Current safety inspections do not test these as there are no standard, non-destructive, tests.

You know not all states require "safety inspections", right?

When you’re stupid, you don’t know you’re stupid!

The Chinese are SMARTER than yankes; their average IQ is higher.

Do yankee really think the Chinese can’t do anything they do?

During the last 60 years, the Chinese have done a fantastic job of catching-up to the West. Why wouldn’t they pass us during the next 60 years?

I'd rather have a car that is MORE basic...take out all the stuff I don't need..I don't need 500 sensors outside the car.

I've been driving long enough to not need lane warnings, I really don't need cameras everywhere, I don't use them...I'm old school and actually turn my HEAD to look where I need to look...and use my mirrors.

This stuff not only is $$ in a minor fender bender, but upfront costs...and maintenance cost. I mean God help you if you get electrical system gremlins in your car.

I want my car to accelerate when I want it to...stop when I want it to and go the direction I steer.

I dont' need a lot of other crap to babysit me.

I recall when the top Google phone was an LG product which was unreliable and unrepairable trash. The digitizer on my Nexus 4 died and the replacement cost was more than buying a new phone.

Naturally I did not buy another Nexus device. Been buying Moto since. No regerts.

If they give it more battery then it will have a longer useful life (as the battery degrades, and the OS updates cause more power consumption) and then you won't have to buy a new product as soon. They are specifically and only targeting sales frequency with their battery sizing across all of their battery devices.

Alcohol is inherently dangerous in at least two ways. One, it's toxic. Two, it reduces inhibitions in exactly the way that the other substance you mentioned (weed) doesn't. That's why it raises accident risk but weed doesn't - people on weed are able to recognize and account for impairment by driving slower and maintaining longer following distances.

The problem with the auto body repair business is that it's toxic AF. Most people don't last long in that environment, sometimes literally. When you spray paint, it's around half solvent. There are water based paints, but they don't perform as well as the solvent-based ones. When unibodies are painted they spray the whole thing and then bake the paint so hot that it reflows, which is how they get a good result even with water-based paints. Body shops can't do that when they make a repair.

Engine repair is much less toxic, but also in much less demand. By the time most vehicles need an engine rebuild, they need a lot of other stuff too. Doing an expensive engine job and winding up with a sloppy old car anyway makes little sense. And the number of people needed is waning as we shift towards electrics; not rapidly yet, but meaningfully. I wouldn't go into that career at this point, it would be exactly the wrong time.

If history is any indication, AI will be overused, then there will be a backlash and it will be underused, and eventually use will seek the middle. It might flop back and forth a few times, too.

It's already being overpromised, so that part of the usual pattern is already being fulfilled.

The kind of processing "AI" does now is clearly only part of the thinking process, the imagining part, or hallucinating as it's commonly called where AI is involved. We imagine a whole bunch of things and then filter out the dumbest ones, hopefully anyway. We can understand the things we've imagined. AI can't, because it's not thinking about them.

There is probably no heaven or hell, though, except what we create here.

So they've found the mechanism, right?

No, they don't. Coal and nuclear plants aren't located near residences either, but we still lose under 5% in transmission in the USA. The losses are higher than local, but not anything you could reasonably call "high".

The brain starts with the semantics. Some are innate, others are learned, but the semantics is always first. The syntax is then layered on top of this. This is why the high-intelligence end of the autistic spectrum is linked to delayed speech followed by a very rapid process to complex speech. The semantics is being built to a far higher degree, the syntax is postponed until the last possible moment.

AI, as it currently exists, needs a very very large number of examples, far more than the brain by tens of orders of magnitude, and hallucinates far more, because ALL it knows is the syntax. There is no handling of the semantics at all.

This approach can NEVER lead to actual intelligence of any sort, let alone superintelligence. They are solving the wrong problem. And that is why they fail, and why they will only ever fail.

If you want actual intelligence, the syntax must come LAST. And the modern breed of AI researcher is simply far too stubborn and arrogant to fathom that.

Still the case. But by now, not following the process is a requirement. On all levels.

Workers cannot follow the proper processes because they have to cut corners to keep up with the required pace or get fired.

But that's not really a big problem because QA also has to cut corners to keep pace and won't find their blunders.

And so on.

Yes...
looks left, looks right
let's "talk"...

Yeah, these pesky workers and their corner cutting. And we have everything in place. Really! A process for everything!

Work protocol? Sure, we have a work protocol in place, here, see? They have to do this, this and this! Apparently they don't. What did he say? He only has time to do 1, 2 and 3 and has to skip 4 because the time allotted isn't enough? Well, then I guess quality control would have to catch that!

So quality control is to blame. We have a protocol for that in place, here, you see? What did he say? That he has to inspect 5 systems but in the time he has he can only do 3, so he just checks the boxes of the other 2? Oh...

And so on.