My best friends wife works for the the VA and she was told that she was "Critical" and would have to work without pay until the budget was passed. She suggested she felt the flu coming on and suddenly she was getting a paycheck again.
Nice story. Government agencies don't work like that. And no one is so critical to make demands such as this.
Apples and oranges. Most gov't employees work for the Executive Branch. Currently they are being abused by a few retards in the Legislative Branch who can't get their shit together. Why quit your job over a few political hacks who could be gone after the next election?
Furthermore, it's not that easy. Even civilian employees have invested in retirement benefits, not a 401K, but a real pension and also have good healthcare benefits. I doubt many are willing to throw away such things at the drop of a hat. Interestingly the benefits that the gov't offers used to be standard in the private sector. Not anymore.
No need to be an asshole if you can just watch the game in the car. The need to get from point A to B as quickly as you can changes when you can do most all the things in the car that you would be doing at home or whatever. The vast majority of airplane and train passengers are perfectly patient to wait out the trip and most of them don't even have the luxury of their own space to do whatever they want in.
Still, you make a good point.
It would make no sense for it to work the other way round. A human's reaction time is far too slow to intervene when (s)he thinks the car computer will do something bad.
Just as long as they aren't running Windows. I find myself intervening with Windows PCs all the time when I think they are about to something bad. Given their speed, my reaction time is plenty fast.
This means that, given certain common physics and certain standardised car parameters (such as maximum permitted acceleration), the cars will work out the safe following distance for their speed and (importantly) stick to it at all times.
THIS. I'm sick of all the tailgating morons who think that 5 - 7 MPH over the speed limit still isn't fast enough.
It is much harder to find a job than to keep one.