We’d all rather rely on someone who we would not have to cover for.

Lets not set the bar too high. There are plenty of good people in the world, who aren’t dropping everything to go fight some injustice somewhere.

He may well be a fantastic driver, but that character was awful, and didn’t bring anything to the show. Maybe they could have reformed him rather than getting rid of him, but either way, I’m not too sad to see him go.

Some years ago, I was riding a motorcycle in the very early hours of the morning. I pulled up to a stop sign, stopped. Realized I was a bit far from the sign, pulled up some more, stopped again (there was no traffic what so ever). Then went thru the sign. A second later I’m pulled over for running a stop sign. I’m…

The question is, how often are the good cops willing to stop a bad cop from doing bad things?

There is absolutely no way to tell what percentage of cops are bad apples. No one really knows. There is a tendency, among police, to circle the wagons and defend officers accused of bad behavior. In some way, its understandable. They have to rely on one another, so there is a feeling of fraternity and trust, and the…

I have a slightly more practical suggestion: require courts to treat any unsubstantiated statement by public officials as more likely to be false than not. If police can’t defend themselves against accusations by relying on the weight on their testimony alone, and if that testimony can’t be used to secure convictions,…

66% does not meet that definition of “almost entirely”. It’s a great deal closer to “mostly”.

That, and can they make a decision like “I can’t stop in time to avoid this pileup, and I risk being rear ended if I do, but I can get around it by driving in the grass beside the road” or alternatively “I could, if this grass was level, but that’s a big ditch and I’m better off taking my chances in a pile up”

Yes, but I suspect they will have a harder time than people finding alternative paths around an obstruction.

Under some definitions of adverse weather, that is the exact right course of action.

It’s been a little while since I kept up with motorcycles, but I remember that Ducati was promising that their V4 would like like a twin, with the pairs of cylinders moving up and down simultaneously, and each head firing both its cylinders at the same time. This should preserve the character of the twin, but would…

I’m pretty sure that’s almost (but not entirely) completely wrong.

Who do you think makes the F35?

If its a DC charger, induction almost doesn’t matter at all.

Rather than a winch, use a coiled cable (like the one on stationary phones, only much bigger) with a tube like storage compartment. The coiled cable will pull itself back into a tube with very little help, no winch required. The tube can have a lid, with a safety switch that wont let you drive off until its secured.…

That’s like asking how does a peasant compete with an ox that can pull a plow so much faster and farther. He doesn’t, he drives the ox.

I don’t think I’m being clear on what changing environment means. You can make a robot that will quickly lay bricks, in a straight line, on level ground. If the ground changes, or the wall isn’t straight, that’s changing environment. A robot can do a decent job of mopping floors, but it can’t pick up trash, because…

Yes, in the jobs that machines are well suited for, they are almost impossible to compete with. That goes for robots and chainsaws. They are not well suited for every task.

There is not job that is guaranteed to be around 50 years from now. This isn’t a new thing. Majority of jobs from 50 years ago are either not around, or changed enough that a a person from 50 years ago would not be able to do them. This isn’t a new thing, you are describing human history.