They’re articulated, unlike the DeLorean doors. They are not DeLorean doors. They aren’t even traditional gull wing doors, they named them falcon wing doors due to the articulation.

They might have at least a few years worth of contracts in place. Beyond that, hopefully the current ram situation sorts itself out?

The S and X haven’t really sold well since the model 3/y were ramped up. Those ate most of their sales. Even before the nazi shit they were low, and he’s hinted a couple times before that as well that their days were numbered.

They did want a car to put fancy tech in like the plaid version, but that’ll just be the roadster now instead.

They are leaving a big gap in the lineup though without a bigger SUV, so it’ll be interesting to see if they bring the extended Y from China to other markets now.

Edit: actually it was just after the salute before it’s impact would have been apparent in Feb. They mentioned there was some nostalgia around them even though they weren’t selling a lot, but at the same time said they weren’t going to cancel them… so that didn’t age well.

You just know they’re going to make a separate corporation, put the AI in it, and then contract it to themselves and try again.

Definitely agree, there should have been some punitive damages for making them go through that while they were mourning.

It makes sense to do it, it’s just along the lines of evil company.

If they lose, it’s some bad press and people will forget.

If they win, they’ve begun setting precedent to fuck over their customers and earn more money. Even if it only had a 5% chance of success, it was probably worth it.

I should further add - don’t fucking use it in places it’s not capable of properly functioning and then trying to deflect the blame on the AI from yourself, like what Air Canada did.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatbot-misinformation-what-travellers-should-know

When Air Canada’s chatbot gave incorrect information to a traveller, the airline argued its chatbot is “responsible for its own actions”.

Artificial intelligence is having a growing impact on the way we travel, and a remarkable new case shows what AI-powered chatbots can get wrong – and who should pay. In 2022, Air Canada’s chatbot promised a discount that wasn’t available to passenger Jake Moffatt, who was assured that he could book a full-fare flight for his grandmother’s funeral and then apply for a bereavement fare after the fact.

According to a civil-resolutions tribunal decision last Wednesday, when Moffatt applied for the discount, the airline said the chatbot had been wrong – the request needed to be submitted before the flight – and it wouldn’t offer the discount. Instead, the airline said the chatbot was a “separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions”. Air Canada argued that Moffatt should have gone to the link provided by the chatbot, where he would have seen the correct policy.

The British Columbia Civil Resolution Tribunal rejected that argument, ruling that Air Canada had to pay Moffatt $812.02 (£642.64) in damages and tribunal fees

Right? Like let me choose if and when I want to use it. Don’t shove it down our throats and then complain when we get upset or don’t use it how you want us to use it. We’ll use it however we want to use it, not you.

My understanding of false accepts is when it think it hears the wake word and starts recording.

Sometimes it happens when I watch TV or rarely in a normal conversation.

If this happens, what else would you expect to happen? It’s going to behave exactly as if you woke it.

Stop talking if you notice, but unless you expect a perfect wake word rate with zero mistakes there’s nothing that can be done.

Now, if Google is intentionally waking it when it knows it’s not the right word that’s another matter entirely.

Edit: I’d refuse to accept any wrong doikg as well if it’s legit false accepts. But if it was intentional, this isn’t even a slap on the wrist for them.

How the fuck is that even legal to force opt in on location.

Google has gotten in a lot of shit for not properly letting people control that before and delete histories.

Over generation is very big. I agree batteries are better, though.

We need to be able to support peak winter heating and peak summer cooling and we need to do that with excess margin.

Everything in between we have excess power, unless it’s something like hydro dams which are easy to control and aren’t a big extra cost and part of how they naturally operate.

We generally use gas peaker plants to help which we can turn off or on, but it’s more efficient to not do that, and those are expensive.

It would also make it easier to build big nuclear plants if we could manage the off peak load into batteries for the day.