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Comment Re:I like the idea (Score 1) 157

You are the consumer, not the industry insider. If the sale was happening with the promise of an ever improving hydrogen infrastructure, and this didn't come to pass, then the promise leading to the sale was not fulfilled, and this could be seen as culpa in contrahendo.

If that argument holds, the court will decide. But as with every contract, they can be ligitated if one side feels wronged.

Comment Re:Dumb idea from day 1 (Score 3, Informative) 29

The first time a drone crashes; national news.

You mean like this one?
Or this one?

There have already been a few delivery drone crashes. Some have caused real damage. But no, the lawyers didn't have a field day. Damages were paid out by Amazon and the world went on without it being widespread national news.

half the city is up in arms about autonomous driving even though Waymo is already safer than human drivers and Cruise likely no worse.

The metrics showing autonomous cars are safer don't include things like blocking emergency vehicles by stopping in the middle of the road, accidents caused by the traffic jam the stopped autonomous car caused and so forth.

The default behavior is to stop in the middle of the street when the autonomous driving fails and wait for a remote operator to take over the vehicle and move it out of the way, but the remote operator depends on cell phone signals to send data back and forth. A traffic jam (or a music festival) concentrates a lot of other people in the area and the cell towers quickly become overwhelmed and boom... more stopped autonomous cars.

It's not fear of the new and unfamiliar. It's the documented problems that have been caused already with a very limited number of vehicles on the road. It's not hard to predict the disaster that would happen if they actually made up a significant percentage of the traffic.

Comment Re:Screw the American auto industry (Score 1) 305

If you can't sell off your old car at a decent price (and your car dealership also has the lot full of them), your calculation for the next truck has to include a higher deterioration, which makes buying your next truck more expensive. And financing the truck with a loan also might get harder, because your bank might also look into the resale value of your truck, because if they impound it, they don't want to sell it at too much of a loss.

Comment Oh, well, change :) (Score 1) 22

Every change looks like corruption in the eyes of people who don't like it.

And corruption looks like evolution to some people.

Personally, I'm in favor of words meaning as much of the same thing over time as possible. It enhances communication and understanding. If you need a new meaning, you either need a new word or you need to explain yourself at a bit more length. Lest you "decimate" (cough) the listener's/reader's understanding... you get me?

Comment Re:How would AI edit photos? (Score 4, Informative) 24

Probably because the hands and fingers are fucked up in the exact same way that AI always fucks up hands and fingers.

A human told to edit an image to "protect the anonymity of the source" wouldn't start off thinking "I know... I'll remove one finger from the right hand and three from the left, then fuck up the palms to make it look like the fingers became blobby tumors."

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