‘This Is Crazy:’ San Francisco Cops Pull Over Completely Empty Self-Driving Car: A San Francisco police officer recently pulled over a car for failing to have its headlights on, but when the officer approached the vehicle he realized the car was not only a self-driving with no one in the driver’s seat — the vehicle was completely empty. The puzzled policeman can be heard to say “Ain’t nobody in it; this is crazy,” in a viral video of the incident. The vehicle was a self-driving Chevy Bolt from self-driving vehicle company Cruise and was stopped by the officer for failing to have its headlights on. The car halted for the police but then drove off, crossing an intersection before stopping in front of a Chinese restaurant. Cruise later explained the vehicle was going “to the nearest safe location for the traffic stop as intended.” The officer and two of his colleagues immediately surrounded the vehicle looking in the windows, and shining their flashlights inside. The SFPD then reportedly contacted Cruise which took remote control of the vehicle and no citation was issued. Experts say that the incident shows that autonomous cars are still not capable of figuring out human-robot interactions. New York Times Op-ed on Holy Weekend: Let’s Get Rid of God: The New York Times published an op-ed Friday that proposes eliminating belief in God — as one of the holiest weekends of the year begins. Titled “In This Time of War, I Propose We Give Up God,” the article claims that God is responsible for “war and violence” and for “oppression and suffering,” and suggests that people stop teaching children about Him. Author Shalom Auslander, who is disillusioned about his upbringing in a religious Jewish community in New York, argues: God, it seems, paints with a wide brush. He paints with a roller. In Egypt, said our rabbi, he even killed first-born cattle. He killed cows. If he were mortal, the God of Jews, Christians and Muslims would be dragged to The Hague. And yet we praise him. We emulate him. We implore our children to be like him. Perhaps now, as missiles rain down and the dead are discovered in mass graves, is a good time to stop emulating this hateful God. Perhaps we can stop extolling his brutality. Perhaps now is a good time to teach our children to pass over God — to be as unlike him as possible. Killing gods is an idea I can get behind.
