I always said this will be the problem. Self-driving cars will never be perfect. They’ll always have different failure modes than human drivers. So at what point is increased safety worth the trade off of new ways to die. Are we there yet?

At what point is it acceptable to the rest of us? Humans will always prefer the risk they know over the one they don’t, even when it’s objectively wrong

But have they bought magic beans?

Iron man and other Marvel movies started being very science. Oriented, but quickly combined magic or turned to magic

While I agree in concept, redesigning and rebuilding society to be less car centric would NOT be fast or easy.

It’s better in so many ways and I wish more Americans could experience the freedom and convenience of walkable and transit oriented areas to understand how unpleasant their cars really are. But if even if we seriously pursued that, it would be many decades, probably more like a century. In the meantime electric vehicles are much better than what we use now

It’s all in how you combine the numbers, and yes we need a lot more progress, but …. When was the last time an ai caused a collision because it was texting? How often does a self driving vehicle threaten or harm others with road rage?

I do t know what the numbers are but human driving sets a very low bar so it’s easy to believe even today’s inadequate self-driving is safer

Tesla gets telemetry that should show exactly what happened. We need to require that to be collected with each accident so someone can look for patterns and improvements.

But I’ll agree with the other guy that’s it’s still quite possible this is safer than human drivers already. It makes news because it seems like a ridiculous failure. But what happens when you compare it to the number of accidents caused by people falling asleep or getting distracted, or letting their rage out?

The critical data is the cost in human lives, and it’s quite possible for technology to fail spectacularly while saving lives overall

If I’m shopping, I want my tailgate free for loading or unloading. Similar for road trips or any time I’m carrying anything

My charging port is in back.

Plus a consistent supportive economic policy. I haven’t read the book to know what’s included in that $55B, but I know it’s been a long term effort and no business will try to build such capability in chaos and personality cults.

Republicans talk about being best for business is sort of like their “family values”: mostly talk, mostly opposite

But we can just import some of the things we need as we build up the more valuable end of supply chains. I’m sure they’ve thought of that and there are no tariffs impeding those prerequisites, right? Right?

Did you ask around? I’m sure you can go into any biker bar in that state and ask for bumfuck

Ts the entire supply chain that’s the problem. I keep reading stories about Apple pre-buying the entire output of factories for multiple years. For the thousands of parts in a modern phone, how do you expect entire parts industries to spring up overnight on the scale that Apple sells phones? Then entire resource and tooling chains to support those? And we’re making it even more impossible with blindly applying tariffs everywhere so you couldn’t even get established

Blind, overall tariffs can’t work anywhere.

Pretty much every country, including US, has successfully applied targeted tariffs to specific things for specific reasons. Usually you’re protecting an existing industry, but you could even build a supply chain by balancing it with targeted incentives, and bringing them together with a long term strategy to grow that specific segment.

For example, we used to have a complex strategy for helping legacy car manufacturers transition to new technology. We had incentives to build a market, manufacturing incentives and other assistance, we had targeted loans and guided research to build the technology, obtain the resources, build the infrastructure, we had well targeted tariffs protecting them from specific “predatory” countries, and much more. In a decade or so, our legacy automakers would have transitioned to new technology, with at least similar manufacturing presence in the us and a strong global presence. It was slow, bumbling and inconsistent but it would have worked. Now we’re likely to end up with failing manufacturers unable to compete on the global market, and with their us market shrinking to nothing as they continue to focus on large, inefficient, outdated, polluting technology that can only be sold locally.

No, tim doesn’t get baked, but we’re planning on it tonight

It was a horrible idea, absolutely terrible for us, we were being ripped from with waste fraud and abuse. We have the best plan, everyone says so. The concept of a plane, that will be immense.

And if similar is on every phone? You can’t really do without a phone so at that point, it’s 25% inflation.

I’m hoping for the best I can get right now. 1G is the choke point and rated speed, but I’ll take anything better if I don’t have to restring that cable.

My fastest current devices are 2.5gE, but I mostly want to loosen the choke point

As soon as switches get affordable enough, I do plan to try.

But my data center is an assortment of Raspberry Pi and similar. I’m not going to buy some used enterprise switch with a roaring fan and huge electrical consumption to connect my quiet, efficient datacenter.

So far I only have two devices that can talk greater than 1G, it’s more the number of things that have to talk across that “trunk”

I assumed I’d do the power meter at some point.although some sort of sound recognition would be better, if t exists

When I bought my machines,the ability to ping my phone would have cost $600 more.m I don’t want it that much, but there’s also no reason it should cost that much or that we should be dependent on an appliance maker to figure out notifications.

At some point I’ll probably cobble together some sort of automation