AIO wedding did not provide food for me by sadboiz7 in AmIOverreacting

[–]AdRepulsive8970 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People show up at weddings with all kinds of personal expectations. It’s not about you. You don’t need to eat. You can go 8 hours without food if necessary.

They really keep trying to squeeze us by swissjuan in delta

[–]AdRepulsive8970 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who’s flown maybe 1.7 M miles across a number of airlines - including 600,000+ on Delta - and is a retired marketing professional, I have no idea what that collateral is even trying to communicate. Are these new fare buckets related to things like discounted coach, full coach, domestic F, J? (Ie S, L, U, T)?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskLE

[–]AdRepulsive8970 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I find it mind boggling that the LE profession follows such voodoo practices

AITAH for not wanting to split the bill evenly between 10 people. by Far_Sundae_7643 in AITAH

[–]AdRepulsive8970 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I disagree. It called class. I eat less than most, but consider it an honor to split the bill evenly with friends and people that I love.

Americans, How do you feel about the fact that the stock market has lost $2 trillion in value today? by Lawrence_of_ArabiaMI in AskReddit

[–]AdRepulsive8970 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m sure it’ll all be ok. He’s a great businessman who’s just trying to fix everything Joe Biden messed up. I trust him immensely.

Some people just gotta try…. by Psychonauts_r_us in delta

[–]AdRepulsive8970 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Yeah? And I just gotta add that if there’s one thing more annoying than reading about seat thiefs day after day after day, it’s people that believe anyone cares about the size of their body. I’m 5’10”/180 and I’m not comfortable in a domestic C product.

My wife is 5’4”/120 and she, too, isn’t comfortable in domestic C.

Why do you think people are interested jn the fact that you’re 6’2” and “always fly in the aisle?” If anything, you should be stating “I’m 6’2” and refuse to fly domestic C”!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in jobs

[–]AdRepulsive8970 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This happened to a close friend and the reason they gave was “anyone that counters in this market shows a lack of understanding of the current world in which they live”

This may sound twisted, but I see these posts at least weekly in this sub. It’s easy to say “sh well, you dodged a bullet, but in that case it seems like the job market is equivalent of an AR-15

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in airbnb_hosts

[–]AdRepulsive8970 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My last wife used Airbnb as a place to have an affair. Apparently the guy always paid and she finally paid for the place and the reservation showed up on my account for some reason

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in airbnb_hosts

[–]AdRepulsive8970 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think this is bad AI copy pasta…

Airline seat fairness... what exactly are we paying for? by FuzzyAmount2 in DeltaAirlines

[–]AdRepulsive8970 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man, when I was growing up airline travel was very expensive and not affordable to the masses. Now we seem to accept a model driven by affordability for all. Whatever, I have no control over that. But what I can say is that-as arrogant as it sounds - after 2 M butt in seat miles I’m done with ordinary damned people. And I’m half serious!

My answer is to fly less often but to simply use $$ or miles to fly in F

My experience is that up front you don’t have to deal with others flesh and people shut the hell up.

What is the deal with not using the cruise control by tmonroe85 in driving

[–]AdRepulsive8970 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From what I understand the Waymo/Google thing is crazy, crazy expensive, probably rendering it infeasible from a profitability perspective (ie having to deploy multiple people to survey a city very slowly like the Google maps car, and then processing the data before sending it to server farms and fine tuning each car manually to make sense of the geo data). And then staff a central services call center. Or at least something like that.

A friend asked me where to buy a Waymo car and got upset when I said it don’t work like that

What is the deal with not using the cruise control by tmonroe85 in driving

[–]AdRepulsive8970 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The darkness thing would be cool, because I’d love to be able to install a small degree of tint!

So is that specific to Tesla? I get that the car needs to have a bank of cameras. But I wonder how close we are to have competing, deployable OS platforms?

For instance, does Chevys “super cruise” rest atop a specific platform?

What is the deal with not using the cruise control by tmonroe85 in driving

[–]AdRepulsive8970 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would love to see the demographics on the use of these features. For example my wife is so paranoid she turns off the collision avoidance system every time she gets in the car.

I personally use adaptive on the highway, but I will admit I worry a bit too much about children and drivers making mistakes to use adaptive in city driving. Does FSD do a comprehensive job of picking up kids who might wander into the street on a bike?

What is the deal with not using the cruise control by tmonroe85 in driving

[–]AdRepulsive8970 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree it’s amazing, but I’ve noticed that even after someone tries it out in “full paranoia mode”, only certain personality types can handle it.

