Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

The lights are all blinking red.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

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Late Night Open Thread: ‘That’s Not A Glitch, It’s DELIBERATE!’

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Assertive mode! I’d hope this was satire, but it’s Tesla, so…

Unfortunate timing, in retrospect…

Yeah, like the Tesla fanbois are gonna care about a few unlucky crosswalkers. This was back in November:

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  1. 1.

    Origuy

    I’ve been out most of the day, so I may have missed someone posting this:

    Rudy Giuliani was unmasked as a contestant during a taping last week of 'The Masked Singer.' His presence on the stage upset two of the show’s judges, Ken Jeong and Robin Thicke, so much that they left the set with cameras still rolling, Deadline reports. https://t.co/HgLt5PJEZz— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) February 3, 2022

  2. 2.

    different-church-lady

    I’ve yet to meet a white South African in person who wasn’t a complete asshole.

  3. 3.

    RaflW

    I have a 7 year old Subie, but I rent cars when I travel. And even just the other day on an interstate the ‘adaptive’ cruise on my non-electric Toyota rental got confused on a curve and thought the vehicle needed to suddenly slow aggressively because of an 18 wheeler in the right lane. Both that vehicle and mine were in our respective lanes.

    I knew right away what was happening because other cyclops rental cars have done similar to me, so I hit the accelerator to over-ride the cruise. I was just glad traffic was light. People round here drive fast and close in the left lane. :/

    eta: I’m sure some lawyer has put a paragraph in the manual about not using the thing on curves. But on an interstate with 65mph engineered curves? C’mon.

  5. 5.

    Joe Falco

    5.6 MPH is slightly faster than what is considered an “Alabama rolling stop” but not by much.

  7. 7.

    different-church-lady

    Well, here’s one little bit of good news: Zuckerberg is 22% less rich today than he was yesterday.

  12. 12.

    Tony Jay

    @Origuy:

    Robin Thicke? Blurred Lines Robin Thicke?

    Someone’s agent has been putting in quality time to try and reconstruct that mess.

  14. 14.

    Salty Sam

    @different-church-lady: I’ve yet to meet a white South African in person who wasn’t a complete asshole.

    You might want to broaden your sampling- my good friend MH is a white South African man, and one of the least assholish persons I’ve ever known.

  15. 15.

    Wag

    @Joe Falco: 5.6 mph is the same speed as someone running a 10 minute mile.   I guess Teslas have sensors for cops that keep their owners from getting tickets?

  17. 17.

    opiejeanne

    @Wag:  Running a stop sign can be a pricey ticket. I wonder if Tesla got a lot of complaints by people getting ticketed for rolling through a 4-way stop.

  18. 18.

    ColoradoGuy

    Kinda surprised this misfeature is in California-made car. Many moons ago, when I lived in LA, a rolling stop was a surefire way of getting pulled over by the LAPD. Also, when driving in a new neighborhood, that would be the invariable reason for the police to pull you over and thoroughly inspect you and your car.

  20. 20.

    Baud

    If Tesla rolls through stop signs, no way it  obeys the speed limit.

    I wonder if it has a cheat code for road rage mode.

  22. 22.

    gene108

    Self driving features spook me. I’m not convinced a car’s computer is a better decision maker than me regarding braking, accelerating, and steering.

  24. 24.

    Ken

    @Baud: “Chill”, “Average”, and “Assertive” are just the first three settings. You have to swipe left to get to “Aggressive”, “Road Rage”, and “Death Race 20xx”.

    Though, even if it did have those three labels, the most alarming word on that display is “(Beta)”.

  25. 25.

    Kristine

    ::thinks back to all the times that Kay mentioned the local substandard Tesla workforce::

    ::then recalls the old saying that a fish starts to stink at the head::

  27. 27.

    Chief Oshkosh

    @different-church-lady: I’ve met one. He was disowned by his family in the 80s due to his views on apartheid. He was also extremely gentlemanly, very old school ‘upperclass’ manners, but very down to earth otherwise.

    So, they do exist

     

    ETA: He was against apartheid.

  28. 28.

    burnspbesq

    YouTube is full of videos about the perils of Tesla self-driving. Example:

    https://youtu.be/0-dwhwoeL6Y

    Because irony is an opportunist, all of this shit is hitting the fan right after Elon announced a price increase for the self-driving software.

    And Tesla still can’t sell the cars it makes in Texas to Texas buyers, because it hasn’t bribed enough legislators.

  30. 30.

    Wapiti

    @gene108: Our car isn’t self-driving, but has a lot of driver assist features.

    On a road trip last year , a deer came out of the brush and the car alarmed, braked, and tightened the seatbelt shoulder straps. I think I saw the deer and started to react before the car did all of that, but it’s good to have backup. The car would do the same thing for a kid darting out into traffic.

  33. 33.

    RSA

    There’s a small interdisciplinary academic field that studies the intersection of artificial intelligence, autonomy, and ethics. From what I’ve seen it’s completely ignored by Tesla and some other car companies doing work on autonomous cars.

  34. 34.

    J R in WV

    We have a Mazda SUV which seems to be a well put together car. But you guys are correct about the automated safety features. Ours will suddenly slow down an lot on the freeway when on cruise when confronted with a curve at the bottom of a steep hill. I personally want the dammed thing to drive the same speed up hill and down. This is West Virginia, the Mountain State, and we have curves even on Interstates and freeways.

    Also jams on the brakes from time to time, I did finally ascertain that the brake lights flash when this happens. That seems dangerous, to jam on the brakes in the left lane in traffic for no real reason…

  35. 35.

    way2blue

    Just to clariy misleading headlines by CNN, AP, WSJ and others—Tesla won’t be physically recalling their cars.  Rather they’re updating the software via WiFi as they on a regular basis.  Still, an odd FSD Beta feature…

  37. 37.

    Gravie

    I watched the pilot episode of “American Auto” the other night — it’s pretty funny — and one of the plot points is their discovery that their new “car of the future” self-driving auto doesn’t stop for black people because the car sees them as shadows.

  38. 38.

    Scout211

    @J R in WV:

    I had an experience where the automatic braking system in my Accord suddenly slammed on my brakes as I was almost through an intersection. It apparently  mistook a person in a wheelchair approaching the crosswalk as a vehicle about to collide with me. At first I was in shock but then I figured out how to get the car moving again. I was so lucky that there were no cars driving behind me through that intersection because it definitely would have caused an accident.

    Safety features that aren’t always safe. Scary.

    ETA:  Many people driving the windy country roads out here at night have to turn off the automatic braking system because on some curves, the automatic  braking system mistakenly thinks  oncoming vehicles are head-on through the curves.

  39. 39.

    JaneE

    My Subaru routinely breaks, sometimes hard, when a car in front of me makes a right turn.  It seems to assume that the car will have to stop before the turn is completed.  It is a function of speed, it will do the same thing if I come into the garage a little (or more than a little) faster than usual.  I know I will have to break harder to stop and will actually do that, but the software assumes I won’t adjust.  It almost has me trained to follow at a slightly longer distance in city traffic and enter the garage at at reasonable speed.

    I wonder if the Tesla programmers know that in some states a rolling stop is illegal.  You can and will get a failure to stop citation if a cop sees you.

  41. 41.

    The Oracle of Solace

    I keep hearing about modern cars with all these features that interfere with driving. I’ve had the same car for 15 years, and after hearing about adaptive cruise control and auto-drive I think I’ll give it up only once we reach the point that replacement parts are in such short supply that they have to be crafted from raw ore.

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