I think the one viable metrics is the statistics of car deaths per vehicle per year. Deaths are generally difficult to cover up.

MIT already has an "integer overflow debugger" decades ago. It was called Lisp.

Now multiply the two probabilities with respective probabilities of said people being in the cabin and in control to get a more meaningful number. In case of depressed pilots, it's the probability of being depressed times 100% probability of being in control.

"Slutty"? How dare you prescribe how other people should dress and feel about themselves...

Which, to me, is a horrible way of looking at things. If that were the only criterion, we could easily end up with ten times more car deaths simply because we're more comfortable with putting blame at people, even at the expense of lives.

Sounds to me like the solution to the problem in question - a computer could quickly periodically recompute the envelope of possible scenarios and never drive in the phase space into points from which it can't recover without hitting someone or something.

Humanpedia deletionists are fine with that.

There may be the issue of demand. PV cells apparently require a lot of material compared to a lot of other potential applications of GaAs (RF? Optoelectronics?). If you really started mass-producing them from GaAs, you'd start straining the global supply (200 tonnes per year or so?) long before you'd reach anything close to current global production of silicon-based PV cells.

So, does that mean that blasphemy has also been retracted as an Indian legal concept?

There will always be demand for hydrocarbons and fertilizers, for example. And as a high-current, low-voltage application, hydrogen generation is much better suited for at least somewhat centralized production. You probably don't want to haul very thick and expensive cables over large distances. So, yes, it's quite plausible that in the future, most people will be at least partially self-sufficient, but there will always be need for industrial levels of power. Especially with ever-cheaper PV modules and increasing energy needs for advanced resource extraction and manufacturing .

That's obvious from the fact that you forgot to mention the scale used and the test. ;)

That has been shown to be increasingly difficult.

What does that have to do with a private taxi service collecting data on your movements? That's a matter for the municipal administration to solve.

The thing is, secrets regarding physics and engineering aren't secrets. Secrets regarding politics, treaties, negotiations, trade, yes, those exist. But those don't have anything to do with laws of nature working for everyone in the same way, though.

He already did that...

Marginally. You seem to be suffering from imbalance of humor.