Not one defect on a cars I’ve owned was detected by safety inspection and a great deal of damage has been done by inept mechanics speeding through a process that is mainly used to drive stupid business.

I can think of no greater attraction to build into cars for “swerving,” that fun amusement of teen and pre-teen riders playing in head-on traffic to force cars to stop and make the financial lives of drivers flash before their eyes, possibly provoking the next viral video content.

Sounds like the Allied Mastercomputer from I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream has asked for some edits to the previous drone statement.

Asimov used them to create entertaining logic puzzles for stories, not to propose they were workable or achievable. Taking them more seriously than that raises flags about the researcher.

There is a series of videos from Computerphile on how very difficult that task is. Humans carry so many assumptions about what they think they are asking for which they are unaware they carry that it’s more a problem of properly programming the humans than making demands of AI implementers.

The concept for airbag inflators needs to be adjusted to allow for over-pressure of the gas generator. It’s clear that eventually they will malfunction, but they should be designed with a fail-safe pressure relief. I’m in favor of a scribe line so the inflator splits open and oriented so the split housing can be…

The key is that the test was simulated. Which meant the software was given millions to billions of test attempts to generate the behavior, and that behavior is fully expected. At some point it eventually would have randomly bombed everything in sight, including the ground station and the tower, and recorded that after…

This will happen ...

Those questions weren’t asked about US highways because it had already been proven in Germany, which the US system was intended to replicate.

Like the walk-in at your local restaurant hasn’t seen some action.

One factor that might help is that NZ citizens seem to be willing to help the common good. They had a mass shooting and almost immediately everyone agreed that there were too many guns and did something about it. Here in the “I’m a buckaroo and f’ you too” USA, this probably would not work.

Valet: It was like that when you dropped it off.

Panic. Reports are that some passengers hyperventilated.

Most open inwards and then fold outwards. The inward motion is to clear the stops that keep the door secure in the opening with pressurization.

No pedals, no-ped. It’s a scooter that isn’t legally a moped, which are displacement limited and generally cannot reach 30 mph on level ground.

The plastic body doesn’t make a car light weight. Underneath is just as much metal to carry the structural loads with the weight of the plastic on top of that.

Seems like cars could use a water-in-fuel sensor.

In the old days fuel delivery was to fill a glass container at the top of the pump so the customer could see the fuel and if there was dirt or water in it.

Just the fill-ports would be above the ground and they can be at the perimeter of the parking lot, but there are offsetting problems which are far worse than the rarity of this event.

Gasoline floats on water. But the good news is water removes ethanol from the gasoline but the bad news is that lowers octane rating but the good news is ethanol-free gasoline has a higher energy density.