The principles in the video have been known about for decades, and there are quite a few examples from traffic engineering of simply improving communication and signalling to work. And unfortunately also a lot of cases of psychology being the problem, with people refusing to put up with systems that can be demonstrated to be faster for everyone involved (like some kinds of metering/pacing signals). Implementing those same ideas into a self driving cars is pretty far on the easy end of the spectrum of difficulties with self driving cars, amounting to what is already on the road.
California is complicated, as it has the Basic Speed Law which can allow driving faster as long as it is reasonable and prudent, but it is not a pure "prima facie" speed limit state. There are left over laws from the National Maximum Speed Limit years that allow highways to have absolute speed limits, and there are other cases where the posted limit is deemed the limit of what is reasonable and prudent. There are provisions for changing the speed limit based on actual traffic speed, but as measured by an engineering survey and not the traffic speed on any given day.
There are US states where exceeding the posted speed limit is not automatic grounds for speeding, and a driver can argue that their speed was reasonable (sometimes called prima facie speed limits). In practice, it is usually impractical to argue that the speed was reasonable in court.
I've had more than one geologist friend mention getting a dozen or more people a year asking them to identify a meteorite, and yet have only seen such people bring an actual meteor once or twice over their decades long career. A fraction of the people argue back when told it is not a meteor, occasionally devolved into insisting it fell from the sky for one reason or another and is hence obviously a meteorite. One has to wonder why if it was so obvious, they needed to check with a geologist.
But it is funny how common and similar such stories are among geologists that have any sort of public enough role (e.g. college or university professor).
You have to be careful, because STEAM is also used for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Applied Math. In my personal experience, I've seen that variation much more than the version using A for some variation of Arts.
A lot of the companies and people making noise about STEM research are doing so because they need more technical grunt work (or more technical grunt work that is cheaper... there is a bunch hoopla about whether or not an actual shortage exists). I've seen a lot of engineering and science folk who do a very good job lacking or without applying experiences in the arts, and the people hiring couldn't care less about the art experiences either. This varies heavily from job to job, as many STEM job do require ability to communicate well and, to a lesser extent, overlap with other fields. But even then, companies seem to be willing to hire extra people to do the communicating and polishing for the technical staff. I've heard complaints about how a hiring processes for technical people have to look internationally to find someone, while the others are just hired just from the local town.
I'm certainly not against arts education and have seen what it can do for people. But I've also seen how it becomes irrelevant for some jobs, and that leading to some of the practical or financially motivated types to just not care.
It depends on you're definition of "good" though. When I used to live in the DC area several years ago, the northeast corridor was cheaper than flying, and as a result used by coworkers and myself for most travel to locations between DC and NYC. The fact it took about the same amount of time as driving didn't really matter, and while shaving an hour off the trip would be nice, it wouldn't have made us use it any more. The few exceptions were either people who needed their car at the destination, or those that took the bus for ~$20 despite it being even longer and less comfortable.
I did find trains pretty amazing to use in Japan, although a lot of that comes from visitors being able to by a near unlimited rail pass for a week, as otherwise a lot of the same complaints applied. For travel between major cities, high speed trains cost as much if not more than flights and took longer. Also, a quick estimate gives that the Hokkaido Shinkansen expansion recently from Shin-Aomori to Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto paid about $10k per foot, and that was for upgrading an existing line, took a decade to build, and has to deal with speed limitations due to freight trains in the Seikan tunnel. If I had to pay normal per trip rates, I would have flown instead of taking the train between cities, only using trains for more local service, comparable to what is done by services other than Amtrack in the US.
But it is important to know how much you're paying for that convenience. I've seen things like sliced apples and packaged broccoli & cauliflower combos in grocery stores go for several dollars extra. For some people, it might be actually worth paying a couple dollars for 15 seconds of slicing or picking up multiple things, but for most, I would expect that to be too much. Cooking a chicken can be a lot more effort than slicing an apple. But it still can be as easy as a couple minutes to throw a bunch of veggies and a chicken in a slow cooker and getting a couple meals worth out, including sides (which tend to have far more mark up in grocery store delis than the chicken).
It is kind of neat visually when the barycenter is outside the surface of the two objects, but physically it is not really special as all orbiting objects orbit around a barycenter different than the center of the larger object (even electrons in atoms cause this effect too). The article mentions this briefly, but calls it insignificant for the Earth & Sun. The Earth+Sun barycenter is 500 km away from the center of the Sun, which is kind of small compared to the Sun's size. But this results in a movement of the sun up to 0.1 m/s, which isn't far off from what some current exoplanet projects can measure of about 0.3 m/s for a well behaved star.
