The biggest problem with all these scenarios is that it assumes that the car would not be able to take any avoidance action whatsoever, be it swerving or stopping. So yes, if a bunch of CHUDs pop up out of a manhole right in front of you, you’re probably going to mow them down. But if the car detects something coming…

If the vehicles-as-a-service model becomes the standard there will not even be much car ownership or many parking lots and this will not happen.

“Imagine being so arrogant as to think you could pull something like this off and then fail so spectacularly.”

The point of this research is not radical life extension in that you’re hooked up to a machine all day - it’s really to make your body perpetually youthful.

The opposite actually, the idea is to preserve quality for as long as possible.

“Death is so final, whereas life is full of possibilities.” -Tyrion Lannister.

can i have your blood when you die? i won’t be ready yet.

Actually, those drills are designed to save people on the very receeding edge of a shockwave. If you are near the trailing edge, if you are protected from the shockwave by any adequate cover (column, thick wall, desk, etc), you’ll be pretty safe from radiation as you’ll be able to escape the area before fallout from…

I thought that they got rid of you.

100% agreed. This is part of the promise of fully autonomous cars. It surrenders to the vast masses who have no interest in driving. It lets them have their cake and eat it too. They can go where they want, when they want, without having to do anything.

I know this is Jalopnik so I will be taken out and shot for saying this, but this is why we need better public transportation and more walkable communities. So many people just don’t care at all about cars or driving and these are typically your inattentive drivers. They see a car as a chair in a box that gets you…

The big thing is going to be for the mentally impaired, be it senior citizens, or people like me that have extreme anxiety. Hell, I may not even physically be able to drive a car; My ankles are weak and very prone to making my legs go number trying to angle them on the gas/break peddle properly. That’s a pretty…

Gary Johnson seems like a principled and decent man—much better than almost any of the Republican candidates.

I’m voting for Hillary out of self preservation. I don’t like but, as a racially ambigious brown person, a Trump presidency increases the likelihood I will get a brick to the face by a random racist.

The next president will appoint 2-3 Supreme Court justices. They serve for life. It’s not a “short-term sacrifice” when Trump has already agreed to appoint justices that will meet the right wing’s requirements of hating abortion rights.

Why? So they can choose an aspiring fascist like Cruz?

Here’s my problem with it:

If it's real, legitimate impotence the male body has a way of preventing it on its own. Anything else and they must have allowed it or enjoyed it, so no need to provide medication.

I wish I had the author’s positive outlook on the Zika virus changing the minds and hearts of those who are anti-choice. Actually, they’ll double down — if Those Women had just used mosquito repellent correctly/had kept their legs shut/had trusted Jesus more, they wouldn’t be in this position!

"...Most science fictional and futurist visions of the future tend towards the negative..." Really? Maybe I'm reading the wrong stuff. While works by Brunner and Dick certainly are downers, I see a strong lineage of optimism running from Heinlein and Asimov through to Gibson and Baxter and Reynolds. Even if…