I loved Mr. Stanks follow up of "Privacy?! Why, you post your food on Facebook!". Because what I had for supper and where I've travelled during the day are on exactly the same level of privacy and concern. I have to assume that in the reporter's attempt to have a voice from the pro side and the con side, the best they could find was "if you're not doing anything illegal...".
If people don't have anything to hide ask them how their marriage is and when the last time was they met their mistress, since they drive by there way too often for not having one nearby that location. That line of questioning usually shuts people up, replace response with financials/location/calls/etc when needed. (I know it's a reductio ad absurdum)
Talking about driver education, refrigerated trucks never get to turn off the engine until they unload the cargo.
The refrigeration unit often runs on a separate unit powered by its own engine, not the engine powering the truck. Don’t get excited just yet, as those engines do not run clean. They do use less fuel than the truck’s engine, though.
Our camper van (which is a tall sail) compensates for sidewinds. Other RVs can have this feature as well, though often as aftermarket fitment. Pretty neat when it works, “man, sure is windy today, but this van is a lot easier drive in the crosswind than our old RV. Oh…”
But an RV is not a semi tractor-trailer setup. In fact, crosswind compensation is something I’ve only seen on RVs that don’t involve a trailer (Class A, Class C). And for a semi, how much is in the trailer? Seems a compensation system would need to know that.
I'd swear I've seen such systems advertised in the appropriate magazines for large RVs (Class A "tourbus" RVs), but for the life of me a web search brings up nothing. For now, assume I hallucinated such a thing (or maybe what I think I saw was actually just an old-school steering stabilizer that advertised "crosswinds!".)
And you're right, it does seem that the systems are integrated. For example, Mercedes' system for the Sprinter applies the brakes on one side to compensate. Seems like something would need to tie into the CAN bus to pull that off. Not that aftermarket couldn't do the same, but is that functionality even available on a 43' pusher diesel?
Plenty of illiterate people manage to stay out of jail, you’re implying that you weren’t suggesting literacy tests for voting, so I’ll just admit to being at a loss as to your point. But if you care to take another whack at how you would suggest “we ban ill educated people”, I’m all ears.
I am not attempting to describe the world. I am trying to define the expectations we should have of the citizens of our polity. It has nothing to do with illiterate people manage not to commit crimes. I am saying that before we decide to get "big money" out of politics or we let people vote for the seven people who promise them the most shit, we should decided to put people who chose not to acquire basic skills that any human within standard deviation of average intelligence can acquire, when given 12 years of free education, into jail. It literally is not a literacy test for voting. It's an "are you a lazy piece of shit who is going to drag all of society down" policy.
But I suspect you mean to say 90% of what ends up in your mailbox is junk. If that's the case, there's a fix for that, too:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36131222
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