Either way you get screwed and the pain for them isn’t as bad.  That $65 you were awarded in 2018 is worth about $50 now and the S&P is up about 50% over the past 5 years, so the $500M they are paying doesn’t cost them the same as it did then.

Agreed. Services can be subscription. Features cannot. Since this relies on connectivity and maintaining databases with real-time updates, this is a service.

Personally, I have no problem to have to pay a subscription for autopilot technology. I have a bigger problem with heated seats or remote start type of subscription as this is, now, basic tech that should be available if the hardware is present in the car.

Using yet another automated tool to filter out fake reviews may not be reassuring for customers.

Oops, ~500 miles round trip*.

Depends on the length/purpose of travel. I bounce around for work pretty often and find that 3-4 hours of driving is a good cut off (~500 miles). Anything more and I’m starting to burn full work days on just the travel aspect and it turns into overnights. Via flight, I can go to/from another city in a single day and…

The Panama Canal, one of the major shipping routes through which 40 percent of container goods sold in America travels, currently has a 21-day wait time for ships attempting to make the passage.

Yeah, I was wondering if a 21-day-wait means that just going around the long way would be more timely.

If anyone at Sony is reading this, please consider that you have (in my opinion) two equally good options: either let it be, or shut this thing down and get a real remaster going.

“If anyone at Sony is reading this, please consider that you have (in my opinion) two equally good options: either let it be, or shut this thing down and get a real remaster going.”

The driver shortage is easy to explain. I looked into this as a side hustle of sorts, but being a bus driver sucks on so many levels. The pay isn’t particularly good given the responsibilities involved. The hours are extremely inconvenient, and the timing makes doing anything else difficult. On average the kids suck…

I never understand this line of reasoning when it comes to Taco Bell. Never once have I wanted Mexican food and considered Taco Bell an option, and never once have I wanted Nachos Bell Grande and tried to get something similar from an actual Mexican place. They’re two different things and scratch two different itches.

I have two trains of thought on this one.

There definitely should be a time-out period after a certain number of warnings in a limited time span where the software says “You’ve been warned enough times in a row, you’re clearly not able to use this feature responsibly” and disables it. 

There is Autopilot which is a very effective and functional adaptive cruise control. Then there is Full Self Driving (FSD), which is complete crap.

The article states that the driver complied for every one of the 150 warnings that occurred over a 34 minute period. That comes down to about 4.4 times every minute, or roughly once every 14 seconds. This seems like a lot over a period of time, is this count accurate? I thought Tesla’s alerted after 15-30 seconds of…

This guy sounds like he was half passed-out and the Tesla had to poke him every 20 seconds to wake up.

Thank you for knowing how many flights were in Ingenuity’s original mission plan. Full credit to the engineers at NASA in designing and building stuff. This is also not the first thing they’ve built that exceeded the original mission parameters.

I’m pretty sure distributed storage/generation agreements have all been opt-in AND they provide some compensation to the individuals who participate.

The crocs have learned how to drive and enjoy joy-riding, hitting up a local fast food drive-thru and then ending up back in their lake.