# Self-Driving Cars and Blockchains

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Submitted by misha on 2024-08-30 UTC, 1 upvote, 2 comments

## Comments

**misha**: > AI didn’t just arrive—it took over, seamlessly integrating into our routines and making itself indispensable. Blockchain, meanwhile, is still under the hood, struggling to prove it belongs on the road at all.

**misha**: Talking about use cases for blockchain, I think still one of the best powers of blockchain is permissionlessness - you don’t have to ask anyone permission to use it. It is the idea of the vending machine as described by Nick Szabo in 1997 (Yes, Szabo - not Sparkles ;)  You have a smart contract, you throw in a coin and you get a can of soda. Automatically.

The thing is, maybe there are just still a lot of people who don’t mind to ask permission. Or are just used to it, or even like to have a man in the middle. 

Anyway, confessing I drive a Prius. It’s a great car which brings the best of both worlds, EV and combustion. What would the Prius of blockchain look like?

https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/rob/Courses/InformationInSpeech/CDROM/Literature/LOTwinterschool2006/szabo.best.vwh.net/idea.html