If you're driving a car for a living and don't understand the difference between liability insurance and collision/comprehensive insurance, you probably need to pick a different career path. Incidentally, in March or so Uber did in fact add $50k of collision and comprehensive insurance so... yeah...

Uber has coverage for all of their operators, see here for a full run down.

So what you're saying is... people will use Uber for 90% of their needs and only call a taxi when they want to go somewhere that is almost by definition unprofitable for said taxi. And you don't think they're going to destroy the taxi industry?

Google also has a long history of successful projects for the same reasons.

As other people have stated, Bluetooth is not RFID, the power requirements are different by a couple orders of magnitude (don't quote me, lets just say they're significantly different). Passive RFID do not require power to listen for an incoming signal, Bluetooth does. RFID has an extremely limited range, making it's use as a "finder" pretty much worthless. Bluetooth sends and receives many times more data at many times higher speed.

If phones had active RFID scanners or even Zigbee hardware, it might be possible to make something like this work, with Bluetooth it's physically impossible.

RFID does not have the same power requirements Bluetooth does, the power requirements for Bluetooth are described in detail in the spec; it's not something you can get around. If nothing else, unlike RFID, Bluetooth does not have a totally unpowered "sleep" mode, that can be woken by the Bluetooth protocol itself. If your device is awake enough to receive any signal at all, it is drawing power. In fact, it's drawing very nearly the theoretical maximum you could harvest from ambient sources for the dimensions of the device they are describing... and then said device has to actually power up and send besides (not to mention the theoretical maximum is a good order of magnitude higher than what you'd see in real life usage).

There's a difference between "this concept is theoretically possible" (what you describe) and "this idea, as described and designed is workable in real life" (which is what the iFind people are, erroneously or fraudulently, arguing.

I can't imagine using it for voice calls.... that would just feel... ridiculous.

For what it's worth, my possible uses would be more in line with viewing incoming texts, messages, and email (sender and subject only). Maybe it's not really that much of a hassle to pull out your phone when it buzzes; still it would still be a bit more handy just to glance at your wrist.

Another good use I could see would be Google Wallet, scan and pin credit card transactions. Put a thumb print scanner right on the face to activate that feature and call it good so long as you can wipe the data remotely and it's stored/sent properly.

Lots of places don't require vehicle inspection, the one time I've had to have mine done was when I was living in a major city otherwise I've been on the road 15 years without requiring an inspection (WI outside of Milwaukee and Iowa).

As for insurance... you're driving a 2 ton chunk of metal at 70 mph, I see no problem requiring that you be able to pay for your portion of potential damages in the event that you cause an accident.

Moore's Law is about the cost to put a number of transistors in an area, not the size of the elements themselves. Generally we've reduced cost by reducing size, that is not necessarily the only way; you can continue the Moore's law curve by improving manufacturing in other ways until the cost of a chip completely covered in 4nm gates (probably the smallest the laws of physics will allow) falls to 0.

Do you have any idea how much a pill that cures baldness would be worth? After erectile dysfunction that's like the holy grail of the pharmaceutical industry, a drug to treat something that's incredibly common especially in middle aged men (in theory when disposable income skyrockets) that's also very embarrassing for a smaller but still large large number of younger people.

That's why it's news. Unfortunately for Pfizer (and the many men, including myself, who are balding) his particular baldness was almost certainly caused by a rare autoimmune disorder (and treated by a drug designed to treat similar disorder) and is therefore unlikely to produce a generalized treatment

All of the above is not an option? I guess they say "prefer" but for me it all depends on the night, the day I've had, the day the wife's had, what's in the queue for shows and movies, what book I'm currently reading, etc, etc.

In the areas targeted, banana's are a staple food. Much like rice is an many Asian cultures and wheat is in many western cultures. It isn't the sweet, ready to eat variety we get here, it's a starchy hard fruit that needs to be cooked before eating; in many ways it's closer to a potato than anything else. You are talking about swapping one luxury good for another (relatively speaking anyway), while they are talking about talking about a small modification to a food that is already the primary calorie source.

I'm 5'9", how much do you think I need to weigh to fall into the category of "morbid obesity"? 300 lbs? 400? Try 240. More people are morbidly obese than you think.

I just want to reiterate this. A pound of fat is 3500 Calories. To burn one pound per week you have to either cut 500 Calories per day (say, but not drinking those 2 cans of Mountain Dew and skipping the handful of Doritos) or you could run 2-3 miles, per day, 7 days a week. With effort, you can shave 1000 Calories off a "typical" American diet without even changing what foods you're eating and without feeling too miserable. If you change to a better protein/carb balance you can make that 1500 pretty easily.

Or apathy. I.e. "we know the GOP candidate will win so who cares?"