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No.

But there is a scenario where AVs are part of the answer. I realise humans are shit, but we are still capable of implementing multiple measures, at the same time, in conjunction with each other.

AVs should be there to mitigate the risk of the driving journeys we can't eliminate.

I don't think the ethical questions are that difficult really.

This 90% isn't an end game position. This is a trolley problem in a scenario where the track continues and an endless sequence of trolley problems with multiple switching positions that, if managed well, will get us to as close to zero road deaths as we can ever possibly get.

The question isn't "is it good enough?" when the alternative that we currently have is to leave those 90% to still die. In the balance of "good enough" questions, "is it good enough to sacrifice 9 people because we couldn't save the 10th?" should be the absolute loser every single time. I can't imagine why you're arguing the case against that.

Where do we set the limit for robots? It's hard to answer that question without first establishing the parameters of regulatory control, liabilities and responsibility, standardised safety protocols, information sharing protocols and so on. But if 90% doesn't fit into that limit against our current piss poor performance, we have definitely fucked up. Honestly, I might balk at 5% or 10% improvement. Largely on the grounds that much of it may be very difficult to accurately attribute. At around 15%, I personally start feeling comfortable pushing the yes button.

In my mind, the question should be; is this good enough for now? That's because, as stated, this isn't an end position. Achieving that 90% more doesn't mean you stop, it means you can have more resources to work on eliminating that other 10%. You can't actually work on that remaining 10% if you haven't dealt with the that starting 90% in the first place.

Difficult question.
The vast majority of deaths are either workplace or surgery related and therefore not in public.

However, last year a test pilot for a Tesla AV was killed when his vehicle drove under a truck. Workplace on public roads.

The car was manned and therefore not fully autonomous and fully legal in the state it was operating in.

Calling it stupid is quite odd. Lessons from this incident, tragic as it may be, can be learned and shared out to all other AVs in an effort to prevent reoccurence. In comparison, human drivers repeat the same mistakes on a daily basis.

Looks really good.

One of the regular sellers in the bakery I work at is marmite and cheddar bread. Standard white dough taken to first rise. Add a spread of marmite when you mix the cheese into the dough and a little bit more beneath the cheese topping.

I'm on for The Dean tomorrow. Currently holed up in the Travelodge stalking weather reports. Looks like it'll be a hard one.

Been out on the cyclocross bike. Absolutely brilliant on the snow and slush. It'll be a shame to go back to the hack bike.

Actually, mostly it's late nights. That's due to the nature of the bread that we bake.

We're split into three shifts. The guy who weighs out all of the mixes is first and does his job to end sometime around early afternoon. Then there's the mixers and shapers who get the bread ready to bake who work afternoon into evening. Finally there's the shapers and bakers who finish off the remaining work from late evening through the night. Bread starts coming out of the oven at around midnight but, unlike supermarket bread, it has a longer shop shelf life.

There is a bit of early morning work based around things like pastries but that gets done by the early shift from the shop so they start around 6am at the earliest. The shop opens at around 8.30.

I find it very peaceful work and the satisfaction of creating something that people take home and enjoy is very fulfilling. In the mornings I go past the shop front and see people picking up stuff I've worked on the night before and it's a really nice warm feeling. If the missus is genuinely interested, it may be work seeing if a local bakery has the capacity for her to do a couple of trial training shifts and see what the work looks like. Usually having an extra set of hands helping out counters the amount of time spent showing someone the new processes.

The hours are a bit awkward though. We've no children so suddenly not being around a couple of evenings a week isn't a burden. But it is taking some adjusting to. Luckily Mrs TSK is very understanding and supportive. The aim, at the moment, is for me to work two evenings and two night shifts a week. Once things have settled down I'm sure they'll get a bit easier on that front.

Update time.

After leaving my job, I started volunteering two days a week for the local Real Junk Food Project as a kitchen assistant and one day a week for the local Wildlife Trust doing practical conservation work.

For beer tokens, I did Christmas Casual work for Royal Mail, which was OK but you're treated like a drone. In the new year, things looked a bit bleak with no responses to job applications and crap prospects so I started Deliveroo. I now basically consider this Jobseekers Allowance for cyclists. Its an easy way to keep your head above water while sorting other things out.

At the same time, my local artisan bakery lost an employee due to health issues and I got offered his position. I'm now working odd hours as a trainee baker while doing Deliveroo to top up my pay packet.

I feel like I'm learning a skill that could become a craft and, at the moment, couldn't be happier. I've ditched the kitchen volunteering but I'm still keeping up the conservation work because they're putting me on training courses which will keep my options open.

With the 2008 SCOTUS ruling in the Heller case then state level legal challenges on gun ownership are all but meaningless. That forms an overarching federal position on constitutionality that states can only strengthen rather than erode.

