I used the self driving function for the first time on my recent trip from Texas to Massachusetts and in my opinion, it isn't close to being totally functional. Two times it would have gone in the wrong direction and on multiple occasions it slammed on the brakes inappropriately which was incredibly unsafe when I was travelling on the expressway at 70 MPH. It stopped when it saw a workman sitting on a guardrail on the side of the road, when it picked up the speed limit of the frontage road (40 MPH), when a truck was merging, etc. No way is it ready to drive by itself. Also, the passing function was weird. Sometimes it worked well and other times it took it forever to pull over after passing. At this point, I would rather just stick with the basic cruise control which steers for me but doesn't stop for no reason. I would estimate that a safe version of self driving is at least 5 years away. It doesn't seem that much improved since I first test drove it in 2018.
Do you have recurring negative thoughts about the past or the future? This reframe teaches you how to quickly escape them.
And just like that COEXIST bumper stickers disappear and are replaced with GENOCIDE bumper stickers.
I don't find "we are a simulation" speculation interesting. Because, if we are a simulation, that just bumps the interesting questions up a rung: How did the creators of the simulation come to exist, etc.?
I understand some people find it interesting and fun to discuss, and I have no problem with that. I always found Nostradamus's writing to be fun, even though at the end of the day I didn't really believe they were predicting anything.
