The police have to follow a legal process or the city gets sued. While parking citations are technically issued to vehicles and the registered owner is ultimately responsible to clear those citations, moving violations are issued to vehicle operators and the issuance of those citations require specific data that cannot be gathered from an autonomous vehicle.

These are the operational issues that SHOULD HAVE been sorted out prior to the vehicles being allowed to operate in public, but it wasn't until last year when a bill was passed (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fleginfo.legislature.ca.gov%2Ffaces%2FbillTextClient.xhtml%3Fbill_id%3D202320240AB1777) that got us a TINY BIT closer to holding a company responsible for the actions of their autonomous vehicles' actions.

I don't have access to a 404 Media account, so I can't see just how severe of an issue this is. "Landlords are..." is such a vague, clickbait assertion.

So, there have been a lot of 404 Media articles showing up on Slashdot as of late and they seem to do very interesting journalism, but I'm not going to create yet another account to read an article. Is there a way for Slashdot to share a bit more of the article so we're not all just trying to form opinions and partake in discussions having only read a summary?

I know of a few personally that are YEARS delayed. Oracle skates on through all these failures knowing that their customers will be too ashamed to talk about these massive failures.

It would be wise for them to go public and maybe bring suit in a class action.

It hasn't even been a year. It's only been 8 months. Three of those months have been summer break with many universities resorting to layoffs. The students on semester schedules have been in class for around a month. The quarter-system campuses are coming back to class now.

More layoffs are coming. We'll see the true tumult by December 2025/January 2026.

I pretty much ignore all statements about the impending revolution of autonomous vehicles because we're honestly still not that close to them "rolling out" to all areas. For that, they need:

Capability
          The vehicles need to operate independent of human interaction *beyond* just driving a route safely. They need to be able to respond to commands from law enforcement and first responders. They need to act to protect their passengers when someone outside the vehicle attempts to harm a passenger. They need to break the law only when absolutely necessary (ex. accelerate beyond the speed limit to legally pass a slow vehicle). They need to be able to travel on ALL legal roads, driveways, parking lots, and parking structures. It needs to be "Level 5".

  Imagine what you would expect from the "perfect" driver... that's what they need because...

Liability
          The liability puzzle is yet to be solved. Massively centralized liability will obliterate a dominant manufacturer of autonomous vehicles if the vehicles aren't operating close to perfectly. Let's consider actual numbers:

1. In the US, there are approx. 42,000 road deaths per year.
2. Imagine that 100% AVs reduce road deaths by 95% resulting in only 2,100 deaths per year.
3. Remember: You don't get any credit for NOT killing anyone. You WILL get punished for everyone you DO kill.
4. Which company can survive the litigation of regularly and directly killing so many people?

Trust
          People still don't trust autonomous vehicles because the general population has only seen little bits of it. Lane assist, pedestrian warnings, Tesla's Level 2 autopilot, etc. Given that most American vehicle shave a 12-year life, most people have vehicles without any AV-style features outside of cruise control which almost no one uses. As mainstream vehicles continue to integrate more AV features, though, the general public will soften up to the idea.

Cost
          A genuine level 4 AV (Waymo) is incredibly expensive (around the price of a Mercedes Maybach) and requires remote employees (more cost) to take control as necessary. No one (company, person, or government) has the funds to deck out their local roads with level 4 AVs to meet the vehicle demand of their cities.

The real news in AVs is when there's progress in these areas. If it doesn't fit into one of these buckets, then it's not getting us closer to general AV readiness.

I work at a major university with a whole bunch of very different people. I've never personally seen an iPhone in the wild without a case. Ya, it's stupid design, but it's far from a deal breaker for pretty much the entire market.

The BIG risk of this is in resale. If you're a person who tries to trade in/up during every generation, there will be yet another reason for the whomever to mark down the value of your trade-in iPhone 17-- scratches.

