I agree that they are historically important, but if you want to query old thinking in 2070, you'd probably be better off having a modern model analyze archive.org. If that ever goes down, we're sunk.

In my experience as the head of data science in a corporation, everybody uses Windows on their local machines and Linux remotely.

When my daughter turned five and received her final book in the mail, it came with a letter that still makes me tear up.

At work I use a tech stack written years and years ago in .Net that runs on a server we own in a colo. We use a CDN for some latency-sensitive serving, but almost everything is self-hosted. It's amazing how cheap it is for us to run a reasonably sizeable application.

It wouldn't necessarily lower prices. Waymo could compete on quality instead of price. If you offer a better and safer service than the competition (human and AV) why lower prices at all? There's a reason Waymo often charges more than Uber+tip.

I agree with you. Look at railroads, cars, computers, and other technologies that really did end up being world-changing. How many of the original companies are still around?

Sometimes I feel like OpenAI will end up like Fairchild Semiconductor: an early innovator that quickly became an historical footnote.

Yup, every time I'm on a city bus they have a screen that cycles through the different cameras. They really have every angle covered. And some of our buses even have traffic enforcement cameras that issue tickets to cars.

> scheduling constraint

Honestly I think this is the only real advantage of a self-driving bus. Driving a bus is hard work and it doesn't pay well. Getting drivers to cover all the routes every day is an ongoing challenge.

I would honestly be nervous to ride a self-driving bus much of the time. Drivers limit the level of shenanigans that can happen. The subway has emergency intercoms and staff at every single station, but a bus could take you miles away from the nearest transit cop.

Bus drivers don't make much money, at least not here in the United States. I was shocked when I learned how low the average salary is, considering you might be tasked with navigating a massive vehicle carrying dozens of people through narrow streets during rush hour. And I'm not even considering the customer service aspects and public safety aspects of what they do.

All that to say, we are far from the point where a self-driving bus is cheaper than buying a regular bus and paying a driver.

Done. I grew up in suburban Michigan. I moved to Washington DC for college 20 years ago and I'm still here. When looking to buy a house, we only looked at options with public transit access.

I know it's not for everyone, but if you really do value being able to go out without driving, it's a great lifestyle.

Yes, I agree. Did the same thing moving Florida to Portland, OR after college.

Most people say they want the benefit without giving anything up. Tends to not work that well lol