A Texas TV station attempting to educate the public has instead misled the public (warning: autoplay video). People in Vidor, Texas thought there were more crashes on I-10 since the speed limit went up. A KBMT investigator checked accident records. There were 130 crashes in 2010 and 180 in 2016, so the crash rate went […]
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But the tests said it worked
Apple reprogrammed my iPod to steal my private files and send them to Apple’s servers. I wasn’t the only victim, but the news barely got mentioned online. Because nobody expects software to work right. This happened shortly after I read a proposal to shield car makers from liability for bugs in their driving software. The […]
Acting tough
Like Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney spent decades running for president and lost. Part of his plan was to appear tough on crime with a capital punishment bill so narrowly drafted that it would never be used (and so could never be used against him). Lawmakers rejected his bill and positioned themselves as tough on drunk […]
Working backwards
If you’ve read the news the past few years you might think that all undesirable weather is caused by climate change and all increases in crash rates are caused by distracted driving. These reports mainly offer insight into the people who write them. People who are curious ask, “why did 39 people got run over […]
Remembering a toll opponent
One of the few people who treated the Big Dig as anything other than a blank check died recently. To quote the Cape Cod Times, Christy Mihos, “a grandson of Greek immigrants who was born in Brockton, became famous in the early 2000s as vice chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority when he predicted the […]
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