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Re:Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses C... by jschwartzi on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @09:50AM (#10778006)
Why not just never improve anything, ever? I mean we might have self-driving cars in 20 years, but another 20 after that there will be something even better than self-driving cars, and who wants to own something that will be obsolete in 20 years, anyway?
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Re:Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses C... by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @12:48PM (#10779118)
We will have self driving cars in 3 to 5 years at this point...the writing is on the wall. We will have pervasive self driving cars in 10 or 20 years.

So to ignore something that is pretty much a sure bet to redesign your city over 20 years, when what you are building is meant to last 50-100 years, is kind of stupid. You do what you can with all information available.

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Re:Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses C... by Johnny555 on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @01:12PM (#10779289)
I think you're overly optimistic with that estimate -- we'll have "driver assist" cars in 3 - 5 years that can navigate most roads in normal conditions, but will still need the driver to step in from time to time to help with unexpected conditions.

10 - 20 years is more likely for true self-driving cars that can operate completely without human control.

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