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Not to detract anything from her contribution but she isn’t funding the whole thing. The way it works is a local nonprofit for a geographic area partners with the Imagination library and funds them to offer the program in that area.

Their website explains how you can become a partner for your area and the costs involved.

In some places it is government funded. The program in Baltimore City for example appears to be largely funded by Maryland State government via a yearly grant to a nonprofit.

https://imaginationlibrary.com/usa/

https://goccp.maryland.gov/the-governors-young-readers-progr...

It was revealed today that the Tesla Model Y took the place of Toyota Corolla as the number one selling vehicle world wide. Tesla is the one doing the over taking.

CCS is a total turd no doubt.

CCS is inferior it’s a huge clunky connector with no performance benefit over NACS.

“ Tesla had a head start on electric, but they could not take advantage of this. Once other manufacturers woke up to the threat, it became clear Tesla has nothing on them, and car industry is fiercely competitive.”

Is there any other car company in the world selling electric vehicles at a profit besides Tesla? Everyone else is losing money on their EVs most are losing a lot of money. Not only is Tesla profitable but they have better margins than many companies have on their gas cars.

Why would MSI have Intel’s private key? How private could it have been if they were handing it out to OEMs?

I don’t understand why anyone would use the “auto” variable type thing. In my experience it makes it impossible to read and understand code you aren’t familiar with.

He is a consultant I doubt he is shorting the stock nor did I say he was. I do think it’s likely he is being paid to promote this viewpoint though.

Criticism isn’t an, “attack”

I don’t see any stats on accidents per mile or any other thing like that just a bunch of PR about their testing methodology. Individual accident reports filed with the DMV don’t tell you anything without knowing the denominator

I did up thread.

Hasn’t been my experience. Most people I see speak positively about them were owners.

He makes a lot of claims he doesn’t substantiate or source in the course of his argument about his issue with the way the stats are reported.

“It’s also true that drivers are more likely to engage Autopilot in easy driving conditions — clear roads with no construction and nice weather.”

Is it? That doesn’t jive with my personal experience and how I use it.

He also claims that if users don’t intervene FSD will surely crash. This also strikes me as not really true most take overs in my experience are because the car is being overlying cautious or annoying in some way that isn’t dangerous.

He claims that people that buy Teslas are old and wealthy which skews the data since they are naturally safer drivers but doesn’t cite any source showing that is true. Teslas cost about the average of a new US vehicle. Another thing that was maybe true 5-10 years ago but no longer.

If he had wanted to write a neutral point of view article about how he would like to see the self driving industry report safely stats that would be worthwhile but this just seems to be ragging on what one company is doing when everyone else doesn’t report this stuff at all and there isn’t an acceptable industry standard yet. Like do we have statistics from GM’s Cruise self driving unit, or Google Waymo?

My comments about the car being great were more directed at the others in this thread ragging them.

You don’t have to have owned one but I don’t see how you can have a strongly held opinion on a product you haven’t at least experienced.

Someone should tell him to get off Forbes.

The parent was an appeal to authority.

My comment wasn’t so much about this particular author as it was a comment on the general motivations of people who write on the Forbes contributor platform.

In this case the author bills themselves as a consultant on self driving cars so given the venue of publication one has to wonder whether they were paid to write this. Writing under the Forbes contributor by line is an extremely questionable choice in any case.

Plenty of quasi experts make a living shilling a point of view. I’ve just seen so much trash published under the Forbes “contributor” by line that I automatically distrust it at this point.

I own one myself and know several people who have gotten one more recently and they all love them and have had zero issues with any of those things.

Personally have taken my Model 3 on many long road trips and it’s great. Have the option to use our gas SUV instead but wouldn’t even consider that since it doesn’t have Autopilot/FSD

Unlikely to consider any but a Tesla when the time comes to replace our gas SUV.

Lots of things here are no longer true. For example FSD does work on the highway now not just city streets. Also note this is written on Fobes’s contributor aka blog platform also known for pumping crypto schemes and other nonsense points of view under the banner of “opinion” pieces from people who have no affiliation with Forbes.

I’d guess we are seeing this here today because someone decided it was a good day to FUD the company so they can make a buck shorting the stock.

Bottom line, Teslas are incredible cars and most people that have bad things to say about them seem to never have owned one.

I've got it on my car and I wouldn't want to go without it. It is particularly outstanding on long highway trips now with v11.

That's not true, people were able to make a reservation for one of three different models and select options like FSD to lock-in the FSD price before it was raised.

No, they will likely honor original pricing for people who made a reservation but they closed reservations and haven’t posted updated pricing yet.

You can find TVs without the smart junk you just need to search for the ones marketed for commercial use and digital signage.

I’m expecting basic features to work. I don’t mind having to switch those features on through a configuration option but I do mind when those included features don’t actually work and the response when reported by a paying customer is that they aren’t going to fix it.

Well when you have a novice user base familiar with the basic drag and drop mechanism and you’ve build processes they can follow around it and all of a sudden it doesn’t work anymore because you had to upgrade the OS it’s a pain.

Distros like Redhat seem to be totally dropping the ball. Basic stuff like icons on the desktop and dragging and dropping files onto icons on the desktop isn't turns on by default and if you do turn it out it is broken. When the bug was reported it was closed without being fixed.

Is that really true? USDC competitor GUSD has its cash with State Street Bank. They are quite large and still in business.

"Another bank is getting a bailout"

No they are not. The shareholders and bond holders are getting wiped out. It is only the depositors that are being made whole. This is not like 2008 where they loaned cheap money to banks to keep them afloat but allowed the owners to remain.

It is already substantially higher than $250k because you can spread your funds between multiple banks. There are even cash management accounts from Fidelity and others that automatically place your funds with multiple banks to get higher insurance levels for larger amounts of cash. Their Fidelity cash management account allows you to spread cash among 26 different banks so you could have 6.5 million FDIC insured. Fidelity isn't the only financial institution to offer this service.

That precedent was set at least as far back in the early 90's when they made depositors of Bank of New England Bank whole after it failed in 1991. This isn't something that started with the financial crisis of '08

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/07/business/us-is-taking-ove...