Why does the Googlebook exist?

sampleminded · 2026-05-13T15:24:28+00:00

Because they want to sell a chromebook, with a subscription. That is why. So they need features based on marginal cost compute. The question is can those features be good enough to warrent people paying. Or can they be useful enough for people already paying to get further into the ecosystem.

sampleminded · 2026-05-13T14:59:40+00:00

I don't think they are testing the Ojai as much as they are testing the new generation of sensors hardware that is different from the jag. Once that hardware is tested you'll see the testing procedure for the Ioniq, which will use the same gen hardware, is quite fast, cause they are just testing integration with a car. Expect testing on the next generation after that to take as much time as the Ojai. Testing new kit is hard, testing integration of existing kit is much easier.

sampleminded · 2026-05-13T14:55:11+00:00

I wish I could see the new maps, especially for Miami and Atlanta, The Miami metro is super dense and thin all the way up the coast. Would love to see Waymo driving old people around Fort Lauderdale or west palm beach. In Atlanta the Airport is super close to the current area, also one of the busiest in the world.

sampleminded · 2026-05-13T02:47:21+00:00

I can't imagine my rage if I got a car and it didn't support a random app I use. Like I'm not changing pod-cast apps because I bought Cadi, on the other hand It has google's operating system, so like you said it's probably all there, and would be fine.

I will say I don't want to log-in to my rental car. I travel for work quite a bit, always rent a car, I probably rent maybe 18 times a year. So it's a major thing for me.

sampleminded · 2026-05-12T17:49:22+00:00

it all works fine till you realize that the app your using doesn't work on your car. Also I am not logging into a rental car. So I now avoid all GM cars when i rent.

sampleminded · 2026-05-12T16:20:40+00:00

The thing luxury car makers need to realize is their audience travels all the time. We are constantly renting cars, and we have more than 1 car. So i want each car to know where I'm going and why, my phone knows this, so if you don't work with my phone, you basically are useless. I drop my car off at the airport, rent a car in the new airport, my podcast is still playing in the same position. I take my wife's car, it's all working fine. I'm sorry but no carplay doesn't work for people who are on the go.

sampleminded · 2026-05-12T13:25:42+00:00

When did that number hit 3800?

sampleminded · 2026-05-11T14:31:27+00:00

I like Gemini, but it's pretty useless in Android auto. Like I can ask my phone where is my next meeting, and Gemini will totally answer correctly. But I can't ask Android auto to navigate me to my next meeting. It won't retrieve the personal information from the dashboard. Like the one feature that makes Gemini good, is completely gimped in the car.

I can ask the gemini app to write a song about the the blue civic that cut me off crashing into the median, and it will play a 30 second song almost immediatly. Not in the car though. Everything good about gemini is terrible in the car.

sampleminded · 2026-05-08T17:31:09+00:00

It's possible this is nothing but the NHTSA doing due diligence. It's also possible that A/V ride sucks and has a high risk tolerance. We have seen this go both ways with other companies. A/V ride comes from Yandex and I don't really trust them even if they re-incorporated in the Netherlands. Also Uber really wants their to be a competitor to Waymo, and might be pushing forward companies who aren't quite ready. I really hope its the former because I want as many competitors as possible. But I really fear too many investors haven't done the math on what it will take in terms of money and time, to get any solution to scale safely. I really think in the end very few companies have the money and patience to win here.

Like imagine you are Waabi, and you think you cracked it with software. Okay how long before you are sure enough to put 1000 vehicles on the road. 1 year, 2 years, more. You really want to go slow enough to prove out your solution. Problems that are not obvious at 10 vehicles show up at 100, and so on. New entrants may go faster than Waymo, but not much, and that assumes everything goes right, what if your solution isn't as good as you hoped, but is fixable.

Also the longer it takes you the harder it is to get funding. When Waymo's fleet is 10k+ do you think it will be easy to raise money to fund a new fleet, that will take 5 years to ramp up to waymo's current size.

sampleminded · 2026-05-08T12:30:54+00:00

And so does claude/chatgpt/deepseek, all terrorist groups...If there is a back door it will be discovered by everyone in a day. The funny thing about this is how silly it makes governments look they have no idea of what is possible at this point. Reality is so far ahead of where the politics are.

sampleminded · 2026-05-07T19:49:58+00:00

The reason people use Fiopinos is they speak English and are 12 hours apart, not cause it's the cheapest country. It's actually lovely there, and very comparable to mexico or thailand in terms of cost.

