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Tuesday linkage: Driverless cars, APEC, drones, intervention and more

by Sam Roggeveen - 4 September 2012 4:12PM

3 Quarks Daily is hosting an online symposium on humanitarian intervention, with contributions from David Petrasek, Kenneth Roth and Gareth Evans.
More from the ABC's Mark Corcoran on drones, with news that Australia is reviving its plans to buy a fleet of Global Hawks.
More from Corcoran tonight on ABC TV's Foreign correspondent, as he looks at the booming US drone industry and its implications for privacy.
Women may not be making much of an impression in Pacific islands politics, but their parliamentary representation just tripled in Mongolia.
With APEC leaders due to meet in Vladivostok, Peter Drysdale notes that Russia has quietly tried to transform the organisation.
An economist notes a mass shooting in India and asks: 'why do some stories "make it" and become key news stories while other similar stories get no coverage?'
Loved this Economist piece on driverless cars, which could revolutionise our roads and cities:

Clearly, a shift towards driverless cars would completely transform the experience of road travel. But there would be further knock-on effects beyond the car itself. Self-driving vehicles would keep the growing numbers of elderly people in ageing societies mobile for longer, for example...The nature of car ownership could be transformed. Why own a car outright if you can rent or share more cheaply, summoning a nearby vehicle with your smartphone?

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