I believe self-driving cars will eventually take over. However, this accident does highlight one fallacy, namely the idea that a human driver can be expected to supervise a near-perfect self-driving car.

Just think about it: If your car has been driving perfectly for a whole year, would you find it easy to keep your eyes glued to road and your hands to the steering wheel, just in case the car’s computer has a nervous breakdown? Wouldn’t you start playing with your smartphone, eat a sandwich or even doze off for ten minutes?

What this accident shows is that Google’s model (where the car is fully autonomous and the passengers don’t even have access to a steering wheel) is correct, and Tesla’s is doomed. If a car is driving on its own, nobody should pretend that a human is ultimately in charge.

But that doesn't deal with getting you up earlier during summer than during winter.
I suggest defining 6am to be the time when the Sun rises. Yes, that means the day length wouldn't be constant, but I'm sure that wouldn't be a real issue these days.

This all made me think of a thing, I've always wondered about: The U.S. president is often being described as "The Leader of the Free World". I don't mean to be offensive or anything, but I've always wondered why.

Either it means that the United States is the only part of the world that's free (in which case I know more than a few European countries that would probably frown quite a bit), or it means that the U.S. president is so powerful that (s)he also governs over all other (free) countries (in which case I know more than a few European countries that would probably frown quite a bit - and then ask their military defense if they've been invaded or something).

I suspect I've got it all wrong, but what's the right interpretation?

(I should probably mention that I'm not American myself, I'm Danish - Denmark being the oldest democracy on Earth AFAIK)

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