Slavishly reimplement millions of models in the new medium's physical construction...

You make it sound like implementing one million cells in software is a million times more difficult than implementing just one.

Also, full nervous system emulation is about the worst possible way to approach strong AI.

Please elaborate. Why is it a bad way to approach strong AI, and what would be a better way?

I think you're narrowly defining "speeding" to mean "exceeding the posted speed limit." Using a more broad definition that includes the reasonable and prudent speed under the given conditions (visibility, weather, road condition, etc.) and following distance (i.e. tailgating or not), you will find a wealth of data that shows that speed does indeed contribute to the rate of collisions.

And of course the amount of damage in a collision is proportional to the square of the velocity.

It has been documented that these cameras cause more rear end collisions because of this fact.

That's because of people speeding. The faster you drive, the less time you have to react to the light changing or the driver in front of you stopping. In fact, the time you are given to react can even be negative if you drive too fast.

Therefore, if safety is the goal (big if), red light cameras should also be speed cameras. Without people speeding as they approach traffic lights, there will be far fewer rear end collisions and far fewer red light infractions.

Mass surveillance is never okay.

And that's why flight voice recorders on aircraft should be illegal, right?

If it is on your own property then *you* are the one doing the recording, and not aero.

And if the equipment is in a colocation facility owned neither by you nor by Aereo, then the colocation facility is the one doing the recording?

At ~1pW/cm^2, a 50x50cm verision of this will provide about 30mWh in 12 hours.

That's just one 50x50 cm plate. They're suggesting a 50x50x50 cm cube of stacked plates.

Unless you live in the state where the car is manufactured, the interstate commece clause applies.

Are states treating Tesla any different from auto manufacturers located within the state?

Well now, here's an actual legitimate use of the Commerce Clause...

Please elaborate. The commerce clause doesn't seem to apply within a state, only between states.

Rather than pushing others down, they pull others up by creating jobs and demand.

It takes two people to create a job: one to offer the position, and one to accept it. Otherwise, the job hasn't really been "created." Proponents of trickle-down theory usually seem to ignore this fact.

Meanwhile, those who offer the positions are greedy and are always trying to pay as little as they can get away with, so I wouldn't consider them to be any more virtuous than those who accept the positions.