Judging by how good these things seem to be handling their first winter, I’m not sure Canada is going to be too welcoming.

Yeah that suggestion confused me, because like, from what they’re saying, requiring (likely expensive) inspections that would take “bad” cars off the road would also make it prohibitive for poor people to be able to own and operate vehicles. 

I agree on red light cameras - we know how they work in practice, they are simply revenue generators that are shady as hell and don’t actually result in fewer accidents (and in some cases it can be argued they cause more accidents). A lot of times they simply ticket people for “rolling right turns” in areas where…

The amount of lifted gigantic trucks selling like hotcakes says otherwise.

I’m not sure what you’re saying here. Are you saying people shouldn’t go too fast in the passing lane? Or are they not going fast enough?

I keep seeing photos like this where Musk looks awkwardly photoshopped into the scene, but apparently they’re all real and he really is just lurking creepily behind people like that.

I would much rather drive one of these adorable little guys than the massive monster trucks that have far less actual utility that are currently clogging up US roadways.

Judging by the amount of monster-truck-sized vehicles I see riding asses and barreling down highways every single day, it definitely seems pretty controversial.

We should have pretty strict size restrictions on how big civilian vehicles can be. Trucks these days can’t even fit to established parking spaces. They block other vehicles’ sight lines on the road, they are unable to see pedestrians or other obstacles and hazards over their massive hoods, and their overcompensating…

So, is it normal for the smell to travel from the cargo hold to the rest of the plane? If yes, why didn’t they account for that on a 12 hour flight? If no, what went wrong?

I guess since Cybertruck sales have stalled they have to keep making money somehow. Might as well try to grift the folks you already successfully grifted.

The AI aspect of health insurance was definitely in the news prior to the guy getting killed, even if you didn’t know about it, and the shocking bit was that even though it was deemed to be incorrect in its assessment up to 90% of the time, UHC’s CEO decided to stick with it. All of this was public prior to the…

Is it really so different? And no, it’s not “AI pop ups in my browser”, it’s AI being shoehorned into every product I interact with, for no good reason.

I guess what I mean by “pressured” is more “having them forced upon us”. Kind of how “AI” is being shoehorned into every product so we have to scroll past AI results every time we search and dismiss annoying pop ups every time we open Adobe.

It’s also the same public that was convinced to vote for Trump by Elon Musk’s 270 million dollar investment. Trump has already said he’s not lowering grocery prices, sorry. Killer autonomous cars aren’t a Democrat thing, they’re a tech bro (ie. right wing) development.

My guess is the public will be pressured to simply accept a higher fatality level as the cost of “progress” (that just so happens to line billionaires’ pockets).

With so many automobile companies committed to something that still seems pretty unattainable, and with Elon set to remove all regulatory roadblocks after buying his way into the presidency, my guess is that we’ll get some kind of “autonomous car” sooner rather than later, with the public just expected to accept the…

I don’t think pay has ever been the driving issue keeping “good” people from becoming cops. With the generous overtime, cops can easily make 6 figures and retire with a full pension after 20 years.

Police departments actually actively avoid people who are “too smart”. Many depts reject applicants with IQs deemed too high, believing they’ll become dissatisfied with the job and want to leave.

Yes it’s so sad that these supercars will no longer be stored indefinitely in the garage of a dictator collecting dust.