takeda

To make it look like it went through some kind of evaluation done by experts, instead trump just saying it is ok after a payment.

Can we trust that pedal didn't malfunction this time and was actually pressed?

Should revive the old term "glasshole"

That's because they bought into the pitch that AI will replace employees (or at least large number of employees) they understand that they will still need to build tooling that would facilitate that and believe that once other companies will say they eliminated employees this way the companies that are "are left behind" will be stuck still needing employees that will catch up to this plan and refuse to help company to get there.

And watching ads to see ads (watching trailers on IMDb).

Are you sure? I see Waymo driving around picking and dropping people off. I would imagine that charging more for the novelty and not having to pay the driver would actually generate a lot of profit.

Actually not entirely true.

He was proposing transportation method similar to how the communication tubes are. Where vacuum would be used to transport capsules with people.

He knew it was bunk, so initially just published that idea and let anyone do it. His actual goal was to kill California's high speed rail, which he did.

Eventually he purchased Boring company and started building tunnel in Las Vegas and called that (as you called it, subway for cars) a hyper loop and pretend that it was the original idea.

Fully autonomous self driving cars - "Just around the corner" for the past 10 years

It exists, but they realized that why should they do that, when they can make money by creating taxis without drivers.

There is no benefit for us, ordinary people.

Oh, but "we are cutting workforce to invest in AI" sounds much better than "we are cutting workforce, because we struggling in current economy".