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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • You are completely ignoring the under ideal circumstances part.
    They can’t drive at night AFAIK, they can’t drive outside the area that is meticulously mapped out.
    And even then, they often require human intervention.

    If you asked a professional driver to do the exact same thing, I’m pretty sure that driver would have way better accident record than average humans too.

    Seems to me you are missing the point I tried to make. And is drawing a false conclusion based on comparing apples to oranges.



  • I think the fair comparison would be humans that drive legally.
    Idiots that drive high or drunk or without prescription glasses or whatever, shouldn’t count as “normal” human driving.
    In the same way a self driving car can have issues that will make it illegal.

    The problem is that legal self driving Tesla is not as safe as a legal person. I sees poorly at night, it gets confused in situations people handle routinely. And Tesla is infamous for not stopping when the road is blocked from 1m and up, and for breaking without reason. I’ve seen videos where they demonstrated an unnecessary break every ½ hour!! Where a large part was the German Autobahn, which is probably some of the easiest driving in the world!!


  • Because they are driving under near ideal conditions, in areas that are completely mapped out, and guided away from roadworks and avoiding “confusing” crosses, and other traffic situations like unmarked roads, that humans deal with routinely without problem.
    And in a situation they can’t handle, they just stop and call and wait for a human driver to get them going again, disregarding if they are blocking traffic.

    I’m not blaming Waymo for doing it as safe as they can, that’s great IMO.
    But don̈́t make it sound like they drive better than humans yet. There is still some ways to go.

    What’s really obnoxious is that Elon Musk claimed this would be 100% ready by 2017. Full self driving, across America, day and night, safer than a human. I have zero expectation that Tesla RoboTaxi will arrive this summer as promised.



  • I understand the Americans that want to distance themselves from this and Republicans in general and especially Trump.
    I too would hate to have to share any label with Republicans.

    But unfortunately for good Americans, they do share the label American with the totalitarian fascist Republicans.
    And what’s more unfortunate is, that the Republicans was the majority at the Presidential election.

    I’m sorry to have to lump you together with them under the label American. But this administration and Republicans do represent the whole country now, even those that hate them.


  • Why is this Trump propaganda upvoted?

    underscore a growing sense of frustration among the US leadership about Europe’s role in global security efforts,

    WTF? That is a role USA has taken upon them selves, and has secured basically the whole world operates according to American standards!

    Europe is increasing military budgets to match USA, in some cases even exceed them. And the loser will be USA, because the reason is that Pax Americana is dead now.

    reveal a blunt and unvarnished view of Europe as a “freeloader”.

    Except it’s Europe that has to for instance deal with refugees that are a result of American policies.
    And Europe spend more than USA in foreign aid to rebuild after wars that USA supplied the weapons for.

    This piece despite of being Australian is American parroting idiocy at its worst.
    Is that really where Australia stands?

    However, the texts suggest the US may not view these relationships as mutually beneficial. Rather, they are increasingly seen as a strategic burden.

    We will se what they say when the consequences of their actions begin to have effect.

    whether European nations can afford to remain in a relationship in which their contributions are seen as so dispensable.

    Seems to me the reaction is to break out of of that relationship. If USA want’s to destroy democracy and dictate other countries, it will be without Europe.





  • Past administrations have all had hands toward what we have today.

    Absolutely, as I wrote Obama was just unlucky that it was under him that these things were revealed.

    It’s disheartening to feel so powerless in the face of such a FUBAR-POTUS clown show in the chainsaw wielding circus.

    I am really sorry for all the good Americans that have to suffer the consequences of this administration.
    It will probably get worse before it gets better.