The flight attendants are in charge of safety in the cabin. What if they had a serious issue in flight, and she was too drunk/high to do anything? I’d say that qualifies as endagering lives.

It’s really easy for a person to recognize what is happening in front of them.

But here’s the thing: sometimes the safest course of action is to do nothing and let the safety features in the your car do their job - which is probably what happened here. There are a lot of things to think of here, and physics limits the options available to you in an incident like this. Most human drivers (if they…

Anything autonomous is news worthy. The headline nor the article say that the autonomous mode caused the wreck.

That dent makes me sad, and I’m already having a rough day.

It’s definitely “the outgoing model” now.

My grandfather was a chauffeur and mechanic at the turn of the century for a couple of millionaires of that era. I have his old oak tool chest and his tools (most of). In there is a glass cylindrical beaker and a hydrometer for testing gasoline (specific density testing I imagine). In early brass era days there was…

Yeah, and since, as mentioned in the article, Jeep is in the unusual position of overlapping the old and new generations, I’m going with blip rather than new normal for those figures. 

That’s what I remember thinking when I first saw this article. I was under the impression that what really drove OHV engines post-WW2 was the newfound expertise by oil refiners at making high-octane fuel at reasonable cost, after having spent the war making huge quantities of aviation fuel. That in turn allowed…

In the U.S., the Camry sells consistently in the 30k volume range. The wrangler has been in the teens for years.

I’d rather see people doing this, than checking their cell phones, which I see far more frequently. At least these rockers are engaged with their vehicles and aware of their surroundings.

I think it points to a larger problem with the U.S economy - which is tying benefits such as retirement, health care, and social safety nets to your job.

Yep. Even if you contract through a recruiting firm - which any of us who work in IT have - you’re still often doing so sans benefits, no 401k, no paid time off, no sick time, etc. And if you’re laid off somewhere, it’s not like you’re going to turn down a contract. The rise of this kind of work also has had ripple…

All the benefits of having employees but none of the pesky responsibilities.

Thank you for nailing down my scattered thoughts. It’s like a model of its own self or something.

The wooden bed is like a real-world photoshop. It only serves to show what this might look like when it’s done. I’d say it was a waste of time and materials to even bother, but it probably didn’t take much time or money, and it can serve as a template for fabricating a real bed for it. There is some value in its…

Because that’s EXACTLY what they did before the regulations.

Everyone so eager to take rights away from corporations, they forget that almost all of the actual elements of corporate status are immensely useful to society at large.

Corporate personhood makes perfect sense under the law. Things like contracts and criminal punishments are only available for legal persons. That’s why you can’t sue a deer for hitting you.

I work from home, but find that 'dressing for work' puts me in the right mental frame. Don't get me wrong I don't wear a suit and tie, but i do wear a shirt, and trousers as opposed to jeans.