And it isn't just about size, but for a given parent body, size times distance. If the Earth were 1500 times further from the Sun, the Earth+Sun barycenter would be above the surface of the Sun. If Earth's Moon were about 40% further away, the Earth+Moon barycenter would be above the surface of the Earth, while if Charon were about the half the distance to Pluto, its barycenter wouldn't be above the surface of Pluto. You could also have an elliptical orbit where the barycenter moves between being inside and outside of the larger object.
They've heads are pretty visually distinctive in shape. Visit southern Florida and after seeing your first hundred alligators, crocodiles will look quite alien. That won't take long either, about the time it takes to get from the airport to the car rental lot.
A quote I've over heard multiple times: If it doesn't move, it isn't a costume but a set piece. Even if very well done. Although it is usually in reference to costumes that were suppose to move and failed.
It probably varies from state to state, but places I've lived before don't distinguish between similar characters. So if someone replaces an I with a 1, that is treated as the same plate in the system. O and 0 (and maybe Q) would be the same too. So the trick doesn't work that well, although it might still confuse people trying to count the Qs and Os and forget the total number which is all that would really be needed.
As I said, problems happen because either the speaker or the listener is getting the math wrong.If you think a high average starting salary precludes you from getting a low starting salary, you got the math wrong. If you are told an average for a group of people and think that means half of the people got more than average, you got the math wrong, etc.
As you said, the comics have correct math. As such, the statistics were not manipulated and they are not saying anything the speaker wants, but instead are saying a very specific things that happens to be irrelevant to the speaker's point. Many people have this sense that statistics are some sort of vague, wishy-washy un-math that can mean anything. Instead there are very specific, defined meanings, but appear vague because people don't know those definitions and implications.
Learning those meanings, for which comics like these can be very helpful, goes a long way toward seeing the usefulness or uselessness of a massive amount of figures we're bombarded with daily. But saying the statistics can be manipulated to say anything (at least while doing the math correctly) is counterproductive, as if statistics are meaningless which would make learning about them pointless.
I've seen a lot of cool ideas for replacing regular stairs in houses, but then wonder what happens to the unfortunate random people who get injured. A bad sprain can make normal stairs difficult enough.
But it is funny how common and similar such stories are among geologists that have any sort of public enough role (e.g. college or university professor).
A lot of the companies and people making noise about STEM research are doing so because they need more technical grunt work (or more technical grunt work that is cheaper... there is a bunch hoopla about whether or not an actual shortage exists). I've seen a lot of engineering and science folk who do a very good job lacking or without applying experiences in the arts, and the people hiring couldn't care less about the art experiences either. This varies heavily from job to job, as many STEM job do require ability to communicate well and, to a lesser extent, overlap with other fields. But even then, companies seem to be willing to hire extra people to do the communicating and polishing for the technical staff. I've heard complaints about how a hiring processes for technical people have to look internationally to find someone, while the others are just hired just from the local town.
I'm certainly not against arts education and have seen what it can do for people. But I've also seen how it becomes irrelevant for some jobs, and that leading to some of the practical or financially motivated types to just not care.
I did find trains pretty amazing to use in Japan, although a lot of that comes from visitors being able to by a near unlimited rail pass for a week, as otherwise a lot of the same complaints applied. For travel between major cities, high speed trains cost as much if not more than flights and took longer. Also, a quick estimate gives that the Hokkaido Shinkansen expansion recently from Shin-Aomori to Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto paid about $10k per foot, and that was for upgrading an existing line, took a decade to build, and has to deal with speed limitations due to freight trains in the Seikan tunnel. If I had to pay normal per trip rates, I would have flown instead of taking the train between cities, only using trains for more local service, comparable to what is done by services other than Amtrack in the US.
And it isn't just about size, but for a given parent body, size times distance. If the Earth were 1500 times further from the Sun, the Earth+Sun barycenter would be above the surface of the Sun. If Earth's Moon were about 40% further away, the Earth+Moon barycenter would be above the surface of the Earth, while if Charon were about the half the distance to Pluto, its barycenter wouldn't be above the surface of Pluto. You could also have an elliptical orbit where the barycenter moves between being inside and outside of the larger object.
As you said, the comics have correct math. As such, the statistics were not manipulated and they are not saying anything the speaker wants, but instead are saying a very specific things that happens to be irrelevant to the speaker's point. Many people have this sense that statistics are some sort of vague, wishy-washy un-math that can mean anything. Instead there are very specific, defined meanings, but appear vague because people don't know those definitions and implications.
Learning those meanings, for which comics like these can be very helpful, goes a long way toward seeing the usefulness or uselessness of a massive amount of figures we're bombarded with daily. But saying the statistics can be manipulated to say anything (at least while doing the math correctly) is counterproductive, as if statistics are meaningless which would make learning about them pointless.