I plan to teach my daughter that it’s OK for her to approach a stranger, particularly if she needs help. But she should be wary of any stranger approaching her on their own. A random person approaching a child should always be a red flag.

Electrical Engineer here. Let me be clear here that, while this dude seems bright, most EEs don’t design for practicality, we design for functionality.

The drivers are still supposed to be attentive while using auto pilot. It sounds like most (if not all) of them are expecting the car to do everything for them while they read Jalopnik.

Front fell off

K but how many people have been killed by people driving their own cars? That experiment has clearly failed, yet here we remain.

I concur, the has to be a reason why they were targeted specifically. The burning also seems extremely excessive.

seems like a common sense thing that they would do (so as not to have competing systems fighting each other) but thank you for digging into it so we know for sure.

Clearly this is something beyond simple theft. There is almost certainly a relationship between the owner and the forklift driver. Nobody is going to go to all that trouble to plan out a theft like this and then burn it when you could far more easily just steal another early 2000s Honda Civic, it’s not like they’re…

There was a time you could get a very nice Acura NSX for low $30's. I don’t own an NSX. I’ll let the reader do the math.

Not only have they likely encountered similar situations in similar conditions given the vast amount of testing they’ve done, but they also have an extremely extensive testing system that they could easily use to test out their software’s response to the situation: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08…

As much as I distrust Google and the whole Alphabet conglomerate, I’m pretty confident Waymo knows how their systems perform by now.

Not only that, what he managed here was neither simple nor easy. Fixing a dead engine is one thing; cobbling together all this random crap and getting it to work is genuine accomplishment.

fucking beautiful.

With the addition of your second sentence, you are correct sir.

It’s the very same people who say ‘why didn’t he just comply’ that are the first to say the ‘cops feared for their lives.’

Officer: “Do you know why I pulled you over?”

Officer: “Do you know why I pulled you over?”

Then it shouldn’t be on public roads where a tow truck can grab it.

I like to think they have a government agency dedicated to this one task. They could call it the Ministry of Insurance Assurance.

I hadn’t realised car insurance was so expensive in the US.