You aren't allowed to sit in the driver seat, so there is no one operating the vehicle. Its done under full license with the state. AFAIK the cops can't actually issue a ticket to one (there's a different agency over it, at least in CA), but they also don't speed, always use the blinker, don't swerve in lanes etc so not much of a reason to.

The prices are often comparable, the wait times can be longer from what I've found -- with the caveat that Waymo tends to be more accurate on their wait times since they’ve just assign a car and there's no pesky human deciding not to pick you up.

I wouldn't say overly cautious, but they do follow the speed limit which Uber drivers won't often do. They also don't get on the freeway that I've observed. I've had once instance of getting stuck behind a parking car where they’ll really needed to just cut someone off behind them. But no issues pulling around slow vehicles, pulling out into traffic, lefts on green yields, right on red, etc. Its also a smoother ride than someone with their foot on the gas, no jerky or sudden stops or whatever.

I'll disagree a little bit: we have heavy lift rockets bringing mass to orbit at a greater rate than any time in history and new larger and more efficient rockets on the cusp of being brought to use, with next generations planned for the future. Space launch technology -- the actual raw launching of mass to orbit, where it can be useful -- has advanced. And mass to orbit means more fuel -- if we really wanted to get something out there faster.

And that's where our statements arrive at the same conclusion: there's little need to do anything but super efficient deep space probes. While I can quibble with your implied assertion about newer technology not making a difference in ability, in a practical sense given our funding of deep space research, the big tech upgrade has been to data collection devices and communication. We'll have to have way cheaper lift capability before extra fuel to cut time off a project makes any kind of sense. But it is now at least plausible as an option.

(Also, this appears to be the only thread that isn't making Trek or Aliens jokes)

> When is it time to start shorting Apple?

If you are asking when they will upset their customers enough that it affects their bottom line, the answer is probably never. It's not as if the issue today is any different than when it arose in 2007.

The general public is so wantonly underinformed that one could argue they aren't even qualified to make a rational assessment of the situation.

It is really a the-inmates-are-running-the-asylum / everyone-is-an-expert situation that is becoming all too common these days.

You are right, and it is, so long as you have hacked Windows Subsystem for Android to have the Google Play Store support. Unfortunately without it, it's not at all surprising that the product is dead on the vine despite working really great!

Maybe I'm zeroing in too much on this "ONCE self-driving reaches the point that it is as good as the median driver, then I believe that it should be authorized to be on the roads. " Should they not be authorized to be on the road?

"More roads" is a scaling problem, but I think at this point it's more regulatory and financial than anything else. It's not like the roads in Sacramento or San Jose or Topeka are going to be harder to navigate. (Ok, maybe Boston :)

I'm confused by a lot of people in this article talking in future terms, like there aren't thousands of people summoning a self-driving car in AZ and CA every day. Waymo is handling dense urban traffic, confusing roads, and pedestrians every day in SF - one of the hardest tests possible. So for your prognostications of what should happen 'at some point' - they're well past the mark. Perhaps every article should come with a link to a primer on "where are self driving cars now" so people can catch up.

By "configure" do you mean "turn it off". Because if its talking to towers I have some bad news for you...

"actually" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Can you define what conditions need to be met for that to happen? I've heard "working in extreme weather" as one, but not sure what else we're talking about here. Certainly for a self-driving car ride hailing company like Waymo things aren't "decades" away as they're operating right now with the public, and its not them dragging their feet on expansion.

Call a Waymo.

That's not what the person you replied to was talking about.

Apple will not allow an app to be hosted in their store if the service charges a higher price using payments through the app than it does using other methods.

They still do those things; Canva is the most recent company to build an empire on the same shit. The only difference is that Publisher prints it out and Canva spits it directly into the social media firehose. Well, I guess the other difference is that Publisher isnt a shitty web app. So long, Publisher, and thanks for all the brochures.

It's funny, I keep hearing people say that, which was the exact opposite of my experience. I had a Discover card for six months last year, and in that time had more problems with their customer service than I have had, in total, in twenty-five years or so with other credit card companies.

Never had any experience with Capital One for a credit card, but all I can say is good riddance if they kill off Discover.

Good thing that doesn't appear to be at all what happened here.

Also (sorry, I don't know anyone personally with one yet) for the windowing thing - I tend to just have a lot of web windows and terminals open on my desktop. I rarely even open a native application for work aside from a terminal program. Would this be possible?