Yet another great example of why voting matters.

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New band name, I called it!

I’m not a marketing person but maybe they should try making an OS people actually want.

I think its almost always pointless to hold back innovation, but in this case I think a full ban on self driving cars would be a great move.

I agree on both points. Also I think it’s important to characterize the ‘innovation’ of self driving as more social-economic than technological.

The component systems- sensing, processing, communications, power, etc- have a wide range of engineering applications and research and development will inevitably continue no matter the future of self-driving. Self driving only solves a very particular social-economic-technological issue that only exists because of how humans historically chose to address the same issue with older technology. Self driving is more of a product than a ‘technology’ in my book.

So my point there is that I don’t think a ban on full self driving really qualifies as ‘holding back innovation’ at all. It’s just telling companies not to develop a specific product. Hyperbolic example but nobody would say banning companies from creating a nuclear powered oven was ‘holding back innovation’. If anything forcing us to re-envision human transportation without integrating into legacy requirements advances innovation more than just trying to use AI to solve the problems created by using humans to solve the original problem of how to move humans around in cars.

Double the fine for ‘self-driving’ traffic violations and bill the manufacturer for half.

I don’t think it’s a collective or organized ‘they’, probably just a few guys that didn’t appreciate Grusch nosing in on their legitimate classified operations- reverse engineering downed Chinese balloons and whatnot, so they fed him a big fish that had enough truth to sell it but also crazy enough to ‘decommission’ Grusch when he started repeating the crazy parts.

At least the History Channel will get to update their ‘Ancient Alien’ content catalog with some new footage from all this nonsense.

In about 48 hours Musk will ‘reveal’ the X rebranding freakshow was actually a ‘market test’ and they’ve gained ‘invaluable user data’ on what totally wasn’t another CEO tweet tantrum that some poor bastards had to try to translate into corporate policy.

Of all the stupid of the Musk-Twitter saga this might actually be the stupidest… yet.

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This seems kind of desperate.

Can’t wait for penis enlargement ads to start listing ‘bioelectricity’ as an ingredient.

Reminds me of ‘The Internet’ on ‘IT Crowd’.

But just like on IT crowd the painfully obvious bullshit works exactly as intended. It’ll impress people that have no fucking clue what it is and they won’t listen to anyone that says it’s bullshit.

I’m barely qualified to install a logitech joystick and I wasn’t all that surprised.

It was questionable before June 18th. Now it’s unquestionably bad.