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.

They’re both silly, yours just seemed more so to me because you followed up on a silly generalization with another silly generalization.

Lot of assumptions in that silly generalization.

No one would make that statement, but some sure as hell act like it when they’re ‘super busy or carrying a lot of stuff’.

For me just the convenience of having everything in one box. Simplifies networking too. I run home assistant, openwrt, OMV, an ubuntu dtop VM and a wordpress LXC on a little m93 I jacked up with 32Gb RAM. Backups are dead simple and it’s all on one little UPS.

Some might prefer metal for other reasons but simplicity and convenience are priorities for me, at least in my homelab.

I’ve had a little OMV VM running on Proxmox for about 4 years with no issues at all.

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.

I’m sorry for your loss and very sorry you had to go through that. The fact that you can still give the paramedics credit for doing their best is admirable and shows a rational mind is in control of your emotions- but it’s okay to be pissed at them for being so inconsiderate and not respecting your grief. they could and should have done better.

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

Brewster’s got nothing on Elon.

I’d be willing to bet there aren’t any mosques within 30 miles of OP, but over a dozen churches and if one of those got vandalized by drones they’d be calling it religious persecution.

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This seems kind of desperate.

Islam teaches peace about as well as Christianity teaches love.

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

Sounds like my own private vat-of-acid episode.

Plus I’m thinking you’d need an unlicensed transporter to do that and disable whatever locks are designed to prevent people from doing exactly that. But then I’d forget to do some maintenance on a Heisenberg compensator and end up inside out in the mirror universe or something.

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.

For me the medical care wouldn’t change much because you can still die a lot of ways and getting hurt probably still hurts a lot.

The big difference for me would be transporters. I hate traveling because for me the destination is the destination and the journey is just an annoyance. There are a thousand places I’d visit if getting there wasn’t such a pain in the ass.