The purpose of the video is to test a hypothesis, not to total a car.
Mark Rober is a youtuber sure, and some of the stuff he does is to feed the algorithm. But he's also an engineer, and that involves experimentation and a good dose of science.
Engineers won't set up tests that intentionally destroy their expensive test equipment if they can conduct an equivalent test non-destructively.
The one I self-host shares nothing with nobody :)
That, or hanging subtle dong on second hand listings is their kink
This may in part be motivated by new guidance from NCAP, which will from next year require that all new cars have physical controls to earn the highest safety ratings.
Whatever the motivation though, I'm glad for it. Getting rid of buttons was always a dumb idea and I'm happy to see pushback.
My previous phone used to pocket-dial the emergency services annoyingly often, and it's very not fun getting called back by the police to discuss why you're dialling and hanging up on emergency services multiple times over.
This automatic emergency call is fine, but they really do need to minimise the number of false positives, which it looks like they've taken good steps towards.
It's ridiculous the current business model has been allowed to exist as long as it has, with these platforms taking all the profit while passing off all the risk and liability.
As a customer, when you buy something from Amazon then as far as you are concerned your relationship is with Amazon, not with 'cooltechshop99' or whatever the vendor may be.
There was a brief and remarkable period in history from the mid 90s to the late 2000s where homes all across the land had a room that was referred to as "The Computer Room"
Not "The Office" no; for this room was not so pedestrian. It was a room whose entire function was to house the great monolith of The Computer.
A corner desk in veneered pine-effect plywood, atop which sat the great beige tower and CRT. A printer and a scanner straddling the desk like sentinels. Racks of CD holders built right into the fake pine, and a lidded box for floppy disks in a smoky translucent plastic, that for some reason came with lock and key as if the disks were precious jewels.
These days we have no need for such things, and the home office is once again simply an office. But for a while we had The Computer Room, and some part of me misses you.