Nope. OTA. No need to change any hardware.

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Wouldn’t be anti-environmental… it would be for all vehicles including ICE and commercial, as well.

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I’ve had mine for 4 years. A few months back I started traveling with it. I average about 230-250 miles per charge for around 15-18$. That’s a charge every 3.5 hours or so. Sometimes, you can find hotels that let you charge for free overnight, too.

“Now” available on iOS in Aug 2024…

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That’s the case in the US, too. The car automatically shuts off autopilot after 3 warnings of not keeping your hands on the steering wheel. It produces a loud audible alert after a few seconds if it senses the driver isn’t keeping their hands on the wheel. After the 3rd time, it continues the audible alert until the driver takes back control.

There are also several warnings about keeping your hands on the wheel and staying alert when engaging autopilot.

The people saying otherwise are either ignorant or disingenuous.

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We spent decades treating computers like fancy calculators. They have more utility than that, and we are currently trying to find a more valuable way to use that utility.

In that process, there will be a time where the responses you get will need to be independently verified. As the technology matures, it will get more and more accurate and useful. If we could just skip past the development part and get to the fully engineered solution, we would… but that’s not really how anything new ever comes into being.

As for the current state of the technology, you can get a ton of useful information out of LLMs right now by asking them to give you a list of options you wouldn’t have thought of, general outlines of a course of action, places or topics to research to find a correct answer… etc. However, if you expect the current iteration of the technology to do everything for you without error and without verifying the output, you are going to have a bad time.

It’s all steps on the product dev line. The smart glasses aren’t ready and won’t be for a few years. This gives devs a chance to start building apps for the new platform.

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Corporations are people, too! Just ask them…

It’s mostly about whether the problem gets fixed before I know it’s there. If I have to go in to a service center to fix the problem, it is a far greater inconvenience and a longer time it is a risk before I get a day off work to take care of it… which increases the chance I have an issue.

Software patches are still fixes, but they aren’t recalling any parts or vehicles, they are fixing them instantly and remotely.

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It’s not going to kill us. It will all correct as other companies displace these that aren’t able to maintain competitive advantage. It just takes time.

Covid threw a wrench in the works that forced change faster than the establishment was ready to take on. The data is out there, the costs and benefits are evident and transparent. Those in positions of power only adjust when there is no other option left… and it’s coming… but it takes time…

Right. This is how it works. The marketplace sustained a value for watching entertainment at home (cable tv). When pricing outstretched customer desire to use the product, the business changed to start selling the service connection in addition to advertising to create another revenue stream. It got so ubiquitous that people don’t even remember that OTA tv was the majority solution for decades and was completely funded by ads. Eventually, prices stabilize and the business can only make more money by acquiring a larger share of the market or innovating something new. They’ll always try to increase that price, but it is balanced by how many customers choose to give up the service.

When streaming platforms disrupted that business model, they were cheap because they had to convince the marketplace to change. As adoption got more prolific, pricing changes to recoup early losses… then to increase value to become more attractive to the customer and gain more market share… then to increase profits.

We are still at the point you can cancel the service and jump around on a monthly basis, but the days of 12 month contracts are right around the corner… and they’re coming fast.