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I'd love to watch a truck put on its' own chains, or deal with any number of situations our truckers deal with on a regular basis. Truth is, self-driving vehicles will only be feasible for the last mile, backing, parking, or fair weather interstate cruising.

CanEV Might-E Truck https://canev.com/pages/might-e-truck

Peterbilt 579EV 0-Emission Truck https://www.peterbilt.com/trucks/electric/579EV

Mean Green Electric Mowers https://meangreenproducts.com/

Freightliner eM2 0-Emission Truck https://www.freightliner.com/trucks/em2/

Mobile EV Charging Station https://www.mcharging.com/

HaiSea Wamis Electric Tug Boat https://www.seaspan.com/press-release/haisea-marine-warmly-w...

Edison Motors Hybrid Electric Truck https://www.edisonmotors.ca/

I grew up trilingual, and have noticed that I understand mechanical concepts better in one language, industrial concepts in another… but have mostly defaulted to English nowadays. I find learning new concepts easier by playing translation games; Which language is the root for this word, and how does it mechanically relate to the concept?

Oftentimes I find myself understanding complex concepts before I can describe them, even internally. I am sure everyone has this, as I often read comments praising others' submissions for formulating their thoughts efficiently. So thoughts occur independent of language, but need it to be expressed and shared, even if through pictures and sounds.

The state has ruled time and again; It has no duty to protect you and your property.

Warren v. District of Columbia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia

Castle Rock v. Gonzales http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Rock_v._Gonzales

Davidson v. City of Westminster , 32 Cal.3d 197 http://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/davidson-v-city-westminst...

Hartzler v. City of San Jose (1975) , 46 Cal.App.3d 6 http://www.lawlink.com/research/caselevel3/51629

Linda Riss v. City of New York http://www2.newpaltz.edu/%7Ezuckerpr/cases/riss.htm

DeShaney v. Winnebago County http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeShaney_v._Winnebago_County

Susman v. City of Los Angeles269 Cal. App. 2d 803 http://law.justia.com/cases/california/calapp2d/269/803.html

South v. Maryland, 59 U.S. (How.) 396, 15 L.Ed.433 (1856) http://www.endtimesreport.com/NO_AFFIRMATIVE_DUTY.htm

…and many more! https://archive.is/MbIeH

What eternal wealth would a guy in a hut in the middle of a land-locked forest have, with no infrastructure, and no community? Why is he forced to provide anything beyond self-sustainability?

pay up regularly or let someone else who will contribute to society [raze your forest to sell wood chips].

Forcing mountain men off their land to work in the factories, sounds plenty dystopian to me. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race…

Humans do not fit the model of "rational self-interested agent

Any rational group would pool resources and have a single org do the research and share it with everyone. Oops we've reinvented a government.

The firse quote precludes the second.

another instance of how low property taxes and the absence of land value taxes massively benefits low-value businesses.

How are other businesses excluded from low property taxes? This is clearly unfair, and could be easier addressed by removing barriers instead of erecting new ones.

Milankovitch cycles describe the collective effects of changes in the Earth's movements on its climate over thousands of years. The term was coined and named after the Serbian geophysicist and astronomer Milutin Milanković. In the 1920s, he hypothesized that variations in eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession combined to result in cyclical variations in the intra-annual and latitudinal distribution of solar radiation at the Earth's surface, and that this orbital forcing strongly influenced the Earth's climatic patterns.[1]

1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles