Here’s the picture that Kinja dropped

It’s worth pointing out what the city/state might get in exchange for their $250m:

Level 5 for any system is a long, long way off; if ever. I doubt it even happens in our lifetimes. There’s just too much local knowledge that the models don’t know, and the modelers don’t know they don’t know. And, to be honest, a geo-fenced level 4 system doesn’t naturally extend to what level 5 needs to be…

How many miles does Cruise have to drive before they’ve learned all they can?

There is an interesting detail from their report:

I didn’t see those sell-offs, so I agree that maybe Bezos does, or did, have cash.

Because he doesn’t have money, he has wealth. There’s a difference.

The Ford airport still exists - kind of. The Dearborn Development Center (a/k/a Dearborn Proving Grounds) was built on/out of the airport.

That’s actually a good question. Let’s take the wagon full of smartphones as an example.

V2x information, for now, does not include anything critical to driving tasks. This is broadcast information, like “I am vehicle x and I’m intending to turn at the intersection”, “I am the overpass 750m ahead, and it’s icy”, or “I’m roadside marker 5 km ahead - there is slow traffic.”

Nothing needs to be ‘hack-proof’; and to be honest, nothing can be ‘hack-proof’.

The V2x infrastructure isn’t secured by user passwords.

And soon as you allow cars to communicate truthful information to one another, people will be able to communicate malicious information instead.

Because NHTSA used their rulemaking authority, after being lobbied by interest groups, to require emergency egress from trunks by issuing FMVSS 401. You can probably lobby NHTSA all you want, or at least until it’s disbanded; but you aren’t going to get any new rulemaking for the next four years.

You can even use an agile philsophy to generate your ISO26262 (Functional Safety for Road Vehicles) artifacts. The later artifacts, like the safety goals and technical safety requirements, become user stories for future planning increments and sprints.

The dictionary allows either:

It’s not really valid though. There’s three numbers, the variable cost per unit, the margin per unit, and the fixed costs that get amortized over volume.

Using your phone as a key.

“It’s one that gives the Nautilus more than 500 miles 148 leauges of range per tank, too.

Nope. As I mentioned in my followup comment, I owned a ‘93 as my DD, and put ~120k miles on it.