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espirituRACERCoche del día: Jeep Cherokee 2.5 TD (XJ)
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Dave RahardjaNew #EV sales continues to collapse in the US. Nissan has abandoned its effort to turn its Mississippi plant to manufacture EVs, and is instead retooling it to make ICE and hybrid trucks and SUVs, likely to work around the 15% import tariffs for Japanese cars.
Ruxbat! 🍉🦇
danaHad to see someone else driving a Volvo C30 to be reminded how small a car it actually is. It's a tiny 2+2, or maybe a micro wagon if the rear seats are down.
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Life on the Wicked Stage: Act 3Bumper Cars and Grocery Carts
We’ve been away for a week, so we had a number of errands to run in order to restock the home larder, pick up the dry cleaning, etc.. It’s a Saturday and a sunny one at that. Cooler than I’d like, but reasonably pleasant. Unfortunately, the cooler temperatures and bright sunshine aren’t leading to cooler heads.
The nice weather means everyone and their extended families in Chicago has decided to get in their cars and drive today. Add to that, the outbreak of road construction sites that have popped up like spring flowers and you’ve got your typical tangled traffic mess.
One of the things that always gets me is how considerate drivers never focus their consideration beyond what’s in front of them. A considerate driver will pause to let another motorist entering from a side street, or trying to change lanes, not recognizing the line of cars behind them that they are holding up by doing so. It can be aggravating.
It’s different in the grocery store. It’s usually considerate to let someone who might have one item jump in front of you if you’ve got a reasonably full cart. But in my experience, that doesn’t happen if there’s a long line of folks behind them. Spatial and situational awareness is a little more acute when you’re not behind the wheel of a car, instead surrounded by other humans.
Today I witnessed that break down. One customer with a line behind him, decided to let another customer with only a gallon of milk, cut in front of him. It lead to quite a loud chorus of complaints from other customers standing behind the gentleman. The considerate customer fired back with a retort and, well, let’s just say verbal chaos ensued. The cashier and eventually the manager got involved.
Obviously the difference between grocery carts and cars is that you’re not protected by metal and other materials that entomb us in cars. You might hear car horns blaring, but you don’t hear the shouts of other angry customers, separated only by the length of a grocery cart or two or three.
When I came out of the grocery store, the argument had continued in the parking lot. Fortunately, the offending gentleman and the most vociferous objector to his consideration were parked in separate parking lot lanes meaning they were headed in different directions once they got in their cars, doors slamming, to depart.
I’ll leave it this way. We’re an angry lot these days. With all of what we’re dealing with as a society, rising prices certainly being one of them, everybody more than willing to express their anger, regardless of whatever armor they may be incased in.
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Flipboard Tech DeskUber has announced that it wants to outfit its human-driven cars with sensors that collect data for autonomous vehicle companies and possibly more companies that train AI models. The plan is an extension of Uber’s data-gathering AV Labs program that launched in January. Read more from @Techcrunch:
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Uber wants to turn its millions of drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies | TechCrunch
Praveen Neppalli Naga, Uber's chief technology officer, revealed the plan in an interview at TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, describing it as a natural extension of a nascent program the company announced in late January called AV Labs.
Hacker NewsCalifornia to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clypjx3rg2go
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