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Except temperature degrees aren't related angle degrees. You'd be using a pun as a unit conversion.

Lucky you.

Would you prefer to live in a world without antibiotics?

You effectively can't just talk to women on dating sites. Thanks to how matching works, you have to successfully sell yourself with pictures to get your profile read, and successfully sell yourself with words in the profile before you can actually talk with anyone.

Back before matching was a thing, it wasn't much better. You could talk but you'd usually be ignored because the woman's inbox would be filled with too much crap for her to go through it all.

I've heard their business-oriented products are much much better. Which makes sense, because business customers tend to have contracts that cost the supplier money when things don't work, whereas pissing off consumers usually costs nothing in the short term.

Yeah. Living in a rural area wouldn't be so bad if it didn't involve living around people like my mom's redneck siblings.

I see a lot of people in this thread saying a car that needs any kind of indication of self-driving isn't safe enough to be on the road, but that implies a single answer to questions like "is it safe enough?" In reality, different people will answer that question differently and their answer will change over time. I see it as a good thing to try to accommodate people who view self-driving cars as unsafe even when they are street-legal. So it's not really a safety feature from all perspectives, but it is from the perspective of people who want to be extra cautious around those cars.

Personally I see an argument for self-driving cars that aren't as safe as a average human driver. It's basically the same reason you sometimes see cars with warning signs about student drivers: we wouldn't consider student drivers safe enough to drive except that it's a necessary part of producing safe drivers. Self-driving cars are the same, except that instead of individual drivers, its self-driving technology that we expect to improve and eventually become safer than human drivers.

Another way to to look at it is that there are a lot of drivers who are below-average in their driving safety for a variety of reasons, but we still consider them safe enough to drive. Think of people who are tired, emotional, distracted, ill, etc. It would be nice to have the same warning lights for those drivers, but since that's not practical, having them only for self-driving cars is better than nothing.

The ACC in my car maintains a good bit of distance to the car ahead and doesn't respond suddenly to things coming closer than that distance. I've rarely if ever seen it brake inappropriately.

Jesus Christ that's the most pointlessly cynical thing I've read in a long time.

They're pretty common in the US as well, but it's just a sign that says "student driver".

I've also seen orange triangles used in vehicles like horse-drawn carriages that can't go as fast as regular traffic, mostly in connection to Amish people.

But I guess Mercedes already wrote that law for our government to copy. How convenient.

How dare a company try to work with governments to create a new safety feature!

Magnets? How do they work?