Sure, but fighting the impulse to solve problems at the Federal level that could/should be solved at the State level doesn’t preclude individual states from building multi-state solutions together.
If compliance requires that every user provide some form of ID, this policy will be a catastrophe for privacy and a major downgrade in terms of usability. Much more annoying than the pop-ups asking me to acknowledge cookies.
Maybe although I don't know how they would identify the "safe" drivers among the folks that are just mindful during the evaluation period. Perhaps they weed people out who seem to drive routes their system doesn't handle well. Still, it seems like the rollout plan would be a good way to collect a training set that is biased toward safer driving habits.
Also, this sort of short evaluation seems like it wouldn't mitigate that much PR risk. It may even increase bad press if things go poorly and people point to it as an indication that they knew it wasn't ready.
Not really, but familiarity with accounting terms and some basic investment concepts helps. The course is designed for NYU MBA students and many of them have already taken corporate finance which gives them a head start. Damodaran puts all of the course info online (notes, lectures, emails to students, etc), though, which allows you to go at your own pace. The emails sometimes contain pointers to helpful supplemental materials.
If you check out the email archives [1], you'll see that Damodaran wrote this in the first message: "1. Preclass work: I know that some of you are worried about the class but relax! If you can add, subtract, divide and multiply, you are pretty much home free… In are you have forgotten your accounting, I have added my version (which would probably not be approved of by your accounting professor) of an accounting class to my website:
http://people.stern.nyu.edu/adamodar/New_Home_Page/webcastac...
If you want to get a jump on the class, you can go to the class web page:
http://people.stern.nyu.edu/adamodar/New_Home_Page/equity.ht... "