It's better in that it stays out of the way a bit more - it updates with Windows Update and doesn't require registration.

That's a dubious map - where is the data from? It's not like we have regular IQ tests for citizens. Usually they're based on student test scores.

They have them at home, but carrying them is highly restricted and ammo is well regulated. The Swiss aren't carrying around handguns like in the US.

You wouldn't expect the violent crime to drop off instantly unless they had a large gun recovery program to get them out of the hands of criminals. The guns were already out there. Looking a bit farther than 5 years (there was a large spike in crime 5 years after), the crime rate dropped to a 40 year low.

How do you know it doesn't? The numbers touted for the federal exchange have included it, so this probably does too. But still, it's basically just been finished so people can actually use it. No one would reasonably say Windows 8 only had 40 users in the month of November if they download link was wrong.

But it wasn't for 40 people - the website will still be running for years to come and hundreds of thousands or millions will use it now that it's operational.

Why is Google a "high risk situation"? They've been around for quite a while.

Why bother have them be vehicles? Just plant a trailer full of batteries somewhere. If the power connection to provide the power is good enough to feed the power from the trucks, it should be enough to recharge them slowly overnight. Making them into trucks just changes the distribution from a relatively cheap wire to an expensive machine that causes wear on the roads

The problem with batteries in this case is that they are expensive. They needed 6 cars worth of batteries for the load balancing that saved them less than $5k. Pumped storage is much cheaper - even flywheels would probably provide better capacity for the price at that size.

Gonna need a lot of quarters for that new car. Also, how's he going to get all these quarters?

I wouldn't call losing all the great services of Internet/Cellphone/online shopping/social networks because of fear as a win. Many of those make things much more convenient.

With voice commands, the trigger command just needs to be unique enough (see Google's "OK Google"), but the larger problem is people either have to memorize the command or the car needs to read all the possible commands which could take a while.

Google's main revenue source is from advertising, that doesn't make them an advertising company.

But that assumes all shooters are criminals that won't follow any laws and they are always planning on committing the crime.

It's much better to catch someone breaking the law for carrying an illegal gun (or illegally carrying a gun) than it is to catch them for murder.

It also can cut down the number of killings when people aren't carrying as many guns around. There 0 gun crimes committed by people without guns (even including accidental!) in the past forever.

There will always be people determined to hurt someone, in which case they're probably going to find a way - but if we can catch them before they commit the crime of murder or make it too much of a hassle, we can even cut down those.

The humans are networked through their scanner doohickey that tells them what they need next - they just can't communicate to each other through them.

I wouldn't say it failed, I'd say different variations have come and gone being replaced with better ones as technology progressed. This one likely will be replaced by the next advancement in technology.