Turns out marking up cars way above MSRP, with high payments might not have been a good long-term strategy.

Loved reading your perspective, thank you. I should make clear I don’t think Nolan is a bad filmmaker, far from it. I’m just expressing how I feel he’s lost his mystique for me

So judging by your stats, it seems the real problem here is too many people driving big vehicles they can’t properly see pedestrians out of.......

This is the whole thing. There’s no benefit to allowing all these self-driving cars onto the roads in SF. All it does is put taxi and rideshare drivers out of work. We already have a homeless crisis in SF. We don’t need *more* people out of work.

You’re probably right. But on the other hand, a more robust public transit system eliminates the need for self-driving cars almost entirely. A network of ten 30ft buses with an average load of 38 people (the average load reported by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency) would total 380 passengers. The…

Even if it makes traffic a bit slower in the short term we need to make decisions based on the long term benefits. 

Tech startups will go to any lengths to avoid paying their drivers won’t they? With all the money wasted on developing self driving cars, it would have been more cost effective to simply pay their drivers instead.

The cars need to go. I tolerated them when they were driving around with drivers and “testing” throughout Golden Gate Park, almost got hit a couple of times but whatever.

Okay, maybe not at the moment, but the opening of this article is really funny, since Joe Biden is famously probably the single most famous user/fan Amtrak has ever had.

Patiently waiting for the day Elon Musk is no longer relevant. That will be a glorious day, indeed. 

Am I the only one who feels visiting the wreck of the Titanic is a bit ghoulish?

This is the second article this week calling the wreck the HMS Titanic. It was not a Royal Navy Ship, it belonged to the White Star Line and was correctly called the RMS (Royal Mail Ship) Titanic.

Most of the US Navy Submarines cannot go 12,500 feet deep where the Titanic wreck lays. There are very few submarines or submersibles which can go that deep

I used to use Reddit on my phone from time to time... in my browser. Recently, it told me the mobile site is now read-only and I had to download the app to login and post. Instead of doing that, I just stopped using it. They really want you to download that app.

the comment section did kinda die then though. It used to be waaaay more active and fun

I mean, have you opened up a Gizmodo or AV Club article from 2012? None of those classic commenters are here anymore and a lowly article back then got 5x the number of total comments as in 2023.

I’ll bet you money that they’re not going to launch again until 2024.

I don’t know that that’s true. I haven’t seen any metrics on overall users other than dubious ones provided by twitter (or Musk saying “New account signups are through the roof!!”) but anecdotally I have seen a lot of people (including myself) either get completely off the platform, or stop engaging with it if they…

I may be wrong but I think each dispenser provides a set type of item. When you view them on the map they show which items you cns get from them.

It is, and it’s what they spent almost the entire 6 years doing (or at least, that’s my hunch after more than a decade of programming).