Chief of Police Sylvia Moir told the San Francisco Chronicle on Monday that video footage taken from cameras equipped to the autonomous Volvo SUV potentially shift the blame to the victim herself, 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg, rather than the vehicle.
“It’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode [autonomous or human-driven] based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway,” Moir told the paper, adding that the incident occurred roughly 100 yards from a crosswalk. “It is dangerous to cross roadways in the evening hour when well-illuminated managed crosswalks are available,” she said.


I know one thing, in 10 years all car's will be self driven. When this is the case you can live a bit farther from the center because you can sleep or read inside your car while commuting.

One side of the debate suggests that development should focus on 'dividing the cake more fairly,' while the other says development should be focused on 'baking a bigger cake'

In Portugal we are specialist in dividing .

I took this excerpt below in Italic from the report of Quest Partners a very good Quant fund from NYC that i follow since 2004. 

Equities: The S&P 500:

·        Had a 'perfect year' - the first time in its history that it was up every single month of the year.

·        Had the longest ever stretch without a 3% correction (279 business days and counting).

·        Had the longest ever stretch without a 5% correction (373 business days and counting).

Equity Volatility:

·        The VIX index fell to its lowest level in history at 9.1%.

·        Realized volatility (1-year monthly) on the S&P 500 fell to its lowest level in history at 3.9%.

·        18 of the 20 lowest ever readings of the VIX index were registered in 2017.

·        The XIV 'Short VIX' ETF returned 187.6% for the year, its best return ever.

·        The Sharpe ratio of short VIX and short EURVIX exceeded 5.0 and 10.0 respectively on a rolling 12-month, monthly compounding basis.

Fixed Income: The Merrill Lynch ‘MOVE’ Interest Rate Volatility Index fell to its lowest level in history.

Credit:

·        The European High Yield credit spreads fell to their lowest levels in history (below 2%!!).

·        The US Investment Grade credit spreads fell to the lowest level since 2007.

Foreign Exchange: Implied and Realized volatilities in foreign exchange fell close to their lowest levels reached in 2014 and 2007.

Commodities:

·        Implied and realized volatility on Gold fell to its lowest level in history.

·        Implied and Realized volatility on Crude Oil fell close to their lowest levels reached in 2014.

Crypto-currencies, Art, Watches etc.: As traditional asset classes were not perceived to deliver enough risk, investor attention turned to alternative investment vehicles:

·        The size of the crypto-currency market ballooned to over $600 billion, an increase of over 10x during the year.

·        Bitcoin returned 1,403.2%; Ethereum returned 8,761.6%; and Litecoin returned 5492.3%. Some other crypto-currencies did even better.

·        Not to be left behind, hedge funds rushed into this new, fun asset class. More than 120 "cryptofunds" launched during the year for a total of at least 175 such funds managing over $3 billion, according to financial research firm, Autonomous Next.

·        Leonardo Da Vinci's "Salvatore Mundi" painting sold for $450 million, the highest ever price for a painting. The same painting sold for $10,000 in 2005.

·        Paul Neuman's 1968 Rolex Daytona sold for $17.75 million the highest ever price for a watch. The watch originally cost $200.

This is an extraordinary time in global financial markets. Nearly a decade of liquidity injections by Central Banks totaling over $11 trillion has created a surreal, risk-less environment where everything only goes up and every dip is an opportunity to buy more. Confidence in this regime continuing has never been greater. 

And it really matters. Falling food prices were cited as the core reason why China's weekend CPI release came in below expectations. On the other side of the world, Brazil's latest CPI print came in below all economists' forecasts. This year has seen the measure drop below the target range for the first time since 1999 after the 7th-straight decline for food prices.