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Re:Amazon Home Services by CPLX on Monday March 30, 2015 @09:35AM (#9289357)
> And anyway, driverless cars are happening.

By "happening" you mean "not used for any real purpose besides research or demonstration anywhere in the world" presumably.

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Re:Amazon Home Services by shubb on Monday March 30, 2015 @10:05AM (#9289542)
We have cars navigating america autonomously as we speak. [1]

From a regulatory perspective, I think driver-less cars are making better progress than drones, because auto regulations are more relaxed than air.

[1]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3006700/Driverless-c...

... Oh god I just linked the daily mail. Sorry I'm at work and picked the first link when I googled.

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Re:Amazon Home Services by narrowrail on Monday March 30, 2015 @10:43AM (#9289810)
Just for comparison, I had phones (flip-phones, mind you) from Samsung, LG, and Motorola with NFC in 2006. We could use them at MCD's, 7-eleven, and a few other places. Fast-forward 9 years and there has been little uptake, except that there are phones actually available to people with NFC, and acceptance is more commonplace.

In general, people take much longer to adopt new technology than we would like to see.

edit: grammar

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Re:Amazon Home Services by CPLX on Monday March 30, 2015 @10:41AM (#9289796)
No, actually we don't. From your article's headline:

"Two people will be in the specially rigged Audi in case of emergencies"

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