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Message: <blockquote data-quote="netlife007" data-source="post: 20719914" data-attributes="member: 79514">It  will change the cities, because we will need 90-95% less cars for  that. We can transform former parking spaces into parks. 1.2 million  people die each year in car accidents worldwide. We now have one  accident every 60,000 mi (100,000 km), with autonomous driving that  will drop to one accident in 6 million miles (10 million km). That will  save a million lives each year. Most  car companies will probably become bankrupt. Traditional car  companies try the evolutionary approach and just build a better car,  while tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Google) will do the  revolutionary approach and build a computer on wheels.   Many  engineers from Volkswagen and Audi; are completely terrified of  Tesla. Insurance  companies will have massive trouble because without accidents, the  insurance will become 100x cheaper. Their car insurance business  model will disappear. Real  estate will change. Because if you can work while you commute,  people will move further away to live in a more beautiful  neighborhood. Electric  cars will become mainstream about 2020. Cities will be less noisy  because all new cars will run on electricity. Electricity will  become incredibly cheap and clean: Solar production has been on an  exponential curve for 30 years, but you can now see the burgeoning  impact.  Last  year, more solar energy was installed worldwide than fossil. Energy  companies are desperately  trying to limit access to the grid to prevent competition from home  solar installations, but that can't last. Technology will take care  of that strategy. With  cheap electricity comes cheap and abundant water. Desalination of  salt water now only needs 2kWh per cubic meter (@ 0.25 cents). We  don't have scarce water in most places, we only have scarce drinking  water. Imagine what will be possible if anyone can have as much  clean water as he wants, for nearly no cost. Health:  The Tricorder X price will be announced this year. There are  companies who will build a medical device (called the "Tricorder"  from Star Trek) that works with your phone, which takes your retina  scan, your blood sample and you breath into it.  It  then analyses 54 biomarkers that will identify nearly any disease.  It will be cheap, so in a few years everyone on this planet will  have access to world class medical analysis, nearly for free.  Goodbye, medical establishment.  3D  printing: The price of the cheapest 3D printer came down from  $18,000 to $400 within 10 years. In the same time, it became 100  times faster. All major shoe companies have already started 3D  printing shoes. </blockquote>

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