You don't want the wheels to stop (except at the end). The coefficient of sliding friction (i.e. locking the wheels) is *lower* than the coefficient of rolling friction. The best braking happens when the brakes are applying the maximum possible force without causing the wheels to slip on the road. ABS systems are designed to ride that line. That also means you can steer, but it's the least steering control you can have, except for locked wheels.

https://www.biwattpower.com/
https://solarbuildermag.com/pr...

And etc.

It's nowhere near as impressive as Moore's law, but it has been reliably trudging along.

$/kWh has had a halving time of about 3-4 years over the last decade, compared to the Moore's law heyday with a doubling time of about 1.5 years. It's not as fast, but it's exponential, pretty close, and damn impressive.

Yes, it's popular to put the blame somewhere else. It's the gubmint not me! It's a democracy. It is exactly the average citizen who is borrowing the money, and it is that average citizen (or their kids) who is going to get screwed by it.

The average citizen is also at record private debt levels, BTW.

This is Chang'e 6. Want to guess what Chang'e 5 did?

https://beijingtimes.com/china...

Another from Oct. 2023.

He's a legacy. The only way you can be more "global elite" than a multi-billionaire New York real estate mogul denounced for profiteering by Eisenhower is to be that guy's playboy son.

I was curious, so I looked it up. The paper is Oonincx et al.

So the global elite is this guy:

https://scholar.google.com/cit...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

To be fair, the US is many times more dangerous than pretty much anywhere in Europe:
https://data.worldbank.org/ind...

To be realistic, major reasons for that are probably as you indicated (see first link).

An enormous amount of medicine is placebo effect. That's why it still works even when the actual treatment is completely random. Physicians are trained to project confidence because it improves outcomes. Up until relatively recent times it was about the only thing that improved outcomes.

The combination of a human whose job it is to both project confidence and make you feel better, plus accurate diagnostics and treatment of the underlying problem will be unbeatable.

In most developed nations nurses are not allowed to do much actual medicine without a physician's order. That's changing, and I expect it to change a lot more. Thus "a nurse practitioner with a computer." That combination is cheaper and is likely to be much more effective in the near future.

Yes, I've worked with lots of nurses. They do indeed hold childrens' hands and tell them it will be all right.

The US uses football field sized satellites. And that's not little American football fields.

People love to conflate things, particularly when their only argument is emotional. "An AI can't hold your hand" sounds a lot better than "we're concerned that automatic monitoring software will mean 20% fewer nurses hanging out at the nursing station."

A pediatrician I worked with was asking me what I thought was going to happen with AI and healthcare, and pulled the same "AI can't hold the hand of a sick child and tell them it's going to be all right" line. I asked her when the last time she held a kid's hand was.

That IS something nurses (sometimes) do. Personally, I think they're in one of the best positions. The future of healthcare is a nurse practitioner with a computer.

A new battery and all the tools to do the replacement are currently on sale for $10 Canadian. Looks like Americans still have to pay $50 US though, or $40 for just the battery.

https://canada.ifixit.com/prod...

If you need to pay someone to do it for you, $120 is probably less than you'd pay a plumber if you can't fix your own toilet, or a mechanic if you can't change your own oil.

Nope. Google "orwell two minutes" and see how it applies to your post.