The tech companies won't have to, the insurance companies will do the job for them. Human error causes most accidents, therefore they can tripple your insurance if you drive the car. Never mind that accidents will diminish and insurance payouts will plummet with automatic cars, they will still need to drive up your insurance rates.

How do they avoid conflict with America's medical records privacy laws? Also, this is a death warrant for America's computer industry. Rule number one of spying: it must be done in secret, or you can't trust anything you get.

Existing phones have the processing power to do end to end encryption without any new hardware. You'll need to audit or re-write your entire software stack (including baseband) to keep out back doors of course, and that will be expensive. But unit cost increase will still be a few dollars per phone, not enough to make them unsellable.

Fish are adapted for a specific level of salt in their water. It would be like fixing your car while drinking a couple of beers, but someone slips you 100 proof alcohol beer instead, you'd get totally wrecked.

A nuclear reactor converts radiation into power. If you reprocess the spent fuel rods you can put the radiation back into the reactor, eliminating the long term storage problem.

Autonomous weapons will make the world a nicer place. 1-If someone shoots at a human soldier they will always respond, if someone shoots at a drone you can choose not to. A willingness to take casualties gives the military more options to solve the problem. 2-Drones always follow orders. If a drone executes someone it's a deliberate attack ordered by the government of that country. There is no human error excuse.

The USA should stop using drone strikes, but not because of any morality reason. 1-Public executions make you the enemy, and the more enemies you have the less "safe" you are. 2-America needs public goodwill to rule the world cheaply, and their finances show they can't afford the expensive way to rule the world.

The ability to remote control a car is a major worry. Some possible problems: No driver suicide car bombs, abduction by remote control, changing the route a car uses so it puts someone the government doesn't like at the scene of a crime, if you cancel a persons authorization to use an autonomous car (assuming this replaces mass transit) you basically imprison them.

We shold drag out the ISSIS fight as long as possible, to kill as many of the muslim extremists (terrorists) as possible instead of having them scatter and stir up trouble in other places. Of course this only works if we don't care about the safety and welfare of the people who live there, but the evidence suggests we don't.

But how did the alcohol affect your liberal arts education? Your research indicated the different drugs affected different parts of the brain.

I'm surprised the USA makes advanced computer chips. I thought all that stuff was exported to Asia years ago.

I recomend the government makes a list of all the porn sites worldwide (rated by quality), and make a browser plugin that blocks those sites (based on age). The parents can download the blocker onto their kids computers in those countries that care about this. This will achieve two major (and very worth while) porn goals at the same time, with the first being to effectively block most porn from the computers of kids who's parents actually care.

A gasoline engine is 25% efficient, an electric engine runs at 90%, and doesn't need to idle.

No, they don't use electrolysis. They make it from natural gas, giving your "clean" energy source the same carbon footprint as an electric car. Also hydrogen is expensive to store and transport.

This should significantly increase female enrolement in computer courses, now that they don't actually have to do any work to get good marks. This will also incrrease dating chances for (male) nerds.