Yes the laws are fictional but have rationality in this fictitious premise that the car would be unable to destroy itself or any of the human beings.

The idea that a driverless car would kill its passengers is also a purely fictitious philosphical ideation, like Science Fiction, that would mean that the car has self awareness to decide whether to kill the pedestrians or the passengers.

Either way neither event could possibly exist because it would be essential that driverless cars would be programmed to cease to function in the case of a failure or impending adverse event.

Ignore them and they lose the power of a response

Avoid them and they have no one to preach to

Like news stories eventually they fade away until someone new comes along.

Jolie , you obviously have not read the laws of robotics otherwise you would realise this is an irrelevant debate.

If you read Asimov's three Laws of Robotics then you will find that this situation cannot exist.

Agree and in the world of inertia / denial / reality on climate change, our political leaders have to be careful we don't get too close to the edge of the cliff before we pull back and fix it or living on Mars may become a lot closer.

We already are.

We are constantly changing minutely all the time and we can measure this over time by looking at the same people over several generations.

Medical science is constantly improving and gene shearing and genetic engineering have been around for quite a while now. Eventually we will be able to have a simple blood test at birth and potential future medical conditions will be able to removed. When we can use RNA molecules to shear cancer causing genetic material that will be a big step.

Its all only just around the corner.

It is an eternal hope that as each era passes we learn from previous mistakes and try to make our world a better place.

As each era faces unknown territory we sometimes get it right and then......sometimes we don't

C'est la vie.

How can keeping people alive as long as possible possibly help the gene pool when most of us will be far to old, bed ridden and feeble to procreate

Darwin suggested that it will not be the most intelligent or knowledgeable that will survive, but the most adaptable.

So far we have always managed to stop ourselves falling off the cliff and pulling back from the brink, so it appears we manage crises quite well and it is "normality", whatever that is, we seem to have difficulty with.

So in the meantime as long as we keep on keeping on we'll be around for a lot longer following the boom and bust trajectory until we work something else out that works a bit better.

Nothing beats the 78 original by the Police everything else is just a cover

This is one of the most interesting components of the complexity of being human. Whilst you have often made very interesting comments you often read into my comments implications that are simply not there and you appear to argue for arguments sake so in future I will accept your comments in good faith and simply move on.

This is one of those occasions.