... Florida does not have a problem with invasive Python scripts.

As a software developer in Florida, I can tell you that Python scripts are definitely invasive. Twenty years ago, there were practically none, and now they are all over the place! They gobble up precious white space and unused braces just fall from the brace trees to rot, uneaten. They've driven cute, innocent Perl and shell scripts almost to extinction! It's quite a problem almost no one is talking about...

Except for the whole problem that all of the major cities are half an hour to an hour away from I-5 one way or the other. It's not just Fresno up there. I-5 is a whole lot of nothing, so you'd be building a train that basically only serves the endpoints of the line. Not that this is a bad idea in principle, but it wasn't what they wanted to build.

On the other hand, if they had NOBODY's information, it might really level the playing field.

But the problem I have with them is the way they mash information together with little to no concern for it's accuracy.

This seems like a very expensive approach because of the need for human intervention.

I think it might better to allow the snake to swallow it, and design it to recognize when it is inside a snake, and deploy a buzz saw and cut its way back out to kill again. As long as you make sure it emits noise that would scare away any toddlers, speaks a warning message for their parents, and waits until it has been thoroughly ingested for ten minutes or so before cutting its way out, assuming an adequate power supply, such a device could potentially stay in the field for days or weeks at a time, killing snake after snake without mercy.

New corporate speak. Customer = stalking victim.

They didn't know what they were talking about, they lied about their powers of prognostication, or both.

Self-driving cars may one day obsolete human drivers, I even believe that they potentially could in my lifetime. But I don't think it will happen soon, and I don't think it's a particularly worthwhile goal either. Instead we should eliminate most of the need to drive, and get down to lighter vehicles (think SxS or NEV) for most of the remaining (rural, recreational, emergency) use. We could delete a lot of highway lanes and run rail up the center of those rights of way, and keep the rest for local trucking.

I streamed Snowrunner over 1GbE from my 5900X/4060Ti 16GB desktop to my 3250U MiniPC using Steam (both run Linux) and I found the visual quality to be much poorer than running locally. Will 2.5GbE make it any better?

Cars can function if you have shitloads of road, there's no reason why car-sized vehicles can't work if you make the track a lot cheaper. The Vegas loop doesn't work because it uses shitty cars on tires on roads in tunnels. Morgantown PRT has too-expensive track requirements that you can't conveniently mix with other forms of transport.

I've often said that we've had the tech for self steering since the 1800s, and that really reduces the tech needed for self driving, as you have pointed out here.

I still will go ahead and spend my karma pointing out (as I have done previously) that we could be building PRT on an ultralight rail to make use of these technologies on a scale similar to existing automobiles, and even keeping the automobile companies in the loop on it, but big oil won't have it because it makes it easy to cut out the fossil fuels and also the tires, which are mostly made from oil as well. You can have all the same advantages of cars, plus some, and also have most of the advantages of trains. But no, everyone wants the illusion of freedom (that evaporates immediately as soon as the road is damaged by weather or a landslide, or clogged by a pileup.)

A citation and logic. Both are pretty neato in my book.

What do you have besides insults and appeals to authority which don't even come with the identities of the supposed authorities?

I googled "stellantis level 2 driver assistance reads road signs -stla" (I added that last on there to avoid getting a shitload of stories about the cancellation this story is about) and the top result is about the Jeep Compass and how it can read road signs. Learn to internet, bro.

Why do you think the cars you've driven are relevant?

Because speed limits can be changed faster than the database gets updated.

You fell for the demo?

They only even claimed it worked up to 37 mph, and further only claimed it would work up to 59 mph. Nobody had to place this condition on them, they placed it.

There is essentially unlimited demand for this technology when it works.

There is no demand for the technology if it does not work.

What they are telling us is that it does not work.

Given that it's Stellantis, it comes as even less than no surprise.

All product makers oppose that, because it would be sales suicide when found out, and because it would also make the device less secure and that's a point of competition.

But on the flip side, if any of them were required to do it, it could be illegal for them to tell us about it. So Apple and Google and anyone else too could actually be doing it while shouting about how it's a bad idea, and we wouldn't be allowed to know.

Bullshit. Do they not have Google on your planet?