A computer can distinguish people along the road, and could drive the maximum possible speed depending on the distance and time it would take said people to be in danger. If the person is still 50m away and it would need 20m to break from 50 km/hour, then it can drive 50 km/h 100% safely all the way until it touches that person lightly with the bumper -- at which point it should apply the horn.

If a person would need to move 5m first before it would be in the car's path, the car can compute the earliest possible time that person might be in its path (given the maximum possible human speed) and drive whatever speed is safe to make it impossible to hit that person.

I'm afraid you will be beaten by these computers, especially when you are sleepy, it is dark, it is raining, the sun is in your eyes or something happens you DIDN'T anticipate.

You are a good example of the power drunk asses that must hate it that nowadays the SLAVES are required to be paid by law.

Luckily in my business I choose where to work... and you better damn well provide a good environment and pretend like you care about my grievances or I you won't even have to fire me as I will leave on my own. Pray you never have to manage something where you can call yourself lucky you managed to hire the people you need.

That is... IF there is proton decay. There currently is only a lower bound after which a proton might decay.

I've been the one that "follows others" often enough. You know what? I never read the documentation beyond the rudimentary "how to get the environment set up". After that, I will look at the code and see what it actually does, not what it is documented or supposed to do.

Nothing annoys me more than having a wise ass sitting next to me telling me to read the documentation "because that's how it is supposed to work"... especially when I get called in because it doesn't work as it is supposed to work.

Don't want to trust me? Ok, let's go to plain text http then.

It's amazing that Americans think the world would have turned out different if they had voted for the other guy... American history must have been a string of electing the wrong guy each and every time then it seems.

Just adapt your key pressing robots...

Spoken like a true short-sighted authentication nut.

I'd recommend installing a better firewall instead.

I'll mark this insightful if you actually spent 24 hours in the sun. I burn after just 30 minutes, how is it not harmful?

Same here. And what's worse, those are only the mistakes you know you made... :)

Ridiculous. If a car can drive itself, it is much easier to share with others. No need for a family to have 3 cars anymore if you can just send one to go pick some one up.

There'll be a taxi style service, or cars shared by people living in the same block, and cars will just go where they're needed.

If there is something that could model the stock market, then everybody would be rich. Since that's not possible, a few people could get rich using an accurate model, but that only works as long as the model isn't used by everybody -- eventually it will fail and many will get hurt.

You can make your model as complicated as you like, using as many variables as you like. If someone else knows you're using it, they can scam you out of your money.

If a dumbo like you can think of it in 3 seconds, then I'm sure that those engineers might have stumbled on that idea as well and made sure this failure scenario is avoided.

Are you implying a manager only works for 5 hours and 20 minutes a day?