There is no way they didn’t think they could sell those spots in the future.

You don’t burn your batteries though. You build them once and then use them for 20 years. They will just keep working when the next war erupts on the other side of the planet.

Gandi is sadly not a great example anymore for this, as they raised prices quite a lot over recent years, especially for their email service.

Come to think of it, that's why I'm on Proton now.

Which using a five-dollar word to describe a one-cent fact.

Scalability is usually about O(n²) vs O(n log n) or something, not a smaller constant that's significant but not a game changer.

Not if they have to have remote drivers ready to help out with the "autonomous" system.

Except for their limited Robotaxi service. They have recently ditched their safety driver as well, so there is truly no one "driving" the car.

Well, I didn’t say that they did it well

I actually posted this before watching it completely through… I was just reminded of recent discussions of EV vs ICE cars I have read here and Alec managed to put my thoughts much better into words than I could myself. After watching it through completely I just feel sad that what he needed to say out loud actually needs to be said at all as it should be obvious (coming from someone watching from the other side of the pond)

Watching from the other side of the pond as well and what Alec tries to get people to do is pretty sad because there is misnomer between action and reaction. While people correctly observe how the one side dismantles institutions and the very ground rules for being a civilized country, the other side has nothing more to offer than civility and evoking change by going through the very institutions that are being dismantled (which I'm absolutely sympathetic to, I prefer to stay civil whenever possible as well). But there is a real possibility that by midterms in ten months there will be nothing to be rescued by voting for a third of a congress.

And gasoline just magically appears at the gas station? Wars over oil are being fought for decades and nothing similar has happened over Lithium yet?

On the other hand, a human can only look into one direction, while a Tesla can look into all directions at once. Also human drivers are often distracted, intoxicated, etc. An attentive driver would probably perform better, but I’d rather have all others be slightly worse on the high end of driving skill, while significantly increasing the skill of low end drivers.

> a human can only look into one direction, while a Tesla can look into all directions at once.

Human visual targeting happens extremely quickly relative to the rate of change of objects on the road, so this isn't very important. If it were, attentive driver crashes would happen far more often than they do.

> Also human drivers are often distracted, intoxicated, etc.

This says nothing about the capability of the system. Tesla's have their own non-camera-related failure modes too, like not knowing that traffic lights don't move with the vehicle through space, like changing lanes into opposite-direction lanes, like not having object permanence, like needing to recognize what an object is before deciding to not run it over.

But now also imagine if human drivers were in serious need of glasses but weren't wearing them.

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