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I never gave credit to my electricity company for delivering electricity to me. I only get mad when there is an outage.

by whatever1 4mo ago

HerbManic 4mo ago
Just remember, the power grid fails in theory but works in practice.
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m463 4mo ago
I think of electric vehicle fires and jet airliner crashes. Also, telsa self-driving. yes, we know about the greatly publicized accidents, or the tweets of the founder, but the avoided incidents not so much.
- thx67 4mo ago
  This is where the industry made and continues to make mistakes wrt autonomous driving. They should be able to quantitatively say how many crashes were reduced, avoided and spotted. The autonomous safety system should be running all the time and it should detect not only issues with primary vehicle but it should also catalog issues it sees in other vehicles in its vicinity. We shouldn't have gotten AD before we got automated crash avoidance.
  - projektfu 4mo ago
    My car (Honda Prologue) is a little bit of a nervous Nellie, warning me to brake when someone is turning out of my lane, but it has definitely noticed developing situations many times before I have.
    - oenton 4mo ago
      I’m curious, what’s an example of a developing situation it detected for you? I ask because after car pooling with a friend in their Tesla a few times I can confidently say I would never trust what Tesla calls FSD. Forget developing situations, there were some close calls with what’s immediately in front of it. Think- about to miss a left turn at 40mph or drive into construction cones that are blocking a lane. I think I’d prefer basic driver assistance over that.
      - projektfu 4mo ago
        My car doesn't drive itself beyond adaptive cruise, but the brake warning is a little sensitive. It's noticed cases where traffic was coming to a stop before I did.
tikhonj 4mo ago
Counterpoint: I absolutely give credit to Sonic for being a great ISP and recommend them to everyone. I got my parents to switch when Sonic finally rolled out to their neighborhood. If online comments are anything to go by, I'm not alone. If you're in the Bay Area and you can get a Sonic fiber connection, I would highly recommend them over AT&T/Comcast/etc.
- JimsonYang 4mo ago
  Its either end of the spectrum-you do the best job(top 10%) or your everyone else. If you only do middle of the pack(for one reason or another-cost, talent, etc) you become incentivized to cause problems then fix it. Thus a net negative to society *Also recommend sonic-their pricing and service is top tier
jesterson 4mo ago
Well in a way you do. They send you a fine bill every month and you do credit some of your allegedly hard earned bucks.
blitzar 4mo ago
> I never gave credit to my electricity company That's what the moneys for ...

I never gave credit to my electricity company for delivering electricity to me. I only get mad when there is an outage.

HerbManic 4mo ago

Just remember, the power grid fails in theory but works in practice.

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m463 4mo ago

I think of electric vehicle fires and jet airliner crashes. Also, telsa self-driving. yes, we know about the greatly publicized accidents, or the tweets of the founder, but the avoided incidents not so much.

thx67 4mo ago
This is where the industry made and continues to make mistakes wrt autonomous driving. They should be able to quantitatively say how many crashes were reduced, avoided and spotted. The autonomous safety system should be running all the time and it should detect not only issues with primary vehicle but it should also catalog issues it sees in other vehicles in its vicinity. We shouldn't have gotten AD before we got automated crash avoidance.
- projektfu 4mo ago
  My car (Honda Prologue) is a little bit of a nervous Nellie, warning me to brake when someone is turning out of my lane, but it has definitely noticed developing situations many times before I have.
  - oenton 4mo ago
    I’m curious, what’s an example of a developing situation it detected for you? I ask because after car pooling with a friend in their Tesla a few times I can confidently say I would never trust what Tesla calls FSD. Forget developing situations, there were some close calls with what’s immediately in front of it. Think- about to miss a left turn at 40mph or drive into construction cones that are blocking a lane. I think I’d prefer basic driver assistance over that.
    - projektfu 4mo ago
      My car doesn't drive itself beyond adaptive cruise, but the brake warning is a little sensitive. It's noticed cases where traffic was coming to a stop before I did.

tikhonj 4mo ago

Counterpoint: I absolutely give credit to Sonic for being a great ISP and recommend them to everyone. I got my parents to switch when Sonic finally rolled out to their neighborhood. If online comments are anything to