They can also massage the numbers by only driving on the safest roads, then making a comparison based solely on miles driven.

The comparisons I've seen are with the general population, not professional drivers. How might that comparison look, since this is a paid service?

Also, the autonomous car companies will have their vehicles coordinating to make it difficult for humans to drive, such as holding a long convoy with close following distance in a single lane.

The streets of the future are an unbroken conveyor belt of fast moving death machines; existing outside of a car or building will become illegal by lobbying "to keep people safe".

At least I'd be able to cut them off with impunity and know they won't try and follow me for it

Instead, they will record you, retain the recordings forever, and assign you a "score" to be applied once they have total dominance of the roadways.

Definitely. They'll be like the obnoxious people on public transport who play music and videos out loud, people who don't give up seats to the elderly etc

Wait, so this was all a Streisand Effect shenanigan to increase the reach of "X"?

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I wish for definitelynotnitter.net, where people just copy paste from accounts they follow and otherwise non-interactive.

Without a nitter instance, I simply won't see posts to X.

This seems predictable, so at least one goal is to reduce the reach of people posting on X.

I liked it better in the olden days when the paper would print the location of the story at the beginning of the first paragraph.

This is not a paper. This is local TV news: it says WPTV West Palm Beach in the top left. It also says it is converted from an on-air report. My hunch is their audience knows what they mean when they say St. Lucie. Still, it seams like it wouldn't hurt in cases like this where the story gains a wider audience.

These types of comments always come up when local TV news makes its way to a broader audience. Yes, the story was originally spoken out loud on a TV broadcast to an audience who knows what St. Lucie is.

It is a global journalistic standard to explain where something happened in context to geography that the intended audience would understand.

It would be really weird to watch local news if every story reiterated “this happened in West Palm Beach in the American state of Florida”. They don’t need to say that when everyone watching lives there.

It’s only weird because we’re expecting everything on the internet to be written for a global audience. But really this is like going to a Chinese newspaper website and getting pissed off that it’s not in English. If you don’t understand, you’re not the intended audience.

Indeed. It is not clear to me why a community that is in opposition to something that will likely cause it to experience net negative economic impact are engaging in a "culture war".

If this can be reduced to a culture war, all of politics is a culture war, making the term meaningless.

Mario was an elite?

It will be "so convenient" when we finally have digital ID so we won't have to deal with all that stuff.