Looks like 10. California, Washington, Colorado, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maryland, New York, Delaware, Jersey, Illinois.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/paid-maternity-leave-by-state

Certainly not “most states”, so you’re right to be skeptical.

Correction: The discs are not soft. They are hard and can be sharp-edged as well. Keeping throws away from walking and bike paths is super critical.

Driving in Manhattan is for truck deliveries and taxis only.

If you try to drive a car from point to point in Manhattan, you’re an asshole.

I don’t even trust that. Google devices hard-code DNS and IPs and… I have no evidence or knowledge of it, but I assume that they have some Sidewalk-like ability to communicate directly to other Google devices to get outside the network you want them to be on.