Carlton Supporters Club

It's hard to see 100% public trust in self-driving cars, but they are inevitable, and of course EVs are the natural delivery method for this technology.

No matter how good we think we are, how well we think we can focus and concentrate, compared to just about any working machine we are rubbish.

The vast majority of accidents, minor or major, are caused by driver distraction, inattention or fatigue regardless of other contributing causes. Much like the weight of evidence in favour of vaccines, the data is now building that in general full self-driving is safer than human driving, as uncomfortable as that may be for some it's a harsh reality of human versus machine. I travel a lot, and almost daily I see people driving on the freeway, usually in a Tesla, while doing their makeup or reading a document, it's disturbing but keep this in mind, the people who you see doing this don't stop behaving this way when they haven't access to some form of self-driving mode. Cruising down the highway at 100kph doing your makeup is not a new phenomenon, it didn't just appear with the invention of self-driving.

Another thing EVs have made worse, getting cut off on the freeway and people taking your braking space. They have so much available torque at freeway speed they can just accelerate relative to the cars around them like never before, and duck through the smallest spaces. Anyone who runs a car with radar cruise control will know what havoc this causes, truckies must be going crazy, some drivers cut through spaces many couldn't even make a park in!

Why would News Ltd report our athletes not winning as "crumbling under pressure"?

If I recall it's generally the case, at least in certain events, athletes are trained to peak at a specific time, you need everything go right to get to that peak and you can't stay at the peak eternally.

So having won world championships or set records in recent times, News Ltd now report the next loss as a "crumble under pressure"!

Absolutely and I understand they are giving everyone more leeway to keep the game moving but not multiple times constantly… at one stage both teams’ Players stopped and looked at the umpire waiting for a whistle. It was way too long and ugly to watch tbh.

Quote from: Micky0 – on September 13, 2026, 08:29:10 pm

The girls had their opportunities but I must say the umpiring for the first 3/4’s was annoying - letting the scraps roll on and on and no reward for tackling and they were holding us before we even got the ball!

Then yes technically the HTB against us was there in the last when 20 went to play on rather than take the set shot but the umpires had let so
Many other infringements go thru time and again , but not that one.  It was irritating but her doing that and the umpire calling it.

I think the umpires are doing a disservice to the game by letting play roll on so much. Not a great spectacle.

I thought we were a real shot against North and i think having Sophie who is the firecracker in the forward line, and Darcy, who is the calm experienced head, wouldve had us win that one. Next time

Yep, umpiring was poor.

There'd be at least a dozen free kicks for holding the ball if the umpires were consistent week to week.

Given how poor the AFL umpires are, i cut the AFLW umpires some slack.....but agree its annoying.

The girls had their opportunities but I must say the umpiring for the first 3/4’s was annoying - letting the scraps roll on and on and no reward for tackling and they were holding us before we even got the ball!

Then yes technically the HTB against us was there in the last when 20 went to play on rather than take the set shot but the umpires had let so
Many other infringements go thru time and again , but not that one.  It was irritating but her doing that and the umpire calling it.

I think the umpires are doing a disservice to the game by letting play roll on so much. Not a great spectacle.

I thought we were a real shot against North and i think having Sophie who is the firecracker in the forward line, and Darcy, who is the calm experienced head, wouldve had us win that one. Next time

First game I tuned in for the season and the last.