THE AGE OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES HAS ARRIVED

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By Luke Lango, Investment Strategist, InvestorPlace

Sometimes the future comes faster than you think… I recently flew into Sky Harbor International Airport in my hometown of Phoenix. It was late. My wife and kids were asleep.  So, I hailed a ride in an app. The car arrived. It took me to my home in the suburbs. It dropped me off. It was like a regular Uber or Lyft ride, except for one important detail…

There was nobody in the car except me and a bunch of sophisticated sensors and electronics.

The car that picked me up drove me through Phoenix and dropped me off at my house was a Google-made autonomous vehicle (AV)… aka a “robotaxi.” The cost was US$26, versus the cost of a taxi, typically US$46.

Waymo is the self-driving division of Alphabet (GOOG), Google’s parent company. It’s been working on developing autonomous vehicle technology for over a decade. And over the past few years, it’s rolled out autonomous robotaxi services in Phoenix and San Francisco. Folks in those cities can hail a Waymo AV. It will take them from A to B with no human driver in the car using its AI-powered piloting system.

And San Francisco and Phoenix are just the beginning… This week, Elon Musk will reveal his NEW AI product, Robotaxi, and it promises to shock the world. Reportedly, the vehicle will be a fully self-driving car without any steering wheel or pedals. Early descriptions reveal that it’s likely to comprise a two-seat interior with a large center console. Musk says it will also have the lowest cost-per-mile of any transportation option. And supposedly, it will be accompanied by its own ride-hailing app (just like Uber), allowing customers to fetch autonomous rides in the Robotaxi at the push of a button.   

Waymo is also testing in Los Angeles. And it’s expanding to Austin and Atlanta, Georgia early next year through a partnership with Uber. After that, Waymo is expected to launch in one or two new cities almost every month. So, by the end of next year, we’re talking two dozen – maybe three dozen – cities that will have at least some Waymo capability.

And that’s just one part of the story… on the interstate, Aurora (AUR) is doing autonomous trucking. That’s happening in Texas. Aurora is autonomously hauling freight on trucks. These are loaded semi-trucks taking goods from one city to another, without a driver. An autonomous AI system is doing the work instead.

What we see unfolding is all in line with end times Bible prophecies. Daniel 700 years before Jesus Christ was told what the world would be like at the time of the end.

“But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” Daniel 12:4

HOW THE WORLD HAS CHANGED AND IT WILL CHANGE EVEN MORE RADICALLY

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“China’s import of microchips—$260 billion in 2017, the year of Xi’s Davos debut—was far larger than Saudi Arabia’s export of oil or Germany’s export of cars. China spends more money buying microchips each year than the entire global trade in aircraft. No product is more central to international trade than semiconductors.” 

NVIDIA Corp. designs and manufactures computer graphics processors, chipsets, and related multimedia software. It operates through the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and Tegra Processor segments. It has a market cap of $2.781 Trillion. This makes NVIDIA the world’s third most valuable company.

Amazon’s automated robotic warehouse

Note the year given for China’s import of microchips is 2017. Imagine what AI and Robotics will do to increase this figure for Nvidia, Intel, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Samsung, Broadcom Inc., Qualcomm Inc., and many other semiconductor companies.

This website is about helping people recognize God exists and that He is in control of His universe. God’s Word, the Bible provides a true history of the Cosmos from its beginning to its firey end. Much of the Bible is prophecy and much of that prophecy has been fulfilled to the letter, so, we can expect the many end-times prophecies also to be fulfilled. We saw a major end-times prophecy fulfilled in 1948 when Israel was re-established as a nation so Berean Christians are watching as other prophecies play out in our time.

Daniel was given many end-times prophecies 700 years BC. Imagine how he must have been perplexed when he wrote: “But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” Daniel 12:4

Daniel had no knowledge of computers, semiconductors, or airplane travel when he wrote “Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”

God has told us that the book of Daniel is for the end times and it is amazing how Daniel unlocks the final book of the Bible, Revelation which is all about the end times and Jesus’ coming Millennial Kingdom. This Earth has had 6,000 years of Satan’s rule. It still has 1000 years before God destroys it, with Jesus ruling and reigning over the nations from a new Jerusalem. The nation God established, Israel, for His purposes will finally fulfill its destiny with its promised Messiah, Jesus as king (http://www.millennialkingdom.net).

Satan is bound for most of the 1,000 years: “Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be released for a little while.” Revelation 20:1-3

When Satan is released he still gathers an army of rebellious people to come against Jesus and the Saints.

“And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea. And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them, and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.” Revelation 20:7-10

God destroys this Earth with fire. The second resurrection takes place and Jesus judges them at the White Throne judgement.

“Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the Book of Life.” Revelation 20:11-12

For believers, there will be a new heaven and new Earth where only the righteous dwell.

“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away… And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.” Revelation 21:1,3