smaugtheunpretentious
SmaugTheUnpretentious
smaugtheunpretentious

You put it in better words than I could.......it’s this “personalization of safety” focus rather than zooming out and working on keeping everyone safe, instead. I’d rather work on smart roads than this stuff but yeah, it’s a lot of wow factor in this autonomous driving realm.

The demand is there from consumers, partly because Musk and homies have over-promised and sold them on the capabilities of the system at-hand. So, with the demand you’re stuck in the position of either meeting the expectation, like Jason is proposing here, or letting general consumer interest fade and allowing the

Because systems that do most of the work--like Autopilot or any L2 system--makes drivers less attentive, and that’s why we get accidents without safe failover. There’s been many, many studies about this, starting with Mackworth’s 1948 study of vigilance tasks: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1080/17470214808416738

You are correct that it will have a negative impact on your credit for several reasons, but none are the fault of CarMax. You take a small hit when you apply for the loan, then you take a small hit when you are granted the loan. If you pay it back in a few days, thats a very short length of time and you can take

I don’t disagree, but it’s important to recognize that your position is a privileged one and a lot of people don’t have the luxury of ignoring their credit score. For some people, any negative reporting on their credit score can have very meaningful effects on their life.

The guy in the banner image is evoking a real Joseph Ducreux vibe in me for some reason

Awww, you're not an idiot because you sold a car... 

1 person was shot in the face yesterday and 3 more died (assuming from cardiac arrest or some shit). 50+ were arrested and far more are coming down the line. We’re all as frustrated as you are that this level of scum exists in the country. Pass judgment on this next week; in the meantime, just sit back and watch the

Other than all those cars, how was David Tracy as a neighbor?

Glad Loeffler lost! Ossoff is the first millennial elected to the US senate. We need to get the old people out of congress.

Attn Sec. of Typography: Four less strokes on keyboard means more beer consumption pleasure time. Over/Out.

Bro I need to know what kinds of paradigms you're out there shifting with all this fuckin time you're saving by using such chopped sentences and not having to type out "ith" with that "w" 

believe it or not, some famous people still value their own privacy and making no public appearances for two months isn’t uncommon. even more so when most people probably recognized his mask more than his face

If you’re unsure if you’ll like A Monster’s Expedition, the company’s other puzzle game, A Good Snowman is Hard to Build is also delightful and a good demo for Monster’s. It's super cheap right now during the sale

Delinquents or freedom fighters of the poor?

Hood ornaments and a ridge in the middle of the hood were both useful to align your car in the roadway if your depth perception isn’t great. Hood ornaments went away because they were also useful for stabbing pedestrians and also served as wonderful targets for Vandals, Visigoths and Huns. I wouldn’t mind having a

Luckily we replaced hood ornaments with 9 additional square feet of grille, and 2000lbs additional mass so that the pedestrians can’t escape even though they haven’t been harpooned.

As far as pedestrian safety is concerned, full-size pickups may as well have a replica of the Iron Throne up there, given that a pedestrian would have to be an Olympic pole-vaulter to get on the hood and hurt themself.

This is the hood ornament on one of my cars,