", 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?

Just like my 3 year old would refuse to go quietly to the dentist.

What are you going to do besides die with you hands on the wheel?

Does it?
http://www.sddt.com/files/BARR...

From an embedded engineering stand point, Toyota code is horrifying.

The term 'Spaghetti code' should be no where near embedded systems. The throttle angle function was considered 'Unmaintainable'

That won't work. You will get into conflicts when every vehicle gives 100% priority to the inside passengers.

Garp knows what you are talking about!