Capitalism rewards the strategy of consuming your potential competition. Actual competition is only a last resort in this economic system.

s/I don't argue that those are serious examples of criminal liability./I agree those are serious examples of criminal liability./

sorry - I reworded it a double negative in my original edit, and didn't remove both negatives (facepalm)

The thread that runs through your examples is knowingly allowing or directly facilitating known illegal activity.
I don't argue that those are serious examples of criminal liability.
Luckily for my own argument, I did not argue that all businesses are immune from criminal liability because they are just doing business. Often illegal business in your cited cases.

The People's Republic of California. They still make them, and they leave a pile of them at the end of my private road every year.

It would be a problematic precedent if there were criminal liability. And such a ruling can potentially hamstring phone books, encyclopedias, taxi services, and gun manufacturers. Any ancillary service or device used for a crime is a target with an imaginative prosecutor.

Civil liability? I sure hope so. The AI industry does not regulate itself and the government has so far refused to regulate what they believe is a golden goose.

Sport driving will not go away just the same.

I like and want a sports car for DAILY driving...

I like to drive....and every day when I get into it and fire up the engine, it's an adventure for me.

I don't just go from point A to point B....what a boring life that would make for....

I was listening to the original summary of this article...till they used the word "equity".

I immediately shut off anytime that word comes up.

Now...if they start once again to go for equality...well, then, I'll listen again.

no, which is why I don't think I should be allowed to run on foot in an electric car race.

And let's also think about how we can harvest their parent's data

I can't eat wheat, so no good bread for me. But a roasted sweet potato with dinner is nice after a long day in the yard (clearing brush).

I used to drink a lot of non-diet soda, but I quit, and a feel like crap whenever I try to pick the habit up again. My old organs aren't up for running on the high octane stuff the youths consume.

Can you power the robot on rice and vegetables? Otherwise it seems less versatile if we're not comparing energy sources in a race.

I don't get to enter a car race running top fuel while everyone else is using a wood-fired steam boiler. And even if raced unofficially, just to prove something, I don't think anyone be impressed.

I'll need it for my motorcycle.....hoping it all lasts till after I'm dead and gone, so I can enjoy the "old ways"....

I love paying $5 a gallon for high test and $7 for diesel. Although dear leader is telling me prices are lower than ever.

Just recently at Costco I paid $3.99/gallon for premium.....I live in LA in the New Orleans area.....hasn't gotten very bad here yet....

I am not wealthy by any definition, rent a flat, have no garage and no second car, just my Hyundai Inster. And will rather use public transport than get a car that burns fuel.

Aren't you tired of whining about how electric cars are bad since they are impractical in some edge cases that don't even apply to you over and over and over again in every slashdot discussion about electric cars? Or are you being paid for doing this?

With your references to living in a "flat" and taking public transport....you can NOT live in the US.

Somehow you don't understand that what you consider an "edge case" is NOT an edge case over here...it's real and widespread.

For most people

If they did (in the US), then most people would have them or be actively pursing them....