[LINK] More Earth-Shattering IoT Applications

Tom Worthington tom.worthington at tomw.net.au
Fri Apr 27 12:31:09 AEST 2018


On 26/04/18 11:59, Karl Auer wrote:

> I just had a vision of an entire city turned into a clogged and slowly
> churning cauldron ...

"... New New York in the far future... remainder of humanity on the 
planet live in perpetual gridlock within the Motorway ...". Gridlock 
(Doctor Who): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridlock_(Doctor_Who)

> Interesting thought experiment is to wonder what all those unused cars
> could be doing ...

They could become driver-less taxis. Larger vehicles, on preset routes 
would be called "buses". ;-)


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