I know that anything that is called a straight line actually isn't a straight line, it is nonsense. A series of points that appear to be straight from our point of view.

There are points and curves. Curves are points that are spread over time with the curvature correlating with time. The shorter the time period, the tighter the curve. That is how Space is defined. If you examine it from a different perspective, the curvature of space describes time. (which is why gravity is always an 'attractive' force)

I still have no idea why spacetime exists. Just that it does.

Consciousness is 'merely' organized energy. Some amount of physical 'matter' is required to organize energy into useful 'groups'. Energy that is not constrained by physical 'matter' is chaotic, moving 'away' at the speed of light in our frame of reference.

Only if it is Type 1 Diabetes. Type 2 Diabetes is trivially treatable... for various definitions of trivial.

(no carbs or sugars for 3 months will reset your insulin levels, i know, i did it)

You are being forced to live in a post-truth world. In other words, you will know nothing and be happy about it. Trying to make sense of it is impossible as it was designed that way. This is a genuine, 100% authoritarian push to overthrow the US Government and nobody appears to be able to stop it or even slow it down. Too many vested interests. Say bye bye. The Democrats are part of the corruption, which is why you see no real pressure against the post-truth world we are entering.

The amount of death and destruction that we will be seeing will dwarf anything seen in the past. :(

I do not think it is the companies; rather, it is the government sending memos and such. The coordination and similarities scream outside action to me.

(the companies are all evil, don't get me wrong here)

You are justifiably hard on the consumer here... as it should be. Ultimately, everyone is responsible for themselves and requesting other people take ANY responsibility is a step too far... However, you are a jackass. What makes you think these folks had any other real choices? You either buy an Android or an Apple and are fully locked in regardless of which 'ecosystem' that you choose. People should have more choices than two companies that are clearly not offering fair deals to people in the name of maintaining vertical monopolies.

Treat women as equals?! WTF dude. Seriously? I guess the woke virus got you too. Ah well, Slashdot will survive.

*blink*

I can see the mechanism for Trump's backers successes here. Yours is the first comment questioning whether or not Apple's policies are reasonable. Everyone else just wants to roll with how Apple decided things should work, despite it clearly being anti-consumer, regardless of the current issue.

It is almost impossible to engineer a system to do ANYTHING reliably when money is the primary focus. That is why Microsoft will ALWAYS fail: They are a monopoly and don't really have to succeed.

I believe that you are gullible. Which of us is correct?

I heard about this one tiger that changed his stripes... and all he did was starve to death since he knew nothing other killing other animals for food. (yes, people can change. they rarely change without great external force... and who/what can force Bill Gates?)

The ENTIRE purpose of a vehicle is to get a person somewhere that they want to go. So by your logic, I won't be able to go camping, or take my jetskis to the lake, or, not go to work the following morning because construction has started. Why do you denigrate people so badly? What did they do to you that you would try to take these things away from people in the name of saving some lives? If you want zero danger, then kill yourself now. Being alive is being in a constant state of almost being dead.

There it is. I knew it had to be hiding there somewhere. These "edge cases" happen every day across the nation to hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people every day.

I am guessing that you fully endorse Microsoft's decision to not allow the taskbar to be moved because only a million people ever do it.

If I ignore segments of Reality, I can design the perfect automatic driving machine. Learning how to handle the not-average is a requirement if you want to replace drivers. You can take your logic and safety arguments and do something unholy with them because they ignore segments of what is real.

I accept that possibility.

That was not the intended point. The intended point is that the robotaxis are all in constrained environments because they can not handle generalization. Humans can. Even dumb humans can... until a certain level of dumbness is reached.

Why do you keep minimizing this issue? All of these "edge cases" are common throughout all of the USA. Sure, Miami doesn't have to deal with snow and Denver rarely needs to deal with flooding and you rarely have to deal with construction, but, these are ALL common.

You are comparing the driving records of bots in constrained environments with humans in all environments. Why you would extend those rates to robotaxis driving in the Real World (TM) and still expect the same performance?

I am guessing you are a low IQ person; otherwise, you would realize that it was an example of a corporation not being able to achieve its goals in regards to reliability and trustworthiness.

I guess I shouldn't be frustrated with you. Dumb people rarely realize they are dumb because they rarely question themselves or their ideas.

Look bro, construction, snow, water, all are common things and not nuances. I have no idea why you are calling everything that is not pre-planned a nuance that can be disregarded. I guess your entire existence is a nuance that can be ignored as well. How do you live with yourself being so ignorant?

Current tech can NOT handle this. Additionally, I don't trust any of the major corps to be able to implement it safely. Look at Microsoft. In 2003, they stopped everything to focus purely on security. What does it look like 20 years later? Or what about those Google cars in San Francisco that keep ending up in a cul de sac with passengers?