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2000kg passenger cars travelling at 60-100km/hr are another story altogether. My guess is that there would be a tiny fraction (<1%) of all road fatalities caused by purely mechanical failure. That leaves 99% (stats pulled from my ass) caused, or largely contributed to, by human error. For a large class of these errors a computer would never cause the problem or safely navigate around it.

Saying "I want to keep driving 'cos its fun!!" isn't really good enough in that context.

The fact is that we're very quickly edging towards fully computer controlled cars. You have to have a truly limited imagination to think we will never get there.

The argument about airplane maintenance also doesn't hold water. Result of a malfunctioning plane: plunge 30,000ft and hundreds dead. Result of a malfunctioning car: coast to a gentle stop. See any difference?

How about the upside. Every bike rider I've ever talked to bitches about stupid "cage drivers". Imagine if every 4 wheeler was autonomous.. no more bitching, you'd be able to zig-zag between them easily, and if you do happen to lose concentration for a moment you can rest assured that a computer will (probably) stop before it kills you.

the minute you make every thing super safe people will kill themselves out of boredom.

Really? You think people would kill themselves because they no longer had to manually do one of the most boring, repetitive, tedious everyday things they have to do? Personally I'd read a book.

That's not to say that you can't enjoy driving responsibly. But there's so much unnecessary danger and tedium involved that it seems a no-brainer to move to a computer controlled future.

The flying cars argument is silly. Yes it was a fanciful 1950s dream that never made it to reality... however autonomous flight is real.. a good portion of commercial air flight is done under autopilot (including landings).

We never even got close to flying car tech... but saying that truly self driving cars that require no dynamic input from humans at any time is something we'll get asymptotically closer to, but will never quite achieve is silly, we're already very close to this reality. I'd be very surprised if in 10 years we don't have a completely computer controlled car.

what is this host of pleasures? I get that some people enjoy driving. I loved it when I was a teenager, now I hate it. Most of my driving is done in traffic and I'd much rather read a book or take a nap insted of micromanaging my 20km/hr commute.

Not only would autonomous cars give me back my 1.5hrs/day that is dead time... but the roads would be incredibly more safe.

And for people who like to drive... how about a racetrack?

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All the best. I look forward to seeing what else you lot come up with :)

Chrome frame takes about 30-45 sec to DL & install. Doesn't require a browser restart and doesn't require admin rights. Its incredibly slick. and then you're free to work with HTML5 and CSS3 in ie6+

To your question though.. no I cant bill directly in USD. I am very new (and ignorant) to receiving online payments, so I'm really curious what the issues for Americans are. The on-line currency converters are accurate to (I would guess) +- 1hour currency fluctuations so would give a very accurate estimate (to within cents) of the cost of a transaction... Wouldn't this be good enough?

Otherwise if this is an issue then paypal should do the job... 2 mins to set up and gives an alternative option.

Would be good to hear your own personal experiences.

As an Australian consumer I'm used to paying in USD and simply seeing a slightly different amount show up on my transaction history (AUD being generally at parity with USD)

Is having multi-currency support important? Does it impact sales? Is using something like money.js to give a close estimate of actual cost good enough?

From stories I heard in the past, I was expecting a horrible experience (banks not being able to grok the concept of digital goods etc). Turns out that either the stories were a furphy or banks have gotten a lot better.

Here's the process I went through.

1. Application

2. Set up a single page website to give a brief overview of product

3. Include TOS and returns policy (adapted from wordpress.com)

4. Wait 7 days for approval

Thats it. One week to get a merchant account with no prior business history. The rates are fairly standard:

1.4%/trans, $33 monthly, $44 anual fee, $33 chargeback fee

I think off the top of my head those rates beat those provided by paypal, stripe, etc. although I'm happy to be corrected if anyone has up-to-date info about them

I'll also be paying $300/yr for gateway fees since I have no desire to handle CC details directly.

Lets really put the shoe on the other foot. How would you feel if someone came along, took all of your source code for movies.io and hosted it on movies2.io. Not only that, but they now had way more users than you (for whatever reason). How would that make you feel? Would you consider them freeloaders? Parasites even?

just fyi: your domain http://www.onbluedot.com/ is giving a folder listing atm. Probably not what you want.

A bit of feedback:

- Validation errors on the signup, such as pw too short are too small/hard to see. I submitted the form and then was puzzled because nothing happened. Only after closer inspection did I see the error.

- The site gives a mixed content SSL notice.

This is a nosy question so feel free to disregard: You mention that you're profitable at the moment. Does that mean 'Pay the hosting bills' profitable, or closer to 'Live off of this' profitable?

- No way of adding headings? * edit: sorry it's under styles.

- Clicking bold, italic etc should expand the selection to the word that the cursor is in.

- Setting formatting should restore the cursor to the editing area

- Clicking into a formatted area should toggle the buttons in the toolbar that apply

- image alignment a little clunky. Why not add a simple overlay for align centre|left|right on mouseover?

On the plus side image resizing is done well.

One thing that annoys me no end is that all editors I've ever used apply block level formatting (h1,2,3 etc) for an entire paragraph when only a sentence is selected. The most intuitive approach would be to break the sentence out of the paragraph and style only it. As a user I expect what I have highlighted to change not all of the surrounding text as well!

These things aren't easy to get right, especially cross browser. I recently put together an editor to exactly suit my needs (uses contenteditable instead of an iframe), but it's chrome, firefox and ie9+(? i think) only. Trying to get something usable across legacy browsers is ridiculously hard.

Just one point. The dark overlay that comes up when the mouse is over the preview is a bit distracting. Maybe you could make this more subtle?

What's the motivation for making this tool? Any ideas to monetize?

Also the design is slick.

great work!