War department is Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth doing their fascist circle-jerk.

What can go wrong?

I wonder if the control room technicians will be allowed bathroom breaks...

Yeah, remote assistance. That's different from the drone pilot driver scenario you alluded to.

Those are both for remote assistance, and neither are "overseas". Uh, nice try?

Right. So, for this to work, each car has to relay several video feeds to a central station, which then route to this "overseas" location. This would add seconds of latency. Then, these "overseas" taxi drivers monitor each car's video feeds simultaneously (maybe with a headset?), and perform steering, acceleration and breaking actions on a mock setup. This control data gets routed back to each individual car, which adds seconds more latency.

Do you really think this is how it works?

Expensive gimmick? Definitely. Appeasement? Who needs appeasement?

...in the hands of a competent, careful and passionate programmer like Linux Torvalds.

What I worry about is when Bob in the junior software dev team, who does his job to put food on the table, and just good enough to keep his job, uses it to vibe-code company data as his day job.

Yes, much of the world is bilingual -- their non-English, native tongue, and... ENGLISH. English is the unifying language; the language of air traffic control; the language of the United Nations; the language of the Internet and programming languages -- it's the language of technology. It's not arrogance to say that it's the language that the remaining and dwindling numbers of non-speakers want to learn. Until some unforeseen hiccup happens, English is the language of the future of planet Earth.

Admittedly, I DO speak some Spanish, along with some Russian and Japanese. But, as technology progresses, as the rest of the world learns English, I grow less and less interested in learning any other language. What's the use?

It [AM radio] needs to be forced as standard equipment.

Why? What good is it for me? I don't speak Spanish.

He would be serving time.

Why hasn't Sam Altman been arrested yet?
Why is OpenAI allowed to continue to operate?
Clearly it's a criminal organization.

Honestly... Since when reshuffling in a company's upper management is of any interest to anybody other than the people working for that individual at that company?

What next? They're gonna replace Bob at accounting because he didn't use AI to format his Excel sheets?

That's great, except if you're looking for a part for a specific car, specific year, trim level, engine, throwing other stuff in front of the user won't make them buy those things - it will just annoy them with useless spam.

It wouldn't be if EBay and Amazon provided Boolean search that actually worked. (Like many websites used to even 10 years ago.)

Stifle away. Strangle innovation in the crib. It's fine - we're fine the way we are.

The Great Recession was awesome in some ways - mass incarceration in the US started to fall and states started to end marijuana policy. Hitting the swine in the pockets made them realize that keeping almost 1% of the population in the jail was too damn expensive.