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  • You are completely ignoring the under ideal circumstances part.
    They can’t drive at night AFAIK, they can’t drive outside the area that is meticulously mapped out.
    And even then, they often require human intervention.

    If you asked a professional driver to do the exact same thing, I’m pretty sure that driver would have way better accident record than average humans too.

    Seems to me you are missing the point I tried to make. And is drawing a false conclusion based on comparing apples to oranges.


  • Because they are driving under near ideal conditions, in areas that are completely mapped out, and guided away from roadworks and avoiding “confusing” crosses, and other traffic situations like unmarked roads, that humans deal with routinely without problem.
    And in a situation they can’t handle, they just stop and call and wait for a human driver to get them going again, disregarding if they are blocking traffic.

    I’m not blaming Waymo for doing it as safe as they can, that’s great IMO.
    But don̈́t make it sound like they drive better than humans yet. There is still some ways to go.

    What’s really obnoxious is that Elon Musk claimed this would be 100% ready by 2017. Full self driving, across America, day and night, safer than a human. I have zero expectation that Tesla RoboTaxi will arrive this summer as promised.



  • As should have been done already 10 years ago. When it became clear American authorities can seize any information even when stored on servers outside USA, by any American service provider.
    And Obama claimed it was a “fair balance”.

    USA has in many ways acted almost like a totalitarian regime for decades, disregarding their own laws, international laws, and especially the laws of other countries, even allies.

    This became very clear when Obama stressed that illegal surveillance/monitoring wasn’t used against American citizens.
    Obviously meaning that citizens of other countries have no rights, and there are no laws preventing American intelligence in any way.

    As it turned out, what Obama promised wasn’t even true, and Americans stationed in for instance Iraq, were very much monitored.

    With regard to information of other countries, USA has CLEARLY demonstrated, that they have no regard for decency or even laws.

    This was revealed when Obama was president, and the Republicans are even worse!!

    USA and EU has made an agreement on this, claimed to make it legal in EU to use American cloud services.
    But as we have seen, no American administration gives a fuck about such agreements or even laws, so that agreement isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.


  • In broad terms, that seems to put it about on par with an Intel 386 chip from 1985

    At 24 MHz, it’s actually about 4-6 times faster than a full fledged 33 MHz i80386DX with 10 times as many transistors back in the day.
    It’s absolutely insane that i386 remained the standard with its inferior high latency design.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes

    exhibiting BASIC language performance ten times faster than a newly introduced 80386-based computer

    That was an 8MHz Arm system, and it was commonly recognized as being clearly faster than a 33MHz i80386DX!
    In fact the 8036 was so inefficient at 33MHz it couldn’t even beat the speed of a 16 MHz 80286 on 16 bit code!!
    Mips, Alpha, Motorola, Sparc and finally Arm were all better, but they weren’t backed by IBM, and the availability of clones made the PC relatively cheap. But basically everything else was better than Intel.

    Unfortunately Arm also lacked a math co-processor, so for tasks that were heavy on FP calculations, an i386 with co-processor was superior.
    Also Arm was unable to sell them cheap enough to capture at least a niche market. (Apart from education in UK)
    And for the hobbyist an Amiga was way cheaper, and had powerful graphics and sound chips.



  • Nobody at Tesla headquarters voted to alienate their customer base. No board meeting decided to turn their electric car company into a political lightning rod.

    This is technically not true. The board keeps Elon Musk on as CEO of Tesla, and they granted him the biggest bonus package ever, while he was already very controversial and clearly was losing his mind, because they thought he would be able to make them money.