[luckyisgood]

This quote intrigued me to share this article for further discussion because I want to see this happen sooner than later:

"What would be appealing to Google would be the ability to produce city wide legislature that allowed them to use the entire city of Detroit as real life testing ground for all of their technologies without having to comply to city laws and regulations. This would allow them to test cutting edge technologies in everyday scenarios. It would also present the authority needed to re-imagine how a city operates on an information level, and not only to test their driver-less cars, but test products such as mobile commerce, free public internet and free public transportation as well."

[smacktoward]

Yes, it is definitely hard to imagine anything going wrong in a scenario where the entire population of a city is turned over to a corporation to use as guinea pigs.

[DanBC]

Most recent edition of Top Gear showed 'ghost towns' in Spain. These are complete towns, but empty of people. It'd be much cheaper for Google to buy one of those.