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evidence. It doesn't sound credible to me. But I think it's probably a ploy to out him on his sexuality because it would make him look like a phony. So the thing that Cory Booker has to worry about in terms of his brand and the attackers is that he might be accused of being sort of a phony. And his Spartacus thing plays into that. It's like you're just pretending to be some kind of hero. You're k…

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has a failure the other cars should know to get out of the way because let's say they're tracking that car and it goes offline and they know it shouldn't have. The other cars should adjust. Let's say one of them has a mechanical problem. Perhaps another car could sense it, come up behind him. All the cars behind him in that lane would slow down automatically and the back car would push the other car in a controlled way onto the side of the road until it could be serviced.

So the first thing you'd want to test is cars that only have self-driving cars. Second thing you want to test is networking them all together so that they understand where each other are which would make everything much safer. They have some kind of a requirement for that. The next somebody says they have standards for this already but they don't have a place to test them in a large working environment with lots of vendors and stuff. So I assume there would be some protocol for that maybe not as extensively as I'm talking about now.

Here's another fun thing. The self-driving cars are going to have cameras in 360 degrees. Imagine if you were in a dangerous part of the city and you could choose to live near a self-driving car road. You would automatically have a safer place because all the self-driving cars would create a security video situation for anything they drove past. So everything on the street wherever there's a self-driving car is going to be recorded or potentially could be so that you would almost remove the street crime anywhere there are self-driving cars because of a camera in every direction.

Next I'm wondering if you could put a Wi-Fi system into place so that each of the cars is receiving Wi-Fi but also broadcasting and connected as a node to other self-driving cars. Could you build, I'm just speculating here, a high-powered Wi-Fi or even cell network that works on the cars as the moving cells? So if you are in a situation where no cars were going by for a while you might have no service but since the city always has cars you probably would not worry about that too much. A mesh Wi-Fi system. Just spitballing here.

Now if you could build the system the people who live near these self-driving cars, assuming that they're the kind that you can be shared so it's like Uber but self-driving cars, those people would have full transportation at a low cost especially if it's being tested in the city. They'd have Wi-Fi. They'd have more security. It would bring the automotive business into Detroit and Detroit seems like a good place to test because you have infrastructure and you have four seasons so you'd want to test these cars in an environment in which it snows, it gets hot, it gets cold. Detroit.

So I'm just going to put that out there as a suggestion that Detroit should become the new Motor City but for driverless cars and that all the companies that are working no matter where else they're working should put a facility in Detroit. This assumes that Detroit thinks it'

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s a good idea and figure out a way to build test roads in Detroit that could start small. Maybe it's just a few roads and then they build them as they go. Maybe you need to do some tunneling to get around the existing structures so you bring in the Boring Company. You bring in Elon Musk's Boring technology that makes tunnels cost-effectively for just those places you need to get around something o…

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