It’s just interesting to me how radicalized the Internet is nowadays. Any excuse to bring up a way to shit on the US is jumped at. Especially on Lemmy. I’m starting to wondering if that’s the point of Lemmy as well.

It’s not like the small communities here are surviving.

Always weird how excited people are to shoehorn blaming the US imo

Yeah, Lemmy is actually pretty terrible tbh. I keep hoping it’ll get interesting but it’s repetitive AF.

But did you know Linux beat Windows in a test of 10 games?!

I find myself wanting to kill time by using my phone and scrolling, even Lemmy, and realizing it’s not doing anything for me. Just a comfort scroll. I think I’ll probably kick the social media/scrolling habit completely within the next year.

I understand. Self driving is making progression, and I can understand the concern.

Like I said, I thought you were saying the indicator was the issue, not the self driving. I don’t know the facts behind self driving, and it’s definitely above my paygrade, so I have no room to give opinions. I think progression is cool though, if it’s proven safe

To be fair though, you did skip the limitations.

that can only be used in limited situations and in certain (geo-fenced) areas, like in heavy traffic on select highways at speeds of 40 MPH or less. Drive Pilot is also limited to daytime use and during clear weather, and cannot be used in construction zones. Furthermore, the driver is not allowed to fall asleep or leave the driver’s seat

Oh my bad. I somehow thought you were implying the light was going to give them the pass… You are talking about self driving cars in general though.

That’s been a thing though, would you like that progress to stop? I guess /fuckcars is a real popular movement online so we can have different opinions on that.

Ive read those 7 paragraphs a couple times now, and I don’t see anything about getting a legal pass. Maybe you could quote it for me?

I have missed things due to ads covering things up on mobile on the past.

The article says they are allowed to test the new indicators in those States, not that they get a legal pass…

In California, the permit will let Mercedes-Benz trial turquoise lights on test vehicles for two years. In Nevada, the automaker can start adding the feature to 2026 year production vehicles

Do you think it’s a better scenario for less awareness of self driving cars? If self driving is part of the future, this seems like a reasonable step imo.

I don’t think I understand how adding safety indicators to elevate awareness of self driving vehicles helps rich people avoid all consequence.

As a poor person, I’d like to know if a car I’m driving by is self driving.

I’m not going to bat for Meta/Facebook.

But in my personal opinion, users choice is best for the users. If Threads ultimately has more and better content(because let’s face it, we’ve all seen LINUX BEATS WINDOWS IN 10 GAME TESTS! 100 different times already), users who want that content will have to create an account with Meta to access it. I’d rather use my Lemmy account and access Meta through that.

but again, just my opinion which ultimately doesn’t matter.

YouGov is a volunteer based, reward based, anonymous polling website.

If anyone wants to claim they are a 91 year old martian and just rapid fire clicks through these polls to earn gift cards or whatever, you can sign up within a minute with just an email to verify you. I just did out of curiosity. And they use pretty questionable weighted methodology.

but YouGov is usually the “statistics” for multiple posts of the front page of Lemmy every day.

I swear half my comments on Lemmy are explaining that YouGov polls are meaningless, but people keep posting them because they have titles, or the article have titles they like.

So many YouGov polls here. it’s wild

But any way you want to compare Threads activity/uses to Lemmy’s… It’s pretty obvious that Threads is already way bigger which was the main point I’d imagine.

I like how amplified divisive content, misinformation and content moderation is the “legitimate” risks like it’s not already an issue here.

Also, like you said… incidents, not accidents.

accidents, DUIs, speeding and citations

Which I bet includes things like parking tickets and all that. Tbh, seems like most “studies” posted to Lemmy are crap tbh

I didn’t say “not have a choice” though. I said people are likely tired of others making the choice for them, whether it be minority or majority. Especially when individual choice is possible.

I mean he’s always been like this, it’s just getting worse.

Before Donda passed, he already had the infamous “George Bush hates black people” thing and already ran up on stage at the EMAs to say he deserved the award, not the winners. I’m sure there’s plenty more documented exmaples , and in those days, the spotlight wasn’t on him 24/7.

I think most people are tired of others making choices for them, rather than explicitly being in favor of federating with Threads.

It’s wild how many YouGov polls hit the front page of Lemmy. Regardless if you like the results or not, the polls are worthless trash that means nothing.

Ha shit, one of those ads must have popped up and made me jump that paragraph or something. I really did read it and didn’t see that the first time through