China has that problem solved. Unfortunately the protectionist and regressive policies of my government forbid me to purchase one.

If you're trusting the edge of that cliff to actually be right at the red line on your camera, you're going over anyway.

More to the point, it doesn't take a $6k computer with access to lock everything in your car behind a paywall just to get a video feed from the back of the car to somewhere on the dash. It takes a $20 camera and a $50 dumb display (and that would in most cases give a significantly higher quality image than the garbage auto manufacturers are using).

There is a reason not to have both - Because there's absolutely no reason volume needs to go anywhere beyond a pot inside the radio. The entire rest of the car doesn't need to know or be able to override the physical position of that pot.

The same is true for virtually all features that don't directly affect the operation of the engine itself (and even most of those!). Even when we're talking about something like power windows or HVAC, the buttons don't need to do anything more than physically bridge the dumb-as-shit DC power bus going to the corresponding motor.

We're building modern cars as a giant ball of points-of-failure glued together with software. Software that can fail, can lag, can ignore us when the manufacturer would prefer we listen to their ads. And that the real "cost" here - Nothing to do with $0.25 knobs and everything to do with locking core features behind a paywall.

Ad-sponsored is fine for "free" services like broadcast TV and mobile games. When I'm paying mid-five-digits to own something, BMW can fuck right off with this rent-seeking!

What's stopping you from conducting better research?

It was also very heavy on the propaganda.

Those old cars didn’t crumple and fared better. The meat sacks inside made of 70% water are a different story.

And there it is in a nutshell. You’re huddled around a burning trash can for warmth while muttering “at least the libs are suffering too”.

Sorry, 38% of people support them, or merely don't hate them passionately enough to commit several felonies destroying them on sight? I find it hard to believe anyone on the correct side of the thin blue line actually wants this garbage.

And that's not even touching on the blatant fourth amendment violation going on, which I don't expect Joe Average to even recognize much less care about. Who wants Uncle Sam or his proxies watching their every move?

Gallant forms a partnership with a preexisting top STEM university, buys them a few new tech toys, and sets up a scholarship to promote people going into field-X.

Goofus forms a partnership with the University of Phoenix, burns two billion on a giant faux-gold plaque of his name, then rants about wokeness when nobody sane enrolls.

Five points if you can spot the difference.

This is something to keep his name in the news because he's mad about not being able to babble at the 9/11 ceremony. https://newrepublic.com/post/2...

Create some new fancy medals for yourself to award people. Just like his hero Kim Jong Un.

Name something that he did that has improved your life or the country?

Are grocery prices cheaper?
Is the cost of living lower?
Is gasoline cheaper?
Are your taxes lower?
Did your wages increase?
Did your taxes decrease?
Are your utility bills cheaper?
Do you have health insurance?
If you have insurance did the costs decrease?

Unless of course if you want to lower the drinking age to 18, then you lose 10% of your highway funding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

What’s stopping the republicans who control all 3 branches?

It's not often I say this, but China definitely has the right idea when it comes to executive liability for corporate misdeeds".

Everyone is misunderstanding the intent behind this. The key phrase in TFA is "unlicensed AI output".

Music charts don't measure popularity, they do their damnedest to create it. From the famous RIAA payola scandal (which very much still happens, it's just structured slightly differently to remain legal) to the latest breakout nepo-baby somehow charting in the top ten despite nobody ever having heard of them the day prior - The various recording industry groups exist to promote their members - who are not the actual artists - and couldn't care less about accuracy.

There's nothing human about "the machine" (now an oddly ironic description) fearing AI generated music because it very much is an existential threat to them. I'm neither a fanboy nor hater of AI, but it won't be long before it doesn't suck and these whores can no longer control the market.