This guy was a huge idiot. He put his name on the lease. He signed a 2 year lease in a place he doesn’t know with a person he doesn’t know. I’m sorry but it has to be said that this guy is a total idiot.
I was driving on the freeway with my girlfriend and we saw a guy driving next to us who was literally holding the phone right in front of his face video chatting with someone. Not looking down, but looking straight and level into the huge phone he was holding in front of his face. It was so unusual that we looked at each other in disbelief.
I was in San Jose and there was a young woman who was behind me. We were stopped in a turn lane waiting for the green. This girl literally engaged in this unprotected left turn while looking straight downward into her lap. like, completely 90 degrees neck bent downwards without looking up whatsoever. She was half way through the turn, half fucking way, before I laid on my horn. She knew exactly who that horn was for and she bolted upright with a very pouty look on her face. She could have easily killed someone.
Everyone seems to agree that this is a serious and deadly problem. Therefore I think it is justified to discuss the problem in as much of an open fashion as possible, not overlooking any patterns or aspects of the problem that might help to solve it, no matter how unpopular. The fact of the matter is that 90 percent of the time I see someone looking straight down into their laps while operating 2000 pounds of metal, they are a young female. Girls have a problem with phones. Nobody would argue with me if I said that guys have a problem with high speeds, as the insurance companies know. And I’m sorry but girls have a problem with phones. It’s just true. It might help to put on a PSA targeting them. But the ultimate solution is to just not let young people drive. It doesn’t make any sense to let these children drive. 90 percent of the time I observe a car doing something dangerous and I am able to see inside, it’s a young person. Letting people drive at 16 is fucking retarded.
And some enforcement of drunk driving would be nice too. The few times I’ve been at bars, I saw people streaming out the back at closing, all of them drunk with keys in their hands. Nobody does anything.
This is nonsense. So someone is going to buy a brand new car and then sell it at an enormous loss shortly after? The cost of the reliability and modern features has to be paid by someone and it doesn’t make any sense to assume that someone else is essentially going to pay for you by taking that loss. When people sell used cars it’s usually because there’s something wrong with it.
Yea, you can find nice used cars but it’s a crap shoot and not everyone has the time to wait around and look for that one car.
Yes, the key word in your argument is “if.” Who are these people who go around buying brand new cars and then selling them at huge losses shortly afterwards? It’s just not that common to find a guy who is selling a car like that who also has complete records on all the maintenance. At least in the us where people are very attached to their cars and also lazy.
The whole used car thing is just flat out wrong. If you are a mechanic and you know how to asses the health of a car perfectly and you are able to actually find a car that she not unreliable then maybe buying a used car would make sense. But even then you are giving up backup cameras, good mileage/hybrid tech and most importantly you are giving up the HUGE amount of progress that has been made in safety that is designed into the structure of the car. And on top of that you have to drive around an old beater that you aren’t proud to be seen in. Just buy a new Toyota Corolla. It’s guarnteed to be as reliable as possible, has a backup camera and modern safety features. And it looks good. But if you pay in cash it’s only 17k so you won’t be worried about dings anyway. In my opinion thats worth ~8k.
But for the average person buying a used car will result in huge reliability problems, being stranded on the side of the road multiple times and you’ll end up paying thousands for repairs anyway. Yes, we all know that one guy who bought a used Toyota and never had problems. There’s a reason why it’s an anecdote about “that one guy I know.”
FUD is a really stupid term. If there is any fear or uncertainty or doubt present in someone’s remark, then they are “FUD?” You could say that about almost anything. “I don’t think it would be a good idea to ride our bikes into that forest pathway because there seem to be lots of trees to run into and it probably isn’t kept up so there may be potholes and generally the whole thing doesn’t sit well with me.” “That’s just FUD, I’m going in.” This is the classic childhood story where one kid was smart enough to not go in and the other kid ends up with a broken arm and a concussion. My point is that not everything can be mathematically proven to be bad. Sometimes you have to reason about it and you have to deal with uncertainty. You can’t solve every problem by trying it out. Some things are better to not try. And AGI is the best example of that maybe ever.
With AGI the burden is on the proponents to prove beyond any doubt that AGI is completely safe. The burden is not on its detractors to prove that it will be bad for humanity. It’s only logical. If I am wrong and we abstain then we lose nothing. If you are wrong then we lose everything.
You are wrong. At least when it comes to AGI, which is the only kind of AI that really needs to be prevented from existing. Your conclusions are based on fuzzy thinking and extrapolating old and irrelevant data.
We can control businesses. And as for someone in their basement, it isn’t clear at all that one could develop AGI in their basement. AGIs discovery will probably require massive, massive amounts of compute. More than could fit in a basement or be powered by domestic grid connections without drawing attention.
Good luck holding the military back? You are talking about the US right? The military and every other government entity answers to the people either directly or indirectly. If enough ordinary people wanted it, the constitution of the United States itself could be amended into the ITunes terms of service. And since AGI is to the detriment of literally every human being on the planet, I think some basic legislation might be able to be passed.
Don’t succumb to these notions of hopelessness. They are wrong. And you even spread them around which just makes solving the problem even harder.
They used to do that. None of the oems wanted to build more than token, regulation satisfying nothing burgers so Tesla was forced to make their own cars. People don’t appreciate Tesla’s role in pushing Evs forward enough.
I did Uber driving a while ago. I just called Uber support and they told me that my pay in the Bay Area is now 68 cents per mile and 29 cents per minute. In November it was 99 cents per mile and 18 cents per minute. I’ve randomly pulled up a ride I gave in November in which I took a guy 3.8 miles taking 17 minutes. Back then I was paid 8.5 and if I did it today I would have been paid 9.1. Shorter trips would of course not fare so well. But short trips suck even with higher pay per mile because short trips rack up dead miles — the unpaid miles between trips.
Before, I prioritized miles. Getting the most miles in the shortest amount of time seemed like the best thing to do although I never sat down and thouroughly worked out what strategy would pay the most. There are lots of subtleties that make the calculation difficult. But with this new pay scheme it might actually pay off to go slowly. This would make rides safer overall but might increase incidences of missing an exit when your fare is lost in instagram.
Maintaining a Toyota Corolla costs roughly 20 cents per mile, especially if you do your own oil changes. And that includes depreciation.
If anyone from Uber happens to read this, I have to say that paying for dead miles would do a lot of good. I would happily give up tips for paid dead miles. Eliminating dead miles would allow drivers to drive anywhere and change the equation in a way that would be very beneficial to Uber overall as a service.
Also add a tiny fee for people who cancel ride after ride looking for the shortest eta. On average a driver wastes 20 cents every time someone does that, probably. So charge 20 cents for cancelling even if it’s immediately. The small group of people who like to treat Uber like an eta slot machine can do so, drivers won’t sit and wait for several minutes to trigger the cancelation fee and the vast majority of riders who don’t do it will only see a small improvement in service quality with no increase in price.