Especially if there is a 'panic' feature built in. If you are about to be the victim of a crime, you trigger the 'panic' and everything starts being recorded/offloaded to the cloud, including names of offenders, etc. I really like this feature. Of course, it could be taken to extremes, guy cuts you off on the interstate? You have a little road-rage? Get his name, address, etc and go ape shit on him or his property. The possibilities for good & evil are endless. It will depend on what we as a society decide to do with this tech.

I mean, didn't his cause havoc already?

If you are an adult and you deal with other adults you'd witness incompetence on a daily basis.

None have died. Admittedly, they are all Panasonics. My very first one is still being used by my father in law. That TV is now over 10 years old. It still looks better than most LCDs for sale today

There should be no 'caveats' in the policy. You should be able to buy a dollar amount coverage, period. And, there should be a mandated minimum which should be adjusted annually to reflect current hospitalization costs for the most prevalent catastrophic events. Heart attack, cancer, Severe trauma. For most people, regular doctor visits won't bankrupt them. Insurance is meant to protect against events where your normal resources would be depleted if you had to use them to resolve the issue. I should be able to buy $500K 'Hospital bill' insurance. Regardless of any preexisting conditions. Realistically, this whole health care business needs to be scrapped and rebuilt from scratch. The obamacare 'bundling' of features in the insurance policies reminds me of the cable tv bundling. We don't like that in that business, we do we like it in the insurance business?

But we do them better! Soviet Union 2.0

Will the automated cars obey the posted speed limits? That would be horrible as the whole city where I live has 25mph limits posted everywhere. No one obeys them except the occasional freak. If you drive at the posted limit it will take forever to cross town, it would make commuting not practical.

Sorry, but the polluter could be dealt differently. If the polluter's neighbors that are affected by the pollutants could band together and sue him in civil court for polluting then that should take care of the problem. What is the EPA doing that the individuals could not accomplish themselves? The government is still involved in the resolution of the pollution issue but not by instituting many laws and adding bureaucracy and expense for everyone but being the arbitrator through the use of the courts. The reasons that this wasn't done previously are not clear to me, I can only guess at a few reasons.

Really? Talk about overreaching....

Meant to say 'goes insane'

But where? It sucks when the most armed country in the world goes. It's like being locked up in a cell with Hannibal Lector. You know things won't end up well for you.

The need to be over cautious with these automated vehicles will bring out a slew of automated spastic 'nervous nellies' robots on our streets.
Isn't that kind of human driver one of the worst to be behind? Constantly, touching the brake, never going 1mph (or more) over the absurdly low speed limits, taking 5+ seconds to leave a stop light or stop sign intersection.

I am not sure I am ready for a world full of those.

Mathematically insignificant really. It's only because of the media sensationalism that this is even a national issue. More people die horrible deaths from so many other things that we do nothing about.

I mean, let's try something original. I am not opposing spending the money on something sciency but at least target something that has not been done before.

Insurance is optional!