Depreciation and rapidly improving technology, plus who knows WTF is going to happen with CCS vs NACS.  

Why would you want the street-side sliding door to unlock before the curb-side door? Especially around kids?

I mean, I could see this being helpful to a parent trying to wrangle kids and a shopping cart through a parking lot

whodathunkit that the language of a small island nation contains lots of sailor slang?!

Eh, it doesn't have to be.  Take a team who is doing the bear minimum to meet their insurance company's requirements, who just installs the hardware and doesn't bother to hide it.  

Sorry, but being into aftermarket mods that are “not functional and hyped” describes many, many car cultures

Even the Apollo Program was a who's who of US defense contractors (and Wonderbra) 

Remember that ParkMobile will always list the lot or meter number on their signs, so you don’t need to scan a QR code for them.

Or just get the damn permits

“for rescue efforts, which were delayed by bad weather leaving the Amidala and its two-person crew floating aimlessly for hours.”

I did once see a gold-wrapped Lamborghini quad-parked.

Yes, you can. Any time a decision is programmed into a computer, it contains the values and priorities of the programmer(s).

As in the listed example, any time when the software decides whether to prioritize the safety of things outside the car versus things inside the car, that criteria in the software has been set…

I would argue something different: computers always perform their operations exactly as they are programed to.

Certainly the car wouldn't be thinking in terms of morals, but the programming would literally be quantifying morals when they program in math and logic

Nah, sorry. Genesis is the worst. By an order of magnitude.

Nah, Flying Ginsu's are safer

Apparently, fuel can be over half of an airline’s monthly operating costs, but it averages to ~32%.  US airlines alone spent almost $5 billion on fuel in September 2023. 

Willie Nelson, but meth instead of weed

India was just way too short