Nissan highlights the idiocy of “marketshare at all costs”.  Marketshare is nothing aside from a measure of past success; the days of vendor lock in, in most cases, are over.  By chasing share by selling lots of bad vehicles for cheap, Nissan ruined their image for future perspective buyers, which is what is killing…

And that’s the core problem here.  Tesla should be forced to change the name of the feature to something that does not give someone who wouldn’t know any better the assumption the system is fully autonomous.

Interesting legal question: If you put your fingerprint on your cars hood, and that fingerprint *somehow* becomes involved in a crime (EG: On a piece of evidence), is a warrant required to obtain said fingerprint from your person?

Oh, they’ll admit it happened, while continuing to hold that our actions aren’t responsible.

We’ll know how bad this will be in a week or so. You’d expect that as the number of infected rises to see a corresponding rise in new infections. So either this will peter out, or we’ll start to see an exponential rise in new cases.

Software Engineer here: They won’t, which is why self-driving tech is a dead end.

Beat me to it; this was the absolute first thing I thought of when I read this.

“I do not understand the appeal of Amy Klobuchar like at all.”

Benevolent Dictatorship is the ideal form of government, followed by a pure Meritocracy. Both are fictional constructs, however.

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ORACLE still exists you know.

So, at what point will we have an honest debate at detonating nuclear weapons in the upper atmosphere to cool the planet?  Because honestly, the impacts of that might end up being preferable to the impacts of doing nothing.

“bloomberg is a republican and not a democrat.”

This is pretty typical in the industry these days; good engineers do not make good managers in most cases, so you end up with non-engineers making the financial decisions, which *always* ends the same way.

Problem is a credit card only shows the cost; it won’t be enough to prove you didn’t purchase the wrong gas.

Remember China has a *ton* of car companies; it’s no surprise that now the market is saturated that some of them will fail. That’s how emerging markets work: You get massive investment, growth, followed by contraction and consolidation.

The problem is Japan currently has a nationalist government who, as far as they are concerned, are denying pretty much every bad thing that happened in WWII.

Harder to budget though.  By offloading these functions, you lower administrative costs, making it far easier to budget for the agency as it’s baseline cost is far lower.

First off, they still had minutes of fuel left, even if they were near their abort point. (Note there’s about a 15-20% uncertainty in reading fuel levels that low). They were also in no danger whatsoever of dying; a fire-in-the-hole abort was specifically tested at slightly higher altitude (20 miles) on Apollo 10 to…

And in totally unrelated news, the USAF has just put in an order for a production run for upgraded F-15's, with the updated avionics packages that we’ve been exporting for decades now.