Err, but not for americans on an american trivia show.

How much power could be saved? Almost none. Certain things, like manual windows, probably use more power than they save just from their weight alone. Cruise control also will probably improve range, unless you’re extremely diligent over long distances at maintaining constant speed.

You should really normalize this based on miles driven. As of a year and a half ago, autopilot had driven approximately 130 million miles. Let’s compare statistics once you reach that level. :-p

I can tell what your mother tongue is, because you had some safe/sauf/except confusion. :)

That might knock $5k off a property value, but you’ll pay more than that in dues in no time!

An expert using calipers has an accuracy of +/- 3.5%. I can tell you my expenses and income to the dollar, with little effort. That is, it is much easier and more accurate to get the data I’m talking about versus the thing you call freakishly easy.

Yes, but BMI exists in the absence of an easy alternative metric, not everyone can go into density measuring pools or have an expert use calipers. But, expenses to earnings ratio is easy to figure out and easy to make predictions based on, and is much better than obscenely generic rules of thumb.

The roads are heavily subsidized by the taxpayer. People who drive gas/diesel cars are getting just a slightly less free ride compared to EV’s on the back of non-drivers, but you don’t seem particularly upset about that.

The average american drives well under the range of basically every EV each day. The bolt for example has about 6 times the range of an average day.

The current daily trading volume is like 150k BTC, so your 40k BTC would be a very very large percentage of that. I suspect you could not liquidate that very quickly without becoming a market force.

Sure, and everyone with auto insurance is paying that cost right now, as is. I bet that a company can get a better rate on their tested product than you or I can get to insure our own problems or human bugs! The manufacturer can then pass that cost onto the customer with the sell price of their autonomous car.

Sure, but I don’t think we’re “waiting for autonomy” instead of improving safety now. In actuality, we’re just continuing to not do the difficult things in the same way we always have with respect to training and infrastructure. I don’t attribute this apathy to the advent of autonomous cars, it’s just always been…

One of the safest countries for driving in the world, Sweden, has a per mile fatality rate that is about half of that of the US. If the US met that, that’d be great, but would that be the definition of success, vehicular fatality problem solved? And do you truly think that autonomous cars won’t ever be able to improve…

As this is an adjacent field, I’m interested in your opinion.

The only exception to this I use is if I see a stopped emergency vehicle or accident. In that case I’ll get over as soon as I can.

So right now you need to drive 60 miles to a gas station, but now you’ll be able to fill up right at home!

I was referring to kia/hyundai, I should have been more clear.

They’re actually 10 year / 100,000 miles powertrain warranties! Must be a scam.

Yes, there will be a problem, you’ll have to go around or wait, as you’re so high on law and order and respect for the law. Right?

As opposed to all of those cars with like 17 ways to unlock the doors and start it.