Coming back from this is easy.

Extend support for windows 10 for another 4 years. Take a break from their OS release cycle and get the next OS right. Remove the Microsoft account mandate from sign in. Remove AI by default. Remove Ads, weather, news and other bloat from the OS. The focus should be creating the cleanest, simplest, abstraction between the user and the hardware.

The wheels were the only “property loss” crime we’ve experienced in ~10 years living here. All the other crimes were landlords illegally withholding our deposits.

The electric motor for the Mach-E is available in a crate.

Agreed, but needing the truck for truck stuff 2% of the time is waaaaaay over the typical truck usage. I think most people who have trucks actually do “truck stuff” with them 0.2-0.0% of the time, and in that case, regular car, wagon, or van is a better all around option.

People stole the wheels off my wife’s car, in a lit parking lot, in one of the safest big cities in the US.

Yeah, you can’t leave your nice tools out in the back of your truck bed in most places.

Eh, my family camped frequently and reno’d/repaired multiple houses. I think the only time we used a truck was to take a bunch of bathroom tile scrap to the dump. Everything else was done with minivans or a club wagon.

Good thing we have the CFPB to register and punish companies for shady practices like th…oh, nevermind.

I would have been your daddy…

It’s an old Halo CE reference that gets shortened to that acronym a lot.

IWHBYD

Can’t speak to the usefulness of a foot mouse, but a cheap set of 3 USB foot switches is a game changer, literally.

For tactical shooters I bind lean/peek to the side pedals, and set the center pedal for voice communications.

For solo gaming, you can take your obnoxious overlay commands, set them to impossible key combinations, and then bind those combos to the foot pedals. No more accidentally opening up the Steam or AMD overlays, but they are still there if you want them.

Actual AI?

Imagine your phone knows that you have a business meeting downtown today. It’s already reserved a parking space for you, set your car to warm up before you leave and looped your contact in on your ETA, along with automatically notifying you of any delays. Then, your kid wakes up this morning in with a horrible toothache, you ask your phone what to do and it rings up your family dentist, who has a full schedule today, but makes you a referral nearby. You agree to try that other dentist today, and your AI books an appointment, checks your meeting today, coordinates with their AIs and approves a 15 minute delay so you can get to the dentist. It also notifies your kid’s school of their absence and has their teachers AI automatically queued up to send transcripts, notes and homework assignmenta from today’s classes.

That’s the kind of stuff actual AI can do. Overgrown autocorrect? It’s basically a multi-billion dollar Magic Eightball.

Yeah, this makes sense to me. ChatGPT isn’t crunching the numbers, looking at conservative ideology, foreign policy goals and media optics before recommending the ideal number for the trump admin to implement. Instead it’s just looking for the most widely publicized set of numbers in relation to that query and regurgitating that.

Yeah, keep in mind that Elon couldn’t get level 3 working in a closed, pre-mapped circuit. The robotaxis were just remotely operated.

It’s hard to tell, but from about 15 minutes of searching, I was unable to locate any consumer vehicles that include a LIDAR system. Lots of cars include RADAR, for object detection, even multiple RADAR systems for parking. There may be some which includes a TimeOfFlight sensor, which is like LIDAR, but static and lacks the resolution/fidelity. My Mach-E which has level 2 automation uses a combination of computer vision, RADAR and GPS. I was unable to locate a LIDAR sensor for the vehicle.

The LIDAR system in Mark’s video is quite clearly a pre-production device that is not affiliated with the vehicle manufacturer it was being tested on.

Adding, after more searching, it looks like the polestar 3, some trim levels of the Audi A8 and the Volvo EX90 include a LiDAR sensor. Curious to see how the consumer grade tech works out in real world.

Please do not mistake this comment as “AI/computer vision” evangelisim. I currently have a car that uses those technologies for automation, and I would not and do not trust my life or anyone else’s to that system.

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Because the march of technological advancement is inevitable?

In light of recent (and let’s face it, long ago cases) Tesla’s “Full Self Driving” needs to be downgraded to level 2 at best.

Level 2: Partial Automation

The vehicle can handle both steering and acceleration/deceleration, but the driver must remain engaged and ready to take control.

Pretty much the same level as other brands self driving feature.

They can use some of the solar energy to cycle the air using a fan, or just run the AC if it’s really bad.

We’re also going though an insect apocalypse. You probably won’t hit a dragonfly, butterfly or thick and smeary grasshopper on any road trip anymore.

Yes, we’re all gonna die.

There are huge tax breaks for…

Buying a car for your business.

Buying a car that has a 6ft bed for your business

Buying a car with 6000+ lb curb weight for your business.

Buying an electric car for your business.

Buying a car that is wrapped or decorated to promote your business.

When you put them all together, the CT is basically 100% tax write off.

You’re going to need some really big conventional explosives to affect an EMF in any way. Not clear on the math, but at that point, blowing up the vehicle with a smaller amount of explosives would be much more efficient.