Source? I was under the impression Olkiluoto #3 was a colossal failure and 300% over budget. Oh yes, from wikipedia,

Are you claiming at 300% over budget it has the among the best ROI? I mean even in Finland you could build out solar energy with a better ROI than a $10/WAC nuclear plant (or gas, oil, wood, steam, wind, biomass) nothing costs this much except a nuclear boondoogle.

for what its worth, I think you are really stretching the limit of "success". Solar City, Tesla, and SpaceX are not successful by traditional metrics. They don't make money. All success so far is self-perpetuating hype, which in fact may dramatically assist long term success, but has not yet. These companies are all valued on future promises based on quite uncertain growth projections, which may or may not pan out. I'm not really familiar with SpaceX because its private, but the only money made on Tesla and Solar City is by speculators who have managed to "sell" promises to other spectators. Investments in these companies haven't paid off by generating income. I think this would be the basic formula to decide success. Not fantastic growth that could torpedo at any moment and leave a 20b hole in speculator pockets.

Solar city's anticipated success is based on a business plan they are already transitioning away from, lofty valuations of future revenue will not materialize as they are forced to abandon their cash cow, principally due to well-financed competitors who are willing to pass on more of the economic benefits of solar energy to their customers. The amazing thing, is that despite approximately 6 months of this knowledge, most analysts have not substantially reduced targets based on solar city's own information. That should tell you something about the importance of "hype" or "future promises" in determining the "success" of a company.

To some degree I am sure one might. Given my naive understanding of the frequency and cause of air line disasters; however this would seem much more difficult in practice given sparse data.

Conversely that may also be a desperate expert's attempt to educate people that should know better!

Where is the group think when there is no community? For example accessible comment systems on news sites (e.g. disqus)?

Is it established by the article? The first post?

If you don't have time for #3, remain skeptical and chose #2 Simple.

you should have spent some of your non-collegiate experience learning basic statistics.

YOU NEVER GO FULL RETARD

I can avoid driving during hours populated by drunks. I can remain on city streets with high visibility, medians, and concrete planters. I can avoid all personal distraction and make myself aware of other cars, drivers, and their current preoccupation. I can dramatically reduce my probability of a lethal encounter.

Watch out, kicking that robot canine is a felony.

This isn't concentrated solar power (CSP) it is CdTe "thin film" flat panel photvoltaics. They do have distinguishing names, just don't count on Reuters to get it right. AFAIK, there is no CSP station that incinerates all the birds that fly by. There are some CSP plants that can burn birds that fly too close to the focal point on the central tower...

That's a shame, both your assumptions about those who do have the time or desire to take control. And for your own loss.

I've never really had any idea what I'm doing and I haven't failed yet. I don't even recall reading about bricked devices while involved, just the warnings. Warnings that apparently make many very fearful. I don't know how these concerns are any different than the myriad of ways you could destroy a self built PC, modding an x box, recompiling a linux kernel, etc. Suddenly, straight forward steps on xda and everyone is afraid of bricking a device. An easy way (and smart for other reasons) to mitigate that risk is to simply use older hardware. Due to the absurd frequency of turnover in the mobile space, old hardware is effectively free and disturbingly capable.

My first two phones were t mobile windows mobile 5.1 thing and a motorola cliq2. They were not hugely successful models, but they both had smallish dev communities doing the job. My recent phone, sprint my touch 4g, is essentially a galaxy s2, but with some differences that require its own treatment, thus the community is also small. Nonetheless, there have been many, many options for all these devices. (Not to mention the nexus and galaxy devices I've worked on)

In summary, I think you're overstating the challenges. Just do it.

I don't think you should assume about what not is. There are already lots of incremental autonomous driving controls. And they work fine. And they do not change the relationship between a driver and his liabilities.

facebook probably can't generate sufficient profits off an activity like this. since their IPO they have essentially been squandering equity in all directions, including this one, to chase potential revenue. their growth targets are probably impossible (by a factor of 10 or more) without a massive change in revenue model. And so they chase whats app, flying drones, and spy tech. Its an impossible, hilarious, and economically inefficient circus, that is now playing out for the second time in 20 years, with mostly the same people involved. And these are the prized achievements of a system for which most here even express ideological preference.