Anecdotally I'm used to seeing people use the opposite side's turn lanes and main road even where passing is not allowed as long as they 'feel' they can make it.

Considering some of the crap I've seen people do that's a very low bar to clear.

Remember; the automatic car doesn't have to be better than the BEST person. It has to be better than the AVERAGE person.

What incentive would the manufacturers have to do research to reduce energy consumption of their devices without an independent authority verifying that their devices do in fact consume less energy? It's cheaper to just make something that runs, period.

Technologies come and go, but good ol'-fashioned pirate ships weather any storm.

Biden is not the US president anymore though. And the original comment was about Canada, where Biden was NEVER the president.

Drawing ... DRIVING, dammit.

Do you consider the laws about not texting while drawing to be limiting your free speech too?

They're still free to say whatever they want on Instagram - just not while they're supposed to be in class. This is the same as it's ALWAYS been. If you skipped school to hang out with your buddies in the 80s you faced consequences for not going to school when you were supposed to.

Because we have utterly failed to do that in the past 40-50 years of computers. I have no confidence that proper safeguards will be put in place now.

Star Trek is fiction. At the very MOST I would allow speech-to-action on a one by one case, ie. "Search for yellow shoes, show page 2, show page 3, choose fifth option, no, go back, choose sixth option, buy, fill in my details, submit." Any more automation than that is just BEGGING to have your card maxed out due to a misunderstanding or hallucination.

Even today such risks exist with badly made systems. Just the other day I went to my online banking portal to pay a bill for 56.40 euros. After entering the decimal sign my finger slipped and I hit the 0 key. No big deal, muscle memory press backspace, fill in the 40.

Do you know what happened when I deleted that stray 0? The decimal sign got deleted as well! Which meant that all of a sudden I was trying to pay 5640 euros. Yes, I tested it a couple of times - removing all decimal digits made the dot vanish. Horrid design.

These things happen now. Letting the computers try to think more for us won't make them happen any less.

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It's an easy thing to test, too. It's not like the movies from 10, 30, or 50 years ago can not be watched on the same system to compare audio levels.

Even so it should point out that it's an idiom it's never heard of before.

You must have cheered for that scene in Animal Farm when the work horse was dragged off to the glue factory after wrecking his back.

I thought the point of civilization was to improve quality of life for the members of civilization, not to just do the same old thing over and over because that's how it's always been done. Why do you hate progress?