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Oh just put their net worth on there already. 

Kit may have been annoying, but goddamn I loved that plane. When I was a kid I wanted to make enough money to build my own Sea Duck.

That didn’t work out...

...died on Saturday in a tragic accident. Read more

It should honestly just be part of graduating high school or getting a GED. 

If anybody is stupid enough to not know what a repossession is, voluntary or not, they deserve the bad credit and the repossession on their credit history.

Ever been on a train with seats facing each other? It sucks. You have to stare at the person in front of you for hours. Also, you either stack your feet like cord wood, or intertwine your legs and not move them. Or just play footsie. Read more

I specifically looked for a non 4x4 for the better gas mileage Read more

I always just assumed it was the trying to go as fast as one can up a high twisting mountain road with steep drop offs all over that made it dangerous.

I’m going with “lack of guardrails”

what the fuck is this lmao

I agree that it sounds good on paper, but the end result hurts my brain trying to put it together.

Hm, just spitballing here, but maybe the guy had some sort of unique identifier that doesn’t change as we age or move from place to place...such as, I dunno, a name?

In 1989 I brought a Micro Machine Blue Angels F-18 for Show & Tell in Kindergarten. It was stolen from my locker and the culprit was caught the same day, because he was 5. I transferred schools after a few weeks and never saw the guy again, until we ran into each other in a college bar. He turned the story around that … Read more

And into the back of a parked car transporter: Read more

Lol! Dude, what? Humans can’t infer? Why is there a word for it? Why does the concept of inference exist if we can’t do it? Of course it’s based on known information. That’s what inference is. A computer can’t infer anything. It needs explicit instructions to identify inputs and it needs explicit instructions to make… Read more

Rationally, close to 100% of collisions will be caused by human error when 100% of cars are driven by humans. If you replace every car and driver with an autonomous vehicle, that percentage will go to zero, and the percentage caused by faulty AI will approach 100%. Whether the total number of collisions goes down or… Read more

it’s going to be safer because that’s how technology works, just look at the changes to safety tech the last 10 years, fatalities down across the board while number of drivers has remained high. Read more

And to bring it all around, personal automobiles are consumer products. Therefore, AVs will not be programmed to your illustrated level of faultlessness. Therefore, AVs will always be shit.

The first fully charged pull does not matter that much I agree. The issue is that the 5th pull is over 6 seconds on the Tesla and still under 3 on the Porsche. This means that as you go about your day of driving your ability to merge, overtake and calculate distances is different while still being in the same car. I… Read more