It’s pronounced “wuh-stir”.

Also, drink some water, OP.

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So why couldn’t one of the passengers have hopped into the driver seat and pressed the brake?

No reason at all. If you touch the wheel or pedals, it automatically disengages the automatic driving.

Maybe we should have kill switches inside these things.

There is a screen on the back of the front seats, with buttons to stop/pullover and contact support.

All the safety options were there, but instead of using any of them he took out his phone to record video of not a whole lot happening. Because that’s what you do when you really fear for your life, after all.

The idea is that you can do both manual and automated driving with one vehicle.

The article links to another source, but the video they show doesn’t have the elements the passenger describes, like speeding through a construction zone or evading police. All you see in the video is the car moving less than 1 MPH while trying to merge through a clusterfuck of traffic. Is there a longer version of the video somewhere? Because so far, it sounds fishy. Especially with claims from Tesla workers, of all people, commenting on it.

EDIT: The guy’s LinkedIn profile starts with: “As a Content Creator & Social Media Specialist, I collaborate with various stakeholders within institutions to create paid and organic content for social media. I support and drive the overall efforts and strategic visions by engaging in multi-disciplinary cross-functional teams (strategists, marketers, copywriters, etc.).” The man is literally a professional bullshitter. I’m not buying it.

I can believe that the Waymo could’ve gotten stuck in a complicated merge, but I don’t believe for even a second that it would flee from police or speed through construction. I used to work on these cars, and it was nearly impossible to get them to drive through construction zones at even 5 MPH, let alone at highway speeds. On top of that, lights and sirens behind the car will trigger a pullover.

This sounds like somebody who got stuck in traffic and got annoyed, and wanted to put their name on some headlines.

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Visa is already censoring the world’s porn. As if we needed more reason to hate them.

It’s a good quote, and it’s actually a little ironic because the line sort of proves itself, as it’s actually a myth that people ever believed the world was flat pre-Columbus. Scholars have known the Earth was round for literally thousands of years; Pythagoras wrote about the curvature of the earth as early as ~500 BC. The roundness of the Earth was never really contested until the last 50 years or so.

The myth stems from Washington Irving’s book “A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus”, in which he completely fabricates the idea that Columbus argued with scholars about the shape of the earth (as well as several other stories with zero historical data to back them up). Everybody at the time generally agreed, before Columbus ever set sail, that the Earth is round. That misconception about what the public believed is relatively new, as the book was only published in 1828.

Fact-checking was a much more arduous process back in the 1800s. Back then, you’d typically have to find a book to prove your point, so it’s really no surprise that people just accepted these printed words as the truth, but in this case the book is just full of straight-up lies. Lies that eventually made their way into almost every school’s history curriculum ever since. In fact, there are more flat-Earthers now than at any point in history, and we can probably directly blame Irving for that, for putting such a stupid idea into the public’s eye in the first place.

Interestingly, Columbus was actually WRONG about the shape of the earth. He didn’t believe the Earth was round at all. While most scholars accurately believed it to be spherical, Columbus thought the planet was pear-shaped. But “proving” that was never the point of his voyages, either way.

15 minutes ago, some of you reading this “knew” that people believed the world was flat 500 years ago.

And a +1 for egirls in general.

He should give his boss a real piece of his mind, then.

Valve’s argument isn’t in defense of free speech, it’s in defense of Gabe’s next yacht.

Well done, Henry.

Oh no! The nazi bar has set a drink limit! Guess I’ll just have to continue not drinking there.

Open a new thread and ask again. You’ll get a different result. Open a third thread and ask again, you’ll get yet another result. That’s how LLMs work. You getting a different answer to your prompt doesn’t mean anything.

Of course the anti-woke crowd hate it; it’s a story about young people finding themselves, instead of being told who to be.

My Geocities page had the best cursors.

Wait.

Just look at the hairless pits the character on his shirt has. Clearly this is a man of culture.

No, but it’s the best option for users who are unable/unwilling to switch browsers.

The Lite version still works fine.