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  TRANSCRIPT:  This is a thought experiment. Let's say at some point in the not so distant future, you're barreling down the highway in your self-driving car, and you find yourself boxed in on all sides by other cars. Suddenly, a large, heavy object falls off the truck in front of you. Your car can't stop in time to avoid the collision, so it needs to make a decision: go straight and hit the object, swerve left into an SUV, or swerve right into a motorcycle.  Should it prioritize your safety by hitting the motorcycle, minimize danger to others by not swerving, even if it means hitting the large object and sacrificing your life, or take the middle ground by hitting the SUV, which has a high passenger safety rating? So what should the self-driving car do? If we were driving that boxed in car in manual mode, whichever way we'd react would be understood as just that, a reaction, not a deliberate decision. It would be an instinctual panicked move with no forethought or mali...

  Hong Kong has the most expensive housing market in the world. Rent is so high many can only afford to live in subdivided apartments known as “coffin homes.” But the problem isn’t land scarcity. For years, Hong Kong has been notorious for its astronomical real-estate prices. In 2020, it was named the world's priciest housing market for the 10th year in a row. Hong Kong's high cost of living and housing inequality are well documented. While the wealthy drop hundreds of millions on mansions and build "Versailles-like" villas, many residents can only afford to live in tiny "coffin homes."