Only *IF* the person behind was following too closely for their speed in the first place. Generally speaking, rear-end collisions are open-and-shut with insurance companies... and the person behind is ordinarily considered 100% at fault for the accident (the exceptions to this typically require separate and unbiased testimony from quite a few witnesses, or what would work even better is an actual video recording of the incident to show the person in front was at fault), and insurance will fully cover all of the expenses applicable for both vehicle damage restoration and any injury claims.

Of course... and pilots should never trust their electronic guidance to get them where they need to go... they should only ever use visual confirmation near the ground and dead reckoning while at altitude.

What's wrong with hitting the brakes in an unexpected emergency to assess the actual danger, exactly? If the person behind collides with them, they were following too closely for the speed the person behind was going in the first place. That's not the fault of the person who slowed down or stopped their car.

And you realize that the arctic and antarctic circles do not account individually account for a very large percentage of the earth's surface that continues to receive sunlight while they are in darkness, right? The planet, as a whole, still receives heat from the sun.

Thank you... that's exactly the sort of statistics I was wondering about. So it's survivable, but probably regularly quite chilly. Basically, you'd get short period of winter like weather at least once every orbit, regardless of the actual season based on its orientation to the sun.

In both of those situations, only *part* of the planet is in darkness for that period... what if the entire planet was?

"...customers will have the ability to buy as much data as they want"

Because taken at face value, that comment means that they should be offering customers as much money as they need to get all of the data that their customers want. After all, if a customer don't have enough money to pay for it, then they don't really have the ability to buy it, do they?

I imagined the eclipse lasting several days each revolution... it would be orbiting a gas-giant, which is substantially larger than the moon itself, and close enough to the gas giant that it may possibly even tidally locked to it.

I can easily envisiion a situation where an entire moon is plunged into shadow as it orbits a gas giant. This would, I presume, cause temperatures to fall for the duration of the eclipse, and if it lasted too long, I can imagine that such a regular occurrence would likely make the moon inhospitable to life as we know it, even if it is the right distance from the sun to support liquid water, and even if it had an appropriate gravitational pull and atmosphere.

There's nothing wrong with working.... as long as you are paying all the appropriate amounts of income tax.

What is the point of cruise control that you have to babysit in case your car suddenly decides to do twice the speed limit?

Yes... so there would have to be a statistically measurable difference between accident rates from people who have automated cars vs people who drive them manually. This will take quite a long time for enough data to be collected to have statistical significance with respect to the actual number of automobiles that are on the road.

It would be up to the human who is babysitting the ai, just as much as you have to babysit cruisecontrol, to realize that the car is not doing things properly.

That's only applicable if the key is the same for each and every device. The key itself can still be set uniquely for each device, and put into an eeprom circuit that is built into the device's hardware, and not changeable simply by swapping out any IC's that would not also amount to basically swapping out the entire innards of the phone. In the end, the only useful component of such a bricked phone would be its casing... making theft unprofitable, and when it's common enough, hopefully discouraging such theft from occurring in the first place.

Yes it is part of the deal... Until they have demonstrated reliability at being safer than human drivers with several years of data over many millions of vehicles.