What about bystander laser strikes? Pfft, there shouldn't be any of those on the Autobahn. How do you prevent those lasers from being used outside of the Autobahn? Interlocked permission signals from road sensors obviously.

ZERO. PROBLEMS.

The several presentations on this topic were, at core, a desperate plea from German automakers via funded research to be allowed to use *MUCH* more powerful LiDAR pucks than they currently are. It very much is a "You can do that, but have you considered any consequences of your choices?" kind of thing.

They had not.

Perhaps you have given almost two seconds of thought to this concept and come up with some potential problems this might run into. They didn't seem to have been troubled by such thoughts.

This is why I sometimes think the engineers I meet that share their brilliant ideas for projects are actually aliens who have never encountered humans before.

@funranium there's gotta be a good name for that worldview which is something like:

1. All humans are incorruptible, rational actors (like Data from Star Trek)
2. The world began yesterday, a tabula rasa with no politics, history, inequity.
3. All tech systems are infallible and work 100% as designed all the time.

@vikasgorur "Aggressively Naïve"

Because they don't just hold this worldview, they vehemently deny attempts to tell them that they're wrong and become very mad when the world refuses to conform to their beliefs.