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Message 2143035 - Posted: 13 Nov 2024, 5:41:42 UTC - in response to Message 2143020.  

The terrifying moment occurred when the rider sped through traffic and collided with an SUV that tried to abruptly switch lanes.
I wonder if the person that wrote the comments for the article looked at the video, or if it was AI generated?
The bike crashed in to the back of the car that was already in the lane he was travelling in. The SUV that went to change lanes, went back to it's lane after moving it's wheels just over the line.

Oh, and speaking as a motorcyclist- that rider was an utter knob head and very lucky to be alive after that bit of high-speed stupidity.
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Message 2143045 - Posted: 13 Nov 2024, 20:17:13 UTC

EV gets stuck in SNOW and is rescued by a Pickup that is an EV.
A Ford F150 Lightning rescues a Tesla Model 3 in snow.
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Message 2143061 - Posted: 14 Nov 2024, 2:50:42 UTC

Horrifying moment worker is crushed to death by lorry at Ginsters pasty factory
This was the horrifying moment a worker died after being crushed against a wall by a lorry at a Ginsters pasty factory.

Footage shows the moment Paul Clarke, 40, was struck by the vehicle as it reversed into a loading bay in Callington, Cornwall.

The video was released after the owner of Ginsters was fined £1.28 million after pleading guilty to health and safety breaches.

The lorry was delivering supplies to a Cornish bakery where it makes its pasties at around 7am on Thursday December 2, 2021.

Mr Clarke was taken via helicopter to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, Devon, where he later lost his life.
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Message 2143135 - Posted: 16 Nov 2024, 10:59:38 UTC

Report: Qantas A388 at Los Angeles on Jan 1st 2024, maintenance tool found left in engine
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On 6 December 2023, an Airbus A380-842 aircraft, registered VH-OQI and operated by Qantas Airways Limited, was undergoing a 3-day scheduled maintenance check at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), United States.

On day one of the maintenance check, during a scheduled borescope inspection of the outboard left engine, a tool was left in the engine inlet. On the evening of 8 December, the aircraft was released to service and departed for Melbourne, Victoria.

On 1 January 2024, the aircraft returned to the LAX maintenance facility for a 3-day scheduled maintenance check, where the missing tool was discovered in the outboard left engine low-pressure compressor. The aircraft had flown 34 cycles totalling 293.74 hours with the tool in the outboard left engine.

The ATSB found that the tool was not located during the end of task foreign object inspections, which resulted in it remaining in the engine. The Qantas Engineering lost tool procedure was not commenced prior to the aircraft being released to service and the certifying engineer did not follow up on the lost tool, prior to releasing the aircraft to service.
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Message 2143138 - Posted: 16 Nov 2024, 17:00:19 UTC - in response to Message 2143135.  

did someone used to work for Boeing?
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Message 2143341 - Posted: 23 Nov 2024, 15:24:29 UTC

I think it's more USER ERROR and not paying attention to the signs/road
Sat-nav companies make changes after fatal crash
Google and Apple have agreed to amend their audio prompts after a double fatal crash appeared to have been caused by incorrect directions from a sat-nav.

A coroner warned tech companies, including TomTom, to a risk of future deaths after a woman drove the wrong way onto the A5 near Milton Keynes.

Sean Cummings, assistant coroner, said Tracey Haybittle, 58, and Amal Mohamed Ahmed, 38, both died in a head-on collision after Ms Ahmed appeared to have followed "audio directions from her sat-nav application".

TomTom said recent changes had been made to its verbal instructions. Apple and Google hoped changes to their audio prompts would provide clearer guidance.

In November 2023, Ms Ahmed was "following audio directions" when she drove down the slip road near the Little Brickhill junction.

In a Prevention of Future Deaths report for Ms Ahmed, the coroner noted police attending the crash saw three other vehicles "perform exactly the same manoeuvre as Ms Ahmed and attempt to travel down the slip road in the wrong direction".

National Highways has since erected signs to prevent motorists from accessing the slip road.

Responding to the report, a spokesperson from Apple said the company would add special voice guidance for drivers heading past the A5 offramp toward the A5 onramp.

They said: "We trust that the steps we are taking will be helpful to try to avoid any future such tragic events."

Motorists will be instructed to "continue straight at the overpass” as they travel west. While on the overpass, drivers will be instructed to “turn right onto A5 toward Milton Keynes, Bletchley".
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Message 2143352 - Posted: 24 Nov 2024, 5:56:23 UTC

Ah yes, the infamous turn right - turn left - turn right - turn left that I get coming out of the car park as it can't quite figure out I'm not on a street yet.
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Message 2143357 - Posted: 24 Nov 2024, 13:56:03 UTC - in response to Message 2143352.  

Ah yes, the infamous turn right - turn left - turn right - turn left that I get coming out of the car park as it can't quite figure out I'm not on a street yet.
Hah... the first time I tried 'coming out' of the airport's car park with a rented car in Australia I had to stop after completing my first round circling the car park without finding an open gate to exit this place for the city. Okay, what did I wrong? It's an ordinary car park like everywhere else...

Left hand driving.... You won't be able to find the exit until you start to think "left hand driving".

Supposedly, that's why the infamous 'turn left, turn right' at the car park is necessary.... for stupid tourists like me.
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Message 2143358 - Posted: 24 Nov 2024, 16:09:28 UTC - in response to Message 2143357.  

Ah yes, the infamous turn right - turn left - turn right - turn left that I get coming out of the car park as it can't quite figure out I'm not on a street yet.
Hah... the first time I tried 'coming out' of the airport's car park with a rented car in Australia I had to stop after completing my first round circling the car park without finding an open gate to exit this place for the city. Okay, what did I wrong? It's an ordinary car park like everywhere else...

