Human drivers aren’t safe. When human drivers drive toward a hazard instead of away from it as they should they are not safe.

Obviously you didn’t keep reading. Autopilot is not a perfect system, nor meant to be used without any human intervention. It’s incumbent upon the driver to pay attention to the road and to take over should the computer have trouble. The driver didn’t, Tesla is not to blame for his negligence and incompetence.

Thanks for your thorough and thoughtful reply. I’m only able to handle anything on Gizmodo.com, but if you ever notice anything amiss, please let me know. We’re not here to spout bullshit and will always transparently correct something when we get it wrong.

I’m the same way: I try to use ApplePay at every opportunity, but also make sure to have my credit and debit cards with me whenever I leave the house. One thing that may help, though, is to specifically patronize businesses that offer and support contactless payments like Apple/Android/Samsung/etc Pay — and to choose…

An alternate perspective in the interest of sanity:

Hatfright

Left leaning ignorance of what?

I think the point of the article was that he was denying he said something, not that his statement was a fact based on his career achievements. Not sure where your agitation is rooted.

The Flat Earthers have nothing to fear except the sphere itself...

Nothing screams “I belong to a more intelligent race” like using your own picture on the barely-pseudonymous Twitter account you use to post white nationalist nonsense.

Three? Look at the big spender!

And they’re free to do that. Youtube, however, as a private company, has no obligation to provide the means for them to do it. It’s their house, they set the rules, if you don’t like it you can host your shit somewhere else.

Fellow Californian here. I’d be more than happy to secede - and take our tax base with us.

Yeah, fuck you too.

Exactly! We’re supposed to take care of it, not exploit it. We’re supposed to assume that, even if we’re Raptured away tomorrow, that God will ask “What did you do with what I gave you?” And the answer should not be “I trashed it. You’re cool with that, right?”

From the reddit post:

Thoughts and prayers

Yeah, lets rank the most tired anti-gun-control arguments.

An assault rifle is a selective-fire rifle with the capacity to flip between semi-auto and full auto, which is why this article is about a category of weapons and accessories which would be legally categorized as “assault weapons” with major restrictions on who is allowed to just carry them around, you pedantic chud.

Identifying people who want to own a device designed expressly to kill another human being is a good place to start on mental illness.