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Not everything is about growth. If that instance’s userbase or activity plateaus I’m sure they won’t mind at all.

If you search it, and they show up, you are indeed under investigation

Fools that don’t know what they’re missing!

I agree, unfortunately it seems common around for people to conflate all self-driving together

A Cruise self-driving vehicle dragged a pedestrian. They were later fined 1.5M for it by NHTSA, and paid the victim something like 8M

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24258445/cruise-nhtsa-fine-robotaxi-pedestrian-drag

It’s part anecdote, in that I personally feel safer when I see a waymo coming than a human driver; but they also are required to report to government organizations as part of their operating agreement with the county/state. From my understanding, waymo’s collisions-per-mile are a fraction of human drivers. Here’s some random article I found if it helps https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2024/09/05/waymos-new-safety-data-is-impressive-and-teaches-a-lesson/. But I’m really just reporting my experience here from the ground.

As a counterexample, Cruise was recently suspended by SF and fined by NHTSA for trying to avoid reporting their traffic incidents.

As for the rest, you’ve got a handful of isolated incidents you’re just-asking-questions about when there are incidents every single day of human drivers doing worse, with provable loss of life.

If you don’t think the tech is up to snuff, take it up with NHTSA who clearly disagrees.

But all of this is a tangent - none of this negates the fact that self driving exists and I can hop in one just as quick as I can get an uber.

We’ll have to keep waiting for the space colonies I guess.

Unlike the other things you mentioned, full self driving taxis do exist, they are being rolled out in actual markets with customers, and despite the problems you mentioned they are safer than human drivers and overall have improved my life as a pedestrian (sorry, anecdote). It may not be the perfect generalized scifi version you have in your head that makes you compare it with flying cars or AGI, but it is here.

And, what - Musk’s version won’t have to overcome those problems?

He’s years behind the competition in his own timeline, and as all the other commenters have pointed out he never even delivers according to that timeline.

Meanwhile he’s announced a version of something that that already exists and is telling his customers and shareholders that in his best case scenario, he will be 3 years late to market - and it is a fast moving market, he falls further behind with every month that passes.

Yes, good reasons why his version will never come to market - which he is already late to. His lunch has been eaten, so to speak.

There are self driving waymo taxis in San Francisco, it is only a fiction for Musk

Bruh the streets of San Francisco are packed with waymos carrying passengers today

How can Celebrimbor be so stupid? How can he not see the war waging around him? This is so fake. Nobody is this dense.

This is one time where the Simpsons answer is actually appropriate: A wizard did it.

Except the wizard is a Maia.

(note: all wizards are Maia but not all of the Maiar are wizards)

Hello, customer support?..Yes, air strike on my location, thank you

Well that sounds fuckin useless. Every place causes cancer too.

California is a large enough economy - especially in the entertainment industry - lead the country and pass a meaningful law!

That’s the part I like the most. I don’t want to work on any code that isn’t properly formatted, and at that point why bother with curly braces, etc?

Sounds like a lovely Tuesday afternoon

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila.

Now Even Faster™ with no exceptions thanks to “AI”

Now it is you who is the goober!

So, who’s the donor friend who owns flag manufacturing facilities?

I say fuck every night and day

Of course Vance didn’t have sex with a couch!

He raped a couch