The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has excellent data available on this and similar questions, start with Table 62: https://cdan.dot.gov/tsftables/tsfar.htm
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Grand Canyon: https://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CH/CH581.html https://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/icr-science.html https://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CD/CD210.html
Erosion: https://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CD/CD610.html https://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CD/CD620.html
> artists and labels can identify music that’s a priority for them... it won’t require any upfront budget. Instead, labels or rights holders agree to be paid a promotional recording royalty rate for streams in personalized listening sessions where we provided this service
"Payola" is the term for radio stations secretly charging labels to feature their songs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola
"Discovery Mode" is the modern structure. Instead of a station's single broadcast, it's many algorithmic playlists. Instead of the publisher paying up front because the radio and retailer are separate businesses, they just accept a lower royalty rate on plays because Spotify plays are the discovery and the sale together. Perhaps these differences and this press release is enough "disclosure" to avoid prosecution, I'm not a lawyer. I wish Spotify's internal legal analysis was public.
But all these gripes come back to: Spotify makes more money from this than when playing albums, curation, personal playlists, etc etc. There isn't a general issue of control or caring, there's a specific, nameable moneymaking "feature".
The CostCo photos show the same tear-off plastic seal and have the hole for the handle, though that's not installed: https://www.costco.com/readywise-150-serving-emergency-food-...
As for slower, I was comparing to than the web app and mostly concerned by how slow it is to change channels and servers, coming from the context of a TUI IRC client where changing is <20ms.
I like to link to this old Google page, still online from when their search engine ads were all clearly labeled and in a separate column to the right of results with an offsetting background color. They correctly criticized the loss of trust that comes with selling search results, but the potential revenue from doing so never went away and they gradually succumbed.
(For the pedantic: yes, while they technically still label the ads and don't call it selling search results, can a double-digit percentage of users tell them apart from results? Especially with Google now selling so many results and having so many cross-promotions that the unpaid results are well below the fold.)
The author of this article doesn't seem particularly interested in checking facts, they implied some nasty stuff about my actions and motivation without bothering to read the publicly available info or contact me.
This site claims 42: https://www.tesladeaths.com/
They can be difficult to classify. I don't have a link handy, but I've seen reports that FSD/Autopilot disengages moments before an inevitable accident, allowing Tesla to claim that the systems were not engaged and imply they were not at fault. I haven't seen an investigation into whether this is true and, if so, whether the system was designed for the purpose of misleading claims.