"US vehicles have been heavily subsidized and favorably regulated by the US government to win market share in the US markets long dominated by other countries.

Just like everything else from the US, it's meant to kill small manufacturers and make the world reliant on a small handful of corporations and subject to the whims of the US Government.

It's not in the interest of anyone living outside or inside of the USA to buy these cars. The US government doesn't care about you. The US carmakers don't care about you. They don't care about making a good product. They only want your money. The US government and US large corporations are perfectly happy to lie, cheat, steal, and fuck over you to make money, obtain, and hold power."

Fixed that for you.

Maybe he should've asked ChatGPT how to set up bets to not be so obvious.

Seriously, opening 13 new wallets and immediately placing one massive winning bet on each is asking to be investigated.

So the government's claim is that they can order you to design something that kills people, and if you refuse then your company will have all your government contracts to any branch cancelled.

This is like going to the company that makes the plates for several large government building's cafeterias, including the Pentagon, demanding they make guns now, and removing their plates from everywhere including the Department of Education's cafeteria if they refuse.

Sounds like a great environment for business deals. What company wouldn't like those terms?

Yes he replied and clarified you were wrong in your assumption that he only needed 2 point to point.

It's amazing how far you go to defend being wrong.

That would be a good excuse only if you completely ignored the first 5 words of his post:

What you assumed was unreasonable because you either didn't read the entire sentence or it was above your reading level. Either way, you still made unwarranted and incorrect assumptions.

You are assuming that was the only thing he needed a mesh router for, which is not the only or most likely possibility. Your assumptions are getting in the way of reality. Both were not warranted, and I would never have assumed either point.

You are assuming he only needed 2. That was never mentioned in the post you responded to.

TP Link has many different mesh routers, at least one model (AX3000) you can get 12 mesh APs for $500.

You really just publicly equated "Shut down specific airspace where a person is actively firing a laser weapon" with "Shut down all airspace everywhere because something similar might happen".

Thanks for confirming there is no lower bound on stupidity.

Do you not understand that there is no bottom limit on human stupidity?

A person stupid enough to not only mistake a mylar balloon for a drone, but also decide that this particular drone needs to be shot down right now using a new laser weapon in a public airspace over a US city, regardless of consequences, is most likely stupid enough to make larger mistakes.

Are you seriously that naive?

I'm pretty sure if you used Spotify level money to have your own AI cluster trained on your own code, it would have been a much different experience.

The rest of us won't get similar results.

I didn't even realize that High Fructose Corn syrup was a Super Pollutant.

Which is exactly what the Waymo did. it had slowed down to 17mph before detecting the child and hitting the brakes. 17mph is an entirely reasonable speed for the exact situation you describe. It's 8mph lower than the school speed limit. I would be shocked if that's not well under the average speed of human drivers in that same time and place.

At some point, you need to acknowledge that things that are out of sight are actually not visible to the car, regardless of who is in it. A very short period of visibility does mean there are situations where it is impossible to stop even from slow speeds.

I have no idea why people here think that despite being around for 15 years and offering public rides for over 5 years, that somehow the Driver's Education course textbook example of a child darting out from between parked cars near a school never occurred to Waymo's engineers.

In you attempt to state what a theoretical human driver might ideally do, you described exactly what the Waymo did. It slowed down to 17mph, under the speed limit, in the situation. 17 mph is not fast. 17 mph is right in the range I would deem appropriate. It's 8 mph lower that the School speed limit where I lived in all the cities I've lived in the US. The lowest school speed limit on a public road I've seen is 15mph.

Every Waymo does this, and far, far less than half of human drivers would, most would be speeding and probably 1-5% would be going at least twice the speed limit.

So, in your opinion, 17mph is recklessly fast to drive while passing parked cars. What would you think it an appropriate speed? 10? 5? 1?

I would actually like transportation to work on reasonable time scales, so I don't think your viewpoint is the least bit rational or sane. It is no different than "you might trip if you walk, so walking is recklessly dangerous." At some point, you need to take into account factors other than maximum safety.

You do realize that parked cars are on most streets in every city? You do realize how massively your speed limits would increase travel times for everyone on the roads? You do realize that many more people will die on their way to the hospitals in a year because of this than would ever be "saved" by the lower limits?

Sorry, I was reading this while scrolling, all I got was "Want multiple viewers on their phones, Matt Damon says."