work rather than kicking back and doing whatever they fancy on the way? Driving a long distance? Punch in the destination and get some sleep, glorious

This does not need any shiny packaging to be a no brainer. It's a drop dead delicious invention.

That some even entertain the notion that they don't want one goes to show how clueless people are. They are just saying what they think everyone else thinks, without engaging thier brain.

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