Actually, flying on autopilot during cruise is way easier than driving a car. There’s an old saying that flying is hours of boredom with minutes of terror on each end.

Well said. As a pilot, using an aircraft autopilot is very useful. It’s also a far simpler device that doesn’t need to “read the road” or check for collisions. I think warning systems in cars like sensors that help with parking and accidental lane divergence are great but car drivers are not highly trained pilots…

if I have to keep my hands on the wheel and monitor its steering constantly, then what the hell is the point of autopilot?

The bottom line is that partial self-driving cars should not be legal. Either the car should be able to drive itself, completely, with no human intervention beyond “I want to go here,” or it should not have “autopilot” features beyond cruise control.

Wow! Thanks!

I drove through Alabama, a few years back, and I saw a tree growing through the roof of a house, and the words “GOD IS” painted across the front of the house in black.  There was a family on the porch.  That image is unsettling to this day, never thought I’d see shit like that in the US

Depends. If you’re a minority then they’ll ask you why you’re going anywhere near a SEC state.

Totally agree. It has been shown that this is why lottery winners often end up broke, because both $35MM and $85MM are simply “more money than I could ever imagine.” And Welch does a fine job explaining his take, IMO. (Also, the teenager working the drive-thru at a French McDonald’s speaks at least three languages.…

The difference there is most people in the world would jump at a free vacation to Bogota and not too many humans outside of a select handfull of states want to stomach an SEC game in person.

For me or you, there is no functional difference between the two.  If I had either amount, my coworkers would never see my ass again.

I was about to post something mocking you for trying to dunk on a 2-time league MVP with 3 rings for not having a finals MVP, but then I remembered...Cleveland.

What are you talking about? people always refer to Alabama, Mississippi, as poor. 

Actually, that’s pretty much exactly what everyone says about Alabama and people from Alabama. Have you never heard a redneck joke?

It wasn’t great phrasing, but it doesn’t strike me as coming from a place of malicious or even casual racism. I think he’s just saying that life-changing amounts of money like that are inconceivably large to regular people. I mean, I’m a white dude from California, and I’m too poor to have any real grasp of the…

To make matters worse, next year Kevin Durant will be lost in New York.

Vegas 2018: The NHL tries to help certain teams win? Who would dare to even suggest this?

I don’t know about that. Yea, maybe the call was too severe. But I just can’t get past the fact that the Knights were the ones who gave up 4 power play goals not to mention blowing a 3-1 series lead. It never should have gotten to a game 7. I’ve seen tons of teams kill off a 5 minute major. I’ve seen tons of teams try…

It’s almost never worth it in my experience. I know you mean well when you say that it’s only going to change when women tell their stories so that the perpetrators are held accountable, but that’s so rarely what happens that I have little faith in that as an agent of change. Instead, women end up being retraumatized…

Right, because we all should stand in judgment of a young woman because of how she dealt with the stress of a traumatic event in her life. Not to mention that the traumatic event seems (based on the article you linked to) to have led to severe mental and emotional trauma beyond the physical already sustained by her…

The Kings: “Just in case you missed Kevin Johnson!”