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  1. Re:Flamebait title on Volvo Self-Parking Car Hits People Because Owner Didn't Pay For Extra Feature · · Score: 2

    And my car drives itself a bit (it has an automatic transmission) and yet doesn't have a "don't drive into pedestrians" feature without anyone seeming to care.

  2. Yes. There was no self parking involved - the headline, summary, and article are making it up. That should be obvious from the video in which the car is clearly not parking.

    You said " someone needs to get cracking with that recall" and "It doesn't invalidate anything I wrote". So what precisely do you expect to be recalled due to this case of a person accelerating a car towards a group of people?

  3. Re:Someone Please Provide a Better Explanation on Volvo Self-Parking Car Hits People Because Owner Didn't Pay For Extra Feature · · Score: 5, Informative

    City-safe (city safety really) is a system that automatically applies the brakes when it detects another vehicle within 6 meters of the front of the car with which a collision is imminent. It's designed for stop-n-go city traffic to avoid or at least reduce the severity of the relatively common low speed rear end accidents.

    It has nothing to do with parking so avoiding pedestrians in that context is irrelevant.

    The driver is a dumbass.

    Volvo has a "automatically brake when a pedestrian collision is predicted" feature which costs a bunch of money and hence "not plowing through human beings" is an optional extra just like it is in almost every other car ever made. Of course it isn't even optional in most cars - though I'm sure you could retrofit the LIDAR and computer and so on.

    Self parking is irrelevant, since that was not being used in the case in question.

  4. Re:Flamebait title on Volvo Self-Parking Car Hits People Because Owner Didn't Pay For Extra Feature · · Score: 1

    It doesn't drive itself.

  5. Re:Defective on Volvo Self-Parking Car Hits People Because Owner Didn't Pay For Extra Feature · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It wasn't doing any autonomous movement so your premise is garbage and thus the rest of the post meaningless.

    The idiot in the car backed up and then accelerated towards a group of people. Surprise, surprise, the car didn't magically stop and the people were hit.

    Now, the car company in question does sell something that might have caused the car to apply the brakes automatically in that situation but it costs a bunch of money. Are you seriously claiming they need to include that on every car they make?

  6. Re:Okay... on D.C. Police Detonate Man's 'Suspicious' Pressure Cooker · · Score: 1

    Or you splashed some fuel when filling the tank on accident.

    Or the police lied to make their actions seem reasonable.

  7. Re:Not pointless... on D.C. Police Detonate Man's 'Suspicious' Pressure Cooker · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Right, because having a car parked with an item in it that is sold at most department stores and kitchenware stores is reasonable cause to blow up someone's property. And I guess everyone better start driving electric cars if they don't want the police to blow up their stuff too.

    And sure driving with a revoked license is illegal, but the car was parked. Now the person involved may have been stupid enough to say he drove it there, or the police might be making that up like they often do. It'd be nice to be in a country where the word of a police officer could be trusted, but the US isn't such a place - and no not all police are going to make stuff up to protect themselves but enough have and then not been charged with filing a false report that it's rational to not trust any of them. Just like when the 8 year old says "no I didn't I eat those cookies" when found next to the now empty cookie jar it's rational to not just trust them at their word.

  8. Re:Super interesting on Marvel's Female Superheroes Are Gradually Becoming More Super · · Score: 1

    I guess if you don't know what the headline, byline, and article text are then other simple concepts might be an issue too.

  9. Re:Super hero relative power co-efficients on Marvel's Female Superheroes Are Gradually Becoming More Super · · Score: 1

    Marvel you fool!

  10. Re:Super interesting on Marvel's Female Superheroes Are Gradually Becoming More Super · · Score: 1

    Well only those of you who didn't bother with reading the opening paragraph of the linked article.

  11. Re:*sigh* on Marvel's Female Superheroes Are Gradually Becoming More Super · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So your thesis is that males would prefer to look at drawings of men in skin tight costumes over women in skin tight costumes?

  12. Re:not the real question on Chris Roberts Is the Least Important Part of the Airplane Hacking Story · · Score: 1

    Because writing something on he internet is not talking with government agents and hence does not fall under https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...

