"I didn't say I beamed them out in one piece, or all pieces at the same time. It was a small hole after all."
SlopppyEngineer
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Celebrating Christmas. That's how long it takes me to get through 10 beers. I don't drink a lot.
All the fuel for the car is pumped, refined and transported with electronics. Not to mention traffic lights.
Then you'll have to buy only old cars as everything in the last few decades had its engine controlled by a computer or at least microcontrollers which are mini computers. You're looking at mostly pre-1990 cars. These were the cars you could easily hot-wire as they didn't have electronic security.
Any modern car, even a manual transmission combustion engine, is a computer. The chip shortage hit the car industry hard.
No politician wanted to do any climate change reduction because of the impact on the economy. Now they get large inflation because of food prices, reconstruction of infrastructure after floods and reduced productivity because of the heat with no idea how to fix it.
He says he'll hurt the people they don't like.
The 40% that already tried one coup because he asked nicely. Who knows what kind of crazy through try now.
in that they could eliminate traffic
That's the question. Let's say the roads are now exclusively self driving cars and they are so efficient they double the throughput of roads. Meanwhile commuters bought houses that are twice as far away from the city because those houses are cheaper, and now they can sleep and work in the car anyway, so twice as much traffic. Or all schoolkids not taking the schoolbus anymore and all going by individual autonomous car and all pensioners getting their robo-taxi to squeeze through rush hour every morning so they're first at the supermarket for the freshest produce. It remains to be seen how that works out.
And not the first time that happened.