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Groda posted:
No? Guy is talking swedish without an accent and the roadsigns looks typical of the type in the nordic countries.
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Sometimes tornadoes can be cute! http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1352
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Apr 1, 2018 20:06
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Groda posted:
Not sure about that, but small twisters do happen in Scandinavia every now and then. No building destroyers or anything like that though.
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Apr 1, 2018 20:48
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Apr 1, 2018 21:29
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His Divine Shadow posted:No? Guy is talking swedish without an accent and the roadsigns looks typical of the type in the nordic countries. Lol at calling rikssvenska "swedish without an accent" 
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Apr 1, 2018 21:29
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:Uhhhhhhh Maybe if Tesla wasn't trying to be cute by naming their collision avoidance program "Autopilot" then people wouldn't be treating it like a loving autopilot.
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Apr 1, 2018 21:33
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FCKGW posted:Maybe if Tesla wasn't trying to be cute by naming their collision avoidance program "Autopilot" then people wouldn't be treating it like a loving autopilot. tbf the comparison is accurate, in that a genuine autopilot does little more than make a plane fly in a straight line between two points, and i'm sure they would argue this in court if ever pressed but anyway it's people who are stupid and think that an autopilot is a "press button, go to sleep" device
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Apr 1, 2018 21:37
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Sagebrush posted:tbf the comparison is accurate, in that a genuine autopilot does little more than make a plane fly in a straight line between two points, and i'm sure they would argue this in court if ever pressed Other companies make it very clear how their products work. Tesla is trying to make you thing the car can drive itself.
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Apr 1, 2018 21:41
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Yes, absolutely. I think their messaging and marketing around the product is outright criminal. just sperging for the sake of it
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Apr 1, 2018 21:42
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Apr 1, 2018 22:57
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 My aunt was not pleased with how my uncle decided to paint the corners of the open stairwell.
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Apr 1, 2018 22:57
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(Sorry if this is a repost) https://news.sky.com/story/plane-runs-over-mans-foot-at-gatwick-airport-leaving-him-seriously-injured-11307641
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Apr 1, 2018 23:26
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Sagebrush posted:Yes, absolutely. I think their messaging and marketing around the product is outright criminal. I’d advise against pointless sperging when recent deaths are involved.
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Apr 1, 2018 23:34
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Avenging_Mikon posted:I’d advise against pointless sperging when recent deaths are involved. where do you think this is, the Something Nice forums
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Apr 1, 2018 23:35
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Carbon dioxide posted:(Sorry if this is a repost) A freaking plane and it injures just his foot? I don't know if he's super lucky or super unlucky. Also: quote:"The patient, an adult male, had suffered a serious lower limb injury and, after treatment by our crews at the scene, was transported by Air Ambulance to St George's Hospital at Tooting." 
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Apr 2, 2018 01:01
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Avenging_Mikon posted:I’d advise against pointless sperging when recent deaths are involved. did you miss the uber crash derail, by any chance?
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StrangersInTheNight posted:I dunno if it's growing up with a fascination with tornadoes that gave me a healthy respect for 'em, but my first response was not 'oh that's cute' it was 'YOU DUMB FUCKER GET AWAY' because that tornado is HUGE and headin' straight towards him. They look cool and fun up until they're tearing your poo poo apart, which happens very quickly (one moment stillness, next moment your house is gone) and they are well-known to sound like freight trains bearing down on you. There's a great recording of the 1974 Xenia tornado made by leaving a microphone in a window as it bore down. Also the 2011 Joplin EF-5 as recorded inside a walk-in cooler (if you can handle the "HEAVENLY FAAATHER PRAIIIISE JESUS" lady). 3 minutes in is where it really starts rocking and rolling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQnvxJZucds And the next day when he goes back to the station they rode it out in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-P4P68YyNM Two weeks and it'll be the 7th anniversary of our last outbreak. That was an interesting day and I will forever kick myself for not toting the camcorder as I was out and about.
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Apr 2, 2018 02:26
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HardDiskD posted:did you miss the uber crash derail, by any chance? Uber made it clear they were homeless
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Apr 2, 2018 02:52
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HardDiskD posted:did you miss the uber crash derail, by any chance? 
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Apr 2, 2018 03:05
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My coworker bought a 2018 Audi S4 and it has a similar mode called “traffic assist” apparently. Seems like a better term for it honestly. Just use it when poo poo is stop-and-go. Also he doesn’t use it anymore because he claims it leaves too much room between cars and people kept changing lanes in front of him. “I want it to be like six inches from the car in front of me but it won’t let me do that. People kept getting in front of me!” Yes he’s a huge chode how could you guess?
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Apr 2, 2018 03:24
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Gorilla Salad posted:There's an old video by a guy travelling along a road with trees on either side. Suddenly the wind turns into a tiny tornado and just loving shreds the trees in front of him and then dissipates just as quickly. I saw a tiny tornado once. I suppose it was more of a dust devil, but it was much stronger than I've ever seen. I was driving in Bemidji on my way to BSU, made a turn, and in front of me was a perfectly shaped tornado, about 50 feet high and as wide as the street. It was a cool sunny day. It was throwing anything loose all over the place, rocking cars, etc. I followed it for about a block. It made a right turn down a side street and then disappeared. I've never seen such a thing before or after. It acted like it was supposed to be there. I've seen dust devils on the prairie before, but never one on a city street.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:There's a great recording of the 1974 Xenia tornado made by leaving a microphone in a window as it bore down. I stopped for lunch at a Sonic in Joplin, MO on that day, driving from NE Oklahoma to Michigan with my in-laws, wife, six week old daughter, her two siblings, and their dog. It's a loving eerie feeling to think about that fact. Looks like the restaurant was south of the tornado's ground track, but I remember it being sunny and relatively clear while we were there. The storm caught up to us somewhere around Indianapolis, I believe.
