I have driven trains. They have massive momentum, but feeble acceleration and braking. Make a normal brake application at full speed and nothing seems to happen for a while. Driving them is quite a knack, nothing like driving a car, and you need to be familiar with what is still out of sight ahead. I think that a human taking over from auto will do poorly because, as the train is in usually auto, they are simply out of practice.

Incidentally, the train (electric ones at least that I have driven) might as well have only 1mm of control handle travel. You drive them full on or off. For a lower speed you tend to nudge it along.

As an outsider, but a slightly knowledgable one, I though the North started it. Yes, the South declared secession, but the North started the war by marching into Virginia with the intent of occupying Richmond, although they only got as far as Bull Run. It would be like England invading Scotland tomorrow if the Scotish Nationalists win. Or like Germany and France invading the UK if the UK declared it had left the EU.

Pity this discussion has gone off-topic (was about Malasian workers).

They said the same thing about computers (ie we would not need teachers) and then the same about the Internet. Hasn't happened. I believe a similar thing was said about tape recorders when they first came out too.

Anyway, why does some CEO get so much news coverage? As CEO of a VR company, he would say that wouldn't he?

In fact TFA says "Over the six day span of the IMTS, the company managed to 3D print, and assemble an entire automobile"

... so in the context of this news item it states exactly that. If it were meant to be read as not the entire automobile then it doesn't come over as a news story - the 3D printed part could just be the badge on the front. So the reader is being urged to believe it is the entire car. That is being dishonest.

I don't know why they needed to be. If it had been told correctly it would have been an interesting story anyway. Instead they have created a flamefest.

So who decides which 50% (or whatever) of the road is suitable for auto control? My daily drive takes me through easy bits and much trickier bits, sometimes changing within 100 yards and back again, and how tricky depends on what other drivers are doing. What will the "50% competent" car do? Will it be saying :-

"Quick Dave, it's tricky, take over ! - It's Ok now Dave, let go the steering wheel - Oh hang on it's tricky again! - Now it's OK again - Oh jeez, some idiot's just pulled out in front I can't cope, LOOK OUT !! where the fuck are you Dave? TAKE THE FUCKING STEERING WHEEL DAVE !!! Aaarrrgghh !!! "

So the human must sit there with just as much attention, and with just as much skill as if he were driving anyway. So much for those hopes of drunks/non-drivers/blind people etc.

People do prefer to be killed by other people, but not for the reason you give. It is because they somehow think that being killed by another person is more "democratic". That is why most road deaths (about 10/day in the UK) get only a few inches in a local paper while train crash deaths (about three orders of magnitude fewer) get massive coverage for up to two weeks after the event. Despite the fact that you will be sure to get compensation from a railway company, but a high proportion of car drivers and motorbike riders causing deaths are uninsured.

In the UK, the car licence (which was once and largely still is called the "road tax") has ceased to have anything to do with road usage. It is now entirely about carbon emissions, under Byzantine rules by which many cars, some even high performance ones, pay no "road tax" at all. Even before that the road tax had long ceased to have a direct connection with road financing. Most road milage is actually paid for by local authorities who are mostly financed by a tax on houses, including those of non-drivers.

In any case, most cyclists have cars too, so are paying the "road tax" anyway. Having said that, I would be quite happy to pay road tax on my bike - it might shut up people like you.

Bullshit. "Priveleged white drivers" are not at all excited by them, not in the UK anyway where such drivers want to stay in full control (thing Jeremy Clarkson), especially ignoring road laws when it suits them. But the worst is the "Indian Driver" mindset, especially if driving a taxi, in which there are no other things on the road whatsoever.

That is the Scots. [Most of] the Irish got independence nearly a century ago. Nevertheless there are a lot of Irish people in Britain (many more than British in Ireland) despite any different drinking habits.

I must admit that it did not even occur to me that this is supposed to be an invention until you mentioned it. I thought it was just for a laugh. Yes, the guy may be an inventor, but that does not mean that everything he does is an "invention" - otherwise he would be inventing dinner every time he cooks one.

Hundreds of years you say? And a order of magnitude. If you are looking for the inventors of body-sculptured metal armour you could make a start among the Ancient Greeks.

Men harassing women with no repurcussions would only be an issue if the men in question were anonymous and the women were not. Men who harass women for the sake of it would have no reason to start it if they were unaware that it was a woman at the other end.

I would have thought therefore that anonymity would encourage women, for the very reason that they would be less likely to be harassed. Unless they were specifically discussing a women's issue on a forum, or is otherwise open about it, there is generally no clue what the writer's sex is. That is certainly the case with women I have known, and a prime example is Mary Evans who wrote books under the name "George Elliot" to avoid drawing attention to herself as a person for several reasons (including the fact that she was living in "sin"). "George Elliot" was just as anonymous as my ID here as "Nukenerd".

Since when did that matter on the Internet ?

Welcome to the World.

Tell us about these uniform regulations.