Left hand driving.... You won't be able to find the exit until you start to think "left hand driving".

Supposedly, that's why the infamous 'turn left, turn right' at the car park is necessary.... for stupid tourists like me.

Nay, it says proceed to XYZ st and turn left, turn right ...
I'm thinking that it really has bad logic or can't figure out front from back. I doubt the "fastest route' is changing that often ,,,

Shockingly the walking but not driving mode of the app shows the single lane of the car park behind my work building.

Of course going there while pulling into the park it is screaming at me to do a U-turn go around the block ... it wants me on the street side of the building. But when picking a restaurant I frequent as a destination it actually directs me to the car park behind it.
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Message 2143510 - Posted: 28 Nov 2024, 20:12:36 UTC

Passenger who said he was ‘captain of this flight’ arrested in assault on plane to DFW airport
A passenger who injured an American Airlines flight attendant while trying to exit a plane in mid-air has been federally charged, authorities announced on Wednesday.

(Offender), 29, has been charged with interfering with a flight crew by assault or intimidation after the alleged attack on board a flight that landed at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport on Nov. 19.

About two hours into the flight from Milwaukee to DFW, (Offender) became frustrated with the flight attendant, who was working in the forward galley, according to court documents.

Witnesses told law enforcement they heard (Offender) tell the attendant he was “captain of this flight” and needed to “get off the plane,” U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton said in a news release.

(Offender) allegedly charged the flight attendant in an attempt to access the plane’s exit door. The attendant used her body to shield the door and was injured in the scuffle, authorities said.

Other passengers rushed to help the employee, and they subdued (Offender) and restrained him by duct-taping his wrists and ankles, according to a DFW Airport police report.

With about 30 minutes left in the flight, the pilots decided to continue to DFW Airport and called the tower for priority landing, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

After the plane landed, police officers responded and removed (Offender), who was taken to have a mental evaluation, authorities said.

The flight attendant was taken to a hospital with injuries to her neck and wrist, according to the police report.

If (Offender) is eventually convicted on the charge, he could face up to 20 years in federal prison.
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Message 2143540 - Posted: 29 Nov 2024, 14:39:27 UTC

With the amount of whackos on the roads these days, so much for road safety!
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Message 2143552 - Posted: 30 Nov 2024, 2:45:28 UTC - in response to Message 2143510.  

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Message 2143560 - Posted: 30 Nov 2024, 18:44:59 UTC

Autopilot strikes again, but at sea this time.

A New Zealand Navy inquiry has found that a $133m naval ship sank off the coast of Samoa because of human error.

A New Zealand Navy ship sank off Samoa because the crew did not realise its autopilot was still turned on before it ran aground, a Court of Inquiry has found.

The HMNZS Manawanui, which cost NZ$147m (A$130m), ran aground on a reef on the southern side of Samoa on October 5 before catching fire and ultimately sinking.

All 75 crew on board were evacuated safety but it was the first time New Zealand had lost a ship since World War II.

According to a Court of Inquiry report, human error was behind the accident after the crew believed that the ship had suffered thruster control failure when in fact the autopilot was still engaged......
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Message 2143566 - Posted: 30 Nov 2024, 21:05:35 UTC

Oops. Reminds me of something my grandfather said. If you engage something. You better know what it does and to use it. He told a story about a person who didn’t know what all cruise control did in his van. He engaged cruise control and got thirsty. So not knowing he got up and went to get a drink out of the cooler in back of his the van. Luckily for him he only ended up in a ditch.

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Message 2143612 - Posted: 2 Dec 2024, 18:47:45 UTC

Tesla safety is back in the news here.

This Tesla smashed into multiple cars before driving off the edge of a rooftop car park in crazy scenes all captured on camera.

Police are investigating the cause of a dramatic crash involving a Tesla at a popular Sydney shopping centre.

Dashcam footage published by the Nine Network shows a Tesla Model S colliding with two vehicles on a rooftop carpark at the DFO shopping centre in Homebush.

The grey sedan crashed into a Toyota Corolla and Toyota Prado, then clipped a third car before careening off the rooftop carpark at speed.......
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Message 2143869 - Posted: 11 Dec 2024, 2:26:10 UTC

It's lucky that he had a built in helmet as he certainly can't drive. LOL

The NFL has been left stunned as viral video captured the scary moment Jason Kelce’s car went flying off the rails.

Jason Kelce caused a scene while driving in a golf cart that was shaped like an Eagles helmet on Broad Street in Philadelphia, as seen in a number of viral videos on social media.

The former Eagles centre — who was dressed in his Mummers Parade outfit he donned after Philadelphia beat the Patriots in Super Bowl LII — was swerving in the cart and attempted a U-turn before it flipped over, The New York Post reports......

He can't fly like an eagle either, but I wonder what the copper there thought about it.

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Message 2143904 - Posted: 11 Dec 2024, 21:06:18 UTC

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Message 2143918 - Posted: 12 Dec 2024, 1:33:45 UTC

Someone didn’t sort the hazardous waste properly. I have personally only seen one garbage truck belching smoke. But not to this extreme.

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Message 2143922 - Posted: 12 Dec 2024, 3:22:45 UTC - in response to Message 2143918.  

About once a year there is a burning garbage truck in the news in the Fort Worth metro area, usually in the summer months. One this past summer because someone disposed of Lithium Ion batteries. They don't like getting squished.
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Message 2144046 - Posted: 15 Dec 2024, 0:49:18 UTC

It truly boggles the mind.
How drivers today end up with a qualified license is beyond me.
Another bridge hit

A wrong turn one can understand but to continue driving...
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