Cars already do this. I'm not sure why they're acting like it's new.

My 2006 Honda lets me know when it's time for service starting a few thousand miles early.

Exploding in the launcher is bad.

But if it's a matter of 1% vs 0.1% failing mod trip. Or even 10% vs 0.1% failing mod trip this is a game changer.

I'm picturing something as hard to intercept as the better Russian misiles that delivers a payload similar to shaheed for the price closer to a shaheed.

Such a weapon would be a game changer even if it isn't some type of unstoppable munition.

The only feature you list I'm remotely interested in is the mirroring to the dash.

But there's no reason Android auto/apple car play can't do that without deeper integration.

WRT to the other controls. Buttons please. I can afford an extra $1,000 or so to have cruise and climate control be buttons rather than voice and a screen.

I use voice to control my home HVAC, but a car is a small controlled space and buttons are far superior for that.

And yet Ukraine is having some success with it's slow af cruise missiles that cost 5x as much (significantly larger payload I assume too).

At $99k these are starting tondrop towards high end one way drone prices.

If I were a country with small GDP I'd love to be able 40x the cost of interception by having the other side blow a patriot.

At such a low cost these don't need to be unstoppable to be useful, just requiring top tier anti air vs interceptor drones makes them a huge game changer.

I thought no this is the correct response.

The people that whippee up something quick for a tech demo failed, but in the long run artists will be able to properly use it to make things look better.

Amen!

The the to play games is through mateix style displays showing you the math or pixel perfect sprites.

Journalists use it for summaries (and sometikes don't double check sources even). Both Nate Silver and Tech Dirt blogs talk about their use and use paid versions.

A lot of programmers use it to do tedium too.

These two user classes pay less than it costs to provide them service, but do get significant value from it.

I use it to fix some of the tedium of using pandas, and also to generate pivot tables in Excel.

I think when they AI companies start focusing on their cost rather than improved benchmarks we'll see them start to make gross profit at least.

I get at least as many local ads streaming as I did on broadcast network.

Not super local (a lot of PA elections when I live in Delaware, just like broadcast), but in my metro area.

I would think they should be able to auction ads even more locally with streaming though. Similar to how Google does it.

Later cable channels were created then with ads though, correct?

Like Comedy Centeal was never a pay channel (that I'm aware of) and I think started on cable.

The so called extended basic (in my area) channels always had ads.

They were charging $60 for 200/6 internet.

If I wanted to get a reasonable work from home 20mbps up I had to pay $150 for 800/20.

I switched to TMobile and it definitely sucked (carrier level NAT and not IPv6 passthrough to get around it on IPv6), but getting 75/50 internet for $50/month was a huge win for work.

Verizon came through selling 300/300 fiber for $50/month and now Comcast is offering 400/100 for the same price to compete.

I was amazed at the huge difference, but also that before competition Comcast was offering nothing reasonable upstream. I don't know how people were able to work from home with it.

Do they charge for cable TV?

Last time I complained about my internet price they offered me a discount for a package with cable too (as in internet alone was $70/month internet + extended basic cable was $50/month).

Eventually I complained enough that they gave me the internet alone for $50 (this was close to 10 years ago and they seemed to already recognize that cable TV had negative value using an HDMI hole and taking up cabinet space.

I'm pretty sure all the shopping sites essentially say you should package your products in such a way they can be dropped from waist height safely.

Closer to 30 than 20 years, but it had text ads for as long as I can remember.

The separation of text ads from real results has slowly eroded since then too, with the ads looking similar to early results now.

If the police are looking out for the interests of rich people wouldn't they throw the book at this kind of thing?

The rich people want robo taxis more than anyone else I suspect.

Doesn't the FSD hardware already use custom chips?

I assume they'll be making a new chip (at least to reduce production costs by shrinking) based on their current custom chip.

I'm skeptical they'll get the plant up and running though with the history of doing such on the US being sketch overall.

I'm also skeptical that they'll really benefit from it, though I can see why it's compelling to bring in house watching supply chains being strained right now.