Thank you for the criticism!

China is destroying Germany’s car industry today, not tomorrow. It will likely attempt a takeover of Taiwan not in 50 years, but within 10.

Russia’s economy is. Penetrated towards the military. I wouldn’t bet on it crumbling immediately. If it wins, it will have co-opted a huge new population, and will be incentivized to grow more.

There is no way the U.S. will get into a civil war, and the next 4 years might be shitty for the coming if things continue this way, but th…

The logic for replacing current driven rides seems reasonable. However, thereafter - especially in crowded non US cities - the possibility of replacing mass transit is going to be limited by road capacity. There is simply no room on the road to move thousands of passengers off mass transit and into self driving cars, even if they are smaller and faster than current human driven cars. Traffic will always grow to fill the roads available and that will happen long before they can out compete mass transit in cities.