I bet the guy who was driving the safety truck that ran into the other truck agrees.

Good point. Maybe “reliably perfect” is a better standard.

“He thinks, quote, ‘sexuality is a continuum and he is but a voyager on a vast ocean of pleasure.’”

OK, let’s unpack this one item at a time:

Oh my... so many levels.

One thing to note: she was always screened by security and never had any weapons or anything else that would have disqualified her from passing through security - except for not having a boarding pass.

Not to be insensitive... but I laughed and thought of this.

I just want to thank you for bothering to use a photo of O’Hare instead of a random airport.

Computer translation has certainly improved over the past decade with the introduction of machine learning models. But your second sentence - “I wouldn’t use it for a legal document” - tells the story: with machine learning, the first 90% are easy, the next 8% are terribly hard, the next 1% is nearly impossible, and…

Agreed. I mean, there are lots of 100% computer-driven transportation systems. They’re called people movers, and they operate on their own rights-of-way.

Just watch the last video. That’s the scary one. The rest are normal, but overly cautious - well within normal human parameters. The last one is... not cool.

The Turing test could easily be replaced with a Left Turning test. It’s about the most human thing we do.

NYC streets were fine before the city started shrinking them...

No, you were being children!

Training? What’s training?

Unfortunately, a zero-tolerance “safety first” culture pervades many city institutions, meaning that there is no allowance for common sense.

Vitriol requires some degree of intentional cruelty. I don’t think that most of the casual bigotry could be described as vitriolic - that word might be better used for the Rush Limbaughs of the world.

“I find your lack of faith... disturbing.”

OK, there’s a big difference between being ridiculously wrong and being reprehensible. Distinction without a difference? No way. If somebody is just wrong, the response to their wrongness is argument. If somebody is reprehensible, the response is shunning. And shunning just doesn’t work - it radicalizes.

The Tesla driver placed that vehicle in the path of the BMW, forcing a change in the BMW's velocity.