Not enough competition. Macs are too expensive and Linux still doesn't come pre-installed on many systems and there are way too many desktops. That might be great for us geeks but Mr and Mrs Average just want a consistent and intuitive (hello Gnome devs, anyone listening?) desktop experience.

The money men are the only ones who want this shit.

Better not drive near any normal cctv cameras or ring doorbells then without covering your plates first.

The whole point of plates IS to identify a vehicle and where and when it was. Whether thats done by eye or by machine doesn't make a huge amount of difference so long as in the latter case the data isn't stored if the plate isn't flagged in some way.

Visiting the US and canada I always felt their plates were fairly useless even for human eyes never mind AI beyond a fairly snort distance. The characters are too small and the varying colours and designs of the plates doesn't help either.

Unfortunately the word "life" is a rather catch all term for what in reality is a range of processes and "what is life" is more a venn diagram than a hard definition. Maybe life requires A, B, C or B,C,D or A,D,E but doesn't need all of them at any one time to consider "alive".

A chemical system that can reproduce via a stored code and copy that code is the hard part of life , wrapping it inside some sort of bubble its probably relatively simple, and given how small cells are and how large the earth is I wouldn't be surprised if once genetics got going it happened multiple times but only 2 lineages made it through.

9 years is an eternity in car tech. I doubt it even has digital instruments.

Turning it off isnt the problem. Stopping it switching on every time i start the car is.

Yours is probably an older model with a proper radio, not just an app built into the ice.

Thank god europe is a whole different world to the US where you don't have to get out a credit card before someone hauls you into an ambulance.

"you have to pay for those emergency system"

Not in europe, they come free with the car plus they trigger in a serious accident where you might be unconcious when phoning the emergency yourself isn't an option.

The radio always switching on at startup is a real bugbear of mine in my mazda too. I just don't understand why they do it , it would be so easy for the system to remember the state at shutdown and leave it there , but no, switch on each feckin time. FFS.

Unfortunately doing that will also break the built in breakdown/emergency services auto call system if you have a crash not to mention you won't get any further software updates.

You're shilling. My experience of AI in the last few months is it makes cretinous assumptions, doesn't understand the overall concept and its code is often no better than that written by a student. Also I never suggested just sitting down and writing code but there gets to a point where architecture design gets so detailed its more or less at the code level anyway at which point you might as well start writing code. I've seen far too much pseudo code and UML that is less clear than if it had been written in a real language.