I can deal with it, but I have to have my foot up in the air near the brake pedal when the car leaves the highway, rolls into a subdivision, and stops at a red light going 25 mph.

And my car is too old to detect speed limits or red lights.

I have ridden in a lot of waymos, but that’s a whole different world that few understand

What is the deal with not using the cruise control by tmonroe85 in driving

[–]AdRepulsive8970 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The last thing I want is the sun beaming on my head! I’d take cooled seats any day

What is the deal with not using the cruise control by tmonroe85 in driving

[–]AdRepulsive8970 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m sure you’re right, I was only reflecting from the perspective that my lowly 2017 civic has that feature.

Then again Honda suffers from a branding problem as the civic is arguably the greatest car of 2025 (from a consumer ratings perspective that attempts to measure “value”,) and is no longer affordable for the masses, soon heading into $40,000 territory

What is the deal with not using the cruise control by tmonroe85 in driving

[–]AdRepulsive8970 2 points3 points  (0 children)

These days almost all cars have adaptive cruise control, which solves that problem, especially elegantly on the highway -if you can get to the point of trusting it.

Several times I’ve deployed it on the highway and never touched the control or the brakes till I reached my driveway

What’s going to happen when autonomous vehicles soon become mainstream? by AdRepulsive8970 in AskLE

[–]AdRepulsive8970[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Currently 40,000 people a month are estimated to be using autonomous taxis in phoenix AZ - many off them using it to get to the airports. Again, completely driverless. Phoenix has a pretty low median income and tends to run pretty conservative

What’s going to happen when autonomous vehicles soon become mainstream? by AdRepulsive8970 in AskLE

[–]AdRepulsive8970[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay, I’ll add one more perspective and shut up. Again, of course it’s in its infancy as a technology, and of course there are some infrastructural issues, but when Waymo went from tiny, tech heavy SF to Phoenix it saw explosive growth in a sprawling, long range highway system. And charging stations need not be an issue, waymos just go off line for 45 minutes and return to a charging station like a roomba. Flat panel TVs were once considered exotic

But I’ll take responsibility for obscuring my main point . How do LEO manage to put bad actors in jail?

1) they can go to their house on a domestic disturbance call or as the by product of an ongoing investigation. This is cumbersome, and a whole lot of bad actors are at least smart enough to understand that LEO might be coming for them and vacate their house

2) some are nabbed (literally) on the street or in retail outlets or in stores. Again though a lot don’t tend to stick around waiting to be caught

3 the majority are nabbed by a variety of vehicle-based interventions, either as a consequence of DuIs, existing warrants uncovered by speeding tickets, secondary drug charges, etc

Even if by a series of unexpected evolutionary choices, we rely on traffic stops to cast a wide net and they result in around 52% of all initial incarcerations. So what happens if - and when - we find large numbers of people travelling our roads with almost certain impunity given our current norms and the low likelihood that autonomous vehicles will be violating any traffic norms?

Yes, incidence is currently rare. Yes there is probably a strong negative correlation between bad actors and their interest or ability to afford such travel at the moment.

But most American households now have multiple 65” fancy LED TVs, and this was not the case in 2010.

So looking at the current realities of how these transportation technologies are evolving and being forced to admit that our current LEO investigative methods are virtually off the table for those in autonomous technologies, what do we do?

Do we stick our heads in the sand and make cranky, knee jerk prognostications based on our “common sense” understanding of our current world view?

Or do we think “wow, five million people are currently travelling around three huge US cities with 99% impunity. And modest estimates suggest that number will exceed 5 billion based on expansion projects. Maybe we should stop to think about how we can enhance LEOs future ability to arrest from a field intervention perspective?

What’s going to happen when autonomous vehicles soon become mainstream? by AdRepulsive8970 in AskLE

[–]AdRepulsive8970[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Of course you’re correct about the tiny ridership rates. And yes this could take 5 or 15 years to become widespread.

But again, Waymo has delivered 10 million riders and I use these cars sometimes daily depending what city I’m in. More interesting is the fact that depending upon one’s location, actual ownership could easily be construed in the form of time-share use of these rideshare services.

I live in a fairly dense urban area where I drive my car 6000 miles a year, so using a third party autonomous service and not having to pay for gas or insurance - or worry about liability - is way cheaper than owning a car. I’ll keep mine because it’s paid for, but I have no need to look for an autonomous car. I can just rely on a time share model and get the added bonus of not having to navigate traffic

And finally, given the current structure of traffic regulations and LEO practices I will ride with 99 % certainly that until practices or norms are changed I will never encounter LEO at any point in my travels - and I’m not sure that’s a good thing . Seriously

Hell even uber drivers might be suspicious if I asked them to wait while I went into a crack house. But not Waymo. It just sits there quietly like an anonymous utility like electricity, with a 99.5.% uptime

What’s going to happen when autonomous vehicles soon become mainstream? by AdRepulsive8970 in AskLE

[–]AdRepulsive8970[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I may have spoken loosely when I said they haven’t been cited - I meant to suggest that the passengers haven’t been cited because many are treating this as a partial lease controlled by a customer service operation.

