That's why we have libel and slander laws.

I also think police and prosecutors should be held to libel and slander. When they raid a house and find a kitchen scale, they should not use biased terms such as "drug paraphernalia" that poisons the jury pool and reputation of the person they are investigating, in fact they and the prosecutor should not speak until trial and let it go there where the other side has an equal voice.

Also, the sex laws in place are ridiculous and need to be laxed.

But I don't recognize the right to be forgotten. I just don't. Too many pitfalls. It's not a right, just a wish.

This thinking if why America is in such incredible trouble right now, and it's how people are going to go into generational slavery soon.

Are you kidding me? Sears and Roebuck, America's biggest retailer up to the late 1980s, built it's business on mail order back in the late 1890s. Mail order catalogs were huge up to the 1990s, internet merely replaced it, didn't invent it.

That said, the USPS still cut it's distribution centers in half a while back:
http://www.federaltimes.com/ar...

Just par for the course for the internet, with snail mail being it's first and biggest victim (and slowest to die).

A more interesting question to me, is what future libraries will look like bereft of physical media.

Who knew, when they were building thepiratebay, they were simply making the library of the future? Not just in an idealized sense, but in an actual sense of keeping the industry somewhat honest, like what the used car or textbook business does.

That might be great for fighter pilots, but they're talking about making flight more accessible.

It seems the effort is losing Steam.

What is brain controlled? That the mind points to where it wants to go, and the computer has to figure out how to get there without stalling, crashing into things, going into a spiral and what not?

Because withouth knowing the concepts of aerodynamics, what exactly is the brain going to contribute?

And what happens when the mind wanders?

I fail to see how this is better than a touch screen interface that would turn it into a self-flying plane.

And all that will be negated by cost. There will be 5 major costs in taxi afaik:

-driver
-fuel
-insurance
-car (initial cost)
-maintenance

I tried to rank them by what I think will be highest to lowest. Self-driving car will eliminate the top cost. It should lower insurance (not guaranteed) and will maximize fuel.

Add in electric vehicles to the mix and fuel will be lowered and maintenance by a whole hell of a lot but of course that can be done with drivered cars as well.

Cost and availability will kill many human cab services. But the good thing is that finally the boondock areas will get taxi service unlike today. Excellent for seniors and disabled. Taxi and rental car services will merge in fact. Nothing more annoying than an idle fleet.

I bet the old ones aren't even that old. And these stupid things cost many 10s of millions.

They should design them modular so that additions can be built when needed.

Think of the children is a legitimate line of thought when it's actually about children and not someone trying to gain personal power or push through a bad policy by using our empathy against us and linking it to a unconnected issue.

Do you really think I'm on some power grab or trying to push through a bad policy with my argument here?

I think the concern is twofold.

As of yet autonomous vehicles are unproven. It would be nice to have a driver on the wheel just in case. This might not be for emergencies as a person would be reading or whatever and it's dangerous to give him the wheel unprepared and unaware. But we can presume that the computer might just get confused (lets say a construction site) and come to a stop and say "Please, human, guide me here until I can take over again." That's legitimate because the first generation of autonomous vehicles are certainly not going to be perfect.

Second, we don't want kids having free access to autonomous vehicle. 10 year old Johnny is riding in a car with no parents and just cannot resist the urge to take over the controls. 9 year old Amanda just met a really cool adult online that promises her if she goes to this one address, she's getting all the toys she wants.

So maybe not a driver's license, since blind people should have access to this technology after the bugs are worked out, but there should be some regulation.

is to congratulate the NSA and FBI on what a fine job they are doing spying on us. How safe they kept us with ever intrusive nets. That they can't even catch a kid whose own relatives called the police on him worried and posted out in the open that he'll kill people.

And then they go on how they need more powers to protect us. Yeah, right, more like to control the populace.

Congratulations Law Enforcement. Awesome work.

This is glorified juice-filled candy. Whole fruit has all that fiber and other stuff good for someone.

What about splinters? I can imagine those are nasty in a crash, so how is that minimized?

and it was designed i think well over 20 possibly even 30 years ago. so it has a very *very* gentle acceleration and deceleration curve. gentle acceleration because that is not only fuel-efficient but also the cars of that time simply could not accelerate that much...

WTF are you blabbering on about? Cars from 1980 or 1990 could not accelerate that much?

You must be a young kid or something, but not everything before your time was primitive by virtue of you not having come along yet.