Yeah, now you have to request a start button.

Do you understand the purpose of insurance? I am willing to bet right now that the first generation of driverless cars will be an order magnitude safer than the average driver. The situation you are describing is never going to happen.

Does that increase or decrease traffic compared to the situation where people will cruise a street repeatedly making illegal U-turns hoping a space will become available that will save them a 5 minute walk? How about counting for people who obstruct traffic to wait for someone they see about to get in a car because they hope that space will become available? Surely it's also more efficient if the car is travelling to a space it knows is empty rather than a driver blindly looking around for a spot, which also reduces his ability to watch the road.

Hilarious, are you actually familiar with the meaning of the word Serf or is this another case where you are just using a word that you think you understand?

Not necessarily, by turning cars into more of a utility like a taxi you are removing most of the need for them to differentiate themselves with regards to design and advertising, they can become more utilitarian as they are no longer status symbols so the build is cheaper, less need to advertise as they are all broadly similar. So you immediately reduce your build cost substantially.

Who says they got burned? The whole idea of these trading algorithms is that you can make money from any movement in the price due to your rapid response times, price instability like this is what they thrive on. That's exactly why they should be banned, they are the highest volume traders and they are motivated to destabilise prices which is the exact opposite point of the market.

Large trees near are a house do become a threat eventually either due to root damage or excessive draining of the water beneath causing ground shifts or simply being blown down and destroying the house.

Yes, $NewTechnology has solved all the problems of $OldTechnology and is now completely infallible.

Like in the Twin Towers?

Oh lovely cash, is there nothing you cannot lay a value upon! Wait though, the adult will have already contributed a possibly significant portion of their productivity so will have a reduced future value compared to the child, maybe you should consider the futures market?

I don't think the cost if transplants comes from paying for the liver, it comes from the hours of surgeons and nurses time, the various drugs and the aftercare. In fact, if you have to pay for a special pig to be raised to match your specifications then I think costs are likely to rise rather than fall...

Do you mean he's over or under 15 years old?

Is a Christmas holiday unconstitutional as well?

Yes, yes, that's exactly why they wanted it, so that in future space agencies wouldn't do research into shit you're not interested in. How terribly prescient of them.