Why wouldn’t we accept that? We accept so many deaths by human car drivers.

It won’t be hard to have self-driving cars be 10 times safer, which will save many lives. But that does mean we have to accept some deaths by self-driving cars.

No deaths would be awesome, but for that we would have to completely restructure all existing traffic infrastructure. In the current case there will allways be scenarios where even the best drivers (human or robot) won’t be able to avoid a collision.

Depends on where you live. If youre west of Germany but on the mainland, winter is the one where the sun is highest between 1 and 2. Summer time is even worse though, between 2 and 3.

I’m surprised that this is the most recent one on the link. Are they not doing campaigns anymore?

You can place a bike on either side of each bar. Look at the brackets for the front wheel.

That’s true in theory, but if you talk about megameters to a European you’ll get very weird looks.

An engineer will understand what you mean, but still laugh at you.

But it’s a non-issue for anything on earth, where you’ll have 40.000 kilometers at most. Not a lot of time is spent talking about x thousand kilometer.

Any notion that a kilometer is “too small” is laughable.

I appreciate your optimistm, but I won’t hold my breath.

all the chatbots die

Is that planned on the same day hell freezes over?

I admire your positive outlook and confidence in turtles

It would be really surprising to see turtles on the wheel, considering there are no wild turtles in the Netherlands.

Whaddayamean there’s no such thing as a fish? I just ate one!

My plan B is to think of a plan C as fast as I can

This one is much better!

The “kind of” is doing the heavy lifting here

Partially, but even written Afrikaans has much more loanwords from African languages and English, and words that evolved independently, compared to Flemish.

Edit: Playing round a bit more with the tool, Your point is proven. The distance between Dutch and Afrikaans is lower. Only 2. Yet that’s considered different languages.

That doesn’t make sense to me. I’m a native Dutch speaker, I have little issue understanding Flemish. Afrikaans is clearly closely related too, but definitely harder to understand.

The toxic stuff is what bacteria leave behind, and you can’t cook that out.

Farting while sitting on it would be my guess

I’m all for free healthcare and public transit, but that doesn’t remotely cover the cost of being run over by an uninsured driver.

That’s also because the Netherlands are wildly in the wrong timezone. Especially during daylight savings.

I tried to do that some time ago, but got bored of weighing everything. Is taking a picture generally enough to estimate weights and stuff? I remember it made a lot of difference if a salad has an oil dressing for example, or how much peanut butter you put on a sandwich.