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On Fri Jul 4 10:50:32 2025 AMuzi wrote:

https://www.jalopnik.com/three-dead-after-google-maps-directs-driver-off-broken-1851708190/

https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article298122068.html

https://cumberlink.com/news/nation-world/crime-courts/google-maps-lawsuit-north-carolina-death/article_ad93c842-4b9b-576a-9e7e-58363b91a0e2.html

https://listverse.com/2018/11/27/10-times-gps-failed-with-terrible-consequences/

YMMV, and may very well some day.

Andrew, are you proposing that it is the responsibility of GPS to know that the bridge if broken and not the local law enforcement or fire officials?
There is absolutely NO WAY that you can blame GPS for errors of local officials for damaged roads.
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On Sun Jun 29 20:05:33 2025 Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 6/29/2025 3:57 PM, cyclintom wrote:

I was a member of two cycling clubs that hade about 40 members total.

Only the members of the slow group (beginners and naturally slow riders)
did NOT have a serious injury over the years.

Some things are so much in conflict with all available data that they
are literally unbelievable.

Yes, some people are seriously injured while bicycling. But all the data
I'm aware of tells us that such _serious_ injuries are rare. The study I
just referenced here pointed out that almost all bicycling injuries
reported were "level 1" or mild injuries.

Last I looked, the most common bicycling injuries treated in ER were abrasions of the lower limbs, i.e. road rash. Second was abrasions of
the upper limbs.

Frank, please stop with your continuous cry of how safe cycling is. Yes it is SAFE but only to a point which you deny. There are some 130,000 injuries that call of hospitalizations every year. A large percentage of these would be prevented by the simple act of wearing a helmet and you deny that.
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On Fri Jul 4 13:59:48 2025 AMuzi wrote:

Your comment, " ship lifts the cable starting from the
nearest port out of the water" is absolutely ridiculous. No
one in his right mind could believe that.

https://www.onesteppower.com/post/subsea-cable-repair

Andrew, how do you think that you can repair a cable 3,000 meters under water? How do you think that you can even discover where a break is? Electric cables going to or from offshore oil platforms or wind generator are repairable but you have to shut them off and find the failures by using the same technique I explained using radio echos or matching waves. They originally could ONLY be repaired by bringing them to the surface. Now according to one of the pictures in your reference it appears that they now have automation to lift the cable, pump the surrounding area dry and reconnecting the power cables with whatever means that the cable material allows. That seems convenient since they only have to life the cable 10 feet or so since the cables are buried in the bottom setiment.
DATA lines can be repaired robotically but this is fantastically difficult so they use redundancy rather than repair. If the cable is actually broken the repair is very difficult and involves putting this 2 or three foot diameter interface on the ends of the cables which are only a couple of inches in diameter. I expect they have automation for that now but before they simply discarded the cable and replaced it.
I have no idea how you think that past data cables consisting of copper wires were repaired but I personally saw one of the repair ships that would lift the entire cable out of the water with rollers on either end of the ship and set it back down. The ship was very large in order to float the weight of the cable.
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