Iâ(TM)ve been running the beta for 6 months or so. While Iâ(TM)ve seen some marginal improvements handling edge cases, I still need to intervene several times on a routine 8 mile route I take several times per week (and I report the mistakes each time to help âoetrainâ their model). In particular, FSD wants to get into turning lanes when it shouldnâ(TM)t and vice-versa. It wonâ(TM)t be ready until I would feel comfortable telling my non-techie parents to use it. Using that metric, itâ(TM)s nowhere close.

Was I the only one to read this as "trained cows" the first time?

Isn't that a little close to the other Tesla? http://jalopnik.com/a-hacker-m...

Would be interesting to see them try that. A US court would/should see that as a blatant attempt to circumvent the ex post facto law prohibition.

Sen. Burr must not be up to date on his constitutional law. The constitution expressly forbids ex post facto laws, which are defined as laws "that retroactively change the legal consequences (or status) of actions that were committed, or relationships that existed, before the enactment of the law." From Wikipedia: "Ex post facto laws are expressly forbidden by the United States Constitution in Article 1, Section 9, Clause 3 (with respect to federal laws) and Article 1, Section 10 (with respect to state laws)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

100 times better != 100% performance improvement. 100 times better = 10000% performance improvement.

Wait, it performs 100 times better, but there's only 20% in energy savings? Um ...

Yeah, this. Which is the root cause? Car or driver? Very likely that drivers with lead feet prefer small, sporty cars.

This has been alluded to, but the real issue here isn't whether scientists are going to be persuaded to alter their pursuits. Rather, it's how non-scientists perceive the value of scientists. And, when most scientists are funded by non-scientists (i.e. all of us, through our taxes), this can have a profound effect on whether scientists can continue their work.

Yes, some physicians will abuse the system. Some will do so willingly, while others will do so out of ignorance. However, many physicians at large academic medical centers (also known as "residents"), are not taught how to code and bill at all until they reach independent practice. This leads to very bad habits and often to underbilling quite significantly for their services. They all do the work, but don't appreciate the importance of recording and documenting the work for billing purposes, leaving money on the table. This impacts primary care most of all, where margins are very slim, and many physicians are struggling to remain solvent. EMRs actually take care of the coding and billing far more efficiently and accurately than the physicians themselves. But as the saying goes, "garbage-in, garbage-out." The coding is only as accurate as the physician documentation. The vast majority of physicians do not intentionally document erroneously to inflate billing - once the error is pointed out to them, they are more than willing to fix it. And for those physicians who are maliciously abusing the system, there's no better solution than EMRs to record and track this behavior.

Wait, isn't Verizon a phone company? And would you likely be making the call on their own lines? Would it be free if you called using an AT&T phone? Sprint? T-Mobile? Is this what they would prefer?

An "object in the seabed between Sweden and Finland" could hardly be classified as a flying object, unidentified or otherwise.

Probably has something to do with the fact that it's the only one with "App Store" it its name. Notice that "App Store" is capitalized?

No, this is a front-end to the web interface. At least it has all the other Google Apps as well.

An update to our app, G-Whizz! has been "In Review" now for over 2 months. All of our emails have been ignored. We actually got a hold of a dev relations specialist who is "on the case." Even he hasn't been able to get any information from the app review team after 1 month. What?!