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Comment Makes sense to me. (Score 1) 138

This makes sense to me. It seems that communities (cities or states or whatever) seem to think they have the ability to determine whether self-driving vehicles are allowed on their streets. (This is not something I had thought about until the last couple of years.) Given that, the same governments should be allowed to determine if the sale of a device that turns a vehicle into a self-driving vehicle is allowed.

Comment Re:Make up your mind (Score 1) 240

Except for the fact that a higher fraction of intercity cargo in the US is carried on trains than in Europe. Our freight trains are very competitive with trucking without government subsidies. In the case of Amtrak this makes it worse in that they will buy time on the freight tracks, but lack to priority on the tracks to keep to schedules at times.

Comment Re:More like a flaw in statistics (Score 1) 437

Having responded as a volunteer firefighter/emergency medical provider (you have volunteered, right?), I can say that in the USA, it is a 911 caller working with an EMS dispatcher that determines the alacrity of an ambulance response. Presumably the dispatcher uses a tool such as the one described in TFA, but the caller is the one describing the situation. Insurance has absolutely nothing to do with the situation. If your condition is immediately life threatening you will be treated (even without your consent if you are unconscious). I know that everyone wants to say that the US system of emergency medicine is broken, but it isn't. I imagine that you will be billed an unknowable quantity at some time in the future, but that is after you have survived what might have been a deadly situation.

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