The real ones were bad enough.
I must admit this 1950 Oldsmobile Rocket 88 has its charm, though. What? You want to live forever?
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In his evidence to the PMs, professor Siddartha Khastgir, head of verification and validation for connected and autonomous vehicles at the University of Warwick, said there were issue in defining what is “safe enough” in a meaning technical context.
"We have not been able to come up with a definition of the minimum level of safety required. We can have all the frameworks that we might want to create, but we still do not have that threshold. The government have come up with the concept, for the minimum threshold, of a ‘careful and competent’ human driver. That is what we are calling it, but we do not know how to translate that abstract concept into something that can be implemented by engineering.
“That is the biggest challenge we have right now. Whatever we come up with as something that we say is safe will be unsafe if we do not define the threshold correctly,” he said.
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Another set of bumps in the road comes from changes in some liabilities to vehicle manufacturers and the insurance industry.
The committee heard how a cyber-attack causing mass casualties could bankrupt insurance companies.
Meanwhile, the insurance industry called for access to manufacturers’ data to assess their liabilities.
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Tesla is a government now? Here I thought that a fine could only be imposed by law, and by implication by a government. A local council can fine you for not mowing your lawn, a state government can fine you for speeding, the federal government can fine you for securities fraud.
The local supermarket cannot “fine” you for not bringing a reusable bag or not replacing the scoop correctly in the pick-and-mix. The clothing chain can’t “fine” you for deciding that the pants of this outfit don’t suit you and selling them on or donating them to charity.
Where a private organisation can issue a fine, it’s because authority has been explicitly delegated by a government: parking fines, fines for not paying the toll on a privately operated tollway.
What law was passed that gave Elon DunningKrueger’s whims the authority of law so that he could fine you for disregarding them?
There might well be a penalty under the contract of sale, in the form of some sort of lien (which is its own form of bullshit which libertarians should be on top of hating as well, if they weren’t all hypocrits), but semantics matters, and there’s no way this is a “fine”.
As a person who tends to walk quickly, a sidewalk full of pedestrians is not a great experience. Good luck reaching 15km/h, 
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I think I top out at 15kmh running these days. For like two seconds.
Just sit on a delivery robot like a cat on a Roomba.
