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Comment Betting The Company Gone Wrong (Score 3, Insightful) 18

Luminar bet their company on a promise from Volvo that the EX90 would launch on time and have a certain sales volume. The EX90 was several years late and an engineering dumpster fire that nobody is buying. So sadly, their demise is pretty directly Volvo's fault (and before you go all racist and say "but the Chinese", no, it was idiots in Sweden that made prophetic declarations about how their SPA2 platform would be glorious without knowing how computers actually work and ended up making a car that (big surprise) didn't work.

It's a shame. I had the luck to work with a Luminar Iris lidar and it was pretty cool. Its disappointing to see them end like this.

Comment Re: My last corvette (Score 2) 218

As someone who worked with AAOS for Volvo/Polestar, updates are absolutely NOT handled by Google. AAOS updates are handled by the OEMs. The OEMs deal with integrating their UI, custom services and apps, and core functionality on AAOS. Google provides the OEM AAOS and maybe GAS, and itâ(TM)s entirely up to te OEM to make something work.

Comment Re:Oppressive idea (Score 5, Informative) 146

I live in Sweden and have an e-bike that is legally regulated as a moped, a Specialized Turbo Vado 6. It came with a CoC for submission to the transport agency for license plates and it has a VIN decal behind the head. The bike comes with a license plate mount. It also has a moped grade headlight with high-beam, hydraulic disc brakes, and an electric horn. It has no throttle, but it does have pedal assist up to 45km/h. To ride it, you need an AM-class drivers license and moped insurance. It looks like a bicycle, rides like a bicycle, but definitely should not be ridden by someone who does not have moped experience. I'm perfectly ok with the regulation on it.

Comment Re: Robots ARE Ai. (Score 1) 33

The article is mixing two different products up and itâ(TM)s confusing. Jetson AGX is the basic platform for robotics and AI computing. Drive AGX utilizes the same chip, but there are other features that do not exist in Jetson, like ASIL-B compliance for the big ARM cores when running QNX, and ASIL-D compliance when running an AUTOSAR stack on the functional safety island (FSI) based on Cortex-R cores. The FSI could also run FreeRTOS to avoid costs with FuSa software but still be a hard realtime environment. Drive AGX supports ECC memory also. It also is not a baremetal platform like Jetson: Drive AGX runs a hypervisor and either DriveOS Linux or QNX runs in that hypervisor. You can even have multiple VMs. Jetson has an EDKII compliant EFI, Drive AGX does not. I could go onâ¦

Comment Re: actually secure your domain ? (Score 1) 167

Tell us you donâ(TM)t live in Sweden without telling us you donâ(TM)t live in Sweden.

A BankID authentication for a transaction always states who is requesting it (which may be fraudulent) and for how much the transaction is for. Itâ(TM)s no different from signing a contract you donâ(TM)t actually read.

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