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Maybe they should look at Elon Musk - a Delaware court just blocked his pay of $56 billion (yes, billion with a 'B')!!!

fred1 said:

Not to pick nits, but the correct word is remuneration, not renumeration. 

The odd thing is, spell check accepts 'renumeration' as properly spelled. Assuming the folks at Apple Insider use Macs they are likely being duped by Apple!

I clicked on the Gizmodo link in the story which says 

"When contacted by Gizmodo, Dante Lentini confirmed that the video was a “skit” that he made with friends and that he wasn’t arrested. 

He claims he only drove with the headset for 30-40 seconds while driving his Tesla."

Assuming he was anywhere other than an empty parking lot it's still incredibly stupid, but it puts the story in an entirely different light.

For reference for those who don't know, Tesla's have attention monitoring software that activates whenever Autopilot or Full Self Driving is engaged. The car requires someone to be sitting in the driver's seat and the seatbelt to be buckled. It also tracks gaze and torque on the steering wheel. The gaze tracking is done via a camera over the rearview mirror and is not as good as the iPhone's. When it can't be used (e.g. night time, sunglasses) the system resorts to checking torque on the steering wheel periodically. It can detect the difference between a weight and your hands and will disengage if you try to use a weight to trick it. If it doesn't detect some sort of driver input it will nag you with an alert. The time between these nags can vary between 10 and 90+ seconds depending on the driving conditions (heavy city traffic with construction vs cruising straight on an uncontested interstate.) If the system sees you using your cell phone it will immediately disengage and disable itself for the rest of your drive.

Part of the problem is how things are calculated. Often the only thing that is examined is the hard cost in dollars. As has been repeatedly pointed out, the walled garden/gate keeper model has clear but intangible benefits that do not lend themselves to and actual dollar assignment. Security is a great example - how much is the security provided by the App Store worth? To me a great amount that easily trumps the few extra dollars I might spend.

Pretty typical - they (i.e. any company) won't make an app....until it makes sense for them to do so. If Vision Pro really catches on you can be sure many other companies will follow YouTube's lead.