The depth at which gun culture is ingrained into the American psyche is such that, for meaningful and sustainable change, it will need to be dismantled piecemeal. Given that SCOTUS has ruled that there is no requirement for involvement in a militia as a part of the right to bear arms, any legal challenges citing the preferatory clause, federal, state or otherwise, is fundamentally pointless.

A lot of heavy weather has come about over the first part of the 2nd Amendment. In reality, its become a pointless distraction to any debate thats going to bring about any meaningful change.

Firstly, the prefatory clause around militias isn't static. The drafts, ratified copies, signed copies and various published copies all differ. As such, no side on the debate (of which there are more than two) can make any reasonable claim to know the mind of any of the framers, nor that they were acting in unified concensus. Certainly the right and the clause cannot be held absolutely in tandem.

Secondly, the amendment has been incorporated in to many legal cases argued at many different level up to the SCOTUS and in relation to many different issues, including other amendments, that striking it as now redundant isn't a matter of debating the preferatory clause. Nor can you simply strike down the right without unpicking all of the subsequent legislation at both federal and state level and rehearing a multitude of cases. Any failing of which would return the amendment to effect unchanged.

Mine is gone

As the OP's voucher has gone, I'll piggy back on this and offer mine up for grabs too.

Depends on the geometry of the rest of the bike. At 6'2, I've fit comfortable on bikes between 52 and 58.

I almost always adjust the stem length and saddke height because I'm a orangutang (fuck the T-Rexs) with medium leg length.

Not sure really. I deliver to about 6 different postcode areas but not to the whole area covered by them. If you were to look at the S6 area you would be able to see why, some of it is fine but the far reaches would be difficult to ride to in less than an hour with a roo bag on your back.

Most of my collections are in S1 but most deliveries are S2 & S3.

You might be on a district border which could cause that problem. Sheffield only has one district.

Just bad luck. Environmental health will carry out unannounced visits at some point, I just happened to be there when it happened.

We've got one ebike rider, not too odd though.

I think that we're supposed to arrive a couple of minutes before the food is ready for collection. However, as Deliveroo don't seem to like giving restaurants the prep time they want, i.e. 15 minutes to prep, cook and plate a whole chicken breast, this doesn't work. It also falls down if you're a faster rider and/or know a shorter/quicker route to the restaurant.

I think waiting time might be a bad idea, too easy for riders to try and milk the system and too much of a case of your word versus theirs that Deliveroo would have to spend a lot of money hiring people to mediate between claims.

I'm not to bothered about waiting 5-10 minutes waiting on an order, especially at this time of year. I've worked in kitchens and know how long it takes to get a dish up to service. It's when I turned up at a restaurant, the whole family is busy eating dinner and nobody is in the kitchen that I get annoyed. Of course I should have called too be unassigned as soon as environmental health turned up to carry out an inspection instead of waiting another ten minutes trying to get the front of house to tell me when it was going to be ready.

In the main KFC I go to, the tablet is out front and as soon as the order come through they stick the ticket on a bag, get any drinks out and call it through to the back. They'll usually have someone who fills Deliveroo orders as their first line while one or two others do the instore customers.

Meanwhile, at the other KFC, the one I don't want to go to, the tablet is out back and only when you walk in the door and give them your order number(s) do they go and look for it and start making it up. Generally an absolute shitshow.

I think that the main one know's that we'll be nice to them, be paying attention when they call out order numbers and clear the counter area as soon as possible.

I'm working in Sheffield.

Yeah, anywhere that offers a "dining experience" rather than shovelling food at you as fast as they can, is always going to be a slow pick up. I had a word with one of the staff at Bills in Sheffield and they said that they had asked for a 15 minute prep time but only ever get 10. That automatically means a 5 minute wait on any pick up when it isn't really busy.

The bags are OK but it seems that there is a preference for Stuart bags (except they don't hold a pizza flat). If at all possible, don't bother with the jacket. I turned up to the kit collection wearing a jacket with reflective trim on it and it was given a pass (Ron Hill running windstop). About half the riders just wear their own clothing. I've got a light coloured waterproof that I use when it's raining. It seems unlikely that anyone will ever check on the kit that riders are wearing after they've started.

Next to nothing in tips up here but I'm not that bothered.

Ursula K Le Guin

One of the best. RIP

Sheffield has a long corridor of pick up places which is a bit awkward. Riders seem to hedge their bets one end or the other.

Yeah, the app instructions implied that you could but it doesn't seem to work in my area. I stick notify on for upcoming shifts and try and book them on the fly. Surprisingly difficult to find somewhere warm to hunker down in Sheffield in between shifts without spending money.

Doing OK at the moment. I'm getting three deliveries a shift so far and even managed to get a tip. Double bonus for that one as it was the last call of the shift and took me two minutes from home.

The bags are paid off now so I'll start making some money now.

Finally up and running. Not many shifts available to book at the moment. Is it worth just going into the delivery zone and logging on or will I not get much work?

Depends how you define massive. Thats 0.0066% of the global population.

Mind you, less than 0.1% have functional access to it so that shifts the percentage a bit.