IIHS lobbies for more cameras, worse enforcement, and making it harder on the driver. The ONLY place IIHS and a motorist's interests are the same are the annual crash tests. The rest of IIHS is lobbying nonsense for the Insurance Industry....

If there was anyone still working with arc lights or whale oil it would be USDOT. Back in the sealed beam era, I spent time and effort refitting H codes and aiming them. When DOT allowed aero lights, they approved the 9004 bulb, which was all the defects of sealed beam brought into the modern era. DOT fought off the H4 bulb as long as they could, and we got a lower output version. The mess with adaptives is right for USDOT. I have a car with them-a world class set of lights came nerfed to High/Low on/off. Now they fade up, fade down, point in the direction I am going, fade for signs, and black box out oncoming cars and cars ahead-no glare. Living with a set of real adaptive for five years, I'm used to looking for deer in the median while NOT glaring oncoming cars. The glare issue is because the US, unlike Europe, does not require automatic light aiming. German cars have a small sensor attached to the suspension-it moves the lights up and down so they don't glare. German car guys in the US learn this when they do suspension work and forget to remove the sensor.....your low beams aim 15 feet ahead of the car when the gadget is broken. USDOT does not require self levelling.....hence glare from new cars. Glare from old cars is due to the $15 ebay LED stuck in an old housing. Now, you CAN get LED that work, don't glare, and can be aimed...but they are at a $80-100 price point, and the feebs who buy $15 bulbs don't know "aim". USDOT sucks-we should just adopt ECE light regs and be done with it.

Not a huge surprise. Tivo was allowed to exist so that the cable companies could claim there was a competition to the horrid and overpriced Scientific Atlanta box. The Cablecard was designed to work with a variety of items, but implemetation ended up limited to Tivo and I think one or two iterations of Windows Media. I recall confusing a nice tech at my cable company when I needed a cablecard for my Sony HDD 250....it only took single stream and the ID number of the Sony was different than a Tivo, he'd never activated any other box. I had both the Dish TV boxes, and the Sony HDD 250, both of which were sued by Tivo. Sony had to cease production, but did support the boxes for quite a while, quietly. I found mine at the Sony Outlet Store, the only DVR where you could sort your own listings, mix OTA and Cable, etc.... TVGuideOnScreen, the listing service for the HDD, survived the HDTV transition and was eventually bought by Rovi, who killed it at the ten year mark, turning the remaining HDD units into door stops, as they had no external way to set time-only the TV Guide Onscreen signal, which was embedded in PBS or CBS signals. Fuck Rovi/Macrovision. When Tivo was purchased by them it was clear "the industry" was making sure that any common DVR would be on a short leash. Now that linear TV is mostly dead, I'll keep my Roamio OTA (TE3) running until ATSC 1.0 goes away....which might be a long time, 3.0 has no reason to exist...if I need to go online for DRM, why not just stream it all ?

Netflix 1.0 was also a movie library, of Hollywood type productions. Now, we get 10 episode formula dramas, with one B list star, a few character actors. There is always a cliffhanger in ep.10 and we never know if there will be another. I miss when Netflix was a paid lending library of movies.

Did we all forget his sundowning to Ave Maria at a rally ? His election did not make him competent. Policy and Politics aside, the person is just not fit for the job....but Baron VonShitsThePants will be hitting forward on his computer soon so Vlad will see The President's Daily Briefing on the regular again.

Google "Real Time Crime", which is a 4k camera system covering roadways, with full LPR.

I have high end bluetooth HA. I can't use them for music as they are essentially tweeters to make up for for my high frequency loss-my mids and low are normal-the HA cannot produce bass at all, they aren't designed to. They don't sub for headphones despite the price. I end up using normal speakers in home or car or over ear headphones outside and use the HA to compensate, they also have a music program. I use a set of bose noise cancellers over the HA when on airplanes, and can listen to quiet classical or jazz even when in the "wrong" seats. I'm intrigued by this-if it truly passes through and adjusts correctly for the loss. The expensive HA with a audiologist are worth the money if you have it, although at this point like many other things you can do it at a lower price point and we are watching this happen in this space too. A set of AirPods properly compensating for hearing loss and boosting the correct areas only would not be a game changer, but would be a nice option to have.

GM selling your speed data to the insurers via Lexus-nexus. GM building execrable cars via the worldwide lowest bidders for all commodity parts..... We had a GM in the 80's...never again. Replaced it with a BMW. Later, had a GM in 2010. Nothing had changed.

I once attempted to tip a bartender in Germany. She was freaked out, thought I was trying to pick her up with a 20 Euro note, (sleazy) until another person explained tipping to her.....

Also, she had health insurance....which somehow is possible outside the boundary of American Exceptionalism

Whenever I go abroad, I am amazed that the folks at the fast food joint, or the minimum wage folks, all seem to have health insurance. Here, the slavery algos that Uber, Dash, etc etc are always testing...so if maybe a percentage of people will pay more tip, that is more that the owners of the slave algo can keep for themselves. In NYC this has led to deliver drivers having to use powered cycles, often without license, to make delivery, with predictable road safety consequences, as a bicycle is no longer fast enough. Ethical consumption means no Amazon, no Uber, and no Doordash nonsense. You are already paying for the delivery, they are just testing how many people will pay more and how much more.

Public housing ONLY works when it isn't a ghetto for poors NYC public housing used to have a middle class component, but over time, the trash pushed out anyone who could afford it. Once the folks who work and care leave, it's a mess.

The second someone gets you to give them fiat currency for it !

Yes. Check edible sales and get back to me. All the suburban mommies who'd not light a fatty do love some gummies....

I'm sure the profits from charging secret service, etc for his weekly golf outings to his own property exceeded any loss of salary. There was another grift, where foreign governments would rent many rooms in HIS hotel in DC at inflated rates, and no one would use them. Jared got 2 Billion dollars...probably not for his looks or personality.