Spectacularly?

Footage posted by TikTok user @brahmsstan and obtained by Storyful shows several Waymo vehicles stalled at an intersection in the Mission District neighborhood.

While the Waymo Driver is designed to treat non-functional signals as four-way stops, the sheer scale of the outage led to instances where vehicles remained stationary longer than usual to confirm the state of the affected intersections. This contributed to traffic friction during the height of the congestion.

I dunno man. Even a single traffic signal going out will cause a backup in that intersection even with no self-driving cars, because a 4-way stopsign follows round-robin rules, and the throughput of that is simply much less than a timed traffic signal (which is why they were invented).

I'm not saying Waymo did as well as human drivers would have, but it's kind of hard to tell. Nothing obviously bad happened like the cars losing communications with HQ and going crazy or bricking in the roadway.

OK, but the gas tax was also a tax, and you can raise exactly the same complaints with how it was sometimes spent

https://reason.org/policy-brie...

I also don't think renting out privately-owned cars will take off anytime soon. For now, the self-driving cars that actually work require expensive commercial-grade sensor packages (unlike camera-only Tesla FSD) and secondly they still need a human overseer for every N cars out on the road, which implies you have a pool of trained and available people on staff.

Installing these must be seriously complicated, touching or controlling all the main operations of the plane.

Well it's not like the predictive power of a physical exam is all that great. So you might be looking at a big impact on your lifestyle or career based on a false or small increase in risk (you tell yourself).

I know in military aviation there are games people play to avoid getting kicked off the flight line.

or to the point, the King Air 200's certification does not require a copilot. Pilot incapacitated, you're hosed. I guess it makes sense this technology would start near the upper end of single-pilot aircraft.

Sure, like people crave sugar. But change the balance of nutrients and you change the body composition.

Sure, mankind isn't going extinct over this. But nature operates in a very brutish manner. If I can avoid health problems by popping a multivitamin or something, I want to know that.

I can't imagine much of a solution beyond just making it giggle and say, "that's too grown up for me!" to most questions. Having a plush toy take on questions like "is capitalism good?" or "is Trump a grifter?" is just doomed from the start.

To that end, I wonder if there is (or ought to be) a different word for when everybody is in on the joke. Or is that just 'meme stock?' Nobody is buying these particular stocks in the hopes of future dividends justifying the purchase price. Whereas in bubbles like Worldcom, or early Railroads, they did. Then there's Tesla which seems to be some of both.

It surprises me is that there is much real tension between basic research and application development two exists in Meta. For any normal company, sure. But this is a company that spent over $70 billion dollars on VR that nobody ever wanted. And they can't fund both AI research and, separately, application development?

Pulling repeated hardware platform switches underneath without bothering customers too much is a thing that only a very competent company could do, and Apple is a very competent company.

Apple nowadays is bound to avoid any huge missteps, because it has become a very conservative company.

Granted they blew some on the Vision Pro, but not much, for them. They folded on the electric car project, which now seems like a shame as Tesla is vulnerable.

What revolutionary product has Apple launched since Steve Jobs died? It has been 14 years, and I'm still waiting.

As to VisiCalk being the real OG that started from nothing, there's an interesting comment on a VisiCalc youtube:

In 1969, we had to develop the world's true first electronic spreadsheet (LANPAR) within the limitation of 32k of memory - and we included forward referencing which didn't appear in Visicalc, TKSolver, Supercalc or even Multiplan I. Only in Lotus 13 years later. We even included the ability for sophisticated logic calculations, access to external data base data, and input of data in real time. Timesharing in those days was very similar to "cloud" computing now, except that you knew exactly which remote computer was doing the processing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Also at that scale who knows how much they are paying for each seat, I'm sure it's a bespoke deal. No doubt MS is making money, but I wouldn't just take the retail price and multiply it by 2 million.