Notices by Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (_thegeoff@mastodon.social)

@arstechnica In the UK that's either "careless driving" or "dangerous driving", depending on how a court views it. Either is enough to put your licence at risk. And using full self-drive is automatically "driving without due care and consideration" if you rely on it to the extent that you're not in full control at all times.
If it works to a far higher standard than a well above average driver in all possible circumstances, allow it. Otherwise get it off the damn public roads.

@MichaelPhillips @whvholst @cstross @simonbp @foone @green_bens @Hcobb @nyrath There's always somebody who thinks a nuke is the solution.
"We need to degrade Iraq's comms"
"Nuke the sky!"

"How do we respond to Sputnik?"
"Nuke the Moon!"

"We need a big hole in the ground to store oil."
"Nuke Yorkshire!"

@foone @whvholst @cstross @green_bens @MichaelPhillips @Hcobb @nyrath I can't find a particularly reliable source, but there were stories around Gulf War 1 that a US General was pushing for Bush Snr to authorise a very high altitude nuke to disable (non-NATO shielding level?) communications without leading to huge amounts of fallout.