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This is a big deal here in Alberta where the Oil companies are complaining about footing the bill for CCS. If instead of spending a few billion on CCS, how much CO2 reduction would we get if invested in solar and wind.
Without some kind of income redistribution we are sailing into dark waters.
The malware issue that the flow is designed to mitigate is a very real problem. Perhaps there is a better way, but it's not immediately clear what that is.
Ransomware is a scourge enabled by crypto. We should do whatever we can to eliminate it.
Mixed league works fine for your company softball team. Not so much for professional sports.
In elite sports, no one wants to see "best in division X". They want to see the best hockey players, the best golfer, the best skier, etc. The money incentives are considerable.
This would destroy women's professional sports.
It's far from clear that the current HW4 + sensor suite will ever be sufficient for L4.
It works brilliantly, 99.5% of the time. The issue is that the failure mode is catastrophic. Like getting confused with the lane marking and driving off the shoulder. And the complete inability to read construction zone signs (blasting through a 50 KM zone at 100 KM).
I'm deeply skeptical that the current sensor suite and hardware is going to have enough compute power to safely drive without supervision.
It will no doubt improve, but until Tesla steps up and assumes liability for any accident, it's just not "full self driving".
I point them out to any passengers in the back seat.
If you have kids that are likely to pull them ... different story.
With their distribution and service centers, this would sell like hot cakes.
That was the theory, but it was never true in practice.
The oft comparisons to the browser really missed the mark. The browser was driven by advanced AI wetware.
Given the advancements in LLMs, it's not even clear that RESTish interfaces would be easier for them to consume (say vs. gRPC, etc.)
It seems unlikely that any company (Google included) will have a robotics moat.
It's VC funded - so it remains to be seen how it evolves
It reuses all the existing infrastructure and requires no engine modifications.
The point is - you have a massive fleet of cars with all the right sensors to create a high resolution map.
It just doesn't seem like a huge problem? If you have cars equipped with high resolution Lidar and cameras, mapping new routes seems like it ought to scale as the fleet is expanded.
This problem seems embarrassingly parallel.