Fundamental problem with the social media as a system is that it exploits people's emotional thinking. Cute cat videos on one end and rage bait on another end of the same spectrum. I suspect future societies will be teaching disassociation techniques in junior school.

This makes a lot of sense in urban settings, especially when electrified. Hopefully these are restricted from highway system.

2035 target was simply infeasible with current technology. While some promising new developments, like solid state batteries, are being worked on, they are not yet ready for mass production.

This is much needed move as they also recently closed a number of loopholes, such as assumed fuel savings credit for engine start-stop technology, that made it more difficult to meet these goals. More so, recent string of engine and transmission failures from multiple manufacturers shows that meeting fleet standards came at a very significant cost of reduced reliability.

The war with Venezuela is not in US interest and goes against explicit election promise not to start more pointless wars.

This was also covered in an podcast interview with the author.

This is not just future generation's problem. Catastrophic lack of affordability for housing, healthcare, and childcare results in fewer kids, this in turn means that in 20 years there will be less adults working and paying taxes, in turn bankrupting social nets. So today's childlessness crisis will translate to tomorrow destitute seniors crisis.

Thanks to tracking modules plaguing most modern cars that data is likely includes times and locations of customer's vehicles. These repeated breaches make it clear that unlike smartphone manufacturers, that are inherently tech companies, car manufacturers that collect your data are going to keep getting breached and leaking all that data.

Would this be considered a warantless search?

Trade wars have consequences and in this case US allies are not going to be as enthusiastic in supporting US interests against China.

Defamation is defamation. AI weaponized for reputation destruction in the modern word is even more destructive than spreading rumors or publishing false stories in the past, because AI reach is much wider and persistent.

It makes sense, as corporations pay taxes (SS contributions, etc.) for having workers, so agentic AI should be also taxed in some form. Otherwise it will create additional incentives to replace workers.