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Comment Re: Search for a traffic jam (Score 2) 59

Imagine Waymo vehicles and a row of 10 1hr streetside parking spaces. If a space becomes available, a Waymo takes it for 55 minutes. At the 55th minute, a Waymo arrives and waits while the parked Waymo vacates the space, it then takes the space for 55 minutes. Now imagine that ever time a non-Waymo car vacates a spot, a Waymo car appears to take it. Once all ten spaces are filled with Waymo cars, every 55 minutes, the lead Waymo leaves, the remaining 9 pull forward one space, and an 11th Waymo takes the 10th space.

It would be better if parking garage owners give Waymoa reduced rate for N spaces. Reduced because they won't be doing burnouts, throwing trash on the ground, pissing in the stairwells, or vandalizing other vehicles.

On the other hand, at least until there are cameras monitoring every parking space, Waymo could simply track every police car and parking enforcement vehicle and overstay until one arrives.

Comment Re:Search for a traffic jam (Score 3, Interesting) 59

And if its a downhill grade, that's even better because you can be in regen-braking the entire time.
Or they can drive to the nearest accident, get in line, and just wait.
Or they can, with an appropriate license, use taxi ranks at LAX, restaurants, and hotels.

What the author missed is that Waymo knows where every parking space is, and which ones are empty. They know when you pulled into a 1-hour space, and with the right integration, they can know when you leave the building and start back to your car.

Comment Re:Automatic reaction... (Score 2) 111

To automatic tipping, is not to Karen out and cause a scene. I pay the 10% (Usually tipping 20-25% on average as my mother was a bartender and waitress my entire life), then I walk out and never come back. It's equally "Automatic" ;-D

If the tip is automatic, that's all you're going to get from me. It'll be less than I would have tipped, but you choose.

Comment Not good enough. (Score 1) 79

I think they need to release the Firefox with no 'AI' whatsoever, and separate version, based on the most recent LTS version of Firefox, perhaps called Firefox+AI with the full 'AI' feature set available. In this new Firefox+AI browser, they need to enforce a requirement that every available option must have a corresponding menu toggle available to enable, disable, or otherwise limit it, or the option doesn't get merged. I don't think its necessary for the Firefox team to back-port all of the new configuration settings, but the FirefoxAI team are going to be required to create them regardless...prior to the initial release of Firefox+AI.

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