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HEY NONG MAN posted:My coworker bought a 2018 Audi S4 and it has a similar mode called “traffic assist” apparently. Seems like a better term for it honestly. Just use it when poo poo is stop-and-go. And this is why cars won't be safe until humans have nothing to do with them
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Carbon dioxide posted:(Sorry if this is a repost) I wonder if it was on autopilot...
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FCKGW posted:Other companies make it very clear how their products work. it's pretty clear to me the chain of decision making that caused a software developer to continue the same test despite potential dangers
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Apr 2, 2018 04:21
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HEY NONG MAN posted:My coworker bought a 2018 Audi S4 and it has a similar mode called “traffic assist” apparently. Seems like a better term for it honestly. Just use it when poo poo is stop-and-go. "Self-driving" cars are just going to sneak up on us like cell phones, aren't they? All the debate about the ambitious Google/Uber/Tesla projects aside, luxury car manufacturers are including increasingly aggressive adaptive cruise control and lane assist with little fanfare. The cost of that stuff is probably more development than sensors, so it should filter down to most models sooner rather than later. Increasing the scope of these assists while leaving the driver ostensibly in charge (and conveniently liable) may be more feasible than jumping straight to fully self-driving cars.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:"Self-driving" cars are just going to sneak up on us like cell phones, aren't they? All the debate about the ambitious Google/Uber/Tesla projects aside, luxury car manufacturers are including increasingly aggressive adaptive cruise control and lane assist with little fanfare. The cost of that stuff is probably more development than sensors, so it should filter down to most models sooner rather than later. Increasing the scope of these assists while leaving the driver ostensibly in charge (and conveniently liable) may be more feasible than jumping straight to fully self-driving cars. Sweet can't wait until cars explode.
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mostlygray posted:I saw a tiny tornado once. I suppose it was more of a dust devil, but it was much stronger than I've ever seen. I was driving in Bemidji on my way to BSU, made a turn, and in front of me was a perfectly shaped tornado, about 50 feet high and as wide as the street. It was a cool sunny day. It was throwing anything loose all over the place, rocking cars, etc. I followed it for about a block. It made a right turn down a side street and then disappeared. I've never seen such a thing before or after. It acted like it was supposed to be there. Sounds like a landspout if there wasn't a mesocyclone. Could've also been a strong dust devil, those can reach F1 strength.
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Mustached Demon posted:Sweet can't wait until cars explode. Good news! Electric cars can only become the standard once the effective energy density on batteries challenges gasoline, which can only lead to more exciting catastrophic failures.
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Apr 2, 2018 05:13
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Mustached Demon posted:Sweet can't wait until cars explode. 
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HEY NONG MAN posted:My coworker bought a 2018 Audi S4 I think the first sentence is all the proof needed.
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Apr 2, 2018 07:05
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Guess the building REALLY wanted some fried chicken.
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HEY NONG MAN posted:Also he doesn’t use it anymore because he claims it leaves too much room between cars and people kept changing lanes in front of him. “I want it to be like six inches from the car in front of me but it won’t let me do that. People kept getting in front of me!” You do have to sort of strike a balance in busy highway and stop-and-go city traffic. If you leave a car sized gap, someone will take advantage.
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Pretty sure all the research shows that not leaving an appropriate gap between cars leads to slower over all traffic. I guess I'm a road cuck because I maintain a gap and if someone dives in it I just adjust the gap.
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Apr 2, 2018 13:35
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DiHK posted:Pretty sure all the research shows that not leaving an appropriate gap between cars leads to slower over all traffic. People are greedy fucks though.
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Apr 2, 2018 13:39
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Relevant to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHzzSao6ypE
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Apr 2, 2018 13:41
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I think if you leave a safe distance in traffic in the DC area you actually start to go backward.
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Apr 2, 2018 13:58
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FuturePastNow posted:You do have to sort of strike a balance in busy highway and stop-and-go city traffic. If you leave a car sized gap, someone will take advantage. If someone uses their blinker and tries to merge in a timely manner, I will absolutely let them in. Those people are uncommon. If someone ignores the MILE AND A HALF OF EXIT LANE and tries to dive across the double white line into the off ramp, I am going to put my bumper six inches off the car in front, and block them like it is my loving job. gently caress Miami.
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glynnenstein posted:I think if you leave a safe distance in traffic in the DC area you actually start to go backward. a couple of years ago while visiting DC I rented a car to go to Gettysburg and ended up getting back to DC around 5pm I will never drive in the DC area again after that
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Back in the dark days before Google Maps was on every phone, my regular trips from Orlando to NYC involved passing through DC. Since our car didn't have a GPS, we printed out directions from Mapquest. Every time, without fail, we would get lost in DC. Even if we entered the Beltway without heavy traffic, none of the signs would actually match our directions and you would have to swing from one side of the interstate to the other to find the right path. Every single time we would take a wrong turn and end up in a random neighborhood, having to ask for directions from random passersby to get out of the city. This has never happened again since I got a phone with Google Maps. It often gives us a route that bypasses the Beltway altogether.
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