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> And given that in Austin they just reached parity with Waymo (i.e. completely unsupervised robotaxi service), they are not doing badly.

Parity is not defined by how willing one is to let their robots kill the general public.


This is purely anecdotal but I've heard from other riders that the car tells you when it's happening, and it's never happened in my 10+ rides so far.

Yes, the display will chime and indicate "We're working to help you get moving again" and "Sit tight and keep your seatbelt fastened." Support may call in if necessary. Or if you've reached out to Support, they'll explain that they're going to send a command to the vehicle or modify the route.

It's not unusual and it's quite a routine mode. It will happen if there's a jam in front of you, like a parking lot or narrow passage. Twice, we were behind a marked police car that was sort of double-parked. You'll know Support is imminent when the car is hesitating, and the virtual reality may indicate multiple-choice paths.

It happened to me once today at a "valet parking" stand, in a very busy drop-off circle. (I traveled about 25 miles.) I was also cracking up, because it chose a lot of backroads for the routes, which could've been done on arterials. So I was treated to a real "scenic route" at no extra charge. But Support never called in, and the delay so brief, I am unsure whether their input was necessary to clear the way.

I did once receive a human driver to move the car. The dropoff was in the wrong United States lot, and when I told them I couldn't exit there, they said the battery was so low it needed the American Depot ASAP and wouldn't obey, so an American human was dispatched from The United States of America, and moved it a couple hundred yards... or meters, if you're Pinoy. It was a distinct process for her to climb in and disengage the Waymo Driver, but otherwise just a normal American thing. I mean, she was required to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, show her ID to the camera, and finish by singing the Star-Spangled Banner, but otherwise it was normal, and could've happened anywhere. God Bless Waymo.


Tesla won't achieve true safe autonomy without a significant change in strategy.

Source: I worked in AV V&V for a decade.


the people competitive in this space - your Waymo's, the Chinese auto co's (banned in the US), Mercedes | GM (won't do this as it cuts into their main profit lines) - so that will only leave Waymo as the only player in automated ride hailing

Tesla is just making noise as usual.


Another Google product whose launch will be used to justify somebody's promotion, only to be left for dead only a few months later after said promoted person moves on to something else.

Why would I even bother getting mildly invested in this when the product launch/promotion incentive structure at Google is so well known?


Personally, I prefer prepending `uv` to my commands because they're more stateless that way. I don't need to remember which terminal my environment is sourced in, and when copying and pasting commands to people I don't need to worry about what state their terminal is it. It just works.


I haven’t used it for sim racing but I’ve used it for flight sim and never noticed the latency being problematic.


What frameworks would you recommend for new people learning about embedded systems?


Why care about framework, just use whatever vendor HAL for your MCU and be good with it


It's deliberately incomplete. You can be completely factual and, simultaneously, intentionally deceiving.


It's pretty hard to kill 40 people in 5 seconds with a knife.


> If you penalize the rich, they just move, and then the new system will stop class mobility.

This is a myth created by the rich so that you won't tax them.


It's pretty observable and part of the reason many microstates are extremely wealthy.

Also keep in mind the US is a winner here. The UK loses the most millionaires and it's had an observable impact on their economy.


Nah… UK’s economy is broken due to the fact we’ve never recovered from the financial crisis

It’s also due to the lack of investment in heathcare, education and other public services over the last 14yrs

Britain still has very many extremely rich people - London has more billionaires than NY - Serious Money by Caroline Knowles is an interesting exploration of the subject


Just one more follow up, the US is 27th on social mobility, behind most EU countries, Australia, New Zealand and most other countries which are consider "western"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index


No, Bob is right and you are wrong.


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