Hmm. Maybe google "Hoover Institution".

I did: it's a notionally independent unit of Stanford that has an endowment of $0.7B, while Stanford as a whole has $37.8B. Can this tail really wag the entire dog?

Most travel modes have a downside. For example, car and suv drivers routinely speed through pedestrian crossings and kill large numbers of pedestrians.

Scooters may be annoying, but at least they aren't deadly.

Just because you've banned scooters doesn't mean the morons operating them went away, or stopped traveling.

And I'd much rather deal with a moron on a scooter than a moron in a car. I'd daresay that statistics on both deaths and injuries caused by alternative modes of transportation are with me on this.

I mean, I get it. Scooters are a little scary and annoying and take up space. People don't like them.

All these same criticisms apply for cars, but dialed up to 11.

Damn, I wish I could upvote twice.

It can discuss the nature of intelligence, for example.

So, trying to solve problems about the nature of intelligence?

Health insurance. Which manufacturing companies in other countries don't have to deal with.

Solar PV, battery technologies, and smart phone transaction systems are areas where China is playing a leading role. They are competitive in EVs and Automated Vehicles. I'm sure there are others. The US isn't even in the game any more for many consumer products.

My experience is that the rich kids mostly bring food, because the cafeteria food is terrible.

That's a big problem in most of the US, especially the Coasts. Not so much in Texas.

Nope. My kid got taught about the evil Crusaders attacking the innocent Muslims.

Which isn’t incorrect for the crusades.

But like I said above, western education only teaches about places westerners have been or touched. There is zero history taught about China, India, Southeast Asia, Africa or literally any other place besides Europe or the United States unless it relates to an interaction with westerners.

It would meet a need in the US if restricted to low-speed roads, eg for older drivers. Maybe young drivers and low-income people too. At low speed you just don't need a lot of the fancy stuff.

What are these low speed roads you're talking about? I'm not aware of any laws that allow a car to not have airbags on public roads based on speed.

The closest thing I can think of is e.g. communities that have dedicated paved roads (which don't allow normal cars) for golf carts to putt around.

You seem to be unaware that low-speed vehicles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-speed_vehicle) exist as a legal category.

Vehicles for that already exist in the US, like the Polaris GEM line: https://gem.polaris.com/en-us/street-legal-carts/

You just don't see them because nobody in the US is willing to restrict the usage of normal cars, even where it's obviously needed.