The challenge: demand satisfaction. If they apologize, no need for further action.

Case in point.

I went to Texas for the eclipse. Made a big family vacation out of it...landed in Houston, rented a Mustang Mach-E, stayed there for a few days, drove to Austin for a few days, drove to Dallas for a few days (and for the eclipse, was at the Perot), then back to Houston for a few more days.

I say this because this was a lot of highway driving. More than I would usually do. And I absolutely loved one-pedal driving in the city, and the adaptive cruise control and lane keeping on the highway. I trusted it much, much more than in our 2019 Odyssey.

Anything more than that, I don't think the tech is really ready for. I wish it were. I know theoretically a computer could be a much, much better driver than humans...but it takes a non-trivial amount of intelligence to drive. We take it for granted, because a lot of it is practically instinctual to us, and almost entirely subconscious. It's an incredible amount of identification and complex decision making that goes into it if you actually break down the number of inputs you observe and variables you "know" the values of (such as stopping distance for various surface and weather conditions).

I imagine power is the tricky part. Badge readers and the like that use RFID also use wireless electricity to "power" the card. The range of that is limited without massive coils. You may be able to harness power from heat in asphalt (from traffic or sunlight beating on it), but I'd think that'd also be very limiting.

Better would be low power RF beacons set up at every transformer or every N utility poles. Something like BLE, maybe a little bit beefier. Power is readily available. They don't require data. All they need to do is broadcast their exact location and time (which they can get from GPS receivers).

I can't ignore the old TV.

I'm honestly impressed there are still functional, floor-model rear-projection TVs.

It's absurd how much power the executive has. The president shouldn't matter that much. They are responsible for implementing laws that are written and passed by congress. That's pretty much it. Maybe appoint a SCOTUS judge or two. And a bunch of lower court judges. Pending senate approval, of course.

Instead they are now nearly unilaterally in charge of the strongest military and largest economy the world has ever seen. Or at least they will, if Project 2025 or Agenda 47 is to be followed.

To be fair, a lot of people believe that choosing neither somehow would absolve them of any guilt should fascism win.

What kind of troll named the towns in Newfoundland?

There's also a "Dildo" and a "Placentia" on the larger island.

...they aren't extinct, are they?

Well, to start, you need an old psychologist, and a young psychologist.

And probably several psychology grad students.

And then you can have a scientific study.

^Al(l|abama) cops are bastards$

Trapped.