pwnicholson

Marketer. Photographer. Husband & dad. Lego, Minecraft, & Preds hockey fan. Movie buff, but pls #NoSpoilers!

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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Nothing. I rode several times.

    Pedestrians, bad traffic, sketchy lane lines/stripes, etc were all easy. It even allowed a bit before passing over bumpy street tracks like a human driver would.

    It veered a bit into a very wide open opposing planner of traffic to give someone unloading his car more space without having to slow down much.

    It even briefly double-parked to pick me up when the curb was completely full near my pickup spot - but it did stop at the most open area of curb it could find.

    It was really amazing.





  • I don’t, really. But my field is also kinda niche (it’s not like some popular field like genetics or infectious diseases. There aren’t many journalists covering us at all, yet. I work in marketing for an industrial exosuit company (think practical, assistive, biomechanical wearables). Most of the journalists that are covering us at this point are used to covering news about forklifts or warehouse automation, so they aren’t used to reading peer reviewed scientific publications at all. Their exposure to papers on biomechanics and injury risk factors is more rare, and they might as well be Latin (well, sometimes they do have a lot of Latin).

    But it’s also something of a joke. When I was back taking journalism classes for my communications and marketing degree, the professors would joke about how journalists covering either legal summaries or scientific summaries would say that 1 + 2 = 5 all the time, leaving out important details that were critical to the conclusions because they weren’t interesting. I think the scientists put up with it because as long as the conclusion is correct, they’re just happy to have anyone paying attention.