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Go back and read my post. I said that the system should have responded better post-collision. Brisket said: My follow-on response to that is that it isn't as "fucked up" as his standard hyperbole claims. It happens. I know people who have done it.

Kept going because they had an F-250 with a brush guard and only a few miles to get home. Didn't think the damage was bad as they didn't feel much with a vehicle that size. Took a couple of miles before enough coolant leaked out to give a warning.

Not saying that they didn't notice it, but they just kept going.

I know people who have driven right through a deer-strike and didn't stop until their engine light came on. I can't be the only one who knows of people who have done that. Personally, I have squashed a squirrel and an armadillo without tapping the brakes or stopping afterward.

No defense for Telsa's service system. It sucks. Fortunately the quality and performance of my vehicle has been such that I haven't needed Tesla service in over 3.5 years. That's an interesting video. Here are a couple of factors that I think contributed to the accident: 1. FSD watches the vehicles around it and factors that into its decision-making. From the actions of the vehicle ahead, all indications are that the road ahead is clear. It's apparent that the car ahead didn't see the deer either - no brake lights or swerving. They moved from the left lane into the right lane and look to have been lucky in the fact that they got over just past where the deer was in the road. 2. The old painted stripe in the road creates a lighter area where the deer blends in to the foreground and makes it harder to detect. 3. The time between the deer becoming readily visible to impact is about 2 seconds. That may sound like a lot of time to react, but this situation would result in a deer-strike 90+% of the time with a human driver. None of these factors excuse the system for not recognizing the collision and reacting appropriately. It must do better at responding post-collision. I'll also concede that LIDAR or RADAR would likely have helped in this situation. I'll also submit that the "no accidents ever" standard is not a straw man. There is a significant portion of the population who will denounce an autonomous system every time it has an accident, not accounting for the fact that the accidents occur at a fraction of the rate of human drivers. I think it's a good sign that we only see stories about Tesla FSD accidents once every few weeks. If these were coming out a few times a week, that would be good reason for concern. But that's not what is happening. Tesla just opened up 30-day free FSD for all vehicles again a few weeks ago. We haven't seen a slew of reporting on FSD accidents. It could be that the data is lagging a bit, or it could be that accidents with FSD happen at a pretty low rate. Time will tell.

LIDAR. That’s claimed to be the level 5 panacea. Not sure how much it would help in a deer strike situation. Sonar would not be helpful at highway speeds. It’s fine for self-parking systems and low-speed collision avoidance.

Sigh… Why are there “a couple million deer strikes each year”? Because this is an exceptionally difficult driving situation. It usually occurs at night or in low light. Deer move fast and are relatively small and have evolved to blend into the background. Most deer strikes happen at full speed because drivers have almost no time to react. I’d love to see FSD evolve and improve to the point that deer strikes very rarely or never happen. I don’t know how realistic that is, but it would be awesome. I know this will shock you, but I do not see this story as the pwn on FSD that you guys do. You’re trying to apply an incredibly advanced standard of performance that vastly exceeds what human drivers do today. I don’t know that any autonomous system will ever advance to the point that animal strikes never happen.

Username and all... Y'all are doing YGIFS proud carrying on the legacy.

So if Cole has zero responsibility on this play, why does he point to first? Is it A) a helpful reminder to the 1B that he needs to touch the bag for the out, or B) an after-the-fact acknowledgment that he fucked up his responsibility on the play and that Rizzo will need to do things on his own? It's about 63 feet from the pitcher's mound to 1B. If Cole is moving full effort, he 100% beats Betts to the bag. Mookie's avg top speed on basepaths in 2024 is 26.7 ft/s - he's actually in the bottom third of the league. Martin Maldonado's avg top speed is 23.1 ft/s. I think it's safe to say that Cole could take Maldy in a foot race. Let's just assume Betts immediately reaches his top avg speed out of the box, it takes him 3.37 seconds to get to the bag. Using Maldy as an analog for Cole, it would take him 2.72 seconds to get to the bag. So let's just fuck off with the "Betts was always beating Cole to the bag" argument.

Went on a Salmon fishing day-trip in AK back in September, the week after Walz had been named as Harris' running mate. There were six of us on the boat - the female guide/boat captain, my Dad and me, a couple in their late 60's from San Antonio, and a 90-yr-old codger from MA who liked to talk. At some point in conversation, it came up that I was retired military, which apparently gave the codger the green light to ask a bunch of strangers what we all though of Walz's military service. You could tell he expected the "hurr-durr stolen valor" answer, but before I could open my mouth to tell him to fuck off as politely as possible, the lady from SA piped up with "this boat is too small to have conversations like that." The topic changed and the rest of the trip was great.

It's 1:22 PM CDT on Thursday and OU sucks and Gerrit Cole still hasn't made it over to cover 1B. QFT

He has three more years of team control with the A's. The Yankees can't "sign Rooker." They can try and trade for him.

The Void is upon us.

Don't go Sandy Bullock'ing our Plaza party!

Needs flight tracker and curtain analysis.

MLB stepped in and banned them from G5.

Agreed. Not quite ready for the great void to be upon us.

Thank God he touched the front of the bag.

Another RBI for Freddie.

Holy shit. John Smoltz is explaining that the front of the bag is closer than the middle or back of the bag.

Do you stand on the beach and negotiate with the ocean to stop being wet? Do you bargain with Mt Everest so that it does not stand so tall? Do you treat with the moon in an effort to stop its phases? No you do not because these things shall not come to pass until the earth tumbles into the sun. Neither do you ask John Andrew Smoltz to keep his fucking yap closed.

Michael Jackson's corpse celebrating being left off of this list.