There was an initial reaction from Linus on his forums where he massively doubled down on his stance that he had not done anything wrong with the review model LTT had auctioned off without permission (I can’t remember the name of the company). He had even accused GN of not following “journalistic standards” by not giving LTT a chance to put their side forward.

This was met with another video from GN, and overall criticism over the dismissive attitude Linus was displaying. That’s when they came out with a YT video, admitting their numerous faults, and Linus himself admitted that the way he responded on the forum was not acceptable.

Pretty much doubled down initially, till they realised that they’re in actual deep waters.

Never been to US, so I won’t comment on the specific infra.

However, I have lived in multiple cities, and have seen multiple cities build their metro networks from scratch in 20 years. And they’ve been absolutely over and beyond what could’ve been achieved by any improvement in car infrastructure, apart from demolishing entire houses and shops to expand the roads on both sides.

Sequential sharing isn’t sharing. That’s how any cab operators functions.

The problems you’re mentioning aren’t problems with human drivers, but the problems with perfect allocation. Robo taxis won’t solve them.

I’m not sure what you mean here by Downtown.

But again, if all you’re looking for is a good transport system from one high population density area (airports almost always are) to another high population density area, you’ll be better served by having a reliable and decently fast metro train or the likes, than a cab, as long as people don’t mind walking for 5-10 minutes from their closest stop. If that distance is higher, by all means taxis are amazing for last mile connectivity. But expecting cars to solve public transport at large has always looked like a losing battle to me.

I’d argue against that.

The concept of robot taxi sounds nice, but it devolves into an unsustainable mess. Ride sharing isn’t simple, especially when we talk about uncertain way points. Meaningfully matching cases where people can share a robot car with completely random drop off is a logistical nightmare. I used to work at a Ride hailing company as an analyst, and people being unhappy with the duration of the shared ride was the biggest issue for that category (removing for generic cases like payment issues).

Additionally, I’m sure it’s going to be a safety factor. I’m unlikely to get into a car with a random stranger when there’s literally no one else in the car. Miss me with trusting some corporate with safety in such cases.

But that also discredits me from ever asking an LLM a question which I don’t already know the answer to. If I have to go through the links to get my info, we already have search engines for it.

The entire point of LLM with Web search was to summarise the info correctly which I have seen them fail at, continuously and hilariously.

The copilot app doesn’t seem to be any better.

Pretty much all land borders are lines drawn on map 😅

Not OP, but dogmatic reverence of men, and rampant misogyny.

Older political leaders have said things on like “Boys make these kind of mistakes, girls should be more careful” over a case of rape that made national news in the past.

We wish things would change, but the lax attitude towards woman safety, and autonomy is a battle that needs to be fought daily.