Not a generational problem ?
Helicopter parents weren't a thing when I was young. We were the free range hose water generation. We walked miles to school. Sadly a bunch of us vanished, but we didn't notice at the time.
Maybe he lives somewhere where it's not required?...Are you asking me ? I know where the "kid" lives. For the sake of your point it is South Bay, think San Jose, and a car is very necessary. His apathy with a drivers license stems from the fact that he has a parent who arranges his every interaction. He has never been forced to rely on himself for, well anything.
What part of highschool was freedom?..." The part I was talking about....Getting your Drivers license so you could GO PLACES.
  I've been corrected in that minors can't drive together ...^@%$@%@#. Every morning I picked up nearly a dozen friends in my parents old Dodge Caravan on my way to school. We called it the starship intercourse....
  I guess I'm back to my point. I don't have a clue about the young gen what-evers born in the 2010's. The world they are growing up in is a very different and frankly hostile place.

it will be a subscription thing. You know what they say...if you are not paying, you ARE the product.

I love my nephew, he is smart, funny and has zero drive. His helicopter mother rarely lets him make any decisions. When he stays with me he expects me to have a detailed plan of what he should do in 15 min intervals. Luckily for me his mother provides just such a plan. When faced with any deviation from the plan he goes into panic mode. I think back to my childhood...tossed from the house and told to be back when the streetlights came on. We biked miles to BART and were in SF China Town getting fireworks. This kid sees no benefit in getting his drivers license. That was the high point of high school...FREEDOM. I no longer have any real idea what motivates kids today.
I guess I can start working on the lawn now...sigh

This is Grifting at its best. It will decades if ever we get rid of the "new" carpetbaggers that have ridden on the coat-tails of Trumplstiltskin.

All your jets are belong to US !!!!

Gurgle sucks so bad at advertising and naming. No pictures of the fold and the other look like...*gasp* a Pixel phone. I'm not in the market for 1 but that's some bad hat Harry.

Do you get to verbally abuse your opponents, err I mean passengers like they do on the net games ?

The security guards on my site will all wear a yellow sash that points out they are wearing Gurgle Glasses. Security guards are in place for insurance purposes only. Their admitted value is being witness or maybe helping give birth or CPR.

what is really sad is that the "AI" slop is no worse than the "engineered" Slop the "Labels" put out. The big labels are worried that once we see how little value out side public venue access they provide it will be their end...

I'd moderate you as the "funniest" in thread if I hadn't already posted....

*wipes tears away...thanks for the belly laugh.

I'm hoping Gemini is a better AI than it is a personal assistant. The standard Gurgle PA does well within its' world. Gemini SUCKS at everything that doesn't involve artistic visualization, and we all know that is just ripping of the "actual" creator.

Do you wanna guess how many of those "new" Gemini installations were by a previous Gemini installation ? Seems like a great marketing propagation strategy.

Heh, I got a site wide ban on Reddit this weekend. On a story about an American company with ties to Trump, illegally in Greenland with a bunch of drilling equipment that they've been expressly told they do not have authority to use.

Someone posted that they should be arrested. I replied that we've already set the precedent that they're in the country illegally, working illegally, so they should be arrested and then deported to El Salvador.

Some AI decided that I was promoting hate speech, and I got banned.

I thought they required you to create a new account every time you log in.

Though that may have been 20 years ago. Last time I saw a reason to go there.

A US Honda Ridgeline beeps incessantly. When the system detects road lines, when it loses road lines, when it detects a car in front, when it loses the car in front. There are times when it beeps and I have no idea why...