  13. Re:not the real question on Chris Roberts Is the Least Important Part of the Airplane Hacking Story · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So if Roberts was telling the truth he should be charged for hacking the avionics. If he wasn't telling the truth then he should be charged with making false statements.

    Though of course the FBI will want to dig up evidence either way before doing anything. Even though it's obvious the second is the case. If a plane he had caused a plane to climb the pilots would have reported that the plane initiated a climb all by itself and the FAA would be investigating and probably grounding planes or having them disable the entertainment systems.

  14. Re:"nearly every constitutional right you can name on Baton Bob Receives $20,000 Settlement For Coerced Facebook Post · · Score: 2

    Maybe in a couple of weeks your first grade teacher will tell you about the word "nearly" and how it isn't just a random jumble of letters with no meaning that we just throw randomly into sentences for fun.

  15. Re:Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi on Wind Turbines With No Blades · · Score: 1

    That's still the modern usage. Once upon a time motor meant "to move" and engine meant a contrivance to do something or just a physical device. "search engine" is that old usage in modern vernacular.

  16. Re:Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi on Wind Turbines With No Blades · · Score: 1

    engine and motor are essentially synonyms in modern usage.

  17. Re:Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi on Wind Turbines With No Blades · · Score: 1

    What do you call device that imparts motion without using electricity?

  18. Re:Keeps the brain sharp on John Urschel: The 300 Pound Mathematician Who Hits People For a Living · · Score: 1

    There's no issue with his choice of sports (aside from why would you risk the brain damage - but that's an different topic). I also do bjj - the wussiest of the "combat" sports - two people rolling on the ground hugging :)

    Of course when you think about it when I train bjj I'm really trying to get another human being into a position in which they will die if I don't choose to let go - let's ignore all the other people around who will *make* me let go if I'm actually psychotic.

    I don't think there is a big deal - he just said something that when taken at his word is reasonably disturbing. Though CTE is pretty scary lurking in the background, possibly more so for someone who claims to need to be physically violent to start with.

  19. Re:Keeps the brain sharp on John Urschel: The 300 Pound Mathematician Who Hits People For a Living · · Score: 0

    That's not what he said.

    When football season if over plain old football training doesn't provide enough physical violence to make him pleasant so he adds kickboxing and wrestling where you do get to physically assault people in training.

    He didn't say he "enjoys physical sports" he said he needs to be able to perform physical violence on other people in order to not be "not a pleasant person to be around".

    Sure maybe he just worded things badly - then again he's supposed to be smart in a field of logic and precision and so just as likely meant exactly what he said.

  20. Re:Keeps the brain sharp on John Urschel: The 300 Pound Mathematician Who Hits People For a Living · · Score: 1

    He said if he goes too long without physically assaulting people he becomes "not a pleasant person to be around". Most people aren't like that, and those that are don't usually admit it.

  21. Re:Not convinced on Self-Driving Cars In California: 4 Out of 48 Have Accidents, None Their Fault · · Score: 1

    Right you took that 4 from 48 and constructed a claim with two significant figures (ignoring that 2 of those 4 were people driving cars that happen to be capable of self-driving but were not doing to as the time), something that clearly can't be supported with the pitifully small data set used.

  22. Obviously you wave them back on first, I can't believe you'd think someone would get out of their car before doing that, but whatever.

    They were there first, they can either go, or park, or put their hazards on. I'm never in a rush, I have all day...

  23. Re:One small problem on What To Say When the Police Tell You To Stop Filming Them · · Score: 1

    Another day another video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Surprise surprise police attack someone and charge him with attacking them.

    If not for the video they didn't know about he would be the one getting a criminal record and thus becoming one of those people with a history who deserves what they get. Instead there's a video so they'll get a paid vacation.

  24. Re:nature will breed it out on Psychologist: Porn and Video Game Addiction Are Leading To 'Masculinity Crisis' · · Score: 1

    No I'm saying the study in question doesn't provide evidence for that. And that's the topic surely.

  25. Re:Doing It Wrong on Psychologist: Porn and Video Game Addiction Are Leading To 'Masculinity Crisis' · · Score: 1

    Why would you ever be playing a video game then? Well I suppose when there's a hurricane....