It happens. I work with a lot of new writers, and some get discouraged at the amount of corrections they need on first drafts. I tell them "Even Stephen King has an editor that corrects him."

Back on topic, you hit the nail on the head. Someone is trying to create a storm in a teacup. Fixing the magic babysitter box is not the aim of this.

But to use it, I'd have to be willing to install Chrome.

Yes. This is the first major step down the spiral: the pivot away from user-focused features to onboard businesses and cater to their needs instead.

Tried shifting my desktop PC over recently. Seemed fine at first, but then there wasn't any config software for my keyboard (Corsair) and my mouse was a nightmare to set up (Logitech). The support for Google Drive is archaic. The KeePass equivalent program decided to delete my old KeePass database, and then slowly corrupt its converted version. My backup software (BackBlaze Desktop) isn't supported on Linux, either, and I would have had to swap my desktop machine to using B2 storage instead of an all-you-can-eat desktop version.

In short, it supported everything a little bit but not fully.

Maybe they should letter-drop punchcards to everyone? If you get hit nine times by one of their cars, you get a free ride.

So these amazing people are:
- Cryptobro
- Venture capitalist
- Self-driving-car expert
- AI loan shark

slow claps

Appears to be an actual statistical feedback problem, something neural networks are good at. I'd slot this firmly in the "task that a simple, narrow AI is the right tool for".

This isn't a hype-AI.

Just search for the phrase "stop button problem" and I think it will help with this idiocy.

Whataboutism isn't needed. There are more than one person in the world, and I don't think these engineers would be up for dealing with Iran.

Seems a bit of a problem, though. I can't imagine this thing wouldn't be a shipping hazard, and 1.2MW (I first thought that was a typo) means seems a bit of a drop in the ocean given that GW are needed.

Credit where it's due, though, these kinds of things do provide a nice baseline power.

They can be, but you need more than just a record and playback.

You need to record and block the car from detecting the signal. Then, if they press it again, you play the first one back and record their new one while blocking it. Now you have the next code that will unlock their door.

This is all moot, of course, since those unlock codes won't start the car. It's a load of BS because they don't want to actually tell their campaign funders "you have to fix this" when there is a handy scapegoat.

It is never the $300 Flipper that's the problem, it's the $25 prototype someone makes that does the bare minimum to unlock/start a car, then sells that on Aliexpress.

"Oh no, cars can have their security bypassed by a simple computer and a radio transmitter. We should probably tell the manufacturers they need to make their security smarter."

"Nah, fuckit, shoot the messenger."

The wording also makes all heads-up displays illegal—possibly even taxi management terminals.

Was hardly a whinge.

Just a heads-up, mate. "spruik" is a specifically Australian word. A lot of the seppos on here won't grok it.