I checked on the last post about automated braking, and found that AEB is available as part of a $500 driver assist add-on, and at least one insurance company offers a 10% discount for it. So for that specific case, it pays for itself in 3ish years. Unless you don't have one, in which case you might get no discount but your insurance covers repairing other people's doodads.

I bet OP thinks that he can get a discount on insurance by not having fairly cheap safety features.

They absolutely could, even just seize it by force. Don't put a F-22 Raptor factory in China.

What will get it to stop is if such games don't use a map their users can edit and feel a need to . Alternatively, there's 100x more Pokemon Go players as Open Street Maps contributors, and this could be an opportunity to start mapping "micro beaches" or other such features, if people on the verification team don't flee in horror.

Having Open Street Maps contributors get tired of your bullshit and leave it for the trolls sounds like it wouldn't be harmless at all. And just because it's light fraud and cheating, doesn't mean it can't also be vandalism.

It's not: we have harmfully high levels of carbon dioxide but in smaller amounts it not only not bad, but necessary. Carbon credits would be the "perfect" solution to that, were it not details such as granting too many, and giving them to cheating frauds.

The approximation to sin might seem absolute, but that is because we are already exceeding the limit, and in particular everyone you know is outputting 10x their fair share thanks to living in one of the industrialized countries. Whereas sin has no level where it is beneficial, and indulgences themselves are an additional sin (greed, fraud, blasphemy, and encouraging others to sin). Maybe you could compare it to a government program approving your CO2 output by additionally burning several tons of coal "on behalf of the people who couldn't burn any, so now it's fair".

Perfectionism is when someone is so paralyzed by the thought of "failure" that they fail to accomplish anything. Having high standards is great; having impossible standards is horrible.

They say itâ(TM)s âoetoo difficultâ!

The website & search engine symbiosis is that the website generates content and the search engine links to a relevant website. If not linked to, the website gets nothing out of it (unless it's propaganda). If AI as shitty as today replaces search engines with unreferenced hallucinations/summaries, it will be very bad for humanity. I could see AI mostly replacing search, but only if it cites its sources.

The HPV vaccine is 99% effective at preventing cervical cancer; the inventor scoffs at your "prediction".

Buddy, you can buy a car with AEB for $20,000.

Dystopian nightmare stuff:
1) Requiring a key to exit.
2) Cities jacking up housing/rental prices by banning cheap housing.
3) Employers paying people so little they can't afford housing.

If the claimed numbers are accurate, it corresponds to about 1% reduction in total deaths and injuries. Saving 1% on your car insurance should be about $15-20 annually, maybe $400 over 20 years.

My limited research found that a driver-assist addon, which includes AEB, cost $500. So it's plausible for AEB to be roughly break-even, and outright save you money if you want other stuff like adaptive cruise control/lane assist/etc. I certainly expected it to cost a lot more.

I guess my estimates are way off. And some other driver-assist features also count as safety features as far insurance companies are concerned.

A particularly good benefit would be the safety feature paying itself off in reduced insurance premiums.

That's because they're gambling wrong. When you gamble in the stock market, the odds are in your favor, unlike in a casino.

Uh, pretty sure that if you assassinate the president of one of the biggest countries in the world, people will pay attention next time you say "don't".