Your body is too irony from all those multivitimins. Seriously, though. Its ironic that they want people "to stop wasting their money", but they'll probably make it so you need a prescription to get vitamins.

Is it ironic, or is it a direct consequence of this court decision?

Could turn out that liability issues will prevent full autonomy. There will certainly be systems that make it much much safer to drive "distracted", so that you don't have to worry about staying in your lane, or maintaining a safe following distance. Autonomous braking might improve to the point where it's safe to follow just off the bumper of the car in front of you, so we'll get the traffic congestion mitigating advantages of autonomous cars without full autonomy. But you'll still have to stay awake and sit at a steering wheel and pedals so you can swerve or brake on demand when something unexpected happens.

So it makes more sense to say it's perfectly OK to deliberately ignore the lights and just sit there reading text messages while blocking the intersection? Or just sit there because you feel like it? Obviously if you have a heart attack, you're not going to take any blame.

When we could simply call him "Master"?

Problem solved.

Might explain some of those missing persons.

They don't seem to be afraid of large projects. I hope they build the first fusion reactor. That would really teach the rest of the world not to underfund that kind of thing and just dick around for 40+ years.

A slow driver is a bored and inattentive driver. If you take away from the driver even the task of monitoring his speed, drivers are just going to get even more bored and inattentive.

People in general seem to be motivated. They're sufficiently obsessed with driving a car that gets 31 mpg instead of 29, or weatherizing their homes to cut a few pennies off their electric bill. The real problem is that people don't understand how irrelevant all of that is. We can only fix the problem if we drastically change our transportation and energy infrastructure. It's a lack of intelligence rather than a lack of motivation.

Stop being a grovelling little pansy. Show your boss that treating his employees like shit has consequences.

they keep saying their own names, or referring to themselves in the third person, like Jimmy from Seinfeld. Awesome. Or maybe this is a bullshit story. Awesome.

Random checks generally work as a deterrent. Like randomly checking athletes for steroids. The risk of getting caught will deter them from juicing. But a suicidal terrorist isn't going to care much about getting caught. Sure, if you check 10% of the passengers that will stop nearly 10% of terrorist weapon smuggling, but I don't think anyone will find that an impressive accomplishment. You could check say, 30% or 50%, but then the process will be so time-consuming, you might as well just check everyone.

...coming from an actor.

Do they include noticing that the same topics come up over and over again on Slashdot?