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    This Hilarious Kid Had Way More Fun Than Expected While Washing His Dad’s Car

    April 25, 2018

    This Hilarious Kid Had Way More Fun Than Expected While Washing His Dad’s Car 0

    by MeDaryl • Cars, Kitchen Sink

    Monotonous chores are the last things we all want to do sometimes, but as this funny teen proved, that doesn’t mean we can’t have fun completing them.

    When Chris Assogna from Brisbane, Australia, tasked his son, Dominic, with washing his car, he probably didn’t expect the 16-year-old to have such a blast doing it. But when he checked the footage from his home security camera later on, he got quite the hilarious show.

    Dominic washed the car like he was supposed to…

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    …but because he knew there was a camera recording his every move, he decided to make things a bit more entertaining for his dad, who was sure to watch later.

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    Dominic cleaned his dad’s car all right, but scrubbing and rinsing weren’t the only things he was doing. Watch him bust a move below.

    Read more: http://www.viralnova.com/car-washing-dance/

    Man Rescued Injured Bird, And Now He Probably Wishes He Hadnt

    April 23, 2018

    Man Rescued Injured Bird, And Now He Probably Wishes He Hadnt 0

    by MeDaryl • Cars • Tags: 700-page, angry, bbc, bird, Matt Graveling, Red kite, reporter

    It’s hard to look away when you see an injured animal, no matter how unprepared you are to help them. When Matt Gravelling, a reporter for BBC South, was driving to cover a story, the man thought he was having a regular day. However, it soon became anything but regular when Matt spotted an unconscious bird that seemed to be hurt.

    Without any second thoughts, the Good Samaritan gently laid the bird on the seat of his car and took off. In just 15 minutes, Matt’s new passenger began to regain consciousness, catching the driver completely off guard. Scroll down to check out their unforgettable trip and let us know what would you have done in this situation!

    A kind-hearted journalist Matt Graveling rescued an unconscious bird he saw on the side of the road

    But almost immediately he was faced with some unanticipated difficulties

    Twitter users pointed out the breed of the bird and were astonished by the incident

    Some said it’s understandable why the bird was so terribly angry with the whole ordeal

    People rushed to praise Matt for his act of kindness

    Others shared similar encounters with birds who just need to chill out

    Hopefully, this situation will teach us something

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    Read more: http://www.boredpanda.com/angry-bird-injured-red-kite-rescued-bbc-reporter-matt-graveling/

    He Was Taking A Ride In The Countryside When Something Made Him Spring Into Action

    April 23, 2018

    He Was Taking A Ride In The Countryside When Something Made Him Spring Into Action 0

    by MeDaryl • Kitchen Sink • Tags: 4x4, daring-rescue, hero, heroic-rescue, hills, life, life-saving, Motorcycle, omg, rescue, save, saving, saviour

    Driving around on a solo trip though the hills, one man came across something scary. At first, he just saw a discarded helmet, but when he took a closer look, he found a fellow rider in dire straits.

    Without wasting any time, he hopped off of his bike and ran over to a man who had been pinned under his quad. He didn’t film it for attention, but the GoPro camera that was strapped to his helmet happened to capture footage of the entire rescue mission. Check it out!

    The man had only been pinned for a short time by the time our hero got to him, but in situations like this, every second counts. We’re just thrilled that the biker found him in time!

    Read more: http://www.viralnova.com/pinned-quad/

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    April 23, 2018

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    by MeDaryl • Cars • Tags: image, picture

    Read more: http://imgur.com/gallery/rRowjkQ

    Bus driver fired for watching YouTube videos while driving passengers

    April 22, 2018

    Bus driver fired for watching YouTube videos while driving passengers 0

    by MeDaryl • Cars

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    Bus driver caught watching videos on his phone while driving

    Passenger captures bus driver watching videos while driving on the freeway.

    A bus driver was caught on camera watching more than the road — viewing clips of classics like “Mrs. Doubtfire” and browsing YouTube while barreling down a New York highway earlier this week.

