Zoox doesn't have a steering wheel or pedals. You do not have control of it (except for the emergency red stop button).

Right now, Zoox can not even deviate from a hardcoded preprogrammed route, so it's a long ways to be true self-driving either.

Notice how the routes it does in San Francisco or in Vegas are always the same circuits.

Getting a DUI on it wouldn't make any sense.

You're thinking too small.

If we can do this with a plane, we can do this with a continuous giant ski lift (or a sky lift).

You're not wrong, but you should know that Copilot is behind the foundational models.

And using Copilot as a benchmark for anything isn't an accurate representation of what's possible right now.

You're getting confused.

Llama does not claim to be open source. It only claims to be open weights.

Tesla was the first one to run out of EV tax credits. That's because Tesla is the biggest EV car manufacturer in the US market and those tax credits are capped based on the number of units sold. In other words, those tax credits were mostly helping his smaller competitors, not Tesla.

As to the rest of his antics, I can't really explain them either.

Even Google ignores the robots.txt. They made that decision after the California DMV (Department of Motor Vehicle) blocked them with their robots.txt

And frankly, I can't blame Google.

If you don't want your content to be accessed by everyone, don't put it up on the public internet.

Badly written bots are a separate issue.

Yes, this was decided after the California DMV decided to use their robots.tx not to have their site indexed.

Google's reasoning was that it would become a pretty bad search engine if it didn't couldn't index the DMV site.

The legal firm is a fucking paid shill and fixer. Their rationalization about the buffering of the video doesn't make any sense. And even if you could believe their excuse for the press conference, it doesn't explain why Cruise lied to the authorities also.

"lambasted" is not the word I'd use.

Any four-year-old would understand that the law firm completely lied about what happened during the press conference.

You're right. I may have jumped the gun in my outrage. But why not say so, and why not reschedule a second press conference where the real video is shown (but not given to the reporters).

And why wasn't the video leaked/published yet anyhow? Dozens of Unions, citizen's organizations, and tabloids are probably suing right now to get a copy of everything. If anyone in authority has ever been shown everything, mark my words, they're on the GM/Cruise payroll. Those cars were driving on our public streets unsupervised (and they're starting again in Arizona). We have every right to see what happened.

Also, guess who is a major sponsor of NPR?

That's right. GM/Chevrolet (main financial backer of Cruise) sponsors NPR.

https://www.npr.org/sponsor-co...

No wonder most of the story has been scrubbed and watered down.

Do you work for Cruise? What do you think this means?

"Cruise, which owns a fleet of robotaxis in San Francisco, then failed to adequately inform regulators of the self-driving vehicle's full role in the incident."

I'll admit, that part has already been scrubbed from the NPR article (even the original audio is no longer playable!!)

Here are the edits:

https://wayback-api.archive.or...

Please back up the edits (take screenshots and download all the versions) before even the version history gets scrubbed. It's very easy for NPR to do that, they just need to change their robots.txt/sitemap.xml and the way back machine will respect it.

Also, if anyone can find the original audio version (because I can't find it), please make copies of it as well.
 

You didn't click on the NPR link/podcast I provided.

The car not moving, and the woman being stuck under the car, that was part of the original narrative given at the initial press conference.

Later, it was found that the car had stopped, yes, but that it started moving again, so it could pull over to the side of the road, and it dragged the woman under its chassis another 20 feet. Again, it's in the NPR article/podcast I already provided the link to. Please just read it or listen to it. Do not simply take my word for it.

Also, it should be noted that only the GM/Cruise robot cars have been suspended in California.

The Google/Waymo robot cars are still criss-crossing San Francisco just fine (without a safety driver) and they're still picking up passengers.

May be the original human driver of the other car was suspended. Who knows.

But in the case of Cruise, not only they lied in their press conference by only showing the first part of the video, but to this day, they refuse to share the video with authorities showing the robot car restarting to drive again while the woman was still under its chassis.

Normally, refusing to share evidence with the authorities would be considered obstruction of justice and somebody would be jailed for it, but apparently, General Motors (the backer of Cruise) must have contributed enough money to all the right politicians, because no arrest have been made yet and it's been more than 3 months already.

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/25...

It's not just a question of diversification.

With enough AI, you can control civil unrest at scale. You can listen to what people are saying in private conversations. You can punish people before they get a chance to organize and form a critical mass. AI is every dictator's wet dream!

Stupid extremists can be found on both sides.

The only difference is that Republicans elect their extremists to power.