I have auto immune issues, and it seems like the exact nature of the response is different enough that it doesn't affect me as badly. I'm not a biologist but my understanding is that mRNA vaccines bypass a step in the process of creating immunity, so maybe it's that step that is causing me problems.

I explained that in my comment. The only reason the Filipinos are better right now is because Google is spending a lot of extra money to let them put a lot of extra attention into their driving and into training them to drive the cars.

Eventually this is going to need to be profitable and when that happens they're going to start putting more pressure on the employees to do more. So what we're going to see is the lane assist feature will be used in places it's not supposed to be and the Filipinos will be driving two or three or even four cars at the same time jumping between them trying to help the lane assist out and eventually it's going to cause all sorts of wrecks and traffic jams and problems. By then this will all be handed over to subcontractors and sub companies so that Google can wash their hands of the whole thing when the shit hits the fan.

So your life and mine will get worse so that some billionaire or trillionaire can pay even less money. How are you not upset about that?

Is your Google broken?

covid by itself doesn't kill that many people. The risk with covid was that it was going to overwhelm our already strained hospital system and that would kill a shitload of people. But that is way the fuck too complicated to explain to somebody who would vote for a pedophile rapist convicted felon to be president of the United States and expect good things to happen

The American right wing had a absolute conniption fit about trans mice. And money spent on trans mice.

What they were actually talking about is transgenic mice which are mice who have had some Gene edits for use in specific research scenarios.

But somewhere out there is an uncle or an aunt that is absolutely furious that their taxpayer dollars paid for a little boy mouse to wear a dress or something. I don't know I don't listen to those people... I only hear about them because the president of the United States is apparently one of them...

What about all the gay frogs having heart attacks huh? But you didn't think of that. Study it out! Do your own research!

If my car showed me ads I'd return it and get a refund. It's a separate issue.

In my personal experience, for what little that is worth, the traditional AstraZenica vaccine really screwed me up. Badly enough that I couldn't work for a while.

The mRNA COVID vaccines have been fine. Maybe a day or two of feeling off, some shivers the first time. The traditional flu vaccine is much worse.

If they could create a generic flu one that would be great, so they don't have to predict it every year.

It's mandatory on all new cars, but you can disable it yourself if you want to. You are also allowed to replace it with your own system, although I'm not sure why you would want to. The eCall system is heavily regulated, so it only triggers in the event of a serious crash (usually only when the airbags deploy) and then calls the emergency services on speakerphone, as well as sending your location and direction of travel (using GNSS). It works in all EU countries and the UK, and there is no subscription cost.

The cost to the manufacturer is the hardware and some tiny per-vehicle fee to the mobile networks. IoT SIMs start from cents per month for small amounts of data in single quantities, for consumers, so the deal that the manufacturer has is going to be much better.

Sorry to hear you have those issues. I have some auto-immune issues too, though not that bad, and I was really worried during COVID.

Even now I usually get a private COVID and flu vaccination every year. I'm not in any of the categories that get them for free, but aside from the safety they provide, I usually travel over the new year and I don't want to get sick while I'm on holiday.

Darwinism at work.

Not so much a double standard, it's liability. If a human crashes their car, they are responsible. If a robotaxi crashes, the operator is responsible.

The operator will have a fleet of vehicles, so as well as the potential for a large number of very large claims being made against them, if the problem is systemic it might get their whole fleet "grounded" until they can put it right.

Are you talking about Waymo? That's not true at all. Their cars do drive themselves most of the time. They have the ability to call a human when they get into a situation they don't know how to handle, but even then the human doesn't do the driving, it only tells the computer if its plan is acceptable or if it should do something else.

In particular, all the safety stuff is done on the car.

That was Nissan's justification when I asked about it. However my current MG just asked once, and then told me that if anyone else drives it then it's my responsibility to check that they agree to the terms. Maybe MG don't collect as much info so don't need to ask every time.

Chinese cars are better in this regard, e.g. MG's current software lets you set which safety features you want disabled and then save it as a profile. When you start the car they have to be on by law, but you can load your preferences with a couple of taps.

No EULA agreement screen either.