Entering Loop 410, I put my blinker on to merge onto the highway and the most beautiful thing happened. As I prepared to merge, the car to my left changed lanes in response to my blinker. As it passed me, I was impressed to see, with all its driverless car regalia, it was a\u00a0Waymo.<\/p>\n
Human drivers have been snapping photos of\u00a0Waymo vehicles going rogue in San Antonio, but the nitpicking hardly seems fair when you consider they are actually following the rules of the road.<\/p>\n
Waymos are driving based on the rules, such as using blinkers, obeying speed limits, not passing a solid line and all the stuff people learned in driver\u2019s education but no longer adhere\u00a0to.<\/p>\n
Traffic has become a game of\u00a0survival while driving to\u00a0H-E-B. When did the speed limit change to 80 mph on Loop 1604? Why am I relegated to the slow lane when driving 70 mph? Doesn\u2019t driving feel like a fend-for-yourself, hope-they-have-insurance experience?<\/p>\n
Waymos are way mo\u2019 better drivers than humans.<\/p>\n
I think of them as student drivers getting their driving legs. Like the bumper stickers announcing “Caution: Student Driver,” Waymos are very well announced. If you see one, be cautious.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0STAAR test is designed to create failure and forces teaching to the test to the exclusion of substantive education. There can be no teachable moments when the standardized test is all that matters.<\/p>\n
The tests are meaningless, as the same students are never tested twice in the same academic year to see if there is improvement, the true purpose of testing.<\/p>\n
Standardized testing needs to end.<\/p>\n
Tom W. Glaser, New Braunfels, retired social studies teacher<\/p>\n
This year eligible men will be automatically registered into the U.S. military draft pool.<\/p>\n
I believe in this time of gender equality that women should also be included in the automatic registration.<\/p>\n
Additionally, I believe the military should develop one physical training standard without regard to gender or age.<\/p>\n
I also think women should be able to volunteer for combat arms.<\/p>\n
Let’s not talk equality; let’s treat everyone equally.<\/p>\n
Retired U.S. Army First Sgt. Kevin Bryan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Entering Loop 410, I put my blinker on to merge onto the highway and the most beautiful thing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[45910,86012,92627,82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-243805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-edletters","9":"tag-edlocal","10":"tag-edwaymo","11":"tag-san-antonio","12":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","13":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}