• SkolShakedown [he/him, any]
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    4 months ago

    he admitted to being on his phone? manslaughter aside, he needs to be in prison because he's too stupid to be allowed back in society.

    • MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 months ago

      We really need to develop a coherent set of positions on criminal justice at some point. It's an enormous, everyday issue, and there's this constant ping ponging between "we need to abolish prisons now" and "obviously this serious crime deserves prison time at minimum."

      It's of course not always the same people making the two comments, but as a group, leftists are all over the map.

        • MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml
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          3 months ago

          The issues with re-education are:

          1. If you're keeping someone in custody during it, it's prison, even if it's a nice prison.
          2. If you aren't keeping them in custody, and they don't show up, how do you get them to?
          3. Ordinary people commit heinous crimes, too, see this article.
          • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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            3 months ago

            There's plenty of little social and bureaucratic annoyances that can be levied on someone until they show up. Don't go to re-education? You're not allowed to buy liquor till you do, or you're suspended from hookup apps, or your money's no good at festivals and sports events. Non-carceral, non-fine penalties that are still enough of a social annoyance to be worth biting the bullet and taking care of.

      • Runcible [none/use name]
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        3 months ago

        It is hard to thread the needle between recognizing "retributive justice" is generally just morally wrong and the idea that systemically you probably need some sort of negative consequences available to help shape societal behaviors

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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        3 months ago

        Here’s my position

        • Using “self driving cars” = prison
        • texting while driving = prison
        • intoxicated while driving = prison
        • buying trucks and SUVs without the need = prison
        • MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml
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          3 months ago

          Prison abolition isn't "prison is bad," it's "prison should be abolished." Even in the most generous reading, it's "prison should be used as an absolute last resort," which means wildly different things to different people.

          All I'm saying is we should develop a coherent position on such a common issue.

          • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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            3 months ago

            In the same way that it will take time to advance society to a moneyless classless one, I can imagine that full prison abolition would take societal structures to be developed before it is fully realized.

        • booty [he/him]
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          3 months ago

          you know what libs think the criminal justice system in the DRPK is like? yeah we're gonna make that look like some weak shit. im gonna imprison your unborn great-grandchildren mfer just you wait

      • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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        4 months ago

        The driver is 56yo so his parents are likely already dead unless you mean someone else lol.

        • booty [he/him]
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          4 months ago

          I would not just assume someone most likely in their 70s is dead. It's not extraordinarily unlikely but it's certainly not a given

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    One Model 3 on self-driving mode almost hit me head-on recently. It was approaching a 56kph/35mph intersection where I was in the left turn lane. The driver was heading straight. All of a sudden it jerks into the opposite left turn lane and keeps going straight before he stopped it mid-intersection. It didn't even attempt to slow down or signal/start a turn. That turn lane was just a third straight one which evidently can't register a white truck.

    I can't wait for Tesla to eat shit and cut hardware/software support. It's so antisocial to buy one and the owners should be punished.

  • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    Every 6 months or so I'm like "what if I had a cute scooter to drive around places", and then I remember that driving any kind of motorcycle is a very quick way to get killed, even more so now that I have to share the road with the malfunctioning robots.

    • D61 [any]
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      3 months ago

      Road vest that has a Stop Sign on the back.

        • D61 [any]
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          3 months ago

          hehe... Strap some car break lights on the back that you can control with a hand switch instead of needing to actually break to activate them. (Assuming that the Tesla doesn't mistake you for an Emergency Vehicle and speed up towards you.)

    • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      for real. little scooters and e-bikes are perfect for so much urban travel. basket for groceries, helmet that says, "I am The Christ" or whatever is cool these days.

      literally all that stops me is getting murdered by all the crazy driving boxes and cagers.

      almost got T-boned 2 days ago by some guy blowing a red light. if there had been any peds, they would be done-zo and if I was on something two wheeled, I would probably have a broken limb from having to ditch.

  • Sulvor [he/him, undecided]
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    3 months ago

    Didn't regulators say that real self driving isn't ready and they can't do that? Then Tesla turns around and straight up calls it 'full self-driving'? Wildly irresponsible.

    I guess that's specific to Tesla. Other companies already have these on the street.

  • umbrella@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    maybe don't fucking imply it can totally drive itself by calling it full self driving.

  • roux [he/him, they/them]
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    3 months ago

    Chuds explaining how it's still really important that their fash internet god still make cars with half-baked software that is just a series of if/else statements used to dictate the worth of another human's life: frothingfash

    • egg1918 [she/her]
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      3 months ago

      This is not the first motorcyclist murdered by a Tesla actually. The fucking things use cameras for the sElF dRiViNg mode. I know of one case where it didn't detect a motorcyclist stopped ahead and just plowed into it, killing them.

      I stay well the fuck away from these things, at least as best I can anyway

      • TheBroodian [none/use name]
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        3 months ago

        I know very little about the technology involved in this sort of thing, but cameras?? Wouldn't lidar be a much better choice for spatial detection??

        • egg1918 [she/her]
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          3 months ago

          I probably know less than you lol, but I do know that they choose not to use lidar because libertarian-approaching wants to only use cameras as one of his genius ideas.

  • StalinStan [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    Deep down everyone wants self driving to be real because we know driving sucks. So I have mixed emotions when a tesla shots thr bed like this.

    • CarmineCatboy2 [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      we are automating something that sucks in part because it involves crashing. so tesla is doing what it was meant to all along.

    • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 months ago

      Just give me more trains and separated bike paths and I'll be happy. During the winter, maybe increase the frequency of the buses because I'm a baby about the cold.

      If driving sucks, I'd rather city planners focus on building up alternatives instead of trying to make driving suck less. Make it suck more so people stop.

  • Nationalgoatism [any]
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    3 months ago

    When I was staying in sf recently I discovered a brilliant new hobby: cruising around on a dirt bike in the middle of the night and just forcing the self driving cars off the road lmao

      • Nationalgoatism [any]
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        3 months ago

        It is a little dangerous, but I don't think it's as bad as you might think bc you are operating at pretty low speeds and of you do get hit it will most likely be a bump from the side

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    All Tesla owners and all owners of “self driving” cars need to be put on the same list as sex offenders and notify their neighbors when they move. I am 100% serious

  • egg1918 [she/her]
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    3 months ago

    In April, we reported on a tragic accident where a driver in a Tesla vehicle admitted to using “Autopilot” and not paying attention when he drove “his car lurched forward and crashed into the motorcycle in front of him” – killing the motorcyclist.

    Oh it's just an accident.

    I cannot stand western "journalists". They are such pathetic cowards. I also hope the Tesla driver suffers for this for the rest of their life.

  • AndJusticeForAll [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    I was biking the other day and a Tesla was coming from the other way and I saw the car kinda' steer towards me a bit before the driver corrected it, but it was a gravel road so I'm both assuming maybe the irregularity of the gravel causesd it and/or no one would be stupid enough to do that but Tesla drivers are fucking stupid.