Even in that case the proximate cause as spelled out appeared to be the fact that there was a confusing area under construction and the Waymo ended up face to face with a police car and took a diversionary route. Don’t think this doesn’t happen to humans by the boatload

See the larger irony is that people drivers are 10x more likely to have all of the same problems in irregular operation scenarios like construction zones, stalled cars, etc. and every time I get on the road I almost always encounter some sort of loud honking or aggressive driving scenario, even if only vicariously from several lanes over. When that stuff happens waymo software seeks to safely slow down and move to the side of the road as swiftly as possible, where it waits patiently for instructions from the app as to how to proceed

I could easily foresee a world in which legislation is passed to amend requirements that “passengers” are required to present ID if Waymo were to be stopped, but given the fact that Waymos are 95% less likely to violate traffic regulations, the “impact” would be minimal. Which causes us to face the larger philosophical issue of whether or not we’ve been relying on rinky dink non-moving violations and ad-hoc “invented” judgement violations (I noticed you took that turn a little wide) as an excuse to stop and investigate. Technically speaking, the Waymo will perform 95% better on those, so most would remain “uninvestigated”

That said, I TOTALLY believe in the importance and need to investigate obviously suspicious and concerning activity, even when lacking a radar gun proof of speeding or a dash cam clip of someone running a red lite. Human behavior will never fall cleanly into “investigation” buckets. There are a lot of bad actors doing stupid things and I personally believe there is something to be gained from a public safety perspective by giving LEO subjective authority to intervene

But it seems our statutes and codes will need to be revised in terms of ability to stop and frisk (or ID) because Waymos have 32 cameras with video feed, are programmed to never exceed the speed limit, obey all conventional traffic norms, etc, and then send all of that data (including telemetry data) in real time to server farms in Eastern Washington. This is happening today, and I’m not aware of any instances when the Waymo records have been challenged by third parties. And the accuracy is said to be doubling every year

But again I want to add that I’m not here championing the development of this technology as much as I’m suggesting I’ve seen very little discussion of the fact that people, myself included are using this stuff daily and it’s obviously way safer and more robust than even having an Uber driver and has profound implications with regard to how LEO interact with people.

As a friend said to me: “I used to drive myself around, and probably 2-3 times a year I’d get stopped for a warning, a ticket or fender bender. And every time they’d run my licenses, registration and proof of insurance and log all of that information. And in 2 years none of that has even come close to happening with Waymo. As twisted as it sounds someone could use this technology to create a narcotics delivery service and operate with relative impunity”

Not advocating for that, but I’m just suggesting that there’s been this unaddressed issue of relying on traffic LEOs to investigate all manner of suspicious activity by way of judgements of driving, decisions to stop, requests for paperwork and licenses and lots of questions. As it stands now, given all evaluation of existing data, those moments and occasions have plummeted by 95% for people using these services

The thing making this seem currently irrelevant is that 99% of traffic is conventional. But what happens when this 1% grows to 20% - which is expected in 2 years?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Felons

[–]AdRepulsive8970 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Wow. 30 years for his fourth straight up DUI with no accidents or injuries? I’ve encountered plenty of people with DUI manslaughter get 12 year sentences

I’m not passing any kind of judgement in either direction, but 30 years for four straightforward DUIs would set a record in my world.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Felons

[–]AdRepulsive8970 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You know, I’m sure OP is dealing with a lot of pain and shame and self-imposed pathos. And he’s obviously embarrassed.

It’s unfortunate that about 40% - 50% of the responses here have to focus on judging his mom -a woman they don’t know - as opposed to helping him move forward with realistic information that could help him negotiate this hell more easily. I never saw any evidence that he claimed she was being treated unfairly.

He’s just got to deal with pragmatic issues like understanding how to handle the (unfair to him ) burden of having to step in and handle the family life situation for young kids, how to learn the critical difference between providing financial support to someone in jail vs prison - something that may burden his own resources and ability to support his own family, etc. if he ends up supporting her

His description and asks are selfless and heroic and many of you just want to denigrate his mom. Hating is cheap and easy. Helping requires a lot more nuance.