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People who don't mind driverless cars will find all sorts out reason to brush off this kind of news:
https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk/117135628617386440
It was moving slowly already to be safe, it did brake before the collision, the injuries were minimal, the child is at fault, etc.
In the end, a lot of people will shrug and say: human drivers also make mistakes like this, so what's the big deal if a robot does? Maybe the robot even has a better safety record on average than humans. You can't ask for perfection!
Here are three related reasons why you shouldn't buy these arguments:
1. The crash statistics for the "average human driver" include (and are probably significantly driven by) impaired human drivers, like drunk drivers or people on their phones. When driverless car companies put "as good as the average human driver" as the goal, they're saying that they're okay with their systems being just as bad as drunk or distracted drivers sometimes. That's not the right goal at all! We should demand that driving robots perform at least as well as non-distracted human drivers, which is significantly *better* than the average human driver when it comes to things like crashes.
2. Mistakes made by a robotic system are fundamentally different in nature from mistakes made by humans, because the robot mistakes ate *systematic* across all robots in similar-enough situations. If a human looking at their phone slows down too late and hits a child, that's tragic, but it doesn't mean that *every* human driver put into the same situation would make the same mistake. In fact, many of them probably wouldn't be looking at their phone and thus would avoid the accident, *even given the exact same situation in which to react.* In contrast, *every Waymo taxi running the same software* will make exactly the same mistake in that situation. In other words, this kind of event will definitely repeat whenever a similar-enough situation arises around a Waymo taxi. That's why news like this should be scary, even though the accident was a minor one.
3. Some might claim that it's good that a software upgrade could potentially fix the issue that caused this accident. It's sort of true that there's an upside there (although any behavior updates can cause errors in other situations). But the question we should be asking is: why wasn't this already fixed before the vehicle was approved for testing on real roads with real children and people in harm's way? Why wasn't there a stimulation scenario for this exact kind of situation, so that the system already knew what to do? Why should it take a child getting injured for a fix to be developed v(if one in fact will be)? In theory, of course, it's possible that this was a truly exceptional situation where even an alert human couldn't have done better. I'm sure what's what the company is telling the investigators. It's also possible that the designers are following the Silicon Valley motto of "move fast and break things", which reaches an entirely new level of frightfulness when the thing that's moving fast is a car and the thing being broken is a child. "I'll just deploy it now and as test cases when I see what really breaks in production" is an attitude I've been guilty of, but then I make videogames, not deadly robots.

Bats decouple sonar gaze from steering to resolve sensory conflict https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.08.743555v1 "We induced auditory-visual conflict in free-flying echolocating Egyptian fruit bats", "animals could efficiently employ active sen…

Bats decouple sonar gaze from steering to resolve sensory conflict
When sensory modalities yield conflicting information, animals must rapidly reassess stimuli to select their actions. We induced auditory-visual conflict in free-flying echolocating Egyptian fruit bats by fitting animals with prisms that shifted the perceived visual location of a landing perch while echoes returned from its veridical location. Bats that course-corrected within a single goal-directed flight did so by decoupling sonar gaze from steering, to enable rapid reweighting of visual and …

Following the museum’s mission of connecting through culture and curiosity, this summer has the theme “World Travelers.” Kaitlyn Loyd, the museum’s associate curator of school, youth and family programs, puts it simply: “Art can transport us.” Art Adventures transports campers to different times and places with the goal of broadening perspectives and engaging the local community in a fun, memorable way.

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Leftover biscuits became mini breakfast sandwiches with egg, bacon and Gruyère today after a late night yesterday with films, gathering after, and work stuff. Today’s just work and necklace repair. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/uDEm2pV3piyRKWyb6

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A temporary pool pump, a replacement pump, some major menu changes, and the beginning of a project I’ve wanted to tackle for years: digitizing my old 8mm home movies.
The first reel dates from 1961 and includes my parents, my infant brother, and several other relatives. I’ve had these films since around 2000, so finally seeing what survived all those years—and seeing some family members who are no longer with us—was pretty special.

New Life for Old Movies – Bob Mueller
The pool saga wraps up, alpha-gal changes our menu, & I begin digitizing home movies filled with memories. Plus, football season is here.

Leg 3 of 5 complete.
All these legs need some filling of cracks and a couple of passes through the planer to get all the sides flat.
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Thought the main risk to my phone while I was away would be a leak in the waterproof bag/case for it.
But no. The power button keeps falling off. So far I find it and push it back in but one of those times involved taking the couch apart.
You think about gluing it into place but that'd just glue the button stuck.
Gonna have to buy a badge so I can press it with the pin I think. For this thing is sure to get lost before the week is out.