Self-Driving Cars Are Being Attacked By Angry Californians (theguardian.com)

According to incident reports collected by the California department of motor vehicles, some Californians are purposely colliding with self-driving cars. The Guardian reports: On January 10, a pedestrian in San Francisco's Mission District ran across the street to confront a GM Cruise autonomous vehicle that was waiting for people to cross the road, according to an incident report filed by the car company. The pedestrian was "shouting," the report states, and "struck the left side of the Cruise AV's rear bumper and hatch with his entire body." No injuries occurred, but the car's left tail light was damaged. In a separate incident just a few blocks away on January 28, a taxi driver in San Francisco got out of his car, approached a GM Cruise autonomous vehicle and "slapped the front passenger window, causing a scratch." The police were not called in either case.

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Re:Stupid Whitey

[Tom]

I'm a German. 65 million of us beat out a billion-plus Chinese in the export game for decades. The US isn't even on our list of competitors. Not after you downed your own car industry, then outsourced your electronics industry to Japan (who happily buy the machines to build those electronics from Germany to this day). All of that was 30 years ago, but you still didn't learn. Military is the only industry left in the US, isn't it? Aside from industry, you have Internet companies and Hollywood.

Meanwhile, we continue to build the machines that build the cheap plastic shit that you spend your dollars on. And Europe went down the crapper because we needed more poor countries to export stuff and outsource cheap labor to.

Oh, reality check: There is no communist party in any parliament in Germany. There is a communist party, but I think it gets something like 0.1% of the votes. But yes, complaining is a favorite past-time in Germany. We just are like that, don't take it too serious.

The bottom line is, you Americans think you are so superior, but actually almost nothing was invented in your backwater shithole. You wouldn't have gone to the Moon if it weren't for the rocket scientists you took from the Nazis. Even the first computer was invented in Germany (Z3, by Konrad Zuse, 1941).

I suggest you crawl back into your trailer and pick your fights more carefully.