Extraordinary. I hope the Americans reading this please watch the full exchange with the perspective of history. I saw a hero, Zelenskyy, one of the great leaders of our time, and two shockingly awful bullies. Vance especially.
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Wonderful, thank you.
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> Regulators are ill-equipped to address the issue: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's rating system focuses on occupant safety, not the safety of other road users
In the US.
In Europe pedestrian crash safety is a BIG deal.
Not a big enough deal. Pedestrian airbags are a thing that have been invented, but are scarecely on cars or trucks. Same with external cameras for better visibility. Lots of dragging feet from the industry.
I've been promoting this idea for a few years now, and I've seen an increasing number of people put it into action.
A fun way to track how people are using this is with the git-scraping topic on GitHub:
https://github.com/topics/git-scraping?o=desc&s=updated
That page orders repos tagged git-scraping by most-recently-updated, which shows which scrapers have run most recently.
As I write this, just in the last minute repos that updated include:
queensland-traffic-conditions: https://github.com/drzax/queensland-traffic-conditions
bbcrss: https://github.com/jasoncartwright/bbcrss
metrobus-timetrack-history: https://github.com/jackharrhy/metrobus-timetrack-history
bchydro-outages: https://github.com/outages/bchydro-outages
I've been doing this to track the UK's "carbon intensity" forecast and compare it with what is actually measured. Now have several months' data about the quality of the model and forecast published here: https://carbonintensity.org.uk/ . Thanks for the inspiration!
https://github.com/nmpowell/carbon-intensity-forecast-tracki...
The one's humiliated on the global scale are the ones who are lying through their teeth with less than zero class.