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Can't speak to pesticides, but lead would have been detected in blood tests

This will be interesting to watch. If I bought an autonomous car and the autonomous mode was disabled for a few days or even weeks while a bug was fixed I can always fall back to driving it myself. If that's not possible (maybe because the car doesn't support it or I didn't have a licence or human drivers had been banned) and suddenly it's a whole different situation. Of course owning a car might become less common in itself, if you're just taking them like an Uber you can always switch to a different company.

These cars can and do slow down or even stop and wait for human assistance in response to unexpected situations. I'm actually quite surprised this didn't trigger here, although we don't really know much about the specifics of the situation.

But autonomous vehicles tend to perform best on freeways, that's where they are most likely to be allowed

I'm a bit disappointed in myself that it didn't occur to me to submit my CV in A3.

I was surprised that the underlying format doesn't implement compression (though I assume objects can be compressed). Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised since I often get text only PDFs with unreasonably large sizes.

It will do that if it doesn't already know what direction you're travelling, which is usually because you've just activated navigation and you aren't moving yet. Unless I happen to know which direction north is or which way to towards my destination I'll just pick a random direction and it will adjust the route if I guessed wrong.

I bought my iPhone XS at launch and it just reached 80%, although on the latest version of iOS 80% doesn't get you as far as it once did. I'm not a super heavy smartphone user though.

Five years is much too short, although it's nice to see that it's measured from the date of sale stop rather than start.

I'll be interested to know if it applies to things like AirPods, those would be more challenging to redesign with replaceable batteries (though obviously not impossible).

What about AirPods and the like? I'm all for it with phones and everything else, but some devices are small enough that non-replaceable batteries might well be justified.

Shouldn't that be "in vivo diagnostic medical devices"?

What's stopping you learning about philosophy now? Do you not have time, not know where to start, or just don't have the motivation any more?

I definitely agree, but I do think for a lot of subjects schools can provide benefits that are hard or impossible to find on your own, such as access to equipment and facilities, dialogue with peers and teachers, group activities, objective measurements of your progress etc.

Edit: the other commenter's example is a good one - you can certainly study medicine by yourself, but without access to labs, cadavers, and clinical training you'd have a tough time.

This is all undoubtably true, but are any of these worth four years and a ton of debt? Perhaps for some individuals, but across the board?