“Ride like every car is trying to kill you”

You’re right. I’ve been there too, photos just don’t do it justice. What I couldn’t get over when I was there, was wondering what the helmsman thought when he went on duty in a battle. On one hand, there’s 17 inches of armor plate to keep you safe. On the other, you’re about to be somewhere that NEEDS 17 inches of…

At 20 seconds in, did anybody else think they were about to kiss? Just me? Oh...

No. No, we don’t.

Manual bug

Right? I think a bombshell would have been if they proved Germany DIDN’T bribe to get it.

Sounds like a chainsaw. Looks about as dangerous.

That is a beautifully cycled gif. I’m in awe

How often do these people get in wrecks? Which would, of course, require another rider dispatched. Who would inevitably get in a wreck, requiring another rider...

I feel like someone who is so controlling that their victim would need to resort to secret dots is also going to be checking their phone, and would flip shit about an app they can’t get into.

Maybe, maybe not. It won’t happen for every family, but many will be able to stagger arrivals. And you have to assume that an autonomous vehicle will have some form of “call”, which means that a family car could quite easily spend all day shuttling from one member to another. In many areas schools are specifically…

Oh agreed, anything well-known enough to A) be known to victims and B) be known enough by the public that it will be useful (how terrible would it be to finally get a chance to use it, and then the person doesn’t understand?) would probably also be figured out by the abuser. I don’t think that secret signs are…

I thought about this. “I can’t even tell anyone, because of how close I’m watched, but putting an obvious mark on myself is so much more secret!” How does that work? Aside from the pretty obvious self-congratulatory nature of this, wouldn’t something like some kind of secret sign-language be a better idea? A lot…

No, the first ball just moves a little farther back, and the camera follows the second. By the end, the first is still in the air.

I don’t think so (at least not as laid out in the linked article)- more a reduction in total cars. I think “at any given time” numbers WOULD go down some, as ride-sharing services will become cheaper and more efficient, but not by a huge amount. The drop would be in total car numbers, as utilization rates go up.

It will become impractical far before it becomes illegal. Insurance rates will skyrocket if you drive yourself, eventually it would be some kind of specialty policy if you can get one at all. It would also be pretty much assumed that the self-driver is wrong in a human-directed/autonomous crash- so you would get…

How is that not the same thing? If any given household has 1 car instead of two, that’s still a 50% reduction in cars. Maybe not the straight number of cars on the road at a particular time (rush hour will still be rush hour), but there will still be a huge reduction in total cars. Total hours driven probably won’t go…

Cassie Trainor:

Yes, this is how to make soccer catch on in America. Show a video of a grown man asking a bunch of young boys “Who wants a nutmegging?”

I’m also interested that the article mentions that this became obsolete when the Allies started using synchronization in 1917, but THE LINKED ARTICLE mentions that it was in common use by 1915 by the Germans (the “Fokker Scourge” anyone?)