welshdog

sdw2001 said:

rmusikantow said:

There will not be cars without steering wheels for a very long time. The technology is not close to making this a reasonable option.

Depending on your definition of "very long time" and "not close," I agree.  Two links:  

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15079828/autonomous-self-driving-car-levels-car-levels/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/07/09/elon-musk-tesla-will-have-level-5-self-driving-cars-this-year/?sh=b459abc2d1d6

So technology-wise, we are basically at level 4.  In the mainstream market (say, sub-$45K), most cars are at level 1 or 2.  Some, like Tesla, are at level 3. We are not far from premium brands being able to deploy level 4.  How long that takes to go mainstream is a question.  I can say that as someone who buys cars frequently (in my family, probably every 2-3 years between us), my 2019 Kia is the first with any automation whatsoever (lane assist).  The car I had before that...a 2015 upper level Hyundai sedan, had nothing.  

My best guess is we are a good 10 years away from level 5 autonomous vehicles being somewhat mainstream.  We're probably 20+ years away from the majority of vehicles being level 5.  

dysamoria said:

welshdog said:

hammeroftruth said:

In contrast, what happened to whoever decided to throttle the processor on iPhones when your battery was failing? I didn’t see an apology from them. 

What's wrong with throttling a CPU to save battery and avoid an uncontrolled and potentially data damaging shutdown?

Not explaining to the user that you’re doing it, and why, and letting them have reduced functionality without explanation. But this doesn’t even answer why my phone’s typing lag has become almost intolerable, since I disabled that throttling function (they don’t give you an option to turn it back on BTW) and the OS hasn’t been changed since the last iOS 12.x release and its performance continues to get worse. Either the typing services on Apple’s servers is getting really bogged down, or the CPU throttling is still happening regardless of tapping on the hyperlink to disable it, or there’s something else going on.

It’s also bad because people buy new phones when their current one seems slow, and they don’t know why that would be the case. End users aren’t tech people and don’t know what questions to ask. They have one option: try a new phone. That benefits Apple.

But you should already know all of this.

hammeroftruth said:

In contrast, what happened to whoever decided to throttle the processor on iPhones when your battery was failing? I didn’t see an apology from them.