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Martin68

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10. Well, I'm an old fogey, and Marty is my nickname. I'm just saying you can't hold back innovation. It never works
Sun Jul 21, 2024, 07:39 PM
Jul 2024

consistently right at first, but it will in the end, and then it will be standard. I've lived ling enough to see that happen over and over again. I'm not going to buy a Tesla but I have a friend who has driven me on a few long trips in one, and they have some great advantages over gas-powered vehicles. I watched Tesla's autopilot in action, and it worked magnificently.

I admire your tenacity, but in my experience it's a losing proposition to discount innovations in the early stages of development. Scientists insisted that heavier-than-air flight was impossible, Albert Einstein was quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as saying, “There is not the slightest indication that [nuclear energy] will ever be obtainable," "The ordinary ‘horseless carriage’ is at present a luxury for the wealthy; and although its price will probably fall in the future, it will never, of course, come into as common use as the bicycle,” claimed the Literary Digest in 1899," no man-made object could ever break the sound barrier, the concepts of television and personal computers were pooh-poohed by "critical thinkers," too.

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