". You build a theory by standing on the shoulders of others and learning."
Yes. But if you don't even stand on the shoulders of the giants in a field, then you should probably shut the fuck up.

"Learning is the asking of questions."
Yes, but it isn't throwing out ideas so off base they aren't even wrong, and then telling people to show you why they can't be when the idea being stated makes no sense at all. AC who posted that question clearly doesn't know the first thing about dark matter. Frankly, the poster should have the decency to do some preliminary understanding of the problem before spouting off nonsense and then getting defensive about it.

Since they have no intention of actual using the service, then it's fraud.

I don't necessarily disagree about the time frame, but I'm not sure why you're concerned about the price. The computers and sensors they're talking about putting in are fairly cheap. The software cost a lot of money to develop, but it would be amortized over a lot of people.

I don't think they'd have to go the luxury-car route, the way Tesla has. If anything, I'd expect them to want to sell it under cost, since there's a lot more cool stuff they can do once they can start treating computer-controlled cars as the default. The switchover period will be the least safe.

No one knows that. It's a idea in 1(one) paper. Just like dozens of other solutions.
BTW, pouring them 'in place' brings up a whole new set of problems.

Well, it passed the KISS test, I guess that settles it. Lets totally forget other methods that pass the KISS test, and we will also forget the myriad of other thing that where done more difficult because of social reason and they didn't have the advantage of hind site.

They still need to move them after they were made.

", the pyramid gets less wide towards the top. "
That's what I've been doing wrong!

Doesn't mean they were formed in place.
Of course, a new valid theory about them seems to co out every decade, with little followup.

The premise is to makes stolen phone useless; which would nearly stop phone theft.

"The thief will unfairly target older phone model owners."
what the? dude, the thief is being unfair when he decided to steal a phone. By nature it's unfair. I highly doubt a phone thief will be an economist trying to equally balance the loss across society.

Setting aside all the incorrect assumptions you've stuffed into there, at worse case it would only be a few years, then phone swill be practically useless to steal.

This is a huge change on the road. Just like all other changes, it needs to be put in incrementally so we can manage unintended consequence.

It's smart planning.

" that would confuse the hell out of the computer."
no it wouldn't. The computer isn't running the computations to calculate if two parallel line eventual cross(they can, btw*). It checks it's mapping software and then tells you their isn't a match.

*IF they are infinitely long in 3 or 4th dimensional space.

You do know some insurance companies are already have ads talking about automated vehicles, right?
Liability has been dealt with., It is not an issue.
A) Fails due to improper maintenance? Owner fault.
B) Drive intentional tries to do something stupid? drivers fault
C) Defect? manufactures fault
D) Any of those things done be another vehicles, well that's for their insurance to deal with.

"I can make up plenty of wacky scenarios which may or may not ever happen, and it probably wouldn't be an exhaustive list of things which could happen "
as I can with current vehicles.

Like he gave a damn about the show.

last year? 10.8 million reported accidents.

" Put another way, I'm a 99.95% safe driver."
No, you are not. No one is. When you, and I, and everyone else drives, there will be long periods where you aren't paying attention. The fact that no accident occurs is a matter of rote and luck.

Also, 99.95% is COMPLETELY meaningless.
"days driven vs. accidents, though,"
Yes, using a stupid useless metric, you appear safe.

Shouldn't you grow up and realize that not all issues are the same with the same solution?