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Comment · 1 year ago
If this is void of telemetry, dial-home and other fascistic crap then I would seriously consider it. It's in a similar price range of street legal UTV's but with more room assuming it stays in that range when it launches.
Comment · 1 year ago
I fed about 110 deer during this last winter. I wanted to put something reflective on them and the senior game warden said no. There is very little I am permitted to do for them. I am not even permitted to protect them from predators. I can not put a sign next to the highway to watch for them, only the department of transportation can. I kept them off the highway all winter but mid spring they go their own way, mostly into the mountains but about 4 or 5 packs cross the highway. People think they are dumb but they just have incredibly poor depth perception and cars are much quieter these days. Noisy trucks and motorcycles will make them run back to me. EV's will need a sound system that makes them sound like a big-rig with jake-brakes and straight pipes. Let's make it happen.
Comment · 1 year ago
Brake checking a semi seems like a classic FAFO situation.

It absolutely is. There are many dash-cam videos truckers have uploaded to Youtube of people finding out.

Comment · 1 year ago
Are all the driverless kinks worked out? How well do these handle ice, snow squalls, loose gravel and dirt on the roads? Have people tested brake checking them in these conditions? Truckers have to deal with clowns brake checking them far too often.
Comment · 1 year ago
A flash board is interesting. How many browsers still support shockwave by default? Somewhere I still have an archive of SWF's from the early 00's. Most in my collection are probably too offensive by todays standards.
Comment · 1 year ago
In the spirit of kicking the dead horse that is ground to dust at this point... the optimal solution is to require websites that either have adult content or user-generated content to add an RTA header [1] and / or meta tags. That's it. End user devices and apps must make a best effort to look for that header and activate parental controls. That's it. The law for that could fit into a few sentences in a tiny paragraph.

Not perfect, nothing is. Teens will bypass it. Actual children not legal children but single-digit aged kids will be less likely to bypass it or accidentally stumble onto Goatse. Again, not perfect, nothing is. Perfect is the enemy of good or better than what we have now and the cost to implement is at best a side project of one college intern per company and there is no risk of data leakage. Alternately five to fifteen minutes from a network engineer adding the header to the load balancers. RTA headers are privacy compliant and do not in any way involve third parties or PCI audits. This would be one of the simplest ways to get two thumbs up from ones legal and compliance departments. We just need to create one simple law and keep the greedy evil user-profiling and tracking incentives out of it.

[1] - https://www.rtalabel.org/index.php?content=howtofaq#single

Comment · 1 year ago
I agree with the sentiment but it's tricky. Logically and technically it totally makes sense but it's expensive and companies look at cost, maintenance, accessibility. Above ground is easier to maintain, less legal hassles and easements among other things. Even when it made sense to bury everything that would affect the investors. There are some rough laws around impacting shareholders. Oh and people are greedy. I probably could have just said people are greedy.

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