Are you kidding me? I’ll do the time travel. And I’ll just need to time travel once, in a car built in December 2015. January 9, 2016 was the biggest Powerball jackpot with no winner: $900 million.

NOPE.

Dividing 37 5/8 by 2 is difficult? I’ll grant you that finding the midpoint of a diagonal is clever, but

Sooner or later they’ll probably figure out to integrate self-cleaning.

This is news to me. I’m aware that the U.S. paid for Zarya because Lockheed’s Bus-1 was literally twice as expensive, but you’re saying the U.S. paid for and built all of the following (and I leave out the nodes and airlocks, half of which are Russian)?

From personal experience, busses are the first vehicles that need to be made autonomous. Many bus drivers do not seem to fully appreciate that they’re operating a 15-ton vehicle, not a sports coupe.

Well, if nobody else is going to say it...

Not to those purged landlords’ bank accounts, apparently.

Not particularly relevant to the post, but:

Which does what? Gives you an error code?

You mean like how more and more cars no longer have mechanical handbrakes, instead being equipped with small buttons or levers that activate the parking brake? As more cars move to drive-by-wire (even before automation gets thrown into the mix) to save weight and remove mechanical points of failure, you lose direct…

As cars move to drive-by-wire (in the name of reliability and weight-savings), those backups wouldn’t be there anyway. We can see this with the e-brake/parking brake: many cars these days have a little button or lever to press or pull. Some don’t even let you activate the brake while the car is in motion.

Car manufacturers have slowly been doing away with handbrakes. Those tiny buttons and levers certainly don’t have any mechanical linkages.

More and more cars don’t have mechanical handbrakes; they have these stupid, tiny levers or buttons to engage the parking brake.

Going to go out on a limb here and say that you don’t live in the U.S.

Not sure I’d want to open the door when the car is at speed, automated or not.

Then I imagine they’d do what people do now when the driver makes undesirable choices.

Most cars sold these days don’t have a directly-operable clutch. The mechanical emergency brake is on its way out as well. And more and more cars turn off power steering when the vehicle is turned off. Nor am I convinced that you would have better reaction times than a computer.

Depending on the design of the car, either there wouldn’t be hydraulic brakes or continuous self-testing subsystems would have detected the lack of braking ability.

If the steering, brakes, or throttle were to malfunction today, what would you do and how would you do it better and/or faster than a computer? Genuinely curious.