At low wages, a smartphone-enabled human driver is formidable competition for a driverless vehicle.It would be a remarkable irony if the driverless car in many ways the symbol of the technological revolution that is now reshaping modern economies fails to materialise as an economic reality thanks to the disemploying power of other technologies.
As it happens, "The Time Machine" belongs to an era of formidable competition for writers of supernatural fiction: the so-called golden age of the English ghost story, that pre-Great War era which included Henry James and M. R. James and Oliver Onions.
Which means formidable competition for Matt Visconti, a Wyckoff resident who fulfilled a decades-long dream of getting into the hot dog business by opening his Papaya King franchise in January, next to the Italian-food wholesaler Corrado's Family Affair.
The Parker for iPhone app could prove formidable competition for earlier-to-market concepts like: Open Spot, a Google Labs brainchild that uses crowdsourcing to gather data about available parking; or Mobile Parking Apps available in Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, LA, and New York.
GroupMe for iPhone is similarly elegant in its design and provides formidable competition for Fast Society.
One thing Rodriguez is doing is giving Oakland's Eric Chavez formidable competition for the American League Gold Glove.
Weeds and unwanted seedlings from self-seeding annuals and perennials are formidable competition for transplants and should be pulled out when spotted.
And there is formidable competition for Disney's own animation unit, once heralded as the gold standard with classics like "Snow White" and "Bambi," and in the early 1990's, "Beauty and the Beast" (1991), "Aladdin" (1992) and "The Lion King" (1994), still holder of the box-office record for an animated film.
The actor is up against some formidable competition for the best actor Oscar.
Oxygen will be formidable competition for the same audience iVillage seeks.
