Every highway I’ve driven for the past 20 years sees traffic moving at 15-20mph over and scant enforcement — you’d almost have to try to get a ticket, or at least be driving in such an irresponsible manner that you truly deserve one. Between the nav apps and just looking far enough down the road for obvious trap…

Got to say, I grew up thinking that space exploration was just the coolest thing ever. But now that all these smarmy, greasy billionaires have got their grubby little paws all over it - it’s started to feel pretty lame.

Bezos knows Musk will be receiving lot of tax payer money.

You can do other things like limit the number of poling centers allowed per county, require that people only vote in their county, run short on voting paper at multiple urban areas on voting day, and other manor of voter suppression. Texas has enough of Ted Cruz people, that I don’t think even those things matter,…

[Amazon, interior. Jeff Bezos is pacing the floor, stopping to quiz each employee.]

It’s a lot harder to exploit the space industry than it is to exploit mom & pop book shops and flea markets.

“We grew and hired incredibly fast in the last few years, and with that growth came more bureaucracy and less focus than we needed.”

God damnit. In my defense, I was blinded by rage.

Details and context are just as woke as facts now, Swib

In my defense, Apple Maps told me it was a road!

I would rather only a phone plan and not also a car plan I need to pay for

the point of carplay and AA is that they would never go obsolete - the phone updates contain carplay/AA updates. All the software and updates are on the phone. there’s very little in the car’s hardware besides connection stuff and maybe a small handler that’s pretty simple. My daughter’s carplay in her civic works…

But then how are automakers supposed to charge you $5,000 more for something that should really only cost 1/10 that price that you can pick up from Best buy and install yourself?

Have you seen some of the shitty tiny low res screens on fleet vehicles that technically provide a backup camera view? They could absolutely still put those in in the cheap.

Instead of a backup camera, use the camera on the phone, dummy!

I think we just need to go back to double-din units so that people can do what they want instead of being locked-in to whatever design the OEM came up with.

So... other commenters have touched on some issues, here:

Two issues with this in the US:

1] reversing cameras are required. Therefore a built-in screen is required.
2] last I looked, lawmakers were in the process of demanding that cars came standard with AM radio.

I mean... I *guess* you could have a built-in screen that handles the camera, the AM radio, and whatever vehicle…

but it takes the cell phone right out of the hands of the millions of distracted fuckers driving

You have to appreciate the hubris of a company that can say, Sure, Apple and Google have hired the best UI designers in the world for decades now, and they probably know more about how people interact with screens than literally anyone on earth but... I bet we could come up with a better interface in 12 months. Our…