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I'd be willing to bet that most of the difference in crash rates between Waymos and human drivers can be explained by the fact that Waymos drive under the speed limit.

I only know this stuff because I've conducted research on the craft brewing industry and have done some deep dives into TTB and alcohol regulation in the wake of prohibition repeal.

Folks who make ginger beer and kombucha, which is also about 0.5%, are regulated as food and beverage (FDA) not as alcohol so their products don't get categorized as alcoholic beverages. If a beer brewer made ginger beer, you'd need ID to buy it.

That does make sense and gibes with TTB regulations.

It's because NA beer is actually about .5% ABV, not truly alcohol free. And it's regulated by the TTB. Medicine is regulated by the FDA which is why you can by NyQuil, (at about 10% ABV) without ID. (Sorry to be pedantic if your Q was actually rhetorical).

Defining "Black kids living" as DEI is a hell of a policy stance, but here we are.

I'm calling it now: Vingegaard retires at the end of the season after failing to make the TdF podium. It'll be sad to see him go, as I think he's net very good for the sport.

My family routinely watches The Amazing Race. It’s been interesting to watch how early season racers did just fine with paper maps. Later seasons saw paper maps become part of the race challenge. Same with driving manual, FWIW.

Local bike shops are closing daily and the folks at @velo-velo-velo.bsky.social are hyping Amazon deals. Way to undermine the very industry on which your readership depends.

I sincerely hope that this and all the MAGA/Trump merch that litters our era are treated in the future like we treat Nazi memorabilia now.

Chicago needs a citywide network of protected bike lanes. We shouldn't have to rely on ward by ward protections, which results in both inequitable infrastructure distribution and safety gaps on longer trips.

I cut the reading for my 400-level course down to 10 pages/week and I don't think any of them did any of it.

Still waiting for the "now a major motion picture" stickers to start showing up on the book covers. Seems like UofC Press is missing out on some key marketing moves.

Autonomous vehicles ARE traffic.

SpaceX, Open AI, and Anthropic IPOs are going to create some real sticky wickets for fiduciaries, especially pension and 401k fund managers. Glad I'm not them but I'm afraid we're all going to get dragged into the morass.

These people are high on their own supply. The idea of just setting fire to the 60 Minutes and CBS News brand and its longstanding association with credibility boggles the mind. I guess that's life in a post-truth world.

Yes! I'm super-interested in how terms like class are used to mobilize (or demobilize) different groups. Class is a political term. "Working class" is often code for "authentic" at least as it's applied to white folks, which is why I think Platner and his supporters are so keen to embrace it.

This thread is ultimately the correct take on "class." However, I think we need to distinguish between technical definitions, like how sociologists define, operationalize, and use it, and vernacular uses of the term, like how people describe other people. The latter is worth studying sui generis.

This is dumb for lots of reasons. The first that comes to mind is do they think int'l travelers are just going to be like, "I can't get a flight to NYC, so I guess I'll visit Houston on my vacation?"