    The unidentified driver for Tour America was spotted by passenger Barry Fisk after the bus left Manhattan around 8:30 a.m. Monday. Fisk, who was headed to Woodbury Common Premium Outlets with his wife, said the driver started watching videos on his phone immediately after shoving off.

    “Honestly, I wanted to get up and kill him,” Fisk, of London, told The Post Friday during a phone interview. “He was putting my life, my wife’s life and the lives of 52 other people on the bus at risk. I was so, so angry.”

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    Fisk said he bought the ticket through GetYourGuide, a booking platform for bus tours and other attractions. The company has since been temporarily suspended from the website, a spokesman confirmed Friday to The Post.

    “In this case, the driver in question was in breach of local law and our own safety standards, and we regret that our customer Barry Fisk was put in an unsafe situation as a result,” spokesman Will Gluckin said in a statement. “We’ve reached out personally to Mr. Fisk with a full refund and our sincere apologies.”

    Fisk said he considered telling the driver to stop, but was convinced by his wife to leave the situation alone out of fear of the driver’s reaction.

    “My wife is not a very good traveler,” Fisk said. “She said it’ll make it worse. I said, ‘It can’t be worse, the guy’s not in control of the vehicle.’ It was so blatant.”

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    Fisk said the driver was just as distracted by his phone on the return trip home, even putting in an earpiece.

    “My wife almost had a panic attack,” Fisk said. “When we took the return trip back, she asked me if it was the same driver and I lied to her to get her back on the bus. She’s not a good traveler, but this guy was going all over the road, too. It was a bad journey.”

    Sharon Kowalska, director of Tour America, said she contacted the bus company, New York Bus Charter, after receiving Fisk’s complaint. The driver was “immediately” fired by the company after managers saw the video, she said.

    Messages seeking additional comment from the Brooklyn-based bus company were not immediately returned, but a man who answered the phone confirmed that the driver seen in the video had been fired.

    Under state law, it’s illegal to use a handheld phone or electronic device while driving, including talking, sending or viewing or taking images and playing games.

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    • Bus driver fired for watching YouTube videos while driving passengers

    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2018/04/21/bus-driver-fired-for-watching-youtube-videos-while-driving-passengers.html

    Discombobulated Cities Wrestle With an Electric Scooter Influx

    April 22, 2018

    Discombobulated Cities Wrestle With an Electric Scooter Influx 0

    by MeDaryl • Cars • Tags: Cities, San Francisco, scooters, transportation

    The line to speak wrapped around half the chamber, constantly replenishing itself, an inching microcosm of a constrained, complicated city. There were tech startup reps, disability advocates in motorized wheelchairs, a martial arts instructor making extra money through the gig economy, and plenty of concerned citizens.

    “I think that these scooters run amok are actually a plot of the young people to kill off all us old farts so they can have our rent-controlled apartments,” community member Fran Taylor told the Board of Supervisors.

    Maybe connecting ungainly electric scooters to a dastardly plot—even in jest, and to laughs—seems like nonsense. Or maybe you live in San Francisco, where a weekly meeting of the Board of Supervisors’ Land Use and Transportation Committee brought the disgruntled masses to City Hall on a Monday afternoon. The legislative body met to discuss a bill to give the city the authority to remove shared scooters without permits or parked in the public right-of-way, and penalize the companies that own them.

    But the hearing felt like it was about something much bigger. These scooters are just the latest outgrowth of a growing conflict between cities and startups that have rushed to capitalize on a growing mobility marketplace. It started with Uber and Lyft. Then came the “microtransit” companies, like Chariot and Via. Then dockless, shared bikes from Jump, Ofo, Bluegogo, and Mobike. And now, it’s motorized scooters challenging the regulators who must determine how private companies can use their streets, and how they should go about it.

    “I really want to send a message not only to these scooters,” said Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who co-wrote the bill in question. “It would be very nice if the tech bros could come in and ask in a collaborative fashion for permission rather than after the fact forgiveness.”

