Aussies created the category of vehicles with trays. Ute = UTILITY VEHICLE. Yanks fucked it up and morphed it into "trucks" - the monstrosities of emotional support vehicles you see today.

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That's intense. Good on him.

Sounds like a good egg.

Can you americans explain what this means to everyone else in the world? Seems like a big deal to some people...

Takes a big person to admit a change like that.

Fuck you! Hello.

Fuck you. Welcome.

Ghmmm hmmm hmmm. bump.

My thinking is similar, as long as these type of systems - which can directly kill the public - are developed by purely commercial interests with no oversight, they will always do the minimum safety measures to get the $. For some reason a car plowing into people is more palatable than a plane crashing out of the sky.

Agree. Point well made.

I hear you, but, SMS is the farthest from secure you can get - so I can see why they chose not to support it.