Look at the robo taxi situation they have going. The same tech that is stopping people off in the middle of the road is what is being used for FSD.

I wouldn’t be surprised if we found out that the whole thing is a scam and there is some sweat shop full of teenagers remotely driving cars. I feel like the random stops where they shouldn’t stop is exactly how someone who learns how to drive playing GTA would drive.

@thecoffeehobbit@sopuli.xyz

Finally got around to writing everything up. I’d love to eventually add some visual customizations and chain loading of the installed OS.

https://gitlab.com/jeremy.loffredo/bootable-grub-usb

43 year old American who at 10 would ride a bike over a mile to school and spent my summers pretty much going wherever I wanted on my bike or walking. But things have definitely changed.

People have forgotten their own childhood and see kids on their own as troublemakers. Or like in this case, they feel they know better than parents.

We’ve also given up what little walkability we had to wider streets with higher speed limits. The small town where I grew up has significantly more people and more and larger intersections. Many of the roads have also been widened.

Finality, policing has changed. At least where I grew up officers were members of the community. They were there to uphold the law and would rather take you home or talk to your parents than charge or detain you. It would have been national news for a cop to handcuff and detain a 10-14 year old, now it is expected and celebrated. IMO policing is a profession that has lost its humanity. They are enforcers, not peace officers.

I’ll work on putting something together with all of the details.

Recently I recreated my favorite drive. Runs grub, stores multiple distros it can boot from, has a standard exfat partition, and an encrypted partition.

Stretch-650

In many ways democracy is a lie. You still have a system of government that puts a handful of people in fairly powerful positions. These people will always do what is needed to keep the power they have.

For centuries democracy has focused on the elites. They have done a good job of keeping participation low and therefore creating an under informed population. Commonly in the US, you’ll hear phrases like “It doesn’t matter who I vote for.” “My vote doesn’t count.” “They’re all the same.”

When you have a voting populace who has regularly not participated and talk with authority to them, you can get them to buy whatever you’re selling.

We call that roadside assistance and many people do not have it as it is not required. Manny more people don’t know they have it. Actually some phone companies include it in their plans, I’ve also seen it as a feature on some credit cards. But if you don’t think about it, you forget you have it.

The worm eats well done steak with ketchup. Statistically he should have choked many times.

*I have zero data to back this claim, just an assumption that it would be more likely to choke on shoe leather

In some ways that is the answer. Crashes keep happening because they are not being held accountable to regulators because they are not reporting these incidents and no one is exercising oversight to be sure the reporting matches reality.

I think over the years, accurate reporting by manufacturers has been done because they generally do not want to be known as that car company that killed a child and it could have been prevented with a 50 cent bolt. As a result, regulators have been less hawkish. Of course there are probably political donations in the US to help keep the wheels turning.

I’ve come to the realization, at least where I live, that a hell of a lot of accidents are prevented because of drivers who are actually aware and safe. This goes a bit beyond defensive driving IMO. I’m talking flat out accident avoidable. There is an entire class of drivers who are not even aware of the accidents they have almost caused because someone else managed to avoid their stupid driving.

The majority of accidents that are likely to happen with these robocoffins will be single car or robocoffin meets robocoffin. The numbers on safety after a year will be acceptable because non accident causing error prone driving is not reported in any official capacity.

I still maintain that the only safe way to have autonomous vehicles on the road is if they do not share the road with human drivers and have an open standard for communicating with other autonomous cars.

Should be a requirement for life. My SO always says everyone should be required to work retail for one week during the holidays. I have to agree.

Essential services like healthcare, accessible information, food safety, and all the other things that help our citizens stay safe and productive?

Or maybe this op was withheld because they had already done that.

That’s terrifying. It is a low number, but that it is non zero and the presence of a manual control would change the outcome is not good.

Of course you could find an old car with manual windows, but that would lack quite a few other safety features that have saved many more lives.

Starting to get on the fuck cars bandwagon, just wish I lived somewhere where that was an option.

It wasn’t an oversight, it is a feature because manual door pulls are old fashioned and not as cool.

Electronic windows were an improvement over hand cranked, but the doors could still be opened. Though I do wonder if they have ever been the cause of a loss of life.

I agree that this design should have never passed any safety board. That the ability to open the door can be disabled or made much more difficult.

Can’t imagine adding a floor piecemeal.

They tried to apply the building code laws. In Florida, if you do a renovation and keep the foundation and one wall, you can build to the code at the time of construction. These “protections” never applied to assessment and tax.

Many houses in that exact area have been bought for cheap and flipped using this work around. They end up with a modern house but can avoid having to spend extra for upgraded storm mitigation, plumbing, and electric.

Can’t wait to see how well it works to glue armored panels on.

Something that has been bothering me lately. Reasonable people who counter the toxic misinformation leaving the platform only allows the disease to grow and spread. But reality is they weren’t reaching the people that needed the dose of reality anyway. And then I realized that the algorithms have always been the disease, my feeds are my own echo chamber to drive engagement, just as theirs are. I’ve pretty much cut all social networks out. The only way to change minds is honest respectable conversation, and I am not a person to change anyone’s mind.

We’re fucked