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Surely with no licence they aren't a motorist?

Hmm, now which sector of the community is it that likes old transit vans, has a reputation for not taxing or insuring them and is seemingly untouchable by the long arm of the law?

Antique dealers? Pole dancers? The Spanish?

Masons?

Spies.

Bands?

sex offenders?

Silence of the Lambs killers?

Flashers?

Origami experts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K0Esd1-ZEE

PM on R4 reported that Porton Down refused to state the nerve agent was manufactured by the Russians and only reluctantly agreed to "of a type developed by Russia".

Presumably the source for that was Craig Murray.

It'll be interesting to see what the OPCW have to say, especially if they are led by a Chinese delegate.

Hmm, now which sector of the community is it that likes old transit
vans, has a reputation for not taxing or insuring them and is
seemingly untouchable by the long arm of the law?

Crime-fighting/gardening duo Rosemary and Thyme:

Busybody ratbags.

Uber kills a cyclist with their self driving tech experiment in combo with crap bike lane

https://mobile.twitter.com/bicyclebot/status/975805913184555010

2 ton toy cars built by nihilistic dickheads running down cyclists on public streets in the name of technological progress. What a time to be alive.

Are these stupid things road legal in the states that they operate in?

Worth a moment of your time

https://www.change.org/p/river-lea-oil-disaster-we-demand-effective-environmental-protection-for-our-waterways

https://youtu.be/e0T9eB4Uq04

Compared to the 3,500 deaths a day that drivers cause the computers seem to be doing an ok job.

The car was manned and therefore not fully autonomous and fully legal in the state it was operating in.

Calling it stupid is quite odd. Lessons from this incident, tragic as it may be, can be learned and shared out to all other AVs in an effort to prevent reoccurence. In comparison, human drivers repeat the same mistakes on a daily basis.

The latest leaks on Facebook/Cambridge Analytica and cyberwarfare in general are making my head spin. 2018 is wild.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump

Is this the first person to be killed by a autonomous robot in public?

Difficult question.
The vast majority of deaths are either workplace or surgery related and therefore not in public.

However, last year a test pilot for a Tesla AV was killed when his vehicle drove under a truck. Workplace on public roads.

Exclusive: Tempe police chief says early probe shows no fault by Uber

If it isn't the car/drivers fault then it must be bollocks infrastructure and the highway authority will be hauled in?

"Traveling at 38 mph in a 35 mph zone" - how is that okay?

"Tempe police said it appears that she may have been homeless" - the victim is not like you and me. Nothing to see here. Move along please.

What a time to be alive!

Assuming there is some form of logging, which you'd expect with a test vehicle, it should be relatively easy to see what happened. Unless of course the issue was with the sensors failing, in which case you're back on the "He came out of nowhere guv" defence but with a bigger issue in that something else is broken.

There will be a massive amount of telemetry data.

If it isn't the car/drivers fault then it must be bollocks infrastructure and the highway authority will be hauled in?

They'll obviously just blame the victim.

From viewing the videos, “it’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode (autonomous or human-driven) based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway,” Moir said. The police have not released the videos.

Pushing a bicycle laden with plastic shopping bags [...] she may have been homeless

Very sad to see that the victim seems to have been in a vulnerable social position. This mainly means that it'll be very easy to pin all the blame on her.