still matters for such ridesharing services. A smaller study done by the same University of Texas at Austin group found that many Americans would not be willing to pay more for a robot taxi than they already do for today's regular ridesharing services offered by Uber or Lyft. To read more on the "sticker price" study, you can see a prepublication version of the paper "Forecasting Americans’ Long-Term Adoption of Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Technologies" on the website of the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. The paper is currently under review for publication in the journal Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice.Editor's Note: I updated this blog post to include a mention and link to a previous study that examined people'syet manifest. There are all sorts of "pigs" still in full-flight over in Europe, there are countless bets being made on when/how/why/if the Fed will/will not pull in the interest rate trigger, and there are legion inebriated carry-traders still …carrying on, with the easy money at their disposal. Time, meanwhile, marches on. As usual, only the early trend-spotters will walk off with the big trophies.

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