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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I hate seeing these cars on the road as I drive to work with a normal car that does all of this stuff as a basic feature but doesn’t have a cult of personality CEO promising bullshit attached to it.

    A modern sedan has all of this in play. But the companies that offer these features are very careful to explain that what they offer isn’t a robot that drives for you.

    But magical mystery tour Mars commune snake oil diamond mine scion promises a robot car!

    I just don’t get it.

    There are tons of cars our there that are better positioned to deliver a assisted driving experience that is better than these Teslas.

    I love my Honda even though it has connectivity issues. But damn if it won’t see myself in a situation where just driving my car winds up whare I smash me into a tree and burn me up.

    I understand as a driver that at some point all of this bullshit won’t help me.

    In the end it’s do you know how to drive.















  • @yamapikariya I feel like there’s a distinction to be made between Americans _visiting _a city and the people that live there.

    For instance, when I lived in the SF Bay Area, ques for services locals used were efficient and well-ordered unless jackass tourists were involved. IIRC (it’s been a while), everyone standing on the BART escalators would be on the left, leaving the right half of the escalator for people in a hurry to walk up or down the stairs. But mix in a few American tourists and it was just willy nilly people everywhere.

    7:00 AM? All locals, everything is good. 1:00 PM? Good fucking luck.

    Tourists also don’t seem to understand or CARE that the city they’re visiting has to run somehow, and they meander around on the sidewalks oblivious to everyone else like they’re in a theme park.

    TL;DR - - Americans know how to queue, they just don’t do very well when they’re out of their element in unfamiliar places.

    @robocall @NateNate60