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Trump Has Spent a Fraction of What Clinton Has on Ads (Published 2016) Spending on advertising is climbing, but is nowhere near the level of previous elections.

It was targeted in 2012, but not to nearly the same extent (on a per-voter basis) as Ohio, Florida, Colorado, New Hampshire, etc. and even less so as the election got closer. In 2016 ads were basically non-existent in VA
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It's not solid blue, but it's definitely not purple by any meaningful definition

I mean fair point I guess, but it's been a decade since there was even a statewide federal race in VA within 5 points and no republican presidential campaign has seriously targeted it since 2008

at the very worst it's as blue as Minnesota

I mean... ok? Republicans drew brutal gerrymanders of the state legislature after being given a trifecta in 2009 but since 2017 the only thing they've mustered is a 2 seat HoD majority on those same maps

Rs haven't won a federal statewide race in VA since 2004 it's pretty blue

fuck you lol

"waymos are worse drivers than humans"
"they crash less than humans"
"sample size is too small"

Waymos would've had to have driven less than 640,000 miles from January-September for its 700 crashes of any kind to have happened at a higher rate than crashes featuring injury by all drivers in LA county

"In 100 million miles traveled, Waymo has caused more crashes than the average woman driver" is a pretty fucking extraordinary claim

I'm not scrolling through your 6000 posts to find your specific crash statistics, if you have them then post them

So I assume you have anything supporting your position besides one (1) tiktok anecdote

Comparison of Waymo rider-only crash data to human benchmarks at 7.1 million miles - PubMed The statistically significant reductions in <i>police-reported</i> and <i>any injury reported</i> crash rates indicate a promising positive safety impact of ADS. The direction and significance of comparisons in the <i>any property damage or injury</i> outcome group are inconclusive due to difficulti …

FWIW, mountains of studies showing that Waymos are, in fact, better than humans at not-crashing
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39485678/
www.damfirm.com/waymo-accide...
waymo.com/safety/impact/

Do you have any source for that at all or are you just pulling it out of your ass? I don't think you understand the scale of Waymo particularly well.
Plus, what, your argument is that Waymos can't be good drivers until they've gone offroad in December in the Montana highlands?

Waymos have driven over 100 million miles, please find any human driver in history who could possibly have a better rate of crashes/mile

1. Don't care
2. Didn't ask
but nice to hear

and this happens more often than with human drivers?

cities made so much progress reducing the impact of automobiles before 2023 and now it's all over, sad to see

I have 100% confidence that you have come nowhere near driving as many miles as waymos

yeah for sure you can't do two things at once, forgot about that

"tech bros" can be bad without everything they touch being automatically dismissed as society-ruiners

Ways to find a bad driver: look for people who type shit like this

They do with far more consistency than any human driver ever

The original post implies that all waymos are bad because one ran over a cat, so it follows that any person who has ever run over a cat is evil bsky.app/profile/ruem...

What the fuck are you talking about

the point is that you can't snap your fingers and get rid of all cars no matter how bad you want to

I imagine you think that everyone who has ever run over an animal in their car should be thrown in prison then

if there are going to be cars on the road I'd rather they be cars that perfectly follow road laws than cars piloted by stupid people

Replacing one bad driver (an uber) with one good driver (a waymo) is objectively a good thing to do

What is your point??? Uber drivers are bad so good computer drivers shouldn't replace them?