I would be surprised if there wasn't a group policy setting for it.

Don't attribute to maliciousness what can be attributed to incompetence. The telemetry was probably built up with no central design as a result no easy way to turn it all off. They won't spend time fixing it till it hurts them enough.

Also the fear of telemetry being used to spy on users is overblown. More and more software products add telemetry to be able to improve how their software works. It allows them to spend time improving the features users actually use and fixing their pain points. As a result they can build better products.

Mirekusoft Install Monitor tracks where an application get installed so it can be completely removed. Disclaimer: I developed it because I was tired of applications installing wherever they wanted.

It's not only that. The ads also drain battery life so Chrome with ad-blocker is probably more energy efficient.

For Honda adaptive cruise control and lane keep assist are two separate features that are independently enabled.

Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/1576/

Telsa AutoPilot 2.0
-Fixed bug where the car would crash into things if the sun was too bright

Good points but if someone is consistently braking hard or traveling too fast it points to the driver.

I'm surprised they don't have something like that already.

That human break reflex only happens if you're paying attention. If you fully trust the car it's possible this could happen. But again if he was somewhat attentive he should have noticed the car's lack of slowing down. I have adaptive cruise control in my car and while it's not as good as Telsa's it does get things correctly most of the time. However I don't implicitly trust it and I'm always prepared to stop.

Simple solution. Force the driver to keep their hands on the steering wheel. It forces them to keep some attention.

That seems to be the trend at lot of tech companies in general. Workers are no longer worth investing in. They are now disposable assets.

That's exactly how most AV engines work. They stall in the kernel to do their operations. You're right the scheduler doesn't know the relationship between the AV scanning server and the user processes and it doesn't need to. The normal rules for scheduling priorities work just fine. And regarding the kernel hooking you're talking about it's still restricted on x64 versions of Windows. Heard of patchguard. The primary reason it was needed prior to Vista was that there wasn't away to accomplish some things with the existing APIs.

It takes a while for a human to react, and think of how to respond (press brakes or swerve) to an upcoming obstable. Alot of times the human driver will swerve because they don't think they can stop in time. An autonomous car could instantly sense the obstacle and calculate the stopping distance and apply breaks.

You can actually disable Windows Update through GP so that's like forever.