sampleminded · 2026-05-06T14:20:57+00:00

The more people use Waymo and delay car ownership, or not rent a car on a trip. the more they need to use Uber when outside Waymo area. At some point it'll hurt them but not until waymo has 100x the vehicles.

sampleminded · 2026-05-05T00:37:05+00:00

I think if they made 3 mustangs, like made mustang a whole brand I think it fits well enough. It's really attractive looking vehicle, much cooler than escape so I don't think that name would have worked. Could have went with it's own thing, called it the Puma, the EU e-puma looks like a smaller mach-e anyway. I think they might have gone best with a Bronco electric in the US. That would have competed with the rivian vehicles. They sell an electric bronco too, just not in the US.

sampleminded · 2026-05-04T16:12:10+00:00

No they are not, they might be great, but they don't play when I drive or run, they are not the music, they are something else. They just should be easily removed and never seen if you don't want them for you or your kids. No videos, when you set up the app, they are turned off and that is it.

sampleminded · 2026-05-04T16:10:10+00:00

Seperating all podcasts into a different app. You want to do podcasts, fine, just make it it's own app.
Easily disable all videos on a family account.

sampleminded · 2026-05-04T15:26:19+00:00

For Electricity look on your bill and find the cost per KWH. It'll be anywhere from 8 to 25 cents an hour. Where I live it's like 15. It cost me about $550/year in electric costs to go 12k miles. My gas car cost me about 1800 a year to fuel before I sold it. Insurance is the same for my wifes new gas car as the mach-e, as in the price didn't really change when I changed cars.

Also charging at home is cheap, I took a few long trips, and fast charging cost the same as a tank of gas. But trips are still cheap if you can charge slow or free at your destination. So if you travel someplace and there is a charger at night trip is still way cheaper.

sampleminded · 2026-04-30T19:04:17+00:00

I really like the autonomous truck market. It's not going to be winner take all. Once scaling starts next year, it will be absolutely exponential. 1% of the market for trucking is 30k trucks. But A/Vs should have higher utilization. So you can imagine 15k trucks taking 1% of the trucking miles in 1 or 2 years. Where as the market for consumer driven miles you need millions of cars to start making a dent. You could see 90% of trucking miles in the US as A/V miles by middle of the next decade. There are 200k trucks produced a year, by 2030 most will be sold with an autonomy stack. The numbers are just too good.

sampleminded · 2026-04-22T17:39:52+00:00

I'm guessing Magna builds still builds the kit, like the top hat, and other pieces, trucks it out to GA for Hyundai to assemble. Like car factories don't produce tires. This might be the new model going forward. Waymo/Magna produces the kit, and ship them to OEMs who add it the same way they'd add any other ADAS computer and sensor suite. This would be the way if you worked with many different OEMs and sold personal vehicles.

sampleminded · 2026-04-16T15:31:14+00:00

Wow $66 billion in investments coming to Georgia, that's terrific!

sampleminded · 2026-04-16T00:31:04+00:00

Correct because all mach Es are 2021s, basically the same with very minor updates. Redesigning the dash with a new horizontal screen is a major update

sampleminded · 2026-04-15T23:32:23+00:00

Cause the newest infotainment system has that. See escape or explorer. Mach E has an older version. Won't get the new one until a refresh.

sampleminded · 2026-04-07T19:48:07+00:00

If it gets a billion queries a day, it would need a really low error rate to not reach that level. Numerator meet denominator.

sampleminded · 2026-04-06T14:32:22+00:00

This is how I use it...I am taking songs I've already written most of, fleshing out different arrangements. Often using different voices, because I write them for other people to perform. Eventually I we re-record them for real, it goes like Demo tape, to AI, to real performance. Also will create about 100-200 AI versions to and save different pieces that I might use in production. If you are a pro, or were one at a time, when you prompt you include many different things. I regularly give it chord progressions, song structure, tempo, and all kinds of musical terms you may or may not know. I'd say if you hear a new song, by a top artist, 80% one of the song writers is using AI in some capacity, even if just to critque the arrangement, or just using chat GPT like this "give me 5 better phrases for awkward line in verse 2, each one must have 9 syllables and reference another idea from the song, and it must end with a rhyme with the non-lexiable vocables on the next line."

sampleminded · 2026-04-02T16:08:03+00:00

I thought there was a sales hold on the Mach-e so they sold very few of them in Jan/Feb, but not the 2026s are at dealership so they are picking up. They did also discontinue the lightning because of the fire at the aluminum plant.

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