The headline is editorialized. The original text in the earnings report was "busier than over 99% of all drivers in Austin in terms of completed trips per day". Now I'm wondering about the 1% of human drivers that could outlast a 24 hour shift Waymo.

Thatâ(TM)s a Shetty thing to do.

The death rate is only part of the picture. It is a lagging indicator, meaning it reflects virus spread from a couple of weeks ago. The new cases rate spiking up in the last week or two will mean that the death rate will also increase in a couple weeks, once the current new cases have a chance to progress.

Already been done: https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars...

Statement from hothardware.com looks correct; parent post is mistaken:

"It made more business sense to design a quad-core architecture where one of the cores could be turned off versus a discrete tri-core product design, Brewer said."

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2184275,00.asp

"Essentially, the Phenom triple-core processors are quad-core variants with one core disabled. This allows AMD to simply disable one core on quad-core dies for maximum use of a single wafer. "

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=8916