I wouldn’t even have any doubt to give them the benefit of if it were not for the narrative they chose that focuses on the priors of the girls involved and the context of how they got into that pond. Now I have to question if they would have tried any harder (effectively or not) to save those girls had they not had…

Its really simple: if the police would have tried harder to save someone who had not committed any crimes and had driven into the pond; then they are negligent in their duties. If they handled it the same regardless of the context, then they did fine.

You can’t blame the officers for not risking their lives to save theirs

It sounds like a pretty cool system; I just wonder about collateral damage when you have an autonomous shotgun. Especially on the Striker vehicles where infantry support is their raison d’etre; what happens when stray buckshot hits soldiers or civilians? Or when a prematurely detonated RPG hits soldiers or civilians?

But maybe just take a photo of a license plate and call the police

It’s funny how many people have this idea about “blocking” someone. That’s not a thing. If you are driving the speed limit, and you get in front of someone who wants to recklessly drive over it, that’s their problem, not yours. I for one say, as long as you drive legally and safely, I couldn’t care less what your…

I’d be willing to bet folding money that the sign takes more energy than they captured from the passing cars.

That’s been my take away from the article and (more importantly) the comments section. It seems like a lot of people are here are suggesting that this driver failed to safely drive recklessly; and that had he been a better driver this kind of stunt would have been acceptable. How about just drive safely, all the time?…

Yeah...you don’t vote for Nobel Prizes. They are awarded by experts in the field and that’s what gives them their prestige. They show you have earned the respect and admiration of your peers. I think what these petitioners are looking for is the People’s Choice Awards.

Man...FUCK the 90's

On the upside, if and when a Democrat is elected in 2016; by Priebus’ own logic that person could appoint as liberal a justice as they wanted, and the GOP would have no claim against the legitimacy of that appointment.

In unnecessary fairness: do we know that any of those horrible sounding things actually cause the animals involved pain? I mean, they probably do, but do we actually know that?

I don’t agree; if you want to fill jobs with talented people, you do so by making the job attractive, not by firing the only people you could manage to get. If you want better people in the federal government, you have to compete with the private sector in terms of pay.

Kanye can’t be in debt; he’s a genius!

I think the opposite is actually true. A human driven vehicle is much more easy to disable or disorient: take out the driver. An autonomous vehicle could react to the situation with programmed precision every time. It could probably evade the situation as well as a human driver could, and it has new tactical options…

All you really have to consider is which is more likely:
Automated cars have some kind of sensor/processing failure and runs kid over
or
Regular Human drivers aren’t paying attention and run (another) kid over.

Disney’s largest mismanagement of Lucasfilm so far.

Fuck it, for a legitimate new Star Wars 3D space combat sim I would even take a game designed to string me along with a series of payed DLC’s.

Yeah, or imagine if he wasn’t such a pussy and didn’t lean on the bar.

You say that now, but when autonomous cars get here, and you suddenly make the connection that you can can spend your entire commute to and from work every day happily masturbating...you’ll see the big picture.