Any social system where scare resources distribution is relying on human etiquette is destined to fail miserably. That is why communism never worked and will never work. You either must provide surplus of resources (multiply number of chargers to saturate the market) or create economical system incentive to force right behavior, One potential solution would be charging user not just for electricity but also for the time spent at the charger with rate highly progressive if charger is occupied longer than certain amount of time.

Queensland ($ per megawatt hour) 2019-20: $56, 2020-21: $66, 2021-22: $178, 2022-23 YTD: $190

Looking at young generation, I'm not surprised. In the past we were interested in hard science, math, occupying Wall street to stop rich getting richer at the expense of little guy, protesting corporate monopoly abuse, looking for freedom of speech and rights of the individual. These days our corporate overlords by controlling media are trolling young generation and channeling their energy into the insane subjects that do not matter. Such as wokeism, rainbow deviations, unrestricted drugs. They lower society to the lowest common denominator for the sake of "diversity" and not to offend anyone. No surprise that societies that do not care for any of it (mostly Asian tigers) are now dominating IQ tables.

China leads, because we moved most of the manufacturing there. Manufacturing is a base of country success but somehow our nation forgot what made us superpower. Nation was fooled by politicians and Wall street that we will be great "post industrial" power. Yeah, we will be postindustrial, but not great and no power. Now to mask its failure our leaders focus us on how many bathrooms we need for all colors of sexual deviation, how many minorities must be hired by percentage, how many "underrepresented" must hold positions of power regardless of their ability to perform. O yeah, add Multikulti. I wonder how come China is succeeding without "diversity"? The West - keep focusing on those fake subjects and don't act surprised when you are taken over in the race to be the most developed.

All those magic "CO2 turn to something useful" usually lack the answer home much energy the process needs. You can turn CO2 back to oxygen and carbon and burn it again. Applause please.

Well. Nobody needs cars period (except glorious party leadership of course). Everyone should be wearing the same uniform and earn the same amount of money. Maoist China and Communist Cuba were far ahead of US on their way to this Nirvana.

Author assumes that distinguishing civilians from military with today software is questionable. The bigger question is if the machine can distinguish "THEM" from "US".
 

Scientists warn that the Earth have reached fir hundred seventy eighth tipping point and urge public to trust them this time.

Year, right. China and honoring licenses.

I think based on the long human history ethical will be a robot that shoots enemy soldiers and does not shoot our soldiers.

What so great about diversity? Buggy software? I would be far better for all of us to simply hire the best programmers.

They are cheaper only when no one takes into account cost of the battery replacement after 10 years of use - I'm talking large battery 100 kWh size. Single battery replacement pays for all the gasoline burnt over the period.

God already has quantum computer !

We do not know yet if the weapon used in this crime was legal. If it wasn't your "toughening" of the laws would do nothing to stop this particular case. With the upcoming 3D printing technologies it might be easy to print a gun in 10 years or so regardless of the laws. Also any nut case can construct improvised explosive device from pretty much household chemicals. Such device placed in the crowd would take more than 50 lives. We have seen this in Iraq. Coming from opressive communist country I can see certain advantages of public to have a right to be armed.

All involved most likely will die. That is no different from airplane crash. One downside is that such crash would also render track closed for many days if not weeks and would disrupt travel plans for many. Another big issue would be hyperloop infrastructure vulnerability to terrorist attack. Unless the track would be underground (unlikely due to cost) the whole length of the track would have to be guarded in a very detailed way 24/7. Very costly and difficult task. Even small bomb would be lethal when exploded just before the incoming train.