Might be worth pointing out that in British English, the words 'meter' and 'metre' are both correct spellings of two different words with two different meanings.

Meter is usually a word for a device which measures quantity and/or rate of flow. For example the device fitted in most homes that measures how much electricity has been used is called an electricity meter.
Metre on the other hand is almost exclusively used to refer to the SI unit of length.

Personally I'm not a big fan of English usage snobbery and pedantry. As long as the meaning of some text is clear to its intended audience, who cares which country some particular word evolved in, or was adopted by. I myself often use Americanized spellings when writing messages to American recipients, but I do still find it mildly irritating when American English sometimes turns two perfectly good words with two different meanings into a single. interchangeable word.

And don't even get me started on the depressing fact that Americans have only one word for Check (examine, test) also Check (a promise to pay, UK, cheque) lol

"I don't know if that's robotics, or zoology or something else."

That something else will inevitably be "Zoobotics."

But if my system isn't sending back any data, how will Microsoft know when to phone me and tell me when they've found viruses on my computer?

It's so helpful when that nice foreign sounding gentleman calls me to help me get everything fixed up..... which reminds me.. I hope he rings again soon, after the last time, I don't seem to be able to log into my email or Bitcoin wallet :/

Those aren't very difficult problems for autonomous car technology to solve. A farmer could easily train his SUV or tractor by feeding it data about his farm's layout and topography. The vehicle might even train itself by looking up the farm on Google Earth.

Reversing at low speed is a relatively trivial problem for an AI truck. Self parking cars are already commonplace and the technology required for trucks is virtually identical. A self parking truck will always be at least as good at precision reversing as any human driver.

Ditto trailer towing. It takes quite a bit of practice and good natural spacial awareness for a human driver to be consistently accurate when backing a trailer. On the other hand an AI driver just has to do the math!

I do see some other situations where the usage model that many people are suggesting (You don't own an AI car outright, just summon one on demand) would be unsuitable for some people. Cars have other practical uses beyond just taking people and things from one place to another. For example I live in a very small house with little spare storage space so I store all my tools in the back of my small hatchback car (I always have the rear seat folded down, so it's more like a 2 seater small van) I use these tools at work on construction sites and it's handy to be able to keep the tools in the car until needed, then they're also available when I get home in case I need to do any work around the house.

A taxi style 'car on demand' service might suit an office commuter or shopper, but it wouldn't make a very good toolshed!

It means I'm probably a terrorist.

Electric motorcycles with performance to rival ICE bikes are already available. The bike in this video is a pure prototype built by Japanese motor racing specialist company Mugen specifically to compete in the "Zero" race at the Isle of Man TT, but given Mugen's close ties to Honda, it's a given that the technology being trialled on the Mugen Shinden machine is going to end up in a battery powered Fireblade equivalent before very long.

And you're assuming that it's something they don't need, when you have no idea if that's true. People in general have had to cope alone with all sorts of problems since time immemorial, but that's not a very good argument for saying that they should have to keep coping alone now that social media exists.

I'm an Isle of Man TT marshal. Specifically I'm the Deputy Sector Marshal for Cronk-Y-Voddy Crossroads where the superbikes flash past at around 180mph less than 2 feet away from the spectators!
Current TT absolute lap record holder Bruce Anstey set an average lap speed of 132.298mph In the 2014 Superbike race.

More to the point of the electrically powered racing theme of this thread, the TT festival also includes a single lap (37.74 mile) race for electric powered bikes called TT Zero and this race was won in 2014 by John McGuinness on a prototype Mugen Shinden setting a record breaking lap of 117.366mph average speed.

Compare that to this single lap demonstration run by rally driver Mark Higgins in a stock Subaru Impreza WRX STI at a very similar average speed to the electric bike. ICE engined bikes still hold a huge advantage in terms of range and a smaller advantage in terms of absolute speed, but the gap is closing.

That would be great except you don't actually need a licence to watch programs on iPlayer..

If you only ever watch ‘on demand’ programmes, you don’t need a TV Licence. On demand includes catch-up TV, streaming or downloading programmes after they’ve been shown on live TV, or programmes available online before being shown on TV."

You only need a TV licence to watch programs that are being broadcast in real time on iPlayer. (ie if you are watching a show on iPlayer that you could also watch simultanuously on a TV.

"If you only ever watch ‘on demand’ programmes, you don’t need a TV Licence. On demand includes catch-up TV, streaming or downloading programmes after they’ve been shown on live TV, or programmes available online before being shown on TV."