It is a test car. It collects more data while in operation than you could imagine. It'd be trivial to verify the logs against what they claim.
I can imagine quite a lot, but that's beside the point. It would be trivial for Google to verify the logs, sure, but I doubt very much that the Mountain View Police Department would have an easy time with it.
The car crashed while being driven by a person.
According to a Google spokesperson. If I were in that car, and it crashed while the software was driving, I would claim that I had been driving it too. Any public crash that could be blamed on the software would put the project in serious jeopardy.
Not terribly hard compared to what?
You know how I remove the battery on my Thinkpad? I slide the clasp into the unlocked position then slide the battery out. Same for the DVD drive (although I don't know who swaps theirs out, there doesn't appear to be an option to put a second battery there).
I can also use one screwdriver, a phillips, to replace the hard drive, memory, wireless card, keyboard, CPU, video card, etc.
I find that sentences describing my thoughts about the service in question and mapped to leet-speak are easy to remember for a large number of sites.
Some hypothetical examples:
1. Slashdot: d0tc0m1.0d1n0s4ur
2. Twitter: 0hg0dwh0c4r3z4b0utth1zsh1t
3. Flickr: 3y3y4mh3r3f0rth3b00b13z--3y3m34n4rt
Regardless of how fast you're going, PLEASE only use the left lane for passing other vehicles. People seem to be mostly okay with this point on a 2 lane highway, but it applies to 6 lane freeways as well. If you are not actively passing all other vehicles on the roadway, move over. Especially if someone is coming up behind you at a greater rate of speed.
We're also assuming that our loved ones are separate from our data. I haven't seen a real human being in years.
Of course, if you want to actually be taken seriously you should refer to it as SC2, and not SC3...
The message I just sent to billing@blizzard.com:
Just a quick note to let you guys know that I've recently read news articles describing your actions against individuals using single-player mode cheats in SC3, specifically locking them out of their accounts and forbidding even local play. Having been already annoyed by your decision to forbid LAN play in SC3 and require Battle.Net I have decided that your recent actions tip you over onto the "companies who are too evil to give money to" side of the consumer equation.
I had been looking forward to purchasing and playing Diablo 3, however I no longer feel that providing financial support to the tyrannical measures you feel it is necessary to impose upon your customers is morally justifiable.
I only check my snail mail box once a quarter. All of my bills and other business are handled online or with automatic payments. Nothing of any use or value comes in the mail.
Scientists will study your brain to learn more about your distant cousin, Man.