Would it be physically possible to swerve at this distance? Yes. But you’re ignoring the time it takes to process the situation. Assuming that’s about 20 feet, the car would have covered that distance in about 1/3 of a second at the speed limit. According to a quick google human reaction time to visual stimulus is…

That’s a pretty massive assumption based on absolutely nothing.

The sensors arguably should have picked her up but I’m not going to blame the driver here. She was pretty much invisible to the human eye until about 20 feet. No way there was enough time for a response.

It’s used it OR knew about it OR believed you lost value when it was removed.

I’m pretty sure every team wears Nike jerseys. It’s USA Hockey that’s responsible for those monstrosities.

The problem is you’re not following your logic through to the end. And that end is that you shouldn’t spend $700,000 on any car.

Yeah, forget the van that plowed into vehicles slowing for traffic at 2-3x their speed. Clearly this is the fault of the SUV that left 2-car lengths ahead of itself.

Are you blind? There’s another car about 1-car length ahead of the SUV when they start braking. At most it extends to about 2-car lengths just prior to the accident. They didn’t do a single thing wrong. In fact, had they been bumper to bumper when the accident occured it probably would have been a four car pileup.

I think technically there is a limit but it’s something super high like 10x. I believe there is also certain places where the city has forced them to set a lower limit.

How much time was there between the bombing and the wave of criticism? How long does it take for Uber to digest what’s going on and organize refunds?

As far as I know in some situations like this drivers are still offered the surge fair while riders are refunded. IIRC that’s what they did in Sydney when they were offering free rides to get people away from the hostage standoff.

Seems like a pretty standard moral thought experiment. How many lives would you trade to improve the lives of others? Are you implying this person is bad because he asked the question?

Being good and beating adults are two different things. I don’t know of any children’s games (that aren’t pure chance) where an adult wouldn’t have a massive advantage.

It depends entirely on the content you’re looking at. It’s a great screen size for portrait website (or text in general) browsing which I would argue is a large share of your time using the phone. You’re right that 16:9 in landscape will be similarly sized to the 8, but 2:1 (increasingly being used by Netflix and…

This feels kind of pointless. The notch isn’t ugly in a vacuum. It’s ugly when it’s fucking up (1) apps that aren’t updated and (2) websites in landscape mode. A wallpaper doesn’t solve either of those problems.

It’s not exactly the same thing. Interpreting the three words in “beg the question” individually will lead you to its common/modern usage. That’s an example of something changing logically over time. Misuse of “literally” is just hyperbole, it doesn’t change the actual definition. It would be self-defeating, because…

No, language evolves, get over it. The fact that “begs the question” has a technical definition (which was based on a mistranslation to begin with) doesn’t mean the common use isn’t completely acceptable. The common use is based on the literal interpretation of those words.

AT&T owns distribution (i.e., television and internet services). I imagine their problem is with creating a vertical monopoly where a distributor owns a large number of networks (Turner). However, they didn’t block the Comcast NBC deal so your guess is as good as mine.

Face ID will unlock your phone but it will stay on the lock screen until you swipe up from the bottom. I think there may be a setting to have it go immediately to the home screen, but I may be wrong on that.

You can set up the phone without any lock if you would like. That’s something you have to change in settings. The tip above is for people who are setup to use Face ID/passcode, it disables it until you enter your passcode.