Regarding crows, here is a start: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21769575

Cows <> Crows

Thanks, that turns this from a very serious concern to a much smaller one.

I thought it was a Tesla that somehow completely failed to see a pedestrian and then to stop when it made contact, which would have terrible implications for the rest of the fleet.

>that turns this from a very serious concern to a much smaller one.

Not really, this means there is a whole bunch of cars like this already in the wild and people being unaware of this.

That is true, but if it's a 2002 model and this first happened now, I perceived it to be a low-probability event.

I don't mean to downplay the seriousness of this bug, I'm just saying it doesn't have as catastrophic implications as it would if this happened in a state-of-the-art Tesla.

I think that gp is being ironic since the event they described actually happened.

I don't really see any way the remote start could have triggered the car moving... Unless perhaps the car was in gear?

I would guess this car has had some kind of aftermarket fiddling...

It has to be more than that unless you're willing to hold the bystanders who tried to help criminally responsible.

They pushed the car away from the kid, did they just let it roll back up on him? I doubt it, it's more likely the vehicle was in gear.

as a ratio, the number of non-Tesla’s on the road is far greater than 34:1, so Tesla’s are responsible for a disproportionate share

Just to be clear, the numbers in the parent comments were "3 per year" and "101 per day", so the ratio there is 12288:1.

There are approximately 250e6 registered vehicles in the US, so if all the Tesla-related fatalities are those "3 per year" (which seems unlikely to me; it assumes that there are no Teslas involved in fatal accidents when the automatic driving stuff is not engaged) to be disproportionate there would have to be only ~21000 Teslas on the roads. There are close to an order of magnitude more than that at this point.

Good catch.

This site seems to be an interesting aggregation of Tesla deaths: https://www.tesladeaths.com/ It claims 29 deaths in the US from Teslas in 2019; 3 are from accidents where auto pilot use was claimed.

I'm unaware that anything to the contrary is happening. There's just the added public opinion and media backlash, which is always fair. Tesla doesn't get a free pass.

I'm a father of a two year old daughter. My friends and family have a bunch of kids similar age.

We're in a progressive country where gender equality is good and most people are aware to not show bias and offer girls toy cars and stuff.

My takeaway from the past two years is: There is clear gender preference. Boys generally like cars, girls like dolls. Both like books and puzzles.

Of course there are exceptions but the stereotype is a stereotype for a reason.

You are describing a traditional online retailer.

I agree there is probably nothing inherently 'wasteful' about drop-shipping, but it is just another middleman and so it 'wastes' money for the buyer/seller, but that's probably a thin argument.

But of course the main wastefulness of the process is the whole system of constantly pushing people to consume tons of disposable useless crap.

From a cursory glance it seems to me that SNCF's debts are due to them financing all of their infrastructure instead of the French state paying for it (directly, it of course is indirectly), and then the argument goes back to the current top comment here: The real value of a good transport network is the add-on economic effects.

Also from a security perspective, you can't hijack a train and crash it into some building (it has to stay on the tracks), so that's a plus for trains.

Finally a domestic train causes about 41 g/km of CO2 emissions, while a domestic flight causes about 254 g/km (accounting for altitude) [0]

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49349566

Any answer of mine that is marked incorrect will be withdrawn and the question subtracted from the overall marking grade. Due to my religious beliefs.

Essentially: Due to my religion I will be president.

I suspect the only way to develop a method that stops the onset of symptoms is to detect the symptoms really early and figure out what to do from there.

Otherwise there is no way to distinguish between someone who never got cancer and someone who did but had the progression stop before it became a problem.

Yes, that's why I said it would be useful.

In a way, but the downside to the losing party is limited. Also in (at least some of) these systems, it is not an automatic order for the losing party to pay, the court can decide to order it or not.

I don't think there really is any feasible way to prevent rich people and companies to have access to more/better representation.

Thanks for the Wikipedia link. From the results of this exercise it seems it really was necessary, in order to avoid the same catastrophes on D-day itself. However the operation did alert the Nazis that something was up, and they apparently did reinforce the landing sites in preparation for an assault.

As a side not since this is HN: The article summary box lists Nazi Germany as a party to the exercise with all of the E-boats, presumably due to article quality control requirements in the Wikipedia system.