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South park did it

Not everything is about growth. If that instance’s userbase or activity plateaus I’m sure they won’t mind at all.

I worked retail at the time and I followed the band’s directions several times.

Boom! is still sadly as applicable today.

Hey Mr Jack comes to mind too

If you search it, and they show up, you are indeed under investigation

Fools that don’t know what they’re missing!

He’s up for a Grammy this year!

I agree, unfortunately it seems common around for people to conflate all self-driving together

A Cruise self-driving vehicle dragged a pedestrian. They were later fined 1.5M for it by NHTSA, and paid the victim something like 8M

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24258445/cruise-nhtsa-fine-robotaxi-pedestrian-drag

It’s part anecdote, in that I personally feel safer when I see a waymo coming than a human driver; but they also are required to report to government organizations as part of their operating agreement with the county/state. From my understanding, waymo’s collisions-per-mile are a fraction of human drivers. Here’s some random article I found if it helps https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2024/09/05/waymos-new-safety-data-is-impressive-and-teaches-a-lesson/. But I’m really just reporting my experience here from the ground.

As a counterexample, Cruise was recently suspended by SF and fined by NHTSA for trying to avoid reporting their traffic incidents.

As for the rest, you’ve got a handful of isolated incidents you’re just-asking-questions about when there are incidents every single day of human drivers doing worse, with provable loss of life.

If you don’t think the tech is up to snuff, take it up with NHTSA who clearly disagrees.

But all of this is a tangent - none of this negates the fact that self driving exists and I can hop in one just as quick as I can get an uber.

We’ll have to keep waiting for the space colonies I guess.

Unlike the other things you mentioned, full self driving taxis do exist, they are being rolled out in actual markets with customers, and despite the problems you mentioned they are safer than human drivers and overall have improved my life as a pedestrian (sorry, anecdote). It may not be the perfect generalized scifi version you have in your head that makes you compare it with flying cars or AGI, but it is here.

And, what - Musk’s version won’t have to overcome those problems?

He’s years behind the competition in his own timeline, and as all the other commenters have pointed out he never even delivers according to that timeline.

Meanwhile he’s announced a version of something that that already exists and is telling his customers and shareholders that in his best case scenario, he will be 3 years late to market - and it is a fast moving market, he falls further behind with every month that passes.

Yes, good reasons why his version will never come to market - which he is already late to. His lunch has been eaten, so to speak.

There are self driving waymo taxis in San Francisco, it is only a fiction for Musk

Bruh the streets of San Francisco are packed with waymos carrying passengers today

How can Celebrimbor be so stupid? How can he not see the war waging around him? This is so fake. Nobody is this dense.

This is one time where the Simpsons answer is actually appropriate: A wizard did it.

Except the wizard is a Maia.

(note: all wizards are Maia but not all of the Maiar are wizards)

Kirby, is that you?

Russ & daughters is so good. I wish I had that bagel right now!

Extreme Holocaust denial sometimes comes in the form of “the holocaust didn’t happen, but it should’ve”. I’m unclear as to how his blackness might play into an opinion like this - I’m sure it’s somehow even more devoid of logical thought.

Personally I’m inclined not to ask such questions, for that way lies madness

Yea that’s why metal fuckin rules. We got the ugliest guys ever altogether in one room and said “what you got?” and they became legends

And for anyone that might say that doesn’t happen anymore, I ask: how many open mic nights or $20 shows have you been to lately? The scene is doing great in my area, but it doesn’t happen by magic. Ya gotta support it, spread the word, bring your friends.

Well that sounds fuckin useless. Every place causes cancer too.

California is a large enough economy - especially in the entertainment industry - lead the country and pass a meaningful law!