Indeed. In fact, activist shareholders forced the board to stop spending on R&D, and to return money to the shareholders as dividends, or stock buybacks, and that "religion" was the driver of the demise. Lina Kahn is a convenient scapegoat, but the trajectory was initiated long before when engineering was de-emphasized.

Matt Stoller in his Big newlsetter does a yeoman's job of laying out what really happened, and Amazon wanted it to increase the surveillance footprint of its Sidewalk ecosystem. How Wall Street Ruimned the Roomba and Then Blamed Lina Kahn

Indeed. And if you believe that they aren't using your prompts to tune/train on EVEN IF YOU PAY AND SELECT PRIVATE you are a fool. I trust them even less than I trust Google to not scan my email to offer ads. This is why I canceled my Google Apps service amd moved to Protonmail

That will cover like three Starships falling out of the sky?

Bingo. This reeks of excuses for the poor performance of their newest "model".

Uh, that would be a hard pass.

Slow Clap

well played!

Waymo is geofenced, and they do deep detailed mapping of a city before they begin operations, and they still have banks of people monitoring (and aiding) the driving performance in near real time. It is good, but as you mention, it is still not good enough.

My colleague at work has a 2023 vintage Model 3, and he has had three promo months of FSD.

Last week, we drove to lunch and he wanted to show off how much better it has become. We drove 0.8 miles, North San Jose, and it required him to grab the wheel 3 times, and once it was trying to drive onto the light rail tracks. Returning to the office, I got him to just drive manually.

I am not bullish on Tesla's FSD ever actually working.

The Youtube account Driver61 has a video about modern F1 gearboxes, and essentially the clutch is used to start, and in the pits, but on the track it is air shifters and momentary throttle automated tweaks to slide between gears.

And they are VERY fast at shifting. Us mere mortals wouldn't get that, because in a daily driver, the transmission would be destroyed, but for a race car that has a finite time between major wrenching, it is fine. Also, apparently the clutch springs are super strong, and us mere mortals would struggle to use it when you have to stop at a light for instance.