It is very unreliable though. I hope Android 17 improves it, as other than the restart issues, I've generally found it to be very functional.

And yet people are skeptical. I mean, they should be skeptical, given that the company is using this for marketing purposes. It doesn't make sense to just believe them.

But it is strange to see this healthy skepticism juxtaposed with the many unskeptical comments attached to recent Electrek articles with outlandish claims.

None of those millions of miles resulted in a smoking gun showing the cars to be even 2x worse.

And yet a badly written blog thinks they've shown them to be 3x worse with professional monitors? This is indeed an extraordinary claim.

Starlink has largely defied those expectations thanks to their approach to optimize launch costs.

It is possible that I'm overlooking some similar fundamental advancement that would make this less impractical than it sounds. I'm still really skeptical.

I think a lot of people in the industry forget just how much change has come from 30 years of incremental progress.

That needs extraordinary evidence. Instead the evidence is misleading guesses.

That was based on a sample size of 9 crashes. In the month following that, they've added one more crash while also increasing the miles driven per month.

The headline could just as easily be about the dramatic decline in their crash rate! Or perhaps the data is just too small to analyze like this, and Electrek authors being their usual overly dramatic selves.

Don't be surprised if something else takes its place as they do need something larger than Y and less expensive than X was.

As much as I dislike it, I can't disagree with the business case here. They already have >300k monthly subscribers at about $100/month. That business will grow rapidly from here as well as the robotaxi business itself.

Within 2 years, this business will look radically different just because of these two changes.

It sounds like this would be giving ~5% of the factory space to Optimus production, which seems reasonable.

I've used a version that had a bd stats and a bd status that both had almost the same content in slightly different formats. Later versions appear to have made them an alias for the same thing. I've also had a version where the daemon consistently failed to start and there were no symptoms other than every command taking 5 seconds. In general, the optimization with the daemon is a questionable choice. It doesn't really need to be _that_ fast.

And yet, even after all of that it still has managed to be useful and generally fairly reliable.

However, the gas town one was almost completely hands off. I think my only interventions were due to how beta it was, so I had to help it work around its own bugs to keep from doing stupid things.

Other than that, it implemented exactly what I asked for in a workable fashion with effectively one prompt. It would have taken several prompts and course corrections to get the same result without it.

Other than the riskyness (it runs in dangerous permissions mode) and incredible cost inefficiency, I'd certainly use it.

It was also one of my favorite posts of his and has aged incredibly well as my experience has grown.

It is never a sign of health when they become the main thing.

The 6-7s EVs feel much faster than that!

Having said that, there are some that are fairly mediocre without being completely terrible. The FWD Equinox EV as well as the FWD EV9 are acceptable to some people, but also pretty slow cars.