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Comment Re:Go watch the Patrick Boyle YouTube video (Score 1) 62

SpaceX is a scam. The too long didn't watch is they don't have any more customers.

Maxing out growth isn't a bad thing if you want to be a stable business. If you want eternal growth and to attract gambling on the stock market, that's of course a problem. They don't even know what to do with the successes they do have.

Comment Re:Just pronounce stuff correctly cross-language (Score 1) 57

Gemini is even worse at jumping between languages when speaking in my experience, but I would guess the names aren't flagged with the language in the source data either.

Around me in the US, some random sections of highway jump from being named in English to being named in Spanish. There is no reasonable answer for why it would happen other than they aggregated a bunch of map data and didn't validate that it was all in the same language. There is not a significant Spanish speaking population in the area. Other areas use internal Federal numbers for some roads. Like a US highway that changed route. The old route is still paved as a highway and signage reads "Old US ##" for the highway, where the number is the same. Google says "Federal Secondary ####" where the number is essentially 4-5 digits of internal DOT recordkeeping.

Comment Re:Are they fixing something which ain't broke? (Score 4, Informative) 57

not even asking themselves "does this make sense?"

Sometimes it's right and still doesn't make sense. I was driving in Texas near Austin in an area I had never been before and got directed off the Interstate highway to a random parallel country road. I couldn't see too far ahead but took the gamble. I ended up passing miles and miles of stopped traffic that day.

Comment Re:Are they fixing something which ain't broke? (Score 1) 57

The answer is standardized public data feeds. Maybe all the navigation companies can create a global standard format to save taxpayer money, but data feeds are going to become an important part of infrastructure somewhere in the future. It might make sense to have user-reported road hazards or issues be fed back to the public sources. Even dispatch local authorities to check on a situation if needed.

IF traffic-running-normally THEN ignore announcements that a road is closed.

If all the Android phones leave the road, then Google won't have enough data to decide traffic is running normally. Self-reinforcing feedback loop. See above about the need for public data.

Comment Re:Makes sense ... (Score 1) 156

new cars in the US are increasingly becoming a luxury item than many can no longer afford.

New cars are becoming like new houses. All the profit is on the upper end. Everyone else can buy used, if they can even afford that. This has been happening with housing for far longer and a workable fix hasn't shown up yet.

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