1. assortment of HD cameras record your every move.

2. An operator at a centralized dispatch/monitoring center is notified, as the truck's video feed pops up on their console.

3. As you step out of the vehicle, the operator presses the button that will connect them with law enforcement in the region in which you are located. They coordinate with local law enforcement to give them a detailed description of your person and vehicle. The video can be passed off to authorities who can process it for biometrics, and based on gait analysis and other data identify the perpetrator, who likely already has a record — and substantial data on file. High-resolution imagery of the vehicle will also assist in positive identification.

4. Could be, but likely, you're going to get boned.

5. You can already do this with a truck with a human driver. They're not just going to run you off the road. If you've got two or three other people who can all get out of the vehicle with shotguns at the same time, the driver is extremely unlikely to resist, or even to call the police. These vehicles will actually be more secure than manned trucks, not less.

6. ...and actually, these trucks will be manned; self-driving trucks without drivers are still well into the future. Likely, those won't even have cabs, and perhaps the trailers will also be redesigned to be harder to get into.

Currently, the trucks will be operated the old-fashioned way in towns, so there will still be a human behind the wheel reading the signs and responding to them, or not.

You know there's a bit more to that story, right? Got stuck in snow, wandered off alone and died. Wife and kid survived him by staying with the car like sensible people. Carry water and blankets in your car.

It depends on the job you're trying to do, and what your trains look like. A monorail (monorail? monorail!) PRT system has very little footprint and takes relatively little material to build, that's quite environmentally friendly even for relatively low occupancy. Traditional rail has more potential throughput per "lane" (rail line, in this case) than freeway — but for traditional rail with traditional trains, you have to reach fairly high utilization numbers before it becomes cheaper than the highway. That's difficult to do while having to compete with car culture.

You could reasonably address this to some degree by marking the temporary lanes with colored paints. Presumably, these problems will mostly be solved by automatic routing. Your car will just go around, whenever possible. It will know there will be a delay there. Obviously, sometimes that's not possible, which is why the human is going to have to intervene in some situations for quite a long while. Since most of those situations are going to be at quite low speeds, though, the driving controls can recede in importance. Perhaps a force-feedback joystick really will become a viable car controller, at least for vehicles which are expected to drive themselves almost all of the time.

Yeah, again, you have to choose to participate in that. Still not the same thing.

But regular vehicle inspections are already a very good idea, that's my point. In most places in the USA the only vehicles which are getting them are commercial vehicles. In California they want to be real sure that your emissions are within a compliant range, and if a cop notices your headlights are misaimed they can write you a ticket and send you to a headlight alignment station, but there are no mandatory inspections which ensure that your suspension won't fly apart while you go down the road, let alone that you aren't dripping oil everywhere and causing hazards for everyone, if not on the day of then eventually when the rain comes.

Either vehicle inspections are a good idea for everyone, or they aren't. Further, I continue to object to the notion of a "commercial vehicle". There should be only one standard of behavior for drivers no matter whether they are a joyrider, a commuter, a delivery driver, or even a cop or ambulance driver — with the caveat that the latter sometimes will be putting on the siren and lights, and the rest of us should be getting out of the way. However, in all other ways, everyone should be following the same rules for a variety of reasons, only one of which is "fairness".

Primarily, "the system" only works when we can form expectations. A good example here is that you have to be able to expect people not to come across the double yellow line and drive right up in your face. Part of that is their behavior, and part of that is having their vehicle in proper working condition with good tires, suspension, steering linkages... some of which is typically not inspected well anywhere in the US, again, not on a mandatory basis. You usually only find out that something is wrong when you spend money to have it addressed. Because I don't wait for the vehicle to fail when I feel something getting sloppy, I know that the idler arms in the Astro are loose but still within spec, and that I don't have a bad ball joint in the suspension linkages. I also knew that I had a bad wheel bearing, and had it replaced. (I did the other one, but I hurt my back doing some other stuff and wasn't up to this one.) But you can look around and see cars which obviously aren't receiving the attention they need, because nobody is making the owners do it.

So yeah, regular vehicle inspections are a very good idea, but they're also a good idea for absolutely everyone. If you want to base the schedule on mileage and not on time, I can completely agree with that idea. It shouldn't matter if I drive 100,000 miles a year for fun or for work, either way that's putting more wear on the vehicle. That ignores the additional duty that the start-stop cycle of typical taxi use puts on a vehicle, but the proliferation of hybrids as taxis is reducing that problem anyhow, by taking much of the load off the typical wear components.

Eventually we'll probably get GPS monitoring whether we like it or not, and then they can build really-fine grained fee structures and inspection regimens. Whoopee.

Good job, the final copy was better than my submission.

It will be interesting to see how automated OTR trucking plays out vis-a-vis the various states' stance on self-driving vehicles, especially those which have outright banned them.

Games have screenshot capabilities. I don't know the last time I played a game that didn't. And modern nvidia cards paired with even vaguely modern CPUs let you use Shadowplay to record video, to boot. I haven't tried it because I'm not currently so good at any games that I think anyone would want to watch me play them, but allegedly if you have a bundle of cores you don't even notice.

Speak for yourself, I have 6/1. It's okay when downloads support resume properly, but a lot of the time that fails. Even Steam used to get it wrong regularly, but they seem to have it pretty well-nailed down now. uplay, on the other hand, totally doesn't. Not sure about Origin.

It seems like the right level at which to do this would be the virtual machine level, at least for DOS games. Create a VPN between the players, and put virtual machines with only the games running in them on that VPN with no firewalling between the players on that network. It seems like this would actually reduce the security considerations. It might require a move from dosemu to qemu or similar, but that would also enable virtualization on supporting hosts which seems as though it would enhance security.

The website also kind of sucks. My connection definitely sucks, and their website is slow to load and pretty choppy. I'd rather use an app. I don't have to complain about the site if there's an app.

If the information on my phone were important, it would be encrypted. But it isn't. I don't keep my secret plans to rule the world on my fucking cellphone, because I'm not new. I didn't just fall off the turnip truck last night, etc etc. Nothing in it is a secret; Google already knows everything my phone knows. If I were going to do something nefarious, I would turn it off and put it into a mylar bag, and it would be none the wiser. I certainly wouldn't fucking tell it. What kind of dipshit does that take?

Are you being stupid on purpose? There's a public health concern in vehicle safety whether you get into one or not, because you can be harmed by someone else's vehicle being unsafe whether you get into it or not, let alone pay for the privilege. There's no public health concern in kitchen safety outside of fire hazards, and generally speaking we already have a mechanism for dealing with gas leaks at least — if you need to connect an appliance to the gas system, many utilities will come out and do it for free.

Since GOG is the ones selling the games it would be great if they chose a set of ports (like Steam) and just set the games to use that BEFORE they sold 'em.

Eh? How do you propose they do that, with hundreds of games originally written in dozens of development environments, the source code for many of which probably now exists only moldering in a landfill?

I expect it could be done with a proxy process (eg., the launcher) listening on the official GoG ports and forwarding packets to whatever ports the actual game wants. Not impossible. Easier than trying to modify the steaming pile that most older games called the network layer, even if the source code was available.

Okay, now explain which other source of it is getting into the municipal water supply. We have time, we'll wait. And while you're at it, why don't you learn how to follow the conversation threads? This one is talking about whether fracking fluid is refinery waste, not about where the water contamination came from, try to keep up, kid.