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Regulated Lives

California loves to regulate.  They pay law makers gobs of money to sit on a chair and have at it.  Some of what they invent may be well intentioned but largely bureaucracy never made anyone happy.

California also likes to invent other things.  Like Auto Pilot and Smart Phones.  Again a lot of wonderful has come from this agrarian belt that now thrives more from the silicon in the sand than other elements.  But there are also duds - like the incessant flow of electrons betwixt people who subscribe to some cult or another called Social Media.

This week saw a couple of new laws take shape.  Better regulation to monitor self driving vehicles.  Automated toll collection for eligible transport.  And cancer warning on coffee.

Never mind the guns but warn those idiots hopping on their third frappuccino that they are likely next on the pink ribbon list.  By the way the auto pilot on the cars was invented strictly to address hopped up caffeine junkies who otherwise might get excited and crash their car.  Better to not let them get behind the wheel - well they can get behind it but not touch it.  Actually they are talking about taking the fifth wheel out completely.

A couple of recent crashes with self drive vehicles made it clear that the technology is far from perfect.  A human may have made the same mistakes the computer did but we want to make sure our machines are smarter than the humans that build them.

Toll collection also found some holes where people got charged for a ride they did not take.  Burned a hole in people's pockets that is.  Again poor computer tech.  All in all things might improve but you gotta have a human watch over it.

Of course all this is moot if Tiangong (the large out of control Chinese satellite) crashes and knocks out most of us today.  Waiting for the gong!

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