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In Chicago

Some sort of protest could be organised , like having a go slow at those intersections that have the cameras, and snarling up the whole city.
Alos if possible find alternate routes even if it takes longer.

Bugs can be made shallow?

On Linux, bugs are only skin deep

Why have bugs at all?

"We will never see EV's as a viable solution to the masses. The trouble right now is no alternative is getting large numbers of people onboard which is required to be successful."

Sounds likr you nrrf electric buses if you want to get "large numbers of people onboard"
They do have electric buses in some countries, (the overhead wired type known as trolleybuses) and battery power could work for school buses.

Electric cars can be charged during off peak hours by wind or other non-carbon producing energy production.

Aussies don'i play baseball, they play cricket.

Who washes their car in the winter? By the time you've driven it home its dirty again.

How high is the area around Madrid, Spain
I did Physics 101 at Massey University, in NZ

Traffic management would be crucial, what happens if a capsule from NZ and one from spain are in the tunnel at the same time

Anyway if we had the technology to drill even a tenth of the esy to the centre of the earth, our energy nrrds would be solved.

Lore

How is this better than the driver getting out of the truck, walking up to your front door, and putting the parcel down.
Sure he wont get so cold (its nearly up to zero today)
I still don't think drones would cope with bad weather that well (eg the east coast right now)

How does Dayton feel about it?

I don't know about Spherical Cows , but I thought The Prisoners' Dilemma was that if he tried to escape he would get run down by a large rubbery sphere.

I guess they didn't think hard enough.

Theres threats from outside the Solar system, like nearby supernova or gamma ray burst, and of course aliens.
Even 'friendly" aliens could end our civilisation.

Lets hope they can find the ancient aliens civilisation so we can discover some of their technology (fusion power, FTL druve, antigravity...

Maybe if they put Power lines underground they wouldn't come down every time there is a storm, which seems to be twice a week in New England