What happens to residential electricity pricing is very specific to region. In California, the cost of PG&E's electricity has skyrocketed due to wildfires. You just need to spark a couple wildfires during a mega-drought and high winds then suddenly WHAMO! -- $30 billion dollar settlement, bankruptcy proceedings, (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPacific_Gas_and_Electric_Company%23Wildfires), and a mandate to put 10,000 miles of above-ground power lines underground.

All of that is extremely expensive. They need to pay for it. They increase user rates to pay for it.

And before someone says, "The problem is that they're a private entity! They should be owned by the state!!," please do recognize that you don't want those power lines under public liability. You should never, ever want your government to adopt an ailing system... because the lawsuits will increase and the payouts will be larger because then the plaintiffs will be reaching into every single taxpayers' pockets.

Anytime there's an economic downturn, companies reduce their advertising budget. That includes reducing their own advertising staff and reducing their paid advertising expenses. The result is always cuts in media budgets who primarily bank on advertising revenue for operations.

Some podcasts are already adapting by asking regular listeners to join premium tiers (and the great ones get great buy-in) or moving their podcasts to subscription services like SiriusXM to kept a piece of the subscription revenue.

The difficulty of obtaining a American driver's licensure varies literally from city to city and the license is valid throughout the entire United States. Many of the least competent people obtain and retain their licensure throughout their lives despite vision issues, decreased decision-making abilities, infractions, and crimes.

By contrast, it is MUCH more difficult to get a license due to the higher standard of driving and it's much easier to LOSE one's license.

There are road differences between the two nations, but the PRIMARY difference is the standard to legally drive vehicles.

It sounds old and stodgy, but having lived through so many investor-fueled booms and busts, I tend to agree. Investing in a company (buying shares) should result in an apportionment of profits-- that's all. If we're ever going to have any semblance of a stable economy, we have to stop assuming that there will be a greater fool.

Non-Libertarian here. While the market is good for many things (multiple iterations bearing out a better product or business model), I assert that some things are just too important to leave to the market. For example, we don't want to let the market decide if thalidomide should be prescribed to expecting mothers because the market can be so very drastically wrong... or slow... or intentionally manipulated and exploitative.

When people are at risk of harm or exploitation, "leaving it to the market" is like sending lambs to slaughter. Thus, given the massive amount of public funds, retirements, and life savings invested, I don't think the appropriateness of accounting standards for publicly-traded companies should be left to the market to decide.

The LTSE has neat principles, but their requirements are insufficiently stringent to absolve them of their obligations to fully inform their financial investors. Consider their requirements to list:

1. Serves the interests of a broad group of stakeholders
2. Measures success over long time horizons that stretch from years to decades
3. Implementing compensation plans for executives and directors that reward long term performance
4. Giving directors a crucial role in the setting of strategy and the monitoring of progress
5. Engaging with long term shareholders

Every single one of those requirements is gameable. Consider:

1. Everyone likes to make money. We make money. Check!
2. We evaluate revenue over multiple years. Check!
3. Double-extra bonus for C-suite that's stuck around for 5+ years. Check!
4. Meetings happen. Check!
5. Shareholders calls. Check!

Wow... so innovative. (sarcasm) Their requirements are insufficient to assuage the financial concerns with business operations that instigated the quarterly report standard.

Yes, having accountants costs money. Being responsible stewards of corporate funds is hard. Good accountancy is one of the most important LONG-TERM financial success strategies. You don't want to fly by the seat of your pants, loose millions of dollars in random unaccounted-for accounts, or fraudulently use funds that are restricted as customer deposits as investment capitol, right? RIGHT? (See: FTX)

Ya... that's why quarterly reports are necessary.

This is a standard Bloomberg "check out how easy it is to get money once you already have money" article. Clickbait at its core.

At 26 years old, most people don't have the experience to call themselves "a former" anything.

Exceedingly few self-supporting 26 year olds have enough money in an account to call "savings".

That means that he had OVER $40,000 in cash savings to put into that portfolio at the age of 26. The median HOUSEHOLD has $8,000 in savings.

Let's take a look at another profile:

Oh... so he had a very high paying job for an extended period of time, now has insider information, and is now telling people they can make magic easy money by buying his stuff and doing something different?...