called this one back around 1970 in his classic story "Inconsistent Moon".

Douglas Trumbull developed a 60FPS movie system in the 1970s called Showscan.

The theater owners wouldn't install all new equipment when there was no guarantee that there would be movies in that format, and studios wouldn't make movies in that format unless the theaters had all converted.

I've always wondered if it was possible to get tickets for both speeding and going too slow for conditions at the same time. It sounds like it might be possible in Texas.

That would make for an interesting court case.

AFAIK, there are laws requiring the wearing of seat belts throughout the United States. The requirement for airbags is to protect those people too stupid or apathetic to bother obeying those laws.

Maybe, but the airbag rotates with the steering wheel, so if you keep your hands on 3 and 9 positions as you turn the wheel, the airbag should still explode in between your arms, instead of through them.

YMMV

If you have prosthetic arms, the prosthetic hands are assumed.

I was driving like that when I got in to an accident. The air bag threw my hand up into the windshield hard enough for it to punch a hole in the windshield.

Fortunately, there wasn't too much damage to my hand, but a decade later, the scar on the back of my hand is still evident.

I no longer drive with a hand at the 12:00 position. It's 3:00 and 9:00 for me.

The local media here in central Florida is already hyping this up as a tourist attraction comparable to a Shuttle launch. Probably wishful thinking, but anything is better than nothing.

And it started singing!

Michigan J. Frog

Maybe you have it backwards. Maybe it isn't the company worried about an employee's personal use, but the employee worried about the company having access to non work-related activities. And, no, I don't mean porn. I mean things like online banking. Even if the company is honest, I wouldn't necessarily trust the company's network administrator. I've known too many of them who loved to monitor what people were doing on "their" network.