Actually way more impressed with Gemma 3, which is from the same people and downloadable. They have versions that will run on your home PC. But honestly, all of them spew bullshit.

Don't worry, they are not sitting on any secrets that give Gemini a competitive edge, because it suuuuuuuucks.

I share the assessment contained in your comment, but isn't this in fact a reasonable prediction? They're definitely not going to want to admit fault, as they want to sell these systems. The corporation also has a history of blaming users.

Spending all that money on advertising surely does something, and they track where the applications come from pretty closely so they do know when and where it's working, but they also send just a total shitstorm of ads to the same people which is surely unnnecessary. I applied for a Capital One Visa because there was a referral deal, but I didn't qualify and didn't want their consolation deal. They then sent me an expensive glossy ad packet about every week for two months, and followed that up with another couple monthly ads after that. I've already been turned down for the deal they're "offering" me with their ads, and repeated applications would affect my credit rating, so there's no fucking way I'm going to apply again. That advertising money spent was obviously wasted, and the customers have to pay for it somehow.

I have a CC from my CU, and even there the rate is vaguely starting to approach something reasonable only after my first limit increase.

One answer to this is that the AEB system should be a separate system from the self-driving system, and it should win. And if someone stacks you from behind because they were following too closely, that's why you have rear crumple zones.

We have to get to the point where we no longer expect to drive unsafely because our transportation systems are bullshit and we otherwise won't all fit on the road, because that's what's causing the accidents which aren't caused by serious drug use or medical emergency. (The former problem is hard to solve, the latter could be solved with more sensors.)

Practically never. Also, the exams are pathetic, and so are the driving tests. Only commercial drivers have anything like a reasonable requirement. In fact there are parts of it which are excessive, like having to pass a drug test including cannabis. By all means, test drivers while they are driving, but not permitting them weed practically guarantees they'll be using something that leaves the system quicker and is also more dangerous.

Anyway here in the USA you can drive most vehicles you'll be interested in on your basic license, which is easy to get and easier to keep, and the results aren't great.

The whole point of having a car "drive itself" is that you aren't doing it.

Expecting someone to go from not doing it at all to doing it at full highway speed immediately is bananas.

The correct action is usually lean back and nail the brakes, and let ABS and crumple zones do what they will. In "a few seconds" the vehicle could ostensibly have done that for them and the outcome would have been better. The vehicle could have reduced speed more than that in three seconds, if it chose to do that instead of shutting off and leaving the human in charge.

The majority of US households are not making ends meet, and you want them to make them meet by even less?

Yes, please do tell me all about my life.

I've been looking. There's nothing available. I cannot currently afford to relocate to another town, either. Maybe if the apparently impending housing crash occurs, though, and wipes out all these airbnb fuckfaces.

Good thing your experience can be extrapolated to everyone else... wait, it cannot.

As I cannot charge on-street, and I cannot charge off-street, and I cannot charge at work, and I cannot charge at work, and I cannot reasonably take the bus, I have no other choice. And as this situation was deliberately created by a conspiracy of oil, car, rubber, and other industrial corporations, I don't feel particularly guilty about it. As long as you various ass clowns are in denial about it, there's nothing to be done anyway.

Everything is related to politics, and our economic system which was designed to transfer wealth upwards. The nation was designed by landed white men who wanted to preserve their privilege; mission accomplished.

And of the remainer, a significant portion have no off-street parking, or it's in use as storage (like garages in cities.)

You can accomplish that by building an electric go-kart. 70 MPH is not even hard. The challenge, as you pointed out, is making one that can meet all the challenges of a modern vehicle. Most people expect a certain level of comfort and safety that these simply do not offer. Also, I've kind of harped on this but, it's terrible to have three wheels. Besides the pothole dodging problem, they are very bad dynamically if any of the three go flat, and they are very bad in wet conditions.

Yes, covering parking spaces is some of the lowest hanging fruit in solar power. It has been done successfully many, many times. It's hard to understand why it's not being done more.

Not just that — only the gas appliances should make fire.

It will have been B followed by A, and even A was produced with a lot of leading questions.

Someone in either management or marketing will have conceived of it as a way to justify their existence. Studies will have been done including focus groups, asking people if they would buy these products, but also in way which makes them feel stupid if they say no.