Ohio student suspended for staying in class during National Walkout Day
Hmmmm.. kid decides to say screw the whole political BS being foisted on everyone by the loons, and stays in class (gee, isn't that where they are supposed to be?) and does not participate in school sponsored, taxpayer funded "wlakout" (really should be called "walkabout" as they were obviousy sponsored by the teacher who abandoned student and locked door). Gee, has the so called "education establishment played this whole fiddle for their own ends? Are our supposed "caring educators" actually using this to attack the Presisdent and government because their candidate didnot get elected? Why is a kid who actually WENT to school suspended, yet the entire frigging school NOT SUSPENDED, for missing class?
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Clearly a law firm would want that to happen so as to get a chunk of the windfall.
It might take legislation that limits the liability to actual damages. There still will be a problem assessing the responsibility between autonomous, non-autonomous cars and individuals.
In the case of the bicyclist, the bicyclist might have partial liability from their own negligence. I was party to a case where I pulled out of a blind driveway partially onto a sidewalk and a bicyclist struck the front of my car. The jury assessed me 60% at fault and the bicyclist 40%. He did have the right of way even if I couldn't see the sidewalk until I got partially on it. The landlord subsequently put up a mirror.
Basically freeing onself of the need for trade with the society at large, and replacing that with immediate inventory of things that would be hard to obtain, plus setting up methods of providing food, water, electric power, somewhat remote shelter, defense, and basic medical care on a somewhat long term basis.
Then start moving to a less crowded location, with the idea of moving to the chosen remote location if/when socialism collapses our country.
To the extent this can be done in conjunction with other freedom loving peoples, all the better. But that group has to be small so as not to attract the attacks from collectivists who didnt prepare for the ravages of socialism.
I guess they call it the GULCH...
Sadly I fear the latter so we kill almost 100 people a day in car accidents but postpone automatic vehicles because someone might get killed.
Of course the idea of 'identical' programs is close to what is happening. I suspect different manufacturers would have different software but your car would regularly get updated as the algorithm gets refined based on experiences.
I would suspect that the autonomous car companies would even share problem examples since they all depend on the industry as a whole.
Of course the other cool thing is to be able to analyze the sensor readings. Currently it's just some guy saying "they came out of nowhere!".
Of course, all the autonomous vehicle has to do is be safer than the typical human driver is. But that idea will never fly in this litigious environment. Imagine the liability that would flow to car mfrs and software engineeres.
Some residential streets have speed bumps in attempts to force drivers to go 25. The real solution is for drivers to be more responsible- I mean who in their right mind wants to endure all the hassle of an accident ? I sure dont.
People here are into what I call MTV driving. They are concerned only with getting there quickly and as such make last minute decisions that they havent thought through. They assume other drivers will just adjust and keep THEM safe. Not always possible though, and accidents here are EVERYWHERE as a result.
I dont think tickets work here. I have noticed that when there is an accident, BOTH parties get expensive tickets. One to the driver who is at 'fault", and the other for "failure to avoid an accident". Maybe THAT will work to encourage a bit more defensive driving.
So here's the issue - speeding causes others to misjudge the distance. I live off a dead-end side road that T's into a state route 2-lane highway. The speed limit is 45 on the highway, but most drive well over 60-65. We don't have another route out of the neighborhood, that's it, and it's most frequently a left-hand turn. At 60 +/-, we can judge the distance well, though in the opposite direction there is only about 500 yards of visibility to a corner. Many, many, many times I have been nearly hit by someone going well over 70 around a mostly-blind corner with over a dozen similar streets that come out of residential neighborhoods. We've had a few youngsters in their own or their dad's corvettes wrapped around a tree - the last time was a politician's kid and they went into weeks of pavement analysis - blah blah blah - but he was doing over 65 around a corner on a wet road with a sports car driving with track tires.. suicide.. A month later the taxpayers are wasting 100s of thousands ripping up perfectly good pavement to replace with some ridiculous textured stuff to 'channel the water' presumably so people can drive faster, safely, in a residential area.
The downside of all of this - we live in a 7-figure neighborhood, and no one can go for a walk more than a block away - it would be stupid to walk along the 2-lane with idiots flying by.
Speed limits do multiple things - safety of pedestrians, traffic calming, quality of life, safety for areas with reduced visibility (and you would never know what you are about to hit).
Granted - Las Vegas (and Nevada for that matter) is rather devoid of wildlife... but you are speaking as though it is the gospel. Driving 85 mph in the dark in Minnesota where I grew up would be suicide - I've driven stretches of road of maybe 10 miles and seen 30 deer in the ditch (struck by cars).
I am far more concerned about the idiot drivers in Las Vegas, where I live, who cut in and out, make last minute decisions that require evasive maneuvers to avoid running into them. Those thing make me mad, and I have wanted to develop some sort of laser device that I could use to bore holes in the back of their cars that they wouldnt see until they got home. Illegal of course, so I havent done it.
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