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Why was a school bus going 68mph? Especially in the UK where much less time is spent on freeways.

This seems a bit odd.

A) Nobody knows where or when this crash happened, which supposedly involved a school bus hitting her at 110km/hour? I feel like that would make some news.

B) It's an Instagram post with only a single picture that looks... questionable??

I'm wondering if she is trying to disappear after threats were made to her. Or maybe this is a real thing that didn't make the news because the royals were involved and had it hidden.

He was a Democrat for a long time before switching sides. He doesn't care about ANYTHING other than himself and maaaaaaybe hurting brown people. Taking care of other rich people serves him. Taking care of Christians serves him, because he knows they can get him reelected. Lowering taxes serves him, and he doesn't care who it hurts.

The only thing he has been consistent about, even when he was a Democrat, is hurting brown people. Everything else is an act to get people to do things that help him.

It was fucking stupid to choose Max over HBO in the branding in the first place.

France appears to be learning the incorrect lesson from Trump's stupidity.

Sure, by all means build separation from the US as an unreliable partner. But maybe choose your next partner a little more wisely.

Do you think a new player needs to play KCD1 before playing 2? I've never played either and am ready to start a new game.

Based on my image search engineering, the answer to your question is 2.

Based on my one semester of air breathing propulsion that I took 25 years ago, I'm guessing there is more going on inside the turbine part of the engine that both allows sustainable fuels that current turbofans can't and also allows compression ratios at lower fan speeds that allows an open fan with fewer blades. Again, I barely passed air breathing propulsion back then and haven't used ANY of that knowledge since, so I'm mostly talking out of my ass.

Tesla does source some parts from outside the US, so they will be impacted. However, they are definitely the MOST US-based and will be hurt the least. Other US brands and foreign brands that have mfg in the states source a ton of parts from around the world. Those parts will all be more expensive, so prices will go up by some percentage.

Hey Mitch, remember when you got angry with Obama for telling you your bill was really bad, then you passed the bill anyway, then you got mad when Obama vetoed the bill, then you overrode the veto, then you saw the horrible repercussions of your stupid bill, then you got very angry with Obama for not vetoing your bill hard enough?

This is like that. You are seeing the repercussions of all the stupid shit you did, even when people told you it was stupid. So you don't get to act like it is anyone else's fault but your own for all the stupid shit you did.

It feels so gross upvoting a picture and quote from Reagan.

I'm honestly more scared of that. Professional CDL drivers are WAY better at driving than other people. But their trucks are way more dangerous and harder to handle. So putting driverless tech in that is going to be harder and more dangerous.

I was clearly only talking about cars, not pedestrians. Driverless cars have already shown they are pretty good at avoiding pedestrians and cyclists and scooters and dogs. Even in the case of the pedestrian hit by the Cruise car, that pedestrian was hit by another car first and then thrown into the path of the Cruise. The one case of a dog hit by a car was a dog running out from behind parked cars with no time for a human to stop, let alone the Waymo... and dogs don't usually wave and signal to drivers on the road.

As far as retrofitted cars, this is about improving the current system not requiring 100% compliance. Do you ban people from driving on the roads if they don't wave at you on a one-car wide road? No. So you don't have to ban cars that don't have this tech. But when more and more cars DO have the tech, then you get improvements over time.

I was asking in good faith because the way you talk is not easily comprehensible. I can barely follow whatever argument you are trying to make. I think you are trying to say that we shouldn't allow them on the road until we have fully decided who is at fault in an accident?

Also, only one death has occurred so far involving driverless cars, which is where a speeding SUV rammed into a stopped driverless car and then the SUV continued on and hit 5 other cars where it killed someone. That's it. The only death involved a driverless car sitting still, not moving, not doing anything... and it wasn't even the car that hit the car in which the person died. So I would say it is hypothetical when talking about hypothetical deaths that are the fault of a driverless car.

So the fact that after 50 million miles of driving there have been no pedestrian or cyclist deaths means they are unbelievably unsafe for pedestrians and cyclists? As far as I can tell, the only accidents involving pedestrians or cyclists AT ALL after 50 million miles is when a Waymo struck a plastic crate that careened into another lane where a scooter ran into it. And yet in your mind they are unbelievably unsafe?

Just fine the one time I rode in one. It had a problem with a moving truck blocking the entire street, where it sat trying to wait to see if the moving truck was just stopped and going to move or if it was parked for good. The Waymo executed a 3 point turn and then had two construction trucks pull into the street the other direction, and they refused to back up. So the Waymo was stuck between not going forward and not going back... it just pulled forward toward the trucks and then reversed toward the moving truck. Back and forth. Then I yelled out the window for the fucking trucks to move out of the fucking road, which they couldn't drive down anyway. After that it was smooth, even getting into the parking lot.

My buddy said at his office the Waymos have an issue with pulling too far forward at the pick up spots, which makes it impossible for cars to go around them, but humans do dumb shit like that, too.

"Waymo reports the statistical data it has, which happens to be pretty good."

So let me make sure I understand your argument. Because nobody can be held liable for one hypothetical death of a child when an accident happens with a self driving car, we should ban them so that hundreds of real children can be killed instead. Is that what you are saying?

As far as I know of, Waymo has only been involved in one fatality. The Waymo was sitting still at a red light in traffic when a speeding SUV (according to reports going at extreme rate of speed) rammed it from behind into other cars. The SUV then continued into traffic where it struck more cars, eventually killing someone. That's the only fatal accident Waymo has been involved in after 50 million miles of driving. But instead of making it safer for children, you would prefer more kids die just so you have someone to blame?

They're not saying general road safety is 20x better. They're comparing an automated car ONLY on surface streets with lights, intersections, pedestrians, dogs, left turns, etc... to a professional truck driver mostly on highway miles.

That's when vehicle to vehicle communication will come into play. When we can automate the driving and link the cars' comm systems together, it becomes a network management problem.

"Stop! Police!" *instantly shoots 17 times

Why even yell at that point? If you are so afraid he might shoot someone, then stay behind cover and yell that police are present and to drop the gun. When you startle a person with a gun, there can be pretty predictable responses. If you aren't afraid he might shoot someone, then why instantly shoot 17 times without giving him time to comply?