Atom set up a subroutine to let him know whenever a chance to improve his chances of becoming president came up. Also warn him whenever he might be about to do something that will hurt his public image.
My problem with "robot drivers" isn't the thought of adding an autopilot system to existing cars; that's a brilliant idea that should have been done twenty-plus years ago, leveraging the technology developed from the aviation sector. It's the way in which all attempts at it have been leaning, towards eliminating the "manual override" option by having the car be solely controlled by the autopilot, eliminating all conventional controls and not allowing the car to be driven manually.
So, after the heat death of the universe?
C'mon now, if the last year of chapters have shown anything they'll be the Neo-Promethean party. One which draws upon enterprising deities, arcanotechnologies, and newly investigated sciences to make humans more competent.
Well, there are a bunch of other pantheons who probably won't do anything. The Aztec, Chinese, Celtic and Vietnamese pantheons have come up in this story, albeit briefly. Presumably many other pantheons also exist but haven't been mentioned.
You know, I thought the #xxxxx links on the bottom-right corner of posts were supposed to be permalinks. I was surprised to see that they aren't. They are on SV.
Most of the things that can go wrong are humans, you know. The biggest issue is the transition period where both autopilots and humans are driving at the same time, because humans are the worst-case scenario for autopilots. (They're also the worst-case scenario for humans.)
Far be it from me to be a Tesla fanboy (I respect that they made EVs viable in the market but they haven't kept up with producing good products) but I would like to point out that this link says that in a one-year span there were 367 crashes involving level 2 or higher advanced driver-assist systems, of which 273 involved a Tesla vehicle. 46.5% of the 14M car sales in the US in 2022 had level 2 ADAS (that is, about 6.5M). I can't find specific collision numbers for that time span, and there is no reporting for non-fatality collisions that don't involve ADAS, but there were around 43,000 crash fatalities in 2021, and obviously not every crash results in a fatality, and there were around 289M cars in service; the numbers I could find for 2022 say there were fewer cars on the road (284M) but the number of fatalities for the first half were on pace to be approximately the same.
Hellenes. Curiously, this was right in the original version, suggesting your local copy is missing that correction.
Hackers exist, and are already messing with cars that have remotely-accessible systems, like anything else on the Internet of Things. That alone would be a good reason to keep a functional and easy-to-use manual override on cars, along with all the others.
Thank you, corrected.
This is an interesting analysis of Zartok's thought processes. He truly sees himself as a warrior and conqueror above all, but he's not so deluded as to thinking he's destined to be the greatest in the galaxy, even before Paul humbled him. And now that he's seen what the Reach is like when they aren't infiltrating/conquering planets, it has given him a reason to want their destruction for ideological reasons. At least he's more motivated now than before.
Thank you, corrected.
No doubt that has changed, Zartok? Not feeling a little possessive of your allies now? Not a feeling to suppress, since it's one of the strongest drives an Orange Lantern can make use of, behind raw selfish greed...
It's better to be second place, because it keeps you sharp. Second place works harder to hold on to their place from those below, yet lacks the fatalistic certainty first place ends up with as they realise there's only one way for them to go...
Naturally, or you wouldn't be here, after all.
Still, if you live, you can return. And this time, you'll have the power to take back what you once owned.
Well, at least you're dedicated.
To some degree, what their idea of a peaceful life looks like tells you a lot about a species.
And that's one of the reasons she hasn't progressed as a Lantern. She can't understand any desire but her own...
And all the while, those on the planet would have been hearing the signals die down, the screams of terror cut short... Those allowed to know about an invasion, anyway...
So, walk us through it, then...
They probably expected to be able to call in larger fleets, but found themselves cut off.
Perhaps this was simply a holiday planet, never expecting to be targetted?
And that's what offends you, isn't it? You would have been more aware of the danger, more defensive?
I can't help but feel there's something wrong with that point of view too...Still, better than letting bad habits or complacency set in.
Good to see their stealth systems holding up, then.
...An entire planet? Why waste the resources? Just offer places on 'a newly completed colony' or something, and lie about the name.
A town, maybe. But not a whole planet. It's unlikely they'd go any further than retconning their history to 'revise' the planet's origin.
Only because it isn't profitable. And not necessarily in a monetary sense. Just in a resource-management way...
Not that difficult, with access to Boom Tubes...
Never underestimate emotional responses. Logic can have very little to do with them...
And there's the difference between you. Billions died here. Because they had poor defences, poor leadership... They thought they were safe... That doesn't offend you in some way?
That would be a stupidly inefficient way, given you don't need what the Providers... provide...
Sadly, I don't think she was the kind of thief who stole for the thrill of seeing their victim's lamentations...
So that's what offends you? Their laziness? An interesting view.
Who's to say your empire might not have become the same way if it had kept growing?
Probably because they weren't told to. Who knows?
Hoping to see something more to your tastes? We'll see, we'll see...
Small correction. That should be: 'I want the universe to be a certain way. I shall act to make it so.'
reached -> reacted
would -> would be
Thank you, corrected.Me said:
Well, if the discussion got into insults, time for me to step in and tell you guys to cut that shit out. And since it seem pretty much about RL, then this became a derail too.
That it raises*
I think you mean thighs.By Khundian standards, of course.
This should be added.
Well they are professional superheroes, saving the world from mass destruction is just the average Tuesday to them.
I can't exactly blame his assessment here. Furbies can look like the spawn of Satan sometimes.
Did he just leak Superman's metaphorical IP? Thank god the only person around(seemingly anyway) is affected by the Anti-Life.
I imagine Paul coming back to Earth and seeing a similar opportunity.
...Dude, just forget the damn paper...
He'd make a great green lantern.
Also contempt. Remember back at the beginning where OL couldn't touch paper money without destroying it? Zartok will now easily spam destruction pulses at reach soldiers on pure reflex.
