LOL wasn’t expecting that.

Cop: WTF happened here?

Driver: It drove itself onto the tracks

Cop: Okay, but what about the other 49 feet of the 50 feet it’s on the tracks?

Driver: …

LOL right? Like deciding to see what the car will do ON RAILWAY TRACKS is absolutely fucking bonkers.

How the fuck do you let any level 2 system go 40 to 50 fucking feet down the railroad tracks.

We’re they asleep?

Hard to say since a lot of immigrants with legal status have been kidnapped and trafficked out of country.

To start ya. It’ll eventually be all their models, we’ll… probably not the CT.

So the headline is pretty inaccurate.

There will be a person in the passenger seat. They aren’t a safety driver, or driver at all. They’ve been operating with an actual safety driver for around a year now for employees only.

We don’t really know what they’ll do, but I highly doubt it’s jump for the wheel if it’s about to do something. I think it’s going to be more of a, the car decides it can’t do anything and is just sitting there incorrectly and they won’t have to dispatch someone to fix it like Waymo does. This could be a legitimate saftey issue if the car is just stuck on the road.

Once they’re happy it’s not getting in situations like that they’ll remove the person and dispatch people as needed.

But we won’t know for a few more days when we get reports of what they’re doing while the first people test it.

The purpose built one coming in 2026 is a 2 seater. This launch is using the new Model Y’s

And their 1st stage is designed to be reusable, so we might have another reusable provide in the near future.

It might take a handful of launches to get there, but they are on that path.

Up and down isn’t a hard problem in the grand scheme of things. It’s expensive and doesn’t offer much benefit which is why people generally haven’t bothered.

Going up and over at orbital velocities and coming back is the hard part, and none of these new spaces companies have done that successfully yet, and SpaceX has now done it with 2 vehicles and reused them both.

New Glenn from Blue Orgin might be the first after SpaceX but it blew up coming back on their first attempt, but it’s been designed to be orbital and reusable

I think the point of propaganda is that it works, so they don’t realize they’re stupid and need to look elsewhere.

They shove it down their throats that the other sources are all lies so they think they’re being smart, and it’s been happening their entire lives.

So while they’re idiots, I’m not sure how much of a choice it is for a lot of them. They were manufactured that way.

I had one of theirs like that. You could disable it instead of uninstall, and this wouldn’t happen, but you couldn’t uninstall it.

I would bet money they used that language to make them seem less dangerous than they are.

I thought they were all supposed to be at the ground as well, so I learned too!

Nah, it’s the non lethal rounds they fire, but it sounds like there are newer ones as well that can be fired directly.

Originally, they were intended to be bounced off the ground when the British designed them.

Looks like LAPD now use some that are intended to be bounced off the ground, and some that are meant to be fired directly at the target.

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-MIGRATION/PROTEST-LOSANGELES-WEAPONS/zdpxalxkyvx/

In fact, the LAPD does not use rubber bullets, the department told Reuters.

Instead, the LAPD uses foam rounds, a condensed sponge projectile that resembles a hard Nerf ball.

One version, which has a plastic body with a hard foam nose, is fired from a 40mm launcher and is usually aimed directly at a target.

A second version, fired from a 37mm launcher, disperses five foam baton rounds toward the ground in front of a hostile crowd once an unlawful assembly has been declared, before bouncing up into the crowd. It is not to be fired directly at individuals, the LAPD said.

However in the past, even with ones that are meant to be targeted at the ground, police have often been found aiming them at people. So I wouldn’t be surprised if/when the LAPD fires the 37mm versions directly at people either.

You’re also supposed to bounce them off the ground. Never a direct hit.

The answer might be no today, but always seems like a stretch.

I’m annoyed the pieces are bottom adjusted…

Okay, but could ChatGPT be used to vibe code a chess program that beats the Atari 2600?

I was nodding along until

Not even the destitute want pickled cauliflower.

It’s great!