Random links
- Memphis lawmakers want to charge officers with felony for turning off body cameras
- Not ideal but probably necessary given that people departments have been encountering more of the sort of issues mentioned here. Probably need an exception whereby a member of the public might be able to request the cameras off though - though what happens if one party in a conflict requests this?
- In 2017, the feds said Tesla Autopilot cut crashes 40%—that was bogus
- "QCS highlights flaws in NHTSA's methodology that are serious enough to completely discredit the 40 percent figure, which Tesla has cited multiple times over the last two years. ... The majority of the vehicles in the Tesla data set suffered from missing data or other problems that made it impossible to say whether the activation of Autosteer increased or decreased the crash rate. But when QCS focused on 5,714 vehicles whose data didn't suffer from these problems, it found that the activation of Autosteer actually increased crash rates by 59 percent."
- In the Fake News Era, Native Ads Are Muddying the Waters
- "Online experiment finds that less than 1 in 10 people can tell sponsored content from an article"