It's gotten 2,415 times smarter since then.

I've taken them a few times. They've been great. No one in the car, no driver to have to tip, drives perfectly normally if sort of circuitously. The only issue I had was when it didn't want to pass a little girl on a bike in a line-separated bike line, who was wobbling along - it kept pace behind her until I guess the space available widened enough that it felt ok about passing - much wider than I would have done.
I dislike Google's actions and influence extremely so I'm not sure how to feel about this in general, but the tech is really nice.

They give away Prime for a month sometimes, or have it for $2 for a month when you order something and you get free shipping.But you aren't getting much - the 2-day shipping is chancy, prices are almost never better, and not having Prime does curb impulse buying.

Solar panel pricing has gotten ridiculous too though

You say that but renewables are a big, big share of generation on the ERCOT grid. https://www.ercot.com/gridmkti... You see the fossil plants take over at night, but during the days solar and wind shoot wayyyy up - I think I remember 60 or 70%. Wind is big business here.

With prices like that it seems solar would pay off pretty quickly, at least here where there's a lot of sun.

https://austinenergy.com/rates...
Ranges from 4 to 7 c/kwh depending on tier here, BUT there are fees and things. So it may be unequal comparisons.

I don't use Windows

Or Lennart Poettering

sigh.....*are* quite common. Interrupted mid-sentence and continued wrongly.

When you say "virtually no teaching", what do you mean? No professors, just teaching assistants? or none at all? If none at all, what did he do? Classes taught by teaching assistants is quite common in the US, even at well-regarded flagship research universities, and especially in the larger lower-level classes. More specialized higher-year classes usually have at least graduate students teaching them, and usually lecturers/professors.

Forget Reddit. Use Lemmy.

Isn't Apple Intelligence already doing this?

I realize I am mistaken, that Turo is the corporate involvement, and retract my statement. :)

I will argue with one point - people do in fact rent cars directly from their individual owners, e.g. Turo which appears to be a booming business.