Why only for 0 passengers? If you want to reduce congestion, price it.

So we should never change anything?

So we should just cede management to the AI and get about solely in personal transport that is tracked and logged and authorized at every turn?

Safety and reliability without security? Tell me more.

Emergency overrides.

Did you know that buildings have doors that cannot be locked to prevent them from being opened from inside, because otherwise in case of a fire (or in the US, active shooter), people will die if they cannot exit the building?

Did you know that many industrial plants intentionally disable certificate revocation checks, because having a certificate expire on you for whatever reason is a sure-fire way to break the plant (and in some case possibly kill people), and overall a nuisance when trying to keep the plant running, while the threat it protects against can be handled elsewhere in the stack?

Security and safety are very often at odds - not just in emergency, but during regular operations.

Not even SpaceX. They're retiring the Falcon 9.

Yes, so Europe and China are (sadly) more than 10 years behind the tech that SpaceX is retiring already.

I think the last time such a divide existed was when the West had guns and Japan had Samurai. I’m so glad we, Europe, are (still kind of) aligned with US.

Yeah, cars are the #1 of quality of life problem in cities.

All that requires _effort_. A stunt where you AI-translate a library into multiple languages is clearly not a context where you'll see that kind of effort applied.

Yeah, someone should just do an Elixir port that blows his out of the water if they really want to prove the point, with benchmark numbers.

"Forced out" meaning they choose to sell rather than spend their unearned windfall.

They could always borrow against their massively appreciated property, after all.

How do you expect to borrow against that property for the rest of your life?

And why is being a Google Programmer "earning" that money, but a construction worker who spent 30 years paying off their house is an "unearned" windfall?

Do you really have to ask why someone working earns their returns, while someone whose property appreciates through no effort of their own -- and yes, it's just the land appreciating the vast majority of the time -- did not earn the windfall?

People refinance all the time.

It'll make it so new construction tends to be condos rather than apartments, since the first is heavily preferred by tax policy. This reduction in supply will mean higher rents.

New construction is like 1-2% of total housing stock annually. It'll take a relatively long period of time for these sorts of changes to hit prices because again, low price elasticity of supply.

edit: on slightly further thought, you'd also need this effect to either increase overall vacancy or reduce total construction, since any supply shift from occupied rental units to owner-occupied condos also implies a demand shift from renting to owning.