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“If you’ve got, at scale, a statistically significant amount of data that shows conclusively that the autonomous car has, let’s say, half the accident rate of a human-driven car, I think that’s difficult to ignore,” Musk said.

That's a very problematic claim - and it might only be true if you compare completely unassited vehicles to L2 Teslas.

Other brands also have a plethora of L2 features, but they are marketed and designed in a different way. The L2 features are activate but designed in a way to keep the driver engaged in driving.

So L2 features are for better safety, not for a "wow we live in the future" show effect.

For example lane keeping in my car - you don't notice it when driving, it is just below your level of attention. But when I'm unconcentrated for a moment the car just stays on the lane, even on curving roads. It's just designed to steer a bit later than I would do. (Also, even before, the wheel turns minimally lighter into the direction to keep the car center of lane, than turning it to the other direction - it's just below what you notice, however if you don't concentrate on that effect)

Adaptive speed control is just sold as adaptive speed control - it did notice it uses radar AND the cameras once, as it considers. my lane free as soon the car in front me clears the lane markings with its wheels (when changing lanes)

It feels like the software in my car could do a lot more, but its features are undersold.

The combination of a human driver and the driver assist systems in combination makes driving a lot safer than relying on the human or the machine alone.

In fact the braking assistant has once stopped my car in tight traffic before I could even react, as the guy in front of me suddenly slammed their brakes. If the system had failed and not detected the situation then it would have been my job to react in time. (I did react, but can't say if I might have been fast enough with reaction times)

What Tesla does with technology is impressive, but I feel the system could be so. much better if they didn't compromise saftey in the name of marketing and hyperbole.

If Tesla's Autopilot was designed frim ground up to keep the driver engaged, I believe it would really be the safest car on the road.

I feel they are rather designed to be able to show off "cool stuff".

I enjoy and do A, but need B a week later to recharge.

When I was a teenager my dad got a beautiful marble chess board. It was leaning on a wall, and when I picked it up it broke into two halves.

My dad was really sad and angry at me, that board meant quite a deal to him. He always thought I mishandled it, regardless how I said I was careful.

He died last November.

I got sent a few boxes with his belongings, and when I opened one of them I found that chessboard. It is glued with epoxy.

It sits in my apartment now, and I still don't know if I want to keep it or get rid of it. One one hand it meant a lot to him, on the other hand it is one of the very rare things where I felt treated unfairly.

When I batch cook I fill portions of hot food into glass jars with screw lids and keep them in the fridge. (Those glass jars contained yogurt when I bought them, when I need more I buy more yogurt and eat it)

Each jar is 1/2l so a good size for one portion and I only open them when I take them out of the fridge for usage. By filling hot, keeping cool and not opening them (so introducing only few microorganisms) they stay OK for at least a week.

I live in Germany, was a teenager in the 80s. We would have been ground zero then, and would be ground zero now.

I've already spent all the fear of nuclear war in the 80s. I am just not able to fear nuclear war now, anymore. The fear just dulls after nearly half a century.

The choice is to let a madman bring war to one country after another or to stop it - with the cost that stopping has a miniscule chance of me getting vaporized.

But doing nothing will keep the risk of nuclear war for another 50 years. It has to be stopped now, appeasement never did anything good.

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OP did take the photo themselves, it's not something they found on the web.

Was hat die Reinigungskraft im Kraftwerk gesagt?

"Schalt jetzt bloß nicht die Turbiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..."

Are they cooked or raw? And did someone put them in paint to color them?

Many years, ago, early morning routine. I needed to go to work, so I just just told my then 3 1/2y old daughter she couldn't go to kindergarden right now, we go a little later.

Stamping her foot, "Nooooooo, I want to go now"

"Ok, if you insist...."

(That was in the "learning to say no" phase when she said "no" to everything for a time)

I know, shitpost.

But: A few years ago the front right spring broke on my Peugeot 307 van, dug itself into the tire and ripped of the tire when I tried to. move the car. (It was parked when it happened)

Two hours before I had driven that van on the Autobahn at its vmax of about 180kph (about 110mph)

Ripping off the front tire would NOT have been a fun situation.

Groaan, my 17y old sun is currently intentionally growing a mullet.

Can't the trauma be enough? I already grew up in the 80s.

Damn Ragebait.

My neighbor country, the Czech Republic also has very permissive gun control laws - it has a lot less shooting incidents per capita than the US.

So, while gun control is one thing that's really missing and should be done, there's more going on - sometimes you read the word "mental health crisis"

Tbh, I also know a lot of dumb motherfuckers, but in the US a larger amount of dumb motherfuckers seem to become homicidal twats.

Saying he's just a whack-job wanting to kill lotso-people is not enough, why the fuck does this happen so frequently?

The espresso machine I bought off ebay for spare parts (to repair mine) had a buzzing magnet valve. (And the valve did not close)

It turned out the shower sieve was broken and on every cup the machine flushed coffee into the three way valve.

I used coffee machine degreaser and did a lot of backflushing with a "blind sieve" in the portafilter. With the degreaser buzzing slowly got better until it finally stopped and the valve closed correctly again. I never opened or changed the valve.

It was just dirty.

I'm using the machine I bought for spare parts for half a year now (and of course I replaced the shower sieve, which was about 7 euro or so)

(Oh and the machine is a Rancilio Silvia, my old one is 16y old and the spare parts one around 4y or so)

My over 10 year old chinese bluetooth speaker connects as an audio device when plugged in with the USB cable to a PC.

This seems to be a feature that's hard to search for, as it wasn't even announced in the marketing material.

Ooh wow. Tons of possibilities for sci fi movie scripts. Btw, the downvote wasn't from me - probably someone found that thoughts scary And them being scary, there I agree. With the downvote no.

German "umfahren" has entered the chat. Just with different stress it can either mean drive around someone/something or drive someone/something over.

Wtf is this the 2024 version of a lobotomy?

This is all a very abstract discussion. In Munich we have all - light suburban rail, a subway, a tram system and a bus system.

It's not either or, but a very specific discussion which system is best for a specific use case given the existing city where you put things in.

We have parts where the trams sharing space with buses or even cars, that's where the tram network is just kind of a higher capacity bus.

Other parts has dedicated spaces for the tram rails, they are connected to traffic signs so trams are nearly as fast as the subway.

Currently the city seems to build more trams as the subway network is at a capacity limit - and they can't increase it without huge investments.

There's a new subway line planned, as well as construction for a second light rail tunnel crossing the city underway - but those are hugely expensive, long term projects.

Sometimes they build a tram first, because it's a lot cheaper to plan and implement and then replace it by aubway 15 years later.

And yes whe also have a tram line which uses a corridor of a former train line, so it looks like the picture. Whenever I go there I love that place, trams and buses available but no through traffic by cars (You can still go there by cars, but no through traffic as the whole area is a cul de sac)

Heh. When my daughter was small, she could say spaghetti, but also added the initial "s" to baguette, making it a "spaguette" .

We're German, by the way, so we frequently eat both.