I'm not 'blaming' anything. These are just some of the issues that need to be worked out.

And please describe how a 'baby' is running across the street? Yeah, yeah...runaway stroller, slightly older brother chasing after it.

One of the analogies I've seen at a speech on the subject went something like, "A computer can detect an object in the roadway, but it can't yet tell if it's a paper bag that can be safely run over or a rock that's apt to damage the car."

Or even harder, the difference between a running child and a running dog. While I'd much prefer not to hit either, the value judgement leans only one way.
Another sticking point: A traffic cop in the street directing traffic, vs some dude walking across the street.

do need to be worked out.

One of these things operated by some idiot, flying it where he shouldn't, is going to go down the intake of an airliner. Obviously you shouldn't fly them where this might be a possibility. Hence the FAA rules. But some fool will.
Just like laser pointers. 'Toys', right?.Obviously you should not point them at aircraft. Yet asshats still do it. On purpose.

If they can compete, good
If they can't, oh well.

How would the domain be renewed if the estate cancels the credit cards?

Put a bunch of numbers on a dartboard, from $50 to $250. Throw a dart. Whatever it hits...thats it. Trying to determine a ticket price for a service that may or may not exist 15 years from now is, as said in the article, "spitballing".

What will happen to gas and airline prices between now and then? Will elec cars be more prevalent? What cost multiplier will be applied to actually building the thing?
More importantly...will it actually get built? What rare riparian environment will be discovered in the proposed path, that will cause it to be tied up in enviro court for years? Or in NIMBY court?

That's why I said "if"

No real investigation was done, and we invaded a country and slaughtered many hundreds of thousands, destabilized the entire region and ended up creating ISIS.

You do realize, that after Gulf War 1 (1991), we (Western military forces) never left the region. You're aware of this, right?

Copyright infringement has nothing to do with it.
If that workstation and user has access to patient data, and that patient data is/was exposed via a P2P application...then yes, maybe they do need to be burned to the ground as well as the asshat 'security company'.

However, the plot thickens:
From the Motion to Dismiss: https://www.ftc.gov/system/fil...
(in part)"In 2008, Lime Wire was found on a LabMD workstation at Internet Protocol address 64.190.82.42 in Atlanta, Georgia. Lime Wire was installed by a LabMD employee, without authorization and in violation of company policy."

"On May 13, 2008, Tiversa contacted Lab MD, advised that Tiversa had downloaded LabMD's file, but refused to provide any additional information unless LabMD paid Tiversa for "remediation." Over the next two months, Tiversa sent six more sales-pitch emails to LabM0. LabMD, however, declined Tiversa's shakedown."

Details here: https://www.ftc.gov/enforcemen...

That's some messed up stuff. Tiversa needs to be burned to the ground, and their board members in actual jail.

I came to say the same thing. How awesome would it be to be at the beach, realize you forgot a towel, and have one drop in within a half hour...

If you are at some remote beach and you forget your towel...you are outside of the delivery zone. And you are a dumbass, and the ghost of Douglas Adams will smite you.

One of the few times when a question in the headline might actually equal yes.

Does Facebook make it harder for people with different political views to get along?
Far too many people on Facebook (or elsewhere online!), instantly froth at the mouth at any mention of The Other Party(tm).

Track my location? Pretty sure my house doesn't actually move around much.

Downsides? Sure, Amazon...I'll let you track my every move, all day every day.
Not.

I don't understand why people continue to buy those overpriced pieces of plastic

For the same reason you see these same people with 2 x crates of over priced bottled water in their cart.
I don't understand it either.