Recent comments in /f/pittsburgh

Vozegro t1_j9pkysr wrote

Mercedes new car is not autonomous at all. Under certain conditions the driver may remove their hands and feet from controlling the car. It’s called “level 3”, and is basically only able to be used on freeways.

The technology isn’t there and doesn’t work. If it did, we’d have car rolling around that have no one inside of them.

There has been minimal growth in the past half decade.

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Sufficient_Mastodon5 t1_j9pk6j7 wrote

I am an old yinzer who has lived here since 1978. I live near the Greenfield GE. The bus transportation is great to downtown, Oakland and Point Breeze. It is walkable to Squirrel Hill. The city pool is nice and a season pass is cheap. The housing stock is mixed but the price will reflect the condition. Raised two children here.

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Vozegro t1_j9pi203 wrote

After $100 billion spent, the technology has hardly improved.

For them to work on a mass scale, the infrastructure in this country needs to be updated to remove inefficiencies and non-standardized vehicle pathways.

Pittsburgh is a prime example of this, we have so many fucked up intersections.

The government has no incentive to fix these, because they’re not a problem for human drivers.

By the time the government would ever spend time and effort, humanity will have probably killed itself off.

We’re never going to get a fully autonomous vehicle society.

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GargantuanWitch t1_j9ph1a9 wrote

The story is about a shitty cop who got drunk and was caught sleeping on the job and the first thing that comes to your mind is "I'm glad he's safe."

Wow.

Also, I hope your son also installed CO monitors in your garages, too, because those carbon dioxide monitors aren't gonna save your life.

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