Not quite, there will be less fuel, but not less trees. The bushland of Australia has had regular fires baked into it's ecosystem, so the plant species all have coping mechanisms to deal with fire. A good example is are the Banksia varieties that rely on a bushfire to germinate.
These are typically areas where eucalypts have died off after centuries, allowing other species to fill the gap. Now that the fires have come through, the eucalypts will come back to fill the gaps and will quickly out-compete any other plants with superior height and canopy. They will get their next chance, a few centuries hence.
This isn’t true of the areas of greatest concern, where Gondwanan rainforest is burning. Eucalyptus is the newcomer, and it is fire-adapted and hot weather adapted, it out-competes the ancient forests where there are fires, and the nothofagus does not grow back.
This process happens too in Tasmania where most of that beautiful nothofagus grows. But you are right, these populations could be wiped out completely if fires increase and there's no chance for recovery - or the entire population is burnt. I wasn't suggesting that everything is okay, because it clearly isn't.
In addition to that, some fires are burning so hot and so regularly that the trees and seeds completely die. They haven't got the breathing time to recover.
Ideally some 'low light camera' should warn you that in darkness far ahead there's 'something' unusual on the road and you will have time to react. Recently there was accident where truck with palm oil overturned on highway and first cars crashed into the truck because they were travelling too fast and only with low beam lights : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igX765Vw1fY
Adding thermal imaging to the sensor suite would probably help with a lot of edge cases, but the hardware is still very expensive. It has come down some in the last 5-10 years but there is a long way to go.
They recognize much more objects on the road but major problem is to do not cause a lot of false alarms. e.g. You don't really want to drive car which decided that plastic bag on the highway is reason for emergency braking, on the other hand is that really plastic bag or some drunk person who is sleeping on the road...
I remember when Volvo introduced IntelliSafe technology few years ago that car was totally "paranoid" and it was beeping all the time -> most of drivers deactivated that system.
It didn't recognize a plastic bag as a human, it recognized a plastic bag as an unknown object. A solid object the size of a plastic bag could cause a major accident.
Audi A4 has single monochrome camera (+well tuned image recognition HW/SW) and Eyesight system from Subaru has two cameras and it's already used for ~5 years.
it's impressive. Major improvement would be if all travelers in chinese trains would use headphones if they want to listen music or play games. Personally I love silence in Japanese trains - everybody is polite and silent.
All high-speed trains in China are entirely non-smoking. Once or twice I've seen someone light up near the doors, away from the seats, and it's been dealt with fairly harshly by the train staff.
According to this [1] non-immune adults in the UK can get vaccinated, if born between 1970 and 1979, and hence got the single measles vaccine, or between 1980 and 1990 and hence missed the mumps vaccine.
However what about those of us born before 1970 (measles vaccine licensed in UK in '68), and so presumably never vaccinated against any of the three?
That would leave people of 50 and older, and viewed as having "life long" acquired natural immunity. So presumably not vaccination failure amongst them.
So is the "older adults" only referring to some age < 50, who were vaccinated, and that vaccine immunity has now faded?
Edit to add - there are age / year statistics available here [2], which lumps everyone >= 35 in one bucket. Which may imply these "older adults" are actually people between the ages of 35 and 50.
There's serious engineering problem - you need CHEAP material which will be able to handle:
1) very high pressure
2) ultra precise sealing
3) material needs to be resistant againist hydrogen embrittlement (problem for all metal materials)
...in order to build cheap vehicle which will lasts at least 10 years.
