Nevada passes law authorizing driverless cars

Re:Nevada passes law authorizing driverless cars by nooneelse on Thursday June 23, 2011 @06:56PM (#2690268)

Personally, I look forward to self-driving sleeper cars and a new type of motel that is little more than a secure parking lot plus some nice bathrooms. What is the feeling of "where you live" if you switch cities each time you sleep?

Also, in your hypothetical, if we are all routing calls as our day job, doesn't that mean that at any one time, 1/3 of humans are asleep, 1/3 routing calls, 1/3 possibly on calls. With at least two people per call. How can that not be workable?

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Re:Nevada passes law authorizing driverless cars by sbierwagen on Thursday June 23, 2011 @07:34PM (#2690364)

  With at least two people per call. How can that not be workable?

He was partially referring to the internet. What would the web look like if two servers that wanted to move data between each other, (say, in a stock exchange) had to use circuit-switched telephony?

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Re:Nevada passes law authorizing driverless cars by varjag on Friday June 24, 2011 @07:02AM (#2691741)

Switching is hierarchical, so for every non-local call placed there would be several human operators involved.

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Re:Nevada passes law authorizing driverless cars by danssig on Friday June 24, 2011 @04:56AM (#2691538)

So out of all of humanity only 1/3 would be making calls? Everyone else would be supporting these phone calls? What on earth would they be talking about?

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