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This seems like a simple check for an algorithm, diverting to a fueling site when the level gets low, and not getting on a section of road if there isn’t enough fuel to get to the next site. And also being able to immediately dispatch a refueling vehicle when it happens.

We’d like a reasonably clear point of discussion.

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It’s not just the roads. You have to update all the cities, too. Rail and subway trains don’t make 90 degree turns with pedestrians potentially blocking the way. And cars are not connected and hit each other. You don’t have trains where only one car stops to discharge passengers or unload cargo. Or have the cars go at different speeds. They don’t pass each other. One train car doesn’t stop short. Some of these issues are mitigated if all of the cars are automated, but how do you get to that point? Do you mandate that everybody get one? Is the government going to buy all of the conventional vehicles that would be worth far less under such a mandate? What of the people who can’t afford a new, rather expensive car?

I will reiterate that rail and subways have significant differences from roadways. It seems obvious to me. Do I need to explain these differences?

Science and engineering are pretty cerebral, too, and there are some well-known sexual predators throughout the various disciplines. And stories of coverups because universities didn’t want to deal with the publicity of the allegations.

Don’t ignore the possibility that women might prefer to not have to deal with sexual harassment, and that might be a contributing motivation for segregated divisions.

Citation? I’ve found sources that peg the number at ~30 million (2021), but they say cars. I see stories of a test program for buses in the UK, but it’s very small scale. (ETA- I see the number for the US is a thousand or two, so I wonder where are these millions of cars? I can’t find actual numbers for China, who allegedly have the most) 30 million vs 1.4 billion cars means we have a long way to go The goalposts keep moving. Buses and trains are not source-to-destination, as autos are, and I think that’s the source of the big problems. I’ve raised concerns about driverless cars. Responses citing trains and buses does not address the issues, and is a tacit admission that these problems are not currently close to being solved. And European cities aren’t the same as US cities. There are huge layout/logistical issues, which is also a reason why we don’t have good mass transit in much of the US.

So you need to have a roadway system with no pedestrians - not even after the passengers leave the car. A city with no inhabitants. Plus no construction, or downed trees, or any other random obstacle. The navigation has to rely on the centralized automation rather than visual cues. It can only work if all the cars are automated, and you have to drive everywhere.

Here’s a link I shared earlier in the other thread. It discusses possible biological and social influences https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_gender_incongruence

Transit systems yes - rail systems, for example - but we were specifically talking about self-driving cars. Roadways are very interconnected. And it’s not just the isolation of the system. The discrete nature of trains simplifies the problem, as opposed to the many cars and many destinations of road systems.

There is no change in the partner polarization. If the photons’ polarizations are entangled, you don’t know either photon’s polarization state, only the correlation. Measurement of one photon means both photon states are determined.

I mean in a medical journal. Like “LSD affects the action of the brain chemical serotonin” A near-death experience is not inherently an illegal act.

You can. The rule says “References to drug use are not permissible unless the references are scientific or otherwise useful as part of a discussion.” You can’t tell stories about drug use, or related illegal activities. You want to talk about how a drug interacts with the body that you found in a journal article? Sure, go for it.

What’s the scientific test for someone being attracted to another? For someone being an introvert or extrovert?

Gender identity refers to a person’s internal sense of being male, female or something else https://www.apa.org/topics/lgbtq/transgender-people-gender-identity-gender-expression I don’t see “chooses” in that definition. That’s something that you have added. Obviously the way you understand choice differs from mine. Why do you choose to be right- or left-handed?

Is this based on your comprehensive knowledge of studies? Is this another opinion? And “caused by the choice”? Who is claiming that this “choice” is causing anything? There are biological differences between cis men and transgender women, so there could very well be differences that affect athletic performance. Differences in brain structure https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-020-0666-3 Differences in estrogen receptors https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200205084203.htm Something biological? Yes. see above. Estrogen? See above. edit: see also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_gender_incongruence

It’s a mistake to frame this as a choice. Several times I’ve asked why someone has chosen to be right- or left-handed. Nobody has deigned to respond.

Roads are not a self-contained system.

That’s the wrong approach, though, if you investigate the distinctions between cis men and cis women. The investigation should be the distinctions between trans women and cis women. That’s what one should investigate.

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The statistics speak to that. As with John Cuthber’s comment earlier, the space shuttle didn’t have to avoid pedestrians and cyclists, or heed stop lights and signs, or contend with other shuttles in its flight path. Or traffic cones. I’m confident that an automated vehicle could do quite well if it was alone in an obstacle-free area, and needed to get from point A to B, even if there were some speed changes and path corrections that needed to be made. You need to look at what the self-driving algorithms are having trouble with. Making the car move at its desired speed and choosing the path aren’t near the top of the list.

But it’s offered as a solution. There has been a big push for “abstinence only” sex education in the US, and it’s a disaster. As CharonY said, effective sex education would have an impact.

I’m not sure how support systems are going to be overly effective in keeping people from having sex. They would seem to be geared toward helping with families, which might help, but only for people for whom the lack of support is the reason for an abortion. How prevalent is that? One social change would be getting men to be more receptive to the responsibility of birth control. Condom use can also be tied to reducing the chances of contracting an STD. Some Christian groups act like it is, but AFAICT it’s not supported by the Bible.

Access to birth control would be big. Not misrepresenting what birth control is (e.g. calling it an abortifacient when it’s not) would be a good social change. This seems pretty obvious, but is opposed by some so-called pro-life proponents. Which suggests the ones opposed to contraception have an agenda beyond abortion.