Anyone with a metal lathe can also manufacture a completely untraceable firearm. So perhaps because there's a small chance that someone will do that, then use that firearm to injure another person all metal lathes need to be serialized, registered and tracked.

Or anyone that can buy pipe. All pipes must herefor be sold only after a full background check since it is possible to fill a pipe with explosives and blow up large numbers of people.

Liquid chlorine bleach and ammonia will require 40 hours of intensive training before you may purchase either item, otherwise someone could mix the two and poison an entire building of people.

People killing other people is a social problem. No technology or law will stop it. If making things illegal stopped crime then we would not need the police to clean up after all this crime!

"back in the day" CEOs made a few times what an average employee did. Now they make 150 times what an average employee does. The executives saw all that 'savings' and gave it to themselves.

But it is. petrol (gasoline) readily evaporates at room temperature and pressure. The evaporation point has nothing to do with the boiling point.
most liquids (all?) evaporate well before they boil, water being the most common example.

"get in the US because of EPA regulations and weather"
And that perfectly explains why 100% of the trucking in this country is done with diesels.

What reliability issues are there with a TDI? Mine is 9 years old with 270,000 miles on it. A few fuel filters, a fuel pump and two timing belts (all scheduled maintenance) are all that's been done to it. It does not smoke, I intermittently run it on BioDiesel or straight veg oil.
It still gets an average 40MPG and highway cruising is in the upper 40s. I can drive from Phoenix,AZ to LA and about 2/3 of the way back on a single tank.
I also (about once a month) tow 1,200lbs of hay bales behind my car on a small trailer.

I don't know of ANY electric or hybrid vehicle that claim these things. Until a 100% electric car can be re-fueled in less than 10 minutes they are impractical for a large portion of the population. For my life, time is money and time spent re-fueling is a waste of money.

I'll get a hybrid when they start making diesel electric models, like all the trains and ships in the world.

Formaldehyde is a gas a room temperature. The substance used in labs and embalming is formalin, a room temperature liquid of water and formaldehyde.

For a geek site, you should get these sort of things right to start with.

Probably not.
I've never been in a car that locked out neutral at any speed. You probably just have to press the shifter lock button to get to N from D at speed.

Where would all the material come from?

That's a lot of "stuff" to build a structure to basically encircle a star. I've venture to say it would take more physical material than comprises most habitable planets.

The process is ugly, but that's not a valid reason to hide the process from the world. If scientists are just going to provide the end result as a decree to which we are all supposed to adhere, then what you have is a religion.

When you decide to obscure or hide away the scientific process, you kill science.

The fan is ALWAYS on. I think idle for the older Mini's fan is 1,200 RPM and max of about 5,500RPM.

Before MS, IBM, Apple or much of anyone else, the Tandy Color Computer running OS9 had a fully bitmapped GUI with overlapping windows, scalable fonts, etc. The entire OS was real-time, using reentrant and position independent code. All in 64K of memory; who could need more?

It's the answers. For the best security the answers should have nothing to do with the question, just like you see in all those old spy movies:

Q: What is your favorite color
A: walkaboutclock

Q: What was the name of the street you grew up on?
A: g!blix05

When only the account holder can possibly know the answers then there can be no social engineering to bypass the security.

None of this, of course, has any effect if policies and procedures at the vendor site allow for the questions to be bypassed. As I have posted elsewhere, we don't know the contents of the alleged call; the operator could have been threatened, blackmailed, bribed or even an accomplice.

However completely unlike the airport scanners these devices will need to clear FDA and FCC regulations and inspection/testing. The people who operate them will have to take classes and be certified and licensed to operate the device. The devices themselves will be licensed and inspected on a regular basis by the state boards of health.

None of this is seems true for the airport systems.

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Perhaps we should require a new transmission setting in all cars. When the transmission is in this new setting the engine would be free to do whatever it wanted but it would be disconnected from the remainder of the drivetrain and the brakes would only have to work against the inertia of the vehicle.
I propose we call the new setting/gear ARV for "Anti-Runaway Vehicle".
Clearly the existing Neutral settings are not working.

BTW: VW implemented what the article suggests years ago. In my Golf if I have the throttle at any setting above idle and step on the brake for more than about 2 seconds the computer disconnects the throttle and brings the engine to idle.

Or you know... just put the transmission in Neutral. I was taught this in drivers ed decades ago.