Like Waymo, Tesla typically introduces robotaxis to a new city with a safety driver behind the wheel. Unlike Waymo, sometimes Tesla moves that person over to the passenger seat with access to a kill switch should anything go wrong. The company has been inconsistent in how it rolls out its robotaxis to new markets. The numbers go up and down, with zero explanation from the company as to why.

Which manuals are more efficient than Toyota's Hybrid Synergy Drive?

You can tell he's aware of the fact that stick driving results in more distractions, otherwise he wouldn't have typed out a whole paragraph with an irrelevant anecdote trying to convince himself otherwise.

Stick driving might make you feel "connected to the car" but it does distract you from the road.

Results: Subjectively, participants report being more attentive while driving in manual transmission mode. Objectively, participants drive safer in the manual transmission mode.

Conclusion: Although in need of replication, this pilot study suggests a behavioral intervention to improve driving performance among ADHD adolescents.

Teenagers with ADHD receive more moving vehicle violations (in particular, speeding tickets) than their non-ADHD counterparts. ... [but] ...

There are studies demonstrating that driving with a manual transmission is more stimulating than with an automatic transmission. One pilot study involved 10 adolescents with ADHD who drove a virtual-reality driving simulator in both the automatic mode and the 4-speed manual mode at 8 pm and 11 pm.12 These participants reported being more alert when driving in manual mode; objective measures showed they drove more safely than with an automatic transmission.12

The pilot study was preceded by clinical reports of adolescents with ADHD who said they were less able to daydream when driving a manual transmission. For example, an adolescent reported, "If I don't pay attention to what I'm doing, the car will jerk and stall, and, boy, is that embarrassing."

The CD has been recontextualized from a functional audio format into an affordable collectible.

Even Toyota, Honda, and BMW have all reduced the number of cars for the U.S. market with a manual transmission, the article points out — leaving stick shift-loving Americans with a total of about 24 new-vehicle models to choose from.

He's extremely loud and obnoxious.

I must say, I speak very highly of this research.

“I know people are going to say it’s cheating if he knows what words are in the prompter, but with Trump, that’s not a sure thing,” explained the Daily Show anchor [Michael Kosta]. “For example, let’s say he puts a bet down that Trump is going to read the word 'magnificent' in a speech..."

Kosta panned to footage of the president attempting to pronounce that word in remarks about the proposed golden arch in front of the Arlington Cemetery. Instead, Trump pronounced the word as “magnici” and, eventually, decided to give up and used the phrase “really beautiful.”

1. Don't [only] store important things in any cloud storage, it might all be lost at any moment for reasons beyond your control. Use a different backup strategy [in addition].

You are so wrong. Our entire system is purpose built to be robust, damage tolerant, and function even when humans behave like humans ie imperfect, egotistical, capricious, self centered and self serving. Separation of powers. Checks and balances. The federalist system. The multiple levels of democracy. The separation between federal and state militaries. The free press. And that's just the start of the list. Our system is probably the MOST resistant to would-be dictators and the people who want to have a one-man rule government.

Before Trump, it was a cultural norm that a President of the United States was expected to follow ethical and moral guidelines as well as laws; not only because anything less would be dishonorable and a disservice to his country, but also because otherwise he would pay a steep political price for his unethical behavior. Trump's most significant political innovation has taken the form of figuring out how to convince a plurality of the American public that the only real standard for Presidential behavior is "whatever you can get away with".

EU Won't Require User-Replaceable Batteries for Wearables

LSU physicists have developed the first room-temperature quantum material

Oh, that explains why BSD which predates Linux is an also-ran, while Linux is the world's most popular operating system and many major contributors told us in so many words that they chose to contribute to Linux instead of BSD specifically because of the license.