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It's really strange that search results are becoming so common in articles like this. I feel search results can only be used to manipulate the perception around a situation, and rarely prove anything. Guy owns a car, guy googled said car. Normal people would type something like "can I change how my self driving reacts?" "Can I speed up the acceleration for self driving?"
Who says, "FSD to Timid" unless they are writing a shit article or being linked there by an article that was telling people about such.
The guy was very much likely to be an idiot, but if those search results frame him in any way I feel I'd be framed for hundreds of crimes. Government: are you building a nuclear bomb? If not why were you looking into the processes on how to slow the reactions and how they have changed over the years?
Also how does that relate to your searches about Palestine, Israel, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, S.A., U.A.E., various terrorist attacks you have googled over the years? Are you a terrorist!
Lol, nah man... It's the internet... Sometimes we just search things because of interests or something someone said and want to know more.
For what it’s worth, I’ve always aimed to write my searches in as few words as possible to avoid bringing results from other unrelated topics into it. Most of my searches read like a caveman and often don’t show much relation to one another, but I get the results I’m looking for. More reinforcement of your point than anything that search history is almost impossible to determine the motivation behind.