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"At least 5 autonomous vehicle companies are already operating or actively testing on streets of major U.S. cities. Waymo is serving millions of rides. Tesla, Zoox (by Amazon), Volkswagen’s autonomous ID. Buzz (partnered with Uber), and Uber/Nvidia’s L4 platform are coming."

@brianbobc @SawyerMerritt With FSD the car steers itself, but you must supervise the steering. Sometimes, I don't like the decision it makes (or it takes the wrong lane) and I steer (triggering or avoiding lane changes). At that moment FSD disengages. You must keep your hands at the wheel for that.

@DavidFdzP @SawyerMerritt If you aren't steering then you aren't driving. "Driving a car is the act of operating, controlling, and steering a motor vehicle to move passengers or goods. It involves managing the speed and direction of the vehicle". collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/eng…

Watch how perfectly Tesla FSD (Supervised) handles all these pedestrians and bikers on narrow roads in Amsterdam, the biking capital of the world. It's a thing of beauty. Lot of fun to watch all these FSD videos coming from the Netherlands.

@brianbobc @SawyerMerritt Same as when you activate the cruise control on any other car. FSD is just a kind of ultra advance and smart cruise control you can enable anywhere. You are driving, anyway, in the end.

@SawyerMerritt Doesn’t FSD in supervised mode require hands on the steering wheel according to the Tesla manual? The rules in the Netherlands allow drivers to take their hands off the steering wheel during appropriate conditions, these didn’t seem appropriate conditions thenextweb.com/news/tesla-fsd…

@Tesla_Tizzler @SawyerMerritt Of course, safety first. But it has been approved in NL, part of EU, so the next thing is that EU will forbid you to drive your own car manually, at least if you have FSD (which could be safer, in my experience).

@SawyerMerritt EU won't approve it. They focus on safety rather than tech for tech's sake.

@zephianton @SawyerMerritt People shoud not be allowed to drive, except for the last part, parking and if the car makes a mistake. It is much safer to allow the FSD to drive, IMHO. It detects everything better and faster than you: pedestrians, cyclists, semaphores going red, amber or green...

@SawyerMerritt Tbh that is insane. In some years people won't have to drive anymore.

@SawyerMerritt It is just amazing. After trying this, going back to the dumb adaptive cruise control (after the trial period ends) is going to be really like going backwards after being in the future. Paying 99 euros/month for this is something...

“Back in 1990, [Ben] Wicks depicted what a first human mission to Mars might look like in 2019.” Bummer. We aren’t even close. NASA/ART (2008)

ESA begins next phase of 'fibre in the sky' optical communications project with Canada esa.int/Applications/C…

Somebody predicted some time ago that one bitcoin would be worth 200k$ by now...

Netherlands (21% dimming). European nights dimmed sharply in 2022 during a regional energy crisis that followed the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. science.nasa.gov/earth/human-di…

Epic View from Orbit: Artemis II’s Fiery Return Captured from the ISS! Astronauts aboard the International Space Station caught this jaw-dropping photo — a blazing streak of plasma slicing across Earth’s atmosphere as NASA’s Artemis II mission came roaring home.On April 10, 2026, the Orion spacecraft Integrity completed its historic ~10-day crewed lunar flyby — the first since Apollo 17 in 1972. Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch, and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego at 8:07 p.m. EDT.That brilliant, glowing trail? It’s most likely the uncrewed service module as it separated and burned up in the intense heat of re-entry. Meanwhile, the crew module — protected by its advanced heat shield enduring temperatures up to ~5,000°F — carved through the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds before deploying parachutes for a picture-perfect ocean landing.Imagine floating 250 miles above Earth, watching fellow humans return from the Moon in a streak of fire. This single image captures the raw drama, danger, and triumph of deep-space exploration like nothing else.From Gagarin’s first orbit 65 years ago to this moment — humanity keeps pushing the frontier farther. What an incredible time to be alive in the space age! Tag a fellow space lover who needs to see this!

Antes de la cuarentena, la tripulación nos visitó en el Mission Evaluation Room para despedirse y darnos su emblema de dos caras, y que la cambiáramos según iban o venían de la Luna. Al cruzar el apogeo, cumplimos con ese deseo, iniciando así una tradición del programa Artemis

Així ha estat l'amaratge de la missió Artemis 2 al Pacífic. La càpsula Orion, amb els quatre astronautes a l'interior, ha amarat amb paracaigudes i flotadors davant de la costa de San Diego 3cat.cat/3catinfo/artem…

Artemis II may have splashed down, but our photos and videos from the mission are still rolling in! Keep an eye on the latest: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-mul…

Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶 The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.

ESA - Walk in the footsteps of Artemis #msdynmkt_trackingcontext=254c04ae-800e-4fea-bc19-56b7b2cb0200" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">esa.int/Education/Teac…

La Ciencia no puede ser ajena al entorno y los problemas sociales y políticos. x.com/DemocraticWins…