Bridge problem mason county
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/WLpx-XFSaUY

Copycat.

 

 

Unloaded airliners are incredibly agile. No passengers, no luggage, only a half-hour's so worth of fuel. They have load-factor and excess thrust up the wazoo.

 

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I have a need, for speed. Flying cars, anyone?

 

 

 

 

It’s about damn time they clean up this mess that killing innocent people on the road.

 

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Stash a simple item in your carry-on to avoid travel delays and stress, experts advise


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"Pull a spare pen out of your pocket at 35,000 feet, and people look at you like you've just invented fire," Fowkes said. "In that moment, a pen is social currency."

 

Stash a simple item in your carry-on to avoid travel delays and stress, experts advise
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I always have one, it's also a weapon.

 

https://sfstandard.com/2025/12/20/waymo-sf-blackout-robotaxi-traffic-jams/

The widespread havoc shows the vulnerability of a city when fleets of autonomous vehicles are responsible for an increasing percentage of its traffic patterns, as in San Francisco.

While Waymo has often touted the safety record of its vehicles when compared to human drivers, the robotaxis are reliant on infrastructure out of the company’s control and risk disruptions to their operations when one of those elements — such as the power grid — falter.

https://x.com/devin_clark/status/20...embed?id=1d8e6178-3609-4a6c-9c33-e21e2e89ffce

 

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Something about the article doesn't make sense. She talks about holding up a line of fellow passengers because she didn't have a pen and all the airport pens were gone. That means they had landed and were out of the plane and in a line. So why would people look at her like she invented fire when she pulled the pen out of her pocket at 35,000 ft? The crisis hasn't come yet and most people, especially the half dozen or so that can see here, have no reason to expect there will be one? Similarly if they fill the forms out on the plane, people aren't going to take much note because if they don't have a pen, they are just going to sit there waiting to land, which is exactly what they would be doing anyway.

While the recommendation is a good one, the article strikes me as another case of the writer (or the travel "expert" that was consulted) making up a story for dramatic effect.

 

Plane makes safe emergency landing in Colorado without a pilot's help, in first "Autoland" use

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A plane landed at Colorado's Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport without a pilot's help on Saturday in what appears to be the first real-world use of new safety technology. According to Garmin, their emergency "Autoland" system was activated for the first time ever for the landing at around 2 p.m. Saturday. The landing was successful and the charter company for the plane told CBS Colorado that everyone involved was OK.

 

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That's the airport where I got my Private Pilot's license at (at the time, it was known as Jefferson County Airport).

This is a good use for technology like this -- and the fact that this is the first time it's been used in the six years it's been out there does show how rare these events are (though we don't know how many aircraft are actually equipped with it). I still like having a human pilot as the primary operator (whether they happen to be using autopilot the entire time or not), but any backup is certainly better than no backup.

 

Passing on a highway
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The name is Ron, Mo Ron.