By turning programming into an actual engineering discipline? I dunno. Might be more effective than seat of the pants programming that we encourage now. But wait, yet another language will make it easy to program again.

Lazy and undisciplined. What do you think will happen? Exactly what we are seeing?

The owners are Dutch citizens. They would have been made incredibly wealthy. It is your own fault if you interpreted that statement to mean all Dutch citizens.

And most Russians want regime change in their country. It won't happen, because the masses DO NOT MATTER. Your life is forfeit to those who have power over you.

The whole point of all of these gyrations is to remove control from you over your own hardware. Nobody really gives a fuck about age verification, or if they do, they want to ensure they are getting minors to exploit.

And you think medical supervision will be enough? Once any amount of steroids is tolerated, there will be people who go beyond to get that extra edge, regardless of medical supervision.

I do not know what the proper answer is, but this is not it.

I would be interested in knowing where you get that data as every discussion I have seen ends up with someone claiming that autonomous vehicles are MUCH safer than humans (which I find difficult to believe without massaged statistics).

You have never lived very far north then. *shrug*

I dislike changing the clocks; however, I understand why someone further north than myself would want to. I have been fortunate in that I have lived half of my life without changing the clocks twice a year. I would like to keep it that way.

FYI, anything that requires cooperation is absolutely guaranteed not to happen. There is too much money to be made from cooperative people by being uncooperative.

The major businesses might disappear over time; however, the families that owned them merely moved their capital into other companies. In other words, it is not about the companies, it is about the families where the wealth is stored. Think of the Kennedy family or the Bush family (mentioned because one destroyed the other)

So, no meat, no liquor, no cooking... just bread, water, and hard work. And we are going to die anyways, despite all of that. Fuck you and your world view. If my lifetime is limited no matter what I do, then I choose Freedom and Liberty over living 5 minutes or 5 years or 5 decades or 5 centuries longer.

What makes you think Democracy even exists anymore?

Are they really better drivers than "average" humans? Or are statistics twisted to lie to you? The only advantage that mechanical drivers have is that they do not get sleepy or confused by chemicals, which is truthfully a large advantage, but the lack of situational awareness by the mechanical driver more than compensates for that weakness of humans.

Let me get this straight, when less than a single percentage point of people are dumb, all people should trust a provably limited device?

To put it another way, human taxi drivers drive into flooded roads less often than mechanical taxi drivers and it makes sense to trust the mechanical driver?

Or, are you saying that because a tiny percentage of humans are so dumb that they end up driving into floods, that humans as a whole shouldn't drive?

I do not understand your logic here.

Good luck with that. Soon enough, they will be the only way you can get legally get around. I am not joking or being cynical here.

You are an utter moron if you think the rank and file will get ANY of that money. That money is not to be diluted by handing out directly to commoners. It will be used against commoners.