Oculus VR Co-founder Andrew Reisse Killed In Auto Collision 302
ccguy writes with this excerpt from a sad report on CNET: "Oculus Rift co-founder and lead engineer Andrew Reisse was hit in Santa Ana, where he was a resident, by a speeding car being pursued by police." Reisse was killed, says the report, when the car "slammed into two vehicles during the pursuit before hitting Reisse at Flower Street and MacArthur Boulevard."
Collateral damage (Score:0, Insightful)
But then again, at least we've caught the speeding vehicle.
Re:FTA (Score:5, Insightful)
Let us be fair. Cars kill too many innocents. Cities should be for the people, not for cars!
Bus factor (Score:3, Insightful)
Please update the Oculus wiki (Score:2, Insightful)
I don't know enough about the gentleman to do so but it stands to reason he deserves mention on their wiki page, albeit posthumously.
At a glance i see no mention of him and it appears he was rather integral.
He should not have been pursued (Score:0, Insightful)
The Police in the UK would have either abandoned the pursuit unless it was for a major crime or used a helicopter to track him unknowingly.
Sadly the yanks are always to quick to go into yee-haw mode and it costs lives.
Re:FTA (Score:5, Insightful)
Because if they had suspended the chase, the offending vehicle would have slowed down and obeyed all traffic laws thereafter?
Probably — why risk wrecking the vehicle or attracting further attention once the pursuing police have fallen back?
Re:FTA (Score:4, Insightful)
And in cities, they typically are reserved for this. "when needed" includes "i need to get somewhere that's not well served by public transportation"
Which in the US unfortunately is pretty much every trip that has an endpoint outside the core of the city....
Re:FTA (Score:5, Insightful)
Also, when one kid in class chews gum, everyone in the class should get detention.
When a right is abused, it should be taken away too. Because of Westboro Baptist Church, we should repeal the 1st Amendment.
Re: FTA (Score:1, Insightful)
In cases where details are as vague as this, it often boils down to the cops shooting first (or sometimes even being the only ones shooting).
Sometimes the right solution is to let criminals go. If the alternative has a high likelihood of human injury, the police has an obligation to not escalate the situation. Remember that their oath is to protect and serve. In that order, not the other way around.
Posting anonymously because of the idiots who don't understand that the lack of "-1 disagree" is intentional.
Re:FTA (Score:4, Insightful)
Because you know, guys with guns fleeing after a firefight and a violent encounter with police are totally white, nice and fluffy, model citizens
What does being white have to do with anything?
Re:A MEXICAN killed him - had enough yet? (Score:3, Insightful)
"Victor Sanchez". There's a nice, 'American' name...
Unless your own name is in the vein of "Runs Through", "Onawa" or "Aipaloovik", you can shut up now.
Re: FTA (Score:4, Insightful)
For the most part, gang violence only affects gangs and our gun rights,
A similar thing could be said for police chases. "For the most part police chases only effect the people being chased."
I would still prefer they not chase these kinds of perps.
Tell that to the bystander killed in their next shootout.
There have been many instances where innocent people have been injured or killed by drug gang violence. I seem to remember a child being killed in a crib when a bullet came through the wall during a drive by shooting.
It would be OK if gang violence effected only the gangs but it does not. It terrorizes entire neighborhoods.
The problem with not pursuing fleeing felons is that more will flee if they know they can get away by driving fast enough. If driving fast is a get out of jail free card, more people will do it.
Re:FTA (Score:2, Insightful)
If cars were banned people would just leave the cities. Might be a good thing after generations of living like rats.
Re:FTA (Score:2, Insightful)
Probably -- why risk wrecking the vehicle or attracting further attention once the pursuing police have fallen back?
Now I hate cops for the lying nazi fuckholes the vast majority are as much as any sane person, but I still think "possibly" would fit better than "probably".
My brother's car and the other cars at his apartment were broken into and robbed. We interrupted them and almost got shot. They left and we filed a police report. An hour later the police picked us up and drove us ~20 miles to where they (different cops obviously) had pulled over the people who did it. They were driving over 100 miles an hour in a stolen car with several unregistered guns in the car....20 miles from the scene of the crime. They would have gotten away clean if they acted in the rational manner you suggest.
Shit like that happens a lot.
Elaborate computer crimes or Ocean's 11 type shit takes some serious brain power. Most run of the mill crime just takes balls and often a lack of intelligence rather than an overabundance.
Re:FTA (Score:3, Insightful)
It's interesting that your reply and those above all mention how poor public transport is, but none mention lack of bicycle lanes.
That's partly because Americans are (on average) lazy spoiled brats who have never been anywhere to see what the rest of the world is like, and partly because our country is bigger than a postage stamp. Many of our states are bigger than many of your countries. Indeed, all but nine of our fifty states are larger than entire nation of The Netherlands.
You can't really blame USians for not having seen the world, though. Many of us are broke, most of the rest can't get the time off if they do have a job, to the North is a country that's much like ours but colder and to the South is a country that's basically experiencing a sort of on and off civil war between druglords and druglords and between cops and druglords. Meanwhile, Europeans can hop on a nice fucking train and visit another country for a few euros. And their money will even work there.
Now, I can't speak for anyone else, but everything about my county is inappropriate for bicycling, and I'm also asthmatic. So really, the only kind of cycling you're going to see me doing is downhill. Given the choice, I'm going to drive (or whatever) to the top, too. But for most of the year it's crappy cold or shitty hot, so even if I were in good condition it would be a bad idea. This is also a really good place to get run over by some old curmudgeon who hates bicyclists or just someone on a lot of drugs, prescription or otherwise. It would make more sense to flap my arms and try to fly.