Sam Altman is a fine, upstanding young man with not a hint of deception in his bones. He would never lie, cheat, steal, infringe copyright, engage in corporate espionage, abuse his sister, lie to the board, or anything remotely unethical. When Aaron Schwartz said that Sam Altman couldn't be trusted, of course he was being sarcastic.

You do have to take a written driving test though, which covers things like this.

Of course, an LLM could pass the written test, but you'd want to have a way to ensure that the things written in the driver's manual are things that the self-driving car can handle.

Here is Waymo's explanation of what's going on with their remote driving.

That sounds amazing, but it's still in the future.

"Education is wasted on the young."

Construction zones and first responders are not an edge case, they are a well-known case. Also, stopping for school busses.

This isn't an edge case that no one has thought of.

If you turn your brain on, you can think of other solutions. Something like, "have a safety driver."

Wow, based on this comment, you would have gotten an A in the first half of his class.

The camera feed is fake.

You didn't hear anything over the woooooooshing sound made repeatedly by the many number of times I spammed the word American and the obvious signoff at the end of the post ensuring that even the silliest person would understand that my post was sarcastic.

What went wrong when you tried to read my post?

Cigarettes are heavily regulated and taxed. We could only dream of a world where Facebook is as heavily regulated as cigarettes. Let's apply this shall we?
- Cigarettes are banned for minors, we should ban minors from Facebook.
- Cigarettes are subject to huge taxes in a great part to disincentivise smoking. We should make Facebook pay per use.
- Cigarettes are banned from marketing in many places. We should ban Meta from placing any adds on Facebook.
- Cigarettes are banned from having flavours which make them even more addictive or pleasant. We should ban Meta from optimising their algorithm to make it addictive.
- Cigarette manufactures are required to provide detailed ingredients lists on request. We should force Meta (and all tech companies) to open source their algorithms so we can see how they are pushing rubbish.
- Cigarettes in many European countries are not allowed to be displayed publicly for sale nor sold in supermarkets. We should force Meta to not automatically auto-play or infinite scroll (oh wait that's what we're doing now).

oh ...

Many countries ban the sale of cigarettes via the internet ... can ... we ... ban Facebook from... please?

Believe? My friend you don't need to believe, Meta admitted it in 2018 when they got dragged in front of various governments to explain their site and the cambridge analytical scandal.

The "scapegoat" literally employed people from the gambling industry in an attempt to make their product as addictive to possible to the sheep, and openly admitted doing so under oath in front of congress.

Let's not blame the "scapegoat". Let's outright slaughter it and grill it, and then wear it's coat as a warning to others. That's what the "scapegoat" deserves.

Literally no one is extending authority over your citizens. They are exercising the authority to regulate how companies work with *their* citizens. Meta already geofence their products so they behave differently in different regions. All tech companies do.

The gambling addict says the dopamine hit he gets from winning a hand while being down thousands of dollars is really convenient to keep him going so that he will strike lucky, just like he feels. Only people with bugs up their ass would regulate addictive behaviour or substances. /s

At no point of a driving test do you break laws to make space for emergency vehicles. Robo taxi companies would have absolutely zero problem passing the standard driving test, and do so without making the errors that are permitted.

Even in Germany where driving tests are hard this isn't a component of it.

Have you even taken a driving test? There's a reason the roads are full of abject morons.

While that is true in general it does rely on the idea of emergency services working with you as well in some situations. Take the mobile phone situation. It's already done. The concept of interoperability is baked into standards on a protocol level. As a critical feature it is utterly trivial to implement. On the flip side working with emergency services on the road is probably the single most complex coding task you know. The premise is literally: "Forget every law you know, carefully anticipate movements of vehicles and predict how people act, and try to make space while actively doing things that could damage your car including potentially mounting curbs, driving into intersections on red, and adapt to the situation when you made the wrong call (such as moving the shoulder when the ambulance thinks the shoulder is the fastest way to go, and get your arse back in the middle of the road).

The most complex thing an emergency service call needs to do on a phone is send a pre-defined signal that would allow it to connect even if it were registered on a network that it isn't subscribed to make calls on, literally implement the standard.

As for the emergency services working with you part, the idea that waymo doesn't know where emergency services are in the first place is a core problem. I run an app on my phone (not in America) that tells me where emergency services vehicles are relative to me while giving me directions. It often beeps to tell me there's an ambulance coming long before I can see lights or hear a siren, so by the time they are in sight I've already made space.

Problem like this need to be solved together. Otherwise from a coding and design point of view this one edge case literally does more than double the design complexity.