That would cost someone making $15/hr about $7,500 a year in lost time

So, considering the average cost to own and maintain a vehicle is between 10,000 to 12,000 a year, by your own admission that transit user is coming out ahead.

If you are going to weigh time waiting for transit as "lost", you also have to weigh working hours spent to earn the money lit on fire for car ownership.

Additionally, in places where transit hasn't been intentionally starved and shit on by government policy for 70 years like the US, with more frequent service and coverage, the balance tips even more so in favor of transit.

I get what you are saying, but there does need to be a penalty enough to make it unappealing to commit the crime. Yes, draconian old-testament sentencing doesn't make things better, and certainty of being caught is a far better deterrent, but the penalty has to be at least severe enough to not make the crime "worth it".

my moral beliefs require obedience to the law when the law is not fundamentally unjust.

Bro, patent and copyright law, as they are today, are fundamentally unjust. The social contract has long been broken.

If they can clearly state the problems and carefully word what they want to do

Guess what the profession of clearly stating problems and carefully "wording" what you want a computer to do is?

Not everyone killed by car crashes is in a car.

2021 has been the highest year for pedestrian deaths in 40 years and 2022 is expected to exceed that. In no small part by ever increasingly hostile vehicles such as ridiculous brodozers and the increasing prevalence of SUVs.

And of course these wireless devices won't do shit to protect pedestrians.

Censorship is only when it is done by the government

This is false. The commentators have told you wrong. You are confusing the 1st amendment with the broader concept of free speech. Censorship can be done by private parties, e.g. the MPAA's Hays code restricted portrayal of interracial relationships.

Whether such an action by a private party is legally actionable is a whole different story, but legal, corporate censorship is still censorship. Wikipedia defines it as

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient".[2][3][4] Censorship can be conducted by governments,[5] private institutions and other controlling bodies.

LOL, you got screwed, and yet you still continue to simp for sociopathic billionaires that caused the problems that you had to pay for.

Have some respect for yourself.

with the drive motors in the wheel hub,

Such a configuration will make for an awful, badly handling shitbox.

You want as much mass as possible supported by the suspension as possible. Putting heavy ass motors in the hubs will subject the motors the full brunt of every bump and pothole encountered on the road. Likewise, the increased mass of the wheels will make them slower to move out of the way when those potholes are hit, giving the tires, rims, etc even more of a beating than they already get driving on the roads.

There is a reason why all those complex joints are in cars, and it's not just to increase billable hours for repair shops.

And if that is what Tesla is doing, they are ignoring the hard learned lessons of the automotive industry just to have to learn them all over again themselves.

FYI The pepper robots are about 30k/each, not 2k.

I can't blame a state for offering these tax breaks, it is in their interests to offer them.

No, you can, and you should blame the state for making such offers. The tax breaks rarely actually payoff, and is part of a race to the bottom towards poverty. Everyone else is left picking up the slack, while a wealthy company is just made wealthier.

They should be outlawed.

For example in North America water service is normally entirely funded through metered user fees.

As an aside, most water service outside of large cities is funded mostly by debt. User fees don't cover the whole bill and property taxes aren't high enough to cover the costs of sprawling infrastructure in USA's suburban wastelands.

Surely you must mean 9 kg. UCI minimum weight, at 6.8 kg, is a hair under 15 lbs, there is no 9lb road bike that is considered heavy.

Racks + panniers.

Plus, one stop at a grocery store per week isn't necessarily a reasonable requirement. Sure, it makes sense if you are living in a car centric wasteland where the nearest grocery is 20 miles away, however, making more frequent stops means you can have fresher foods, and waste less.

I'd love to hear from riders who deal with these issues

Find your local bicycle advocacy group, look for local FB groups, or ask around at some LBS and you'll get plenty of info. Unfortunately slashdot comments wont be good at answering your questions, and especially because a lot of stuff is location specific.

Most of the people that disparage cyclists for their choice in clothing are the same kind that unironically do so while wearing jerseys of pro-football players with chicken wing eating as the closest they get to exercise.