That's very different though. This article states he "knowingly left the 2-year-old in the car".
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IMHO, you shouldn't be able to permanently disable it. We are in a climate crisis.
As a Canadian, I read 141 and thought, "141 km/h is pretty fast, but that's not international news fast." Then I saw it was mph!
Driving that fast on a closed course while sober with complete focus is dangerous. Yet this guy was drunk and texting on public roads.
“Sometimes mistakes happen," he said. "But I’m not a bad person.”
AFAIK, no mistakes happened, those were all choices. And by making those choices, yes, you are a bad person.
My 2020 VW Golf definitely turns itself off when in park, but also has the button to disable it.
It will even require a manual restart if it's been parked long enough, which gets annoying when I spend a little too long dropping off/picking up something, and don't notice the message, put it in drive, see the message and try to start the car, but can't until I put it back in park. /rant
The dad went into the house, and when he returned to the car between 30 and 60 minutes later
This is the part that really confuses me, they were home. I get that parents sometimes need a break from their kid but:
- You're home, so take your kid inside and then you go somewhere else.
- 30 to 60 minutes?!? I can understand taking 10 minutes (which is still a dangerous amount of time) but WTF was going on for 30 to 60 minutes.
I know it's not the point of the article, but I'm also annoyed at the idea of someone intending to run their car for 30-60 minutes for no reason. I will admit I've left my car running just for the comfort of A/C while I'm waiting, and I don't live in Arizona heat, but dude was home.
Most modern cars have an auto-off feature. Some have a button to temporarily disable it.
Daylighting is defined the first time it's used. I think it's useful to define and use a term when you're going to use it 6 more times in one article.
Hoboken’s traffic fatalities were low before it ever implemented Vision Zero — it had one road death a year between 2015 and 2017, the last year there was a road fatality.
Why oh why is this posted as a link to a lemmy post? We have crossposting for a reason!
"uninstall" isn't an option for apt. You might be thinking of "remove" but in OP's case "purge" probably makes more sense.
I don't think the article explicitly says how the program is funded. However, the nurse they highlight "normally works in the emergency department at Windsor Regional Hospital" and they talk about the program also reducing visits to the ER. So, I doubt the WPS is paying the nurse's salary.
This is the one that always gets me about "small government" people. They talk about inefficiencies and say, "the private sector can do it better," which is debatable because comparing money and service is subjective (IMHO, they're still wrong, but that's besides the point). Yet most of them don't want to properly fund tax administrators, when time and time again, they've shown they're a money multiplier. If you want a more basic, striped down tax code, I once again disagree, but fine, that's your opinion. However, in our current tax system enforcement is underfunded, and I think it just shows their true intent to enrich the wealthy.