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Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time

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Honda’s sensing system will read shadows from bridges as obstructions in the road that it needs to brake for. It’s easy enough to accelerate out of the slowdown, but I was surprised to find that there is apparently no radar check to see if the obstruction is real.

My current vehicle doesn’t have that issue, so either the programming has been improved or the vendor for the sensing systems is a different one (different vehicle make, so it’s entirely possible).

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Can’t figure out how to save images

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Ugh, I was afraid of that. I’m also testing Memmy, and after some prodding I managed to get its image viewer to present a save icon when tapping on images from the post view, so I can do it there for now, but I’m sure not everyone runs two clients.

I’m really used to a long press popping up a context menu in addition to whatever other UI there may be, so hopefully at some point one of the apps will add that, and Mlem will add save in some fashion.

(I love to keep cute cat pictures. Missing mine a lot!)

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Star Trek tech explained: starship navigation lights

Because everything has to be a video now. Ugh.

Ship navigation lights and aircraft lights.

The intended purpose is to indicate a vessel’s current location and course so that other operators can see and avoid, especially at night.

Larger aircraft are also fitted with collision avoidance systems that automatically prompt pilots to climb or descend (and synchronise with the system on the other aircraft).

Bonus: day shapes are displayed on vessel mastheads to indicate the operating status of a vessel during daylight hours.

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Why stand in line to board an airplane?

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Hard of hearing also. It’s so frustrating that text signs that list announcements are so rare.

Captions on television/movies and games are commonplace, but in the real world, very few places care.

Might be because I’m in a red state for a few more years due to family; blue states likely tend to be more aware of issues like ours.

I did see written callouts of upcoming tram stops once, but I can’t recall which airport. It may have been ORD.

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Honda previews its first electric SUV arriving in 2024 with estimated range, pricing

This is one of two options if you like Ultium (GM) but want to use phone mirroring. Honda has refused to pull CarPlay and Android Auto like GM is doing.

The other is the Acura variant of this same vehicle, though of course it has Acura design cues.

I like both, though for now we already have an AWD ID.4 that we love. I’ll be looking at these, though, for the future if we need to replace the VW. Hopefully they’ll have amber rear signals (the VW doesn’t) and allow temperature display in Celsius (my past Honda didn’t).