Obama administration ready to put $4B toward self-driving cars

Re:Obama administration ready to put $4B toward self-driving... by jessaustin on Thursday January 14, 2016 @08:00PM (#10906271)

Why federal government needs to invest in this?

Generally I agree with the sentiments you express here, but I just remembered the murderdeathwar on which many in the federal government would prefer to spend $4B. Compared to that, even if this is a total waste, it's not that bad.

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Re:Obama administration ready to put $4B toward self-driving... by caseysoftware on Thursday January 14, 2016 @10:28PM (#10906959)

That's the thing.. government never chooses A instead of B, they choose to do A, B, and then C just for good measure.

This isn't going to take money from other wasteful or bad areas. It's just going to be more debt.

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Re:Obama administration ready to put $4B toward self-driving... by euyyn on Friday January 15, 2016 @01:38PM (#10911153)

That's naive. The government, like any big entity that handles money, prepares a budget choosing to do A instead of B.

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