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These people are NOT fooling around:
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/ces-toyota-big-smart-city/index.html
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Yes, all very nice, but will they have a KFC.
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If it's in Japan they will. How else could they possibly have Christmas?
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my issue with smart cities or smart doorbells, etc. etc. is what happens if a hacker gains control
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Or if the electricity goes out for a few days.
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We did a lot of preliminary work with a Japanese motorcycle manufacturer on a ducted fan feasibility study: A flying motorcycle. Not hard to do engineering-wise, impossible from a product liability standpoint. The entire flying car/motorcycle notion is great and doable, right up until the first controlled flight into terrain accident. Imagine a flying motorcycle ![]()
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