LOL.

*Were in service, comrade. Were.

That feels… very responsible?

I mean, we probably shouldn’t concern ourselves TOO much with the profitability of a Google subsidiary and the pet project of the world’s richest man. I think they’ll figure out the monetization side of things. We should be laser focused on safety, which Waymo is certainly doing to a much higher degree than Tesla.

Someone else mentioned that over on Reddit, in a very clapback sort of way. Would you happen to be in Texas? I’m learning all about regional traffic law variations :D

So, my thought here: the stop sign is simply not recognized by the vehicle. It didn’t see the stop sign and decide “legally, I have the right of way.” The stop sign just doesn’t appear on the visualization, cameras failed to register the blinking lit up sign, and thus the computer thought it had the right of way.

As a separate critical fuckup, it only realized the pedestrian was a pedestrian like a millisecond before impact. It wasn’t a good test performance at all.

That sounds like high elvish, that bastard!

who you calling feo ?!

Terrifyingly fast battlefield adaptation. Give it 2 years, and closed-loop (non-remote-controlled) drones will be autonomously targeted via AI. Send it GPS coordinate, then it activates “find a target” mode. I don’t see any way we DON’T get to that outcome eventually.

You’re telling me, sending out untrained conscripts with no drone jammers isn’t a winning play?

Nice! Color me jealous, I drive an ICE truck, I test-drove a Lightning, it was very nice.

Rn, I think it’s something like 8% of new vehicle registrations per year are EVs. It’s about double that in Europe, and triple that in China (14% and 25%, I think).

So, growing, but if it grows much slower, we’ll be at the back of the pack, and I think being in the lead on this will keep our auto industry competitive for global exports, which are a big chunk of our export economy.

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Ope, right you are. I do American auto news, still figuring out how geography works on Fedia. Let me tweak that, make it more obvious.

b r u h

Opens dev console

“Hah oh wow it looks pretty good considering it’s throwing 69 errors, nice”

(hard)drive it like you stole it

Ya love to see it.

Illinois is also building some pretty sweet EVs, Rivians all over the place

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T-90 commander: “comrade, what’s that buzzsaw nois-”

T.I.L. :) Thanks!

I guess, the word got out, or the economy got bad enough where suddenly lots of folks are doing it? Or the easiness of fencing the tailgates on social media is encouraging folks who wouldn’t know how to sell a catalytic converter to get into the “steal components” game? Not totally sure!

I am sure that it’s newly cropping up as a common problem. It’s all over the Tacoma subreddit, even the news is covering it (local news in Alameda covered a chop-shop bust that was targeting Tacomas specifically, and that was like, 2 days ago).

So yeah, I’m as mystified as you are. I explained the removable tailgate concept just for folks who maybe never drove a pickup truck or the many folks who don’t use that feature.

(Edit: and thanks for the dealership insights! I never drove any F-Series other than the F-150, so I had no idea how the heavy duty models handled tailgate features)

That’s brand new to me! Both the symbology and the magazine, and I love them both. Thanks!

No sweat, happy to help ID it :)