    Some background: In mid-March, three electric scooter-share companies launched San Francisco services into a bit of a municipal legal loophole. By law, Bird, LimeBike, and Spin do not need business licenses to operate this kind of service, even though their battery-powered scooters can hit 15 mph and are stored on the sidewalk. That's the public, shared space where people on foot and in wheelchairs usually travel.

    On Monday, supervisors were especially frustrated that they did not receive more notice from the companies before they began operations in the city. Supervisor Jane Kim, who wrote the bill with Peskin, said Spin had used deceptive language to wrongly make it appear that she had given them permission to launch. Peskin complained that Bird had sent a misleading news alert to the media, saying the city had activated an emergency procedure to ban e-scooters usually only used for earthquakes.

    The committee unanimously passed the bill, and the full board passed the legislation today. Meanwhile, the city’s transportation agency is working to finalize a permitting process for e-scooters by late spring.

    The scooters have generated frustration beyond San Francisco. In San Diego, Austin, and Washington, DC, coalitions of neighborhood, senior, disability, and pedestrian groups have pushed back against the quick introduction of scooter shares in their midst. They say the e-scooters, which users often ride on the sidewalk, block critical access to curb space and could be dangerous tripping hazards. City governments, finally ready to encourage non-car modes of transit, are caught in the middle. They say they hope to want affordable, environmentally-friendly travel choices that doesn’t aggravate growing traffic problems—and keep their streets safe and comfortable for everyone.

    In San Francisco, the solution has been mostly the stick. While Monday’s hearing unfolded in City Hall, the City Attorney’s office dispatched a sheaf of cease and desist letters, telling the three scooter companies that they had broken California law by allowing customers to ride their motorized scooters on the sidewalks and without helmets, and by obstructing sidewalks without permission.

    In statements, representatives for Bird, Spin, and LimeBike said they would continue to engage with public officials, but did not commit to halting service. Bird and LimeBike also said San Francisco users would now have to take and upload photos of their parked vehicles after riding, to ensure they are out of the way.1 The City Attorney’s office gave the companies until April 30 to rejigger their operations and explain how they no longer violate the law.

    The city of Santa Monica, California, too, took a hard line, charging Bird for failing to procure the proper business license. The company eventually paid $300,000 in fines.

    Others have been a bit more flexible. After initially impounding the e-scoots, Austin’s transportation chief has now proposed a fast-tracked permitting process for the companies, with a hard cap for the number of vehicles in operation and bonuses for those in areas underserved by transit. DC’s e-scooters fall under its broader dockless pilot program, which has allowed a number of companies to operate services in the city while authorities determine what sort of rules they should have to follow.

    If the whole situation seems vaguely familiar, it’s because Uber’s “launch first, ask questions later” approach to municipal regulations left a foul taste in local politicians’ mouths. And after a year of the company’s spectacular, highly public conflagration, it feels more politically viable to oppose tech companies that even vaguely imitate the ride-hail company's strategies.

    So in the midst of an opening statement calling the e-scooter share companies’ tactics “offensive and arrogant,” Peskin paused to do some hating.

    “We’re told somehow that Uber is a public transit alternative that has decongested our streets even as we have hard data prepared by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority that shows at peak in some parts of the city they are adding 26 percent of the congestion,” Peskin said. (The study, which used scraped Uber and Lyft data, estimates that transportation network companies are responsible for 20 to 26 percent of trips in the city’s downtown and South of Market neighborhood during rush hours.)

    No surprise that the e-scooter folks are out to prove they are the anti-Uber. During the hearing, residents of the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood, one of the most underserved by transit in the city, pointed out that LimeBike had engaged local community groups and hired locals. Bird “chargers,” who make $5 for each scooter they charge and then put back on the street, said the extra income helps in one of America’s most most expensive cities.

    And on the other side, a mostly gray-haired group spoke of the challenges of getting around a place often not built for walking, or easy wheelchair access. The question, then, remains: Can San Franciscans—and urbanites everywhere—share not just their cars and bikes and scooters, but their space?

