Here is G’s Street View - looking backward from the daylight cutout for the pedestrian crossing.

Yes, that’s more accurate than what I wrote.

The challenge Ford had in integrating PAG into the rest of the enterprise was that it was really hard to use common parts among Ford/Jag/Land Rover. Drivers don’t really care that, say the MAF sensor, was a common part; but because it had a Ford part number the reviews/buff books/online review websites like…

“The first- and second-place spots are occupied by Ford’s BlueCruise and GM’s Super Cruise respectively; both of these Level 2 systems are classified as ‘hands-free driving,’”

Ford tried that with the Transit Connect cargo variant. Assembled in Türkiye with (temporary) rear seats, so they were passenger vehicles and not subject to the chicken tax; the rear seats were removed after importing.

The speedometer is in metric. Kilometers are shorter than miles; the inner numbers are smaller than the outer numbers to show that at the same rate, you cover fewer miles per hour than you do kilometers.

It’s close to schools, but the kind of person who would buy this house isn’t allowed to live that close to schools.

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.