One autopiloted Uber car smacks into a non-robot car whose human pilot was bending the rules, and humans suspend the robot program and consign the driverless-car revolution to another generation…
Tag: safety
When Rep. Brian Gosch snuck the 80-mile-an-hour speed limit into the 2015 $85-million road tax hike, I pointed to research that suggested higher speed limits mean higher…
The Department of Public Safety has released its 2015 Crash Report. In his cover letter, Governor Daugaard chooses to highlight two statistically insignificant pieces of data: In…
Hey, ammosexuals! Hey, Rep. diSanto! I know you enjoy modeling, but try modeling gun safety: you only put your finger on the trigger when you are going…
We just can’t have any fun any more. The Aberdeen Optimist Club opens the Haunted Forest at Wylie Park this Friday and Saturday, but the terror will only…
Conservative wags are dancing on the graves of the 84 victims of the Nice massacre by challenging liberals to call for truck control: “I fully expect…
Campbell County Economic Development director Andrew Van Kuren says the free market has failed to provide hundreds of folks in the Pollock area with the cell phone…
You’d think that as a pilot, Mike Rounds could at least get aviation legislation right. Last month, South Dakota’s junior Senator proposed easing the training requirements for pilots…
A cranky minority of legislators hate bicyclists. We saw an outbreak of two-wheeler-whacking during last year’s successful effort to write into law the passing berth motorists must give bicyclists. Now…
In today’s Oopsie! file, former state legislator Ryan Maher has been having a little trouble keeping between the ditches. From this week’s Timber Lake Topic:…