"recruited"

They basically hired away Carnegie Mellon's entire SDC research team.

Even without a safety "driver" you can have an employee monitoring with a finger on the kill switch.

LiDAR becomes a liability in inclement weather. If you can't drive without LiDAR, then you can't drive in rain, snow,or fog.

The fallacy you are absokutely running with here is "false equivalence." Yes the Democrat party is slimy self-serving punters. But they're not nearly as good at it as the R's. Even acceptingthere isn't a difference in kind (I happen to think there is) but surely you would admit there is a difference in degree.

the wealthy will likely want the creature comforts a personal vehicle affords.

onions.

I could only draw on my experience of Challenger for reference.

Such contrast.

KSP FTW!!!

ProTip: at ARCO gas stations, the top right button mutes the ad.

I go to ARCO pretty much daily and it rarely has the volume on when the pump starts. They also seem to be more about 'news' than advertising though I hardly ever pay attention to the thing since I can't hear it. I do get 'the word of the day' a lot (that I promptly forget) which I guess is educating the motoring public.

So slavery? cool? You're cool with slavery? Just want to be sure we're using the same definition of liberty here.

Could you please not use HN for ideological battle? That's destructive of what the site is for, so we eventually have to moderate accounts that do it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html