• dragontamer@lemmy.world
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    The elephant in the room is that the NHTSA still doesn’t have a director, and hasn’t had a long-term director since 2017.

    Steven Cliff was the director for 2 months in 2022. Aside from that, this important safety organization has been… erm… on autopilot (see what I did there?) and leaderless.

    How are we supposed to keep tabs on car safety if the damn agency in charge of automobile safety doesn’t even have a leader?

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      TBF, we have achieved a FSD that is safer than one human this year. But we took away the driver license of grandma so now we have to find another human that’s worse than FSD.

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        1 year ago

        I live in a small town with a large college. The students just came back for fall semester. I believe we have quite a few candidates for your list.

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    So, when are we changing this forums name from Technology to it’s actual purpose of late “every click and rage bait post about Tesla and Musk so people can circlejerk worse than reddit”?

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      1 year ago

      Unfortunately, all the current tech news is either people running naked scams or people debunking them.

      The tragedy of our modern era is how much money we’ve invested in selling people a box labeled “Newest Life Changing Gadget” that’s just full of rocks.

      Check out the podcast TrashFuture. They do a bit about a shitty tech enterprise every episode, sometimes twice a week. From Juicero to Neom, the list of awful tech bullshit is limitless.

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      Hopefully soon after the garbage copy/paste press release “articles” about “AI”, fake superconductors, and other nonsense stops being posted.