The post Sassy Pg 1 appeared first on DRIVE™.

Comic: July 5, 2024

TerraPower's atomic facility needs lots of low-enriched uranium and who mainly makes it ... ah, jeez

Unwilling to let a little thing like reality stand in its way, Bill Gates' TerraPower has broken ground on its Wyoming nuclear power plant without any guarantee it'll have the fuel needed to run the thing once it's finished. …

...as early as 2032:

The technology uses GPS to compare a vehicle's speed with a dataset of posted speed limits. Once the car is at least 10 mph over the speed limit, the system would emit "a brief, one-time visual and audio signal to alert the driver."

It would not require California to maintain a list of posted speed limits. That would be left to manufacturers. It's likely these maps would not include local roads or recent changes. The bill states that if the system receives conflicting information about the speed limit, it must use the higher limit. [...]

Wiener's bill initially sought to require active speed governors, not passive, that use GPS technology to override a driver's control of a vehicle by automatically capping a car's speed if it detects speeding. [...]

Republican state Sen. Brian Dahle said he voted against it in part because he said sometimes people need to drive faster than the speed limit in an emergency. "It's just a nanny state that we're causing here," he said.

Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.