I guess the obvious difference is that one of these is falsifiable - work can be done to figure out if the 'letter of indulgence' was attached to any actual action that had an effect in the real world, as is the case in this article, and appropriate action taken.

Arguing about the effectiveness of carbon offsetting schemes vs whether or not individual schemes are fraudulent are two different things. On the surface this sounds like straight-up fraud - the Greenpeace article implies that it is legal, which would be stupid, and hopefully the laws would be modified to make sure something is actually being done.

Otherwise, I quite like the analogy!

Did the author just dead#ss forget about camera phones for 5 years prior?

Granted okay the 808 had a camera over 10 years ago thats better than most phones on market now still so good enough is good enough but also modern good enough is better than a pocket camera from 15 years ago.

Huh? I never said it would be triggered by snow. I said it might trigger while I am driving on snow/ice/mud/rain. Do I need to look up numerous articles about "phantom braking" for you or do you understand what I am saying now?

The lack of backdrop is exactly why I am so alarmed. *I* will be fine more or less. Others, not so much. I am seeing more and more of them every day. Homeless people wandering around until they get taken off to prison or die.

This is true. Have a nice day kind sir or ma'am.

Maybe, but the real reason is that AI will not say, "no".

I am uncertain how much experience you have at the $0 level, so you might not fully realize what I am saying, even if you fully understand it. In other words, an understanding of $0 is a prerequisite here.

When I was young, everyone started out at minimum wage. (This has nothing to do with any of the folks who went to college or had other niceties extended). Minimum wage went up once since then. That was ... 30(?) years ago?

In the meantime, food has more than doubled and rent has more than tripled. Many industries still start their personnel at minimum wage and create schedules that prevent those personnel from holding a second job to make enough money to survive.

That is what I came from. Every single one of my childhood friends is dead or in prison (or died in prison). Somehow or another, I ended up in a different class than what was ordained. I am feeling that familiar old tug of $0 and I am not part of that class anymore. It has to be even more of a living hell than it was 30-40 years ago.

During my entire life, I have never once seen anything to help the lower classes out except through, "this benefits all people"; never caring that the price tag attached kept most people from benefitting.

TL:DR, I have lived that existence and I currently have friends who live that existence. Nothing has improved ever for them and it is getting worse by leaps and bounds now. The status quo can't last forever. People are dying.

Generally speaking yes, but there are nuances. In a road with multiple lanes going in the same direction, someone could suddenly move into your lane and begin braking. In fact, that is the most common scenario as cars are trying to avoid other cars that were not paying attention. But this has nothing to do with the comment you were replying to. An algorithm would have a much better chance at reacting quickly.

ABS is another of those technologies that I didn't want. I drove some cars with ABS and I couldn't stop as fast as I could with just normal braking, so I absolutely LOATHED ABS.

Then I bought a car with ABS implemented correctly. It activates AFTER I have made the mistake of locking up the wheels. Since I don't generally make that mistake, ABS almost never kicks in. The times that it does kick in, I fully expected it from my actions. ABS became accepted and desirable.

Same with traction control. Hated it. Got stuck in the sand with it on. Then, I drove a car with REAL traction control. It doesn't do shit until the car has actually lost significant amounts of traction. If I punch the accelerator in a curve, the wheels will chirp and begin to slide out, but it will not allow you to drift. Traction control became accepted and desirable.

None of that will be happening with Automatic Braking. It will ALWAYS be a surprise when it activates. Every single time, it will be a surprise; either because you are not paying attention or because the braking system will misidentify something. Automatic braking is useful in the first sense, since you were not paying attention to begin with. A surprise can only be a good surprise in that situation with automatic braking. But, for the vast majority of us, we actually pay attention, so surprise braking is very very very unwelcome.

And yet none of my vehicles has this, nor is it wanted. Yes, such a feature would have saved me some amount of misery twice in my life as I was rear-ended at a stop light. My car took the 40+km/h collision without any issues and in fact, I was still able to chase the guy down and get his license plate for the police (who didn't care and didn't penalize him).

I would rather get rear-ended at high speed than have my car behave unpredictably at a critical moment. I have never rear-ended anyone. Who is this feature for? To prevent some amount of PTSD from people who don't pay attention? Fuck 'em. PTSD should be expected if you drive and don't pay attention.

If this is your opinion, then you haven't thought about this long enough. Have you, yourself, actually examined the data to see if it really says what they are telling you that it said? Do you understand the nuances of the numbers (lives saved seems like an exaggeration type number since that is not strictly quantifiable)?

It seems like you received a few pieces of information and settled on the Truth of the matter. Enjoy reaping what you are sowing.

Hey, when you're spending other people's money, that is a small price to pay. Money is infinite after all right?

While 99.99999% of Americans lives where it never rains or snows, I do happen to have lots of experience driving in limited traction conditions. Having a braking force applied suddenly outside of my control is pure nightmare fuel in limited traction situations. My revulsion on this concept is very extreme. Yeah, I fully understand that many people would benefit from this. It might kill me.

Someone who thinks like me! Two reliable cars so one can be receiving service without impacting my day to day life very much. I spent less buying both cars than most people spend on buying one. At 20+ years old, it is getting difficult to find parts for them, for example, I needed someone to fabricate a brake line for me since the part is nowhere in existence in any warehouses despite being listed as being available.

When you can make automatic braking as safe as a seatbelt, you are welcome to to sell such items. Mandating that the feature be installed when it is as buggy and unreliable is insanity. I "eagerly" look forward to finding all the ways that humans find to abuse this system. The picture of massive traffic incidents where people are stuck for hours or days is very clear to me.

I used Ubuntu until around 2012 or so. That was when they had a USB bug that ended up staying unfixed for close to a decade. That bug affected me.