Mean streets: Self-driving cars will “cruise” to avoid paying to park
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Busy day in Santa
Cruz, CA.
As if city traffic and parking isn’t a big enough headache already for anyone who attempts it, along comes another issue. The proposed cure isn’t much fun either.
Autonomous vehicles “have every incentive to create havoc,” a transportation planner says. UC Santa Cruz Magazine reporting.
With no need to park, self-driving cars will clog city streets and slow traffic to a crawl.
However, a policy fix could address these problems before autonomous vehicles become commonplace, says Adam Millard-Ball.
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BLACK THURSDAY 168 Years Ago : Bushfires Burn 5 Million Hectares or A Quarter Of Victoria
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Black Thursday, February 6th. 1851, as depicted by William Strutt in 1864
“People have been imagining that the climate is changing,
exaggerating every weather event, getting widespread press coverage,
and blaming it on man – for as long as there have been newspapers.”
– Tony Heller
Climate Change Insanity Never Changes
“The only way to get our society to truly change is to
frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.”
– emeritus professor Daniel Botkin
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THE Black Thursday bushfires were a devastating series of fires that swept through Victoria on February 6, 1851. They are considered the largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history, with approximately 5 million hectares, or a quarter of Victoria, being burnt. Twelve lives were lost, along with one million sheep and thousands of cattle.
THE year preceding the fires was exceptionally hot and dry and this trend continued into the summer…
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My next readings from left to right
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Free to Choose Part 5: Created Equal Featuring Milton Friedman
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The Truth Cannot be Sexist – Steven Pinker on the biology of sex differences
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