    1 Updated 4/17/18, 9:25 PM EDT: This story has been updated to include comments from a LimeBike spokesperson.

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    Slice through traffic jams aboard the $999 electric UScooter, which cruises at 18 miles per hour, folds for quick storage on a bus, train or under the desk. Yeah, it's a kick scooter but it's the coolest kick scooter on the road.

    Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/discombobulated-cities-electric-scooters/

    Terrible Woman Caught On Camera Stealing Money From Uber Driver’s Tip Jar

    April 19, 2018

    Terrible Woman Caught On Camera Stealing Money From Uber Driver’s Tip Jar 0

    by MeDaryl • Cars

    Read more: http://cheezburger.com/304902/terrible-woman-caught-on-camera-stealing-money-from-uber-drivers-tip-jar

    Stupid Costco Thieves Think They’ve Gotten Away With It, Until They Open The Door

    April 18, 2018

    Stupid Costco Thieves Think They’ve Gotten Away With It, Until They Open The Door 0

    by MeDaryl • Cars • Tags: misc

    There are few things sweeter than watching justice be served.

    Now, let’s just take a moment to appreciate just how fantastic Costco is. Who doesn’t love the free samples and industrial-sized crates of, well, everything?

    So when two dumb thieves got caught trying to rob the place, I was totally cheering extra hard for the cops as the crooks got taken down and put in cuffs.

    Two thieves attempted to escape through of a fire door with boxes of what appeared to be expensive electronics, but the police were already on to them. Instead of having to kick open the fire door, they simply waited outside for the stunned robbers to appear

    Check out the amazing video footage of the takedown here:

    As they swung the door open, multiple police officers were ready to make arrests.

    One of the thieves even tried to turn back into the store, but it was too late.

    It also appears that there was a look-out or getaway driver waiting in the parking lot who the police had already caught. Officers blocked in the driver’s car and one cop can be heard telling another to be sure the driver doesn’t touch her phone to alert the others.

    When the thieves exit the store, the alarm on the fire door sounds and within seconds all three crooks are apprehended and arrested by the police.

    These officers certainly know what they are doing. Kudos!

    Read more: http://www.viralthread.com/stupid-costco-thieves-think-theyve-gotten-away-with-it-until-they-open-the-door/?all

    A Timeline of the Tesla Autopilot Crash Investigation

    April 18, 2018

    A Timeline of the Tesla Autopilot Crash Investigation 0

    by MeDaryl • Cars • Tags: apple inc, business, california, Elon Reeve Musk, family, hyperdrive, Mountain View, NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAF, National Transportation Safety Board, Robert L Sumwalt, TESLA INC, TWITTER INC

    This image taken from a video shows the scene of an accident involving a Tesla Model X on March 23.
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    March 23: Walter Huang, a 38-year-old Apple Inc. engineer, dies after his Model X crashes into highway barrier in Mountain View, California. 

    March 27: The NTSB sends two investigators to the crash scene and notes on Twitter: “Unclear if automated control system was active at time of crash.”

    March 27: Tesla releases its first blog post, “What We Know About Last Week's Accident,” saying it hasn’t been able to retrieve computer logs from Huang’s vehicle and blames the damaged highway safety barrier for the severity of the crash. Tesla also claims the U.S. government found a year ago that Autopilot reduced crash rates by 40 percent, a characterization of data from a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report that some safety experts call misleading. “Out of respect for the privacy of our customer and his family, we do not plan to share any additional details until we conclude the investigation,” Tesla writes.

    March 30: Tesla releases a second blog post late on Friday night that acknowledges its driver-assistance software, Autopilot, had been engaged at the time of the crash. “The driver had received several visual and one audible hands-on warning earlier in the drive and the driver’s hands were not detected on the wheel for six seconds prior to the collision,” Tesla writes.

    April 1: An NTSB spokesman tells reporters that the agency is “unhappy with the release of investigative information by Tesla.” The agency’s protocols require companies who are a party to an agency accident investigation to not release details about the incident to the public without NTSB's approval. 

    April 2: Tesla CEO Elon Musk discusses the investigation on Twitter: 

    Lot of respect for NTSB, but NHTSA regulates cars, not NTSB, which is an advisory body. Tesla releases critical crash data affecting public safety immediately & always will. To do otherwise would be unsafe.

    — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 2, 2018

    April 9: NTSB discloses agency Chairman Robert Sumwalt spoke to Musk over the preceding weekend. An agency spokesman said Sumwalt described the conversation as “very constructive.” 

    April 10: Tesla puts out a statement that faults Mr. Huang and denies moral or legal liability for the crash.

    “According to the family, Mr. Huang was well aware that Autopilot was not perfect and, specifically, he told them it was not reliable in that exact location, yet he nonetheless engaged Autopilot at that location. The crash happened on a clear day with several hundred feet of visibility ahead, which means that the only way for this accident to have occurred is if Mr. Huang was not paying attention to the road, despite the car providing multiple warnings to do so.”

    April 11: Tesla says it has withdrawn from its party agreement with the NTSB: “We believe in transparency, so an agreement that prevents public release of information for over a year is unacceptable.”

    April 12: NTSB releases a statement saying it had removed Tesla as a party to its crash investigation. “The NTSB took this action because Tesla violated the party agreement by releasing investigative information before it was vetted and confirmed by the NTSB.” The agency also releases a letter from its chairman to Musk. 

    April 12: Tesla releases another statement, again claiming to have withdrawn from its agreement with the NTSB.

    “It’s been clear in our conversations with the NTSB that they’re more concerned with press headlines than actually promoting safety. Among other things, they repeatedly released partial bits of incomplete information to the media in violation of their own rules, at the same time that they were trying to prevent us from telling all the facts. We don’t believe this is right and we will be making an official complaint to Congress. We will also be issuing a Freedom Of Information Act request to understand the reasoning behind their focus on the safest cars in America while they ignore the cars that are the least safe.  Perhaps there is a sound rationale for this, but we cannot imagine what that could possibly be.” 

    Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-12/a-timeline-of-the-tesla-autopilot-crash-investigation

    20+ Rarely Seen Photos Of America In The 1950s Show How Different Life Was Before

    April 18, 2018

    20+ Rarely Seen Photos Of America In The 1950s Show How Different Life Was Before 0

    by MeDaryl • Cars • Tags: 1950, 1950's america, 1950s cars, 1950s photography, 700-page, america, classic, classic american cars, classic cars, photography, photos, USA, vintage, vintage cars, vintage photos

    The 1950’s are often viewed as a golden era in U.S. history, a time of happiness and prosperity, despite the threat of nuclear annihilation, racial segregation and the looming Cold War.

    While most photos from the time are in black and white, color photography was still a relative novelty at the time and the film was quite expensive for regular people, the photos below are in glorious color. This means that they are more relatable, and makes the period feel closer to us than ever.

    Many of the photos were collected by Denis Fraevich, a New Yorker of Russian descent who loves to bring the era back to life. “The pictures were found at auctions, flea markets and yards, digitized and posted on the Internet,” he told Bored Panda. “Someone’s happy life, someone’s dreams, important events, holidays and travel, for some reason were thrown into the garbage and became penny goods in a neighborhood sale. Seeing this is incredibly sad, but thanks to enthusiasts who buy and digitize old slides, we can raise the curtain of time and look at that era through the eyes of ordinary Americans.”

    It is Denis’ hobby to search for these photos, he is fascinated by all things Americana and loves history, abandoned places and as you can see in many of the photos, classic American cars. “I am amazed at how often a car is present in the frame,” he said. “They obviously occupied a much more important position in the life of an American than in our time. Today, it is much less likely that someone would take pictures of their car or television.” Denis works as a Russian-speaking tour guide in NYC and has a fascinating blog, which you can find here. (Translate it from Russian)

    Scroll down to check out the pictures below, it might just inspire you to dig out that old leather jacket and the Brylcreem!

    Read more: http://www.boredpanda.com/usa-vintage-50s-color-photography/

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