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Cake day: July 14th, 2023

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  • That’s not all exactly correct, I believe. It will be very hard to spec the vehicle to be as inexpensive as they claim and in 2027 (Sept.) all new cars must have onboard surveillance. If the car detects the driver is impaired, it won’t start. Unless there’s some kind of exemption for small volume or something, Slate will have to add it.

    EDIT: Looks like this is only partially true. The most nefarious part either did not pass or hasn’t passed yet. Apologies for the partial misinformation. Here is a reference:

    new-cars-by-2027-what-the-law-actually-requires/







  • I was living with my sister in a condo. We frequently played pool at a place across the street. It was a sort of yuppy pool place, not a biker bar. It was located on the end of a strip mall. To get there, we walked to the end of the row of single story condos, then through some bushes and into the sidewalk, jaywalked across the street and into the parking lot.

    So we’re doing this and just as we reach the sidewalk on the other side of the street, a car pulls out of the parking lot, like normal, and turns in our direction. Just behind it another car pulls out very quickly, not like normal, it overtakes the first car and forces it up onto the sidewalk where we are walking. Suddenly like three other cars pull in from multiple directions. We are literally standing in a police arrest scene. So glad when the perp went up on the sidewalk, he took care not to run over us. I guess the cops never expected people to suddenly emerge from the bushes and cross the street just at that moment.