Nothing odd about it. The senators were concerned the offending automakers were providing data with just a subpoena rather than a warrant or court order as they agreed to require.

The article notes that the lawmakers praised Honda, Ford, GM, Tesla, and Stellantis for requiring warrants, "except in the case of emergencies or with customer consent."

GM has a class-action suit on its hands for data sharing, but that is a slightly different issue than the senators are looking into.

Yes. Maintenance issues affect all sorts of aircraft. Window blowouts are very rare, but they happen.

British Airways pilot was sucked out of an airplane mid-flight — and lived

Oregon man nearly got sucked out of a busted passenger-plane window. Now he’s a pilot.

Sichuan Airlines co-pilot was pulled back inside by crew after right windshield blew out at 32,000 feet

What a load of... I went in search of a suitable rebuttal for this fantasy.

Except.

I found the AC is fundamentally correct.

Damn! I learn something new every week here.

It's not just cars that are off gassing flame retardants (FR). From the study linked in the article:

As they mentioned in the study, vehicle exposure is an under-studied exposure risk, but it was noted that the levels are much higher in the summer months when the interior of the vehicle is warmer. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.10...

It doesn't even need to be that elaborate. Just place two shapes on the wall of a store (Walmart, Costco, HEB) and designate a parking spot that is a known distance from the wall and centered between the two shapes. You select "calibrate" on the setup menu in your car and it recalibrates the sensor for distance and angle.

If the two shapes (Blue circle, green square, orange triangle?) are on the north side of the building, they should be in sunlight most of the day, all year. The manufacturers would all have to agree on the shapes and colors to allow this type of self-calibration, but it's better than requiring every body repair and glass replacement shop to have an expensive optical alignment station.

Actually, ten years ago the University of Cambridge proved that the Clovis people came from Asia by sequencing the DNA from one of the only known Clovis remains, found in Montana. The research information can be found here: Out of Asia: ancient genome lays to rest origins of Americas’ first humans

If you think rural Texas is bad, you should look at the oil wells in Los Angeles. Many are disguised and hidden in decorative towers, but you can still see active pumpjacks all around town.

Nope. The AEB uses distance information from either a radar or sonar system, together with the vehicle's speed and braking ability, to determine if braking is needed. Just unfolding a person shaped cutout attached to your vehicle won't trigger the AEB any faster than the vehicle itself would.

Now, if you dropped the cutout on the road and it stayed upright long enough to trigger the radar system, then yes the following car would attempt to brake to avoid hitting the obstacle. Just be ready for a reckless endangerment citation if you attempt this.

I have this in my 2019 vehicle and it has prevented one rear end collision from a driver in front of me suddenly slowing down unexpectedly. Perhaps that driver's automatic braking system also activated and that was why they decelerated so suddenly. If so, that was two collisions that were prevented.

One other time it gave a warning and slight braking when a driver in front of me was turning. I calculated they would complete their turn before I got to that spot but my warning system calculated I would not be able to stop if that driver didn't complete their turn. I was assuming they would finish turning out of the way but they automatic system was more cautious, which is actually the better option.

The three safety features I really appreciate on all new vehicles are anti-lock brakes, collision warning/braking, and backup cameras.

This is a win after having to disable the blood oxygen sensor due to the patent dispute with Masimo. I guess it balances out.

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"run0 make me a sandwich" just doesn't have the same ring

Yeah, the article made it seem like the 33.5% was a notable decrease (lowest in 8 years) but in reality it was a only a small fluctuation.

2014 34.0
2015 32.2
2016 34.5
2017 34.6
2018 34.6
2019 34.4
2020 35.3
2021 34.4
2022 35.9
2023 33.5

Good to know. I'm also reluctant to install software if there is a built-in utility that can do the same thing. Thanks for the info.

True, it used to have one. It was deprecated in Win10 version 1709. It's not something I would rely on to backup, restore, or extract files if you are using Win10, Win11, or any newer version.

I also don't remember if you can extract single files from the backups. I seem to remember it was an all or nothing image.

I try to follow the 3-2-1 backup rule. 3 copies of my data (working and two backups) with backups on two different storage devices with one off site. (OK, I'm a bit loose with that last one.)

I use a drive image backup program (AOMEI Backupper, Acronis True Image, Clonezilla, etc) by booting from a Hiren's Boot CD image. The advantage of doing a full disk image is it captures all my installed programs, licenses, registry information, data files, drivers, screen layouts, etc into one image. I can use that image to restore onto a new drive and be back up and running immediately. I do my backups every January and July and save the image to two different devices. Works well for me and I've had to restore two different times and it saved my sanity.

Quick overview for those that like to see an example video, made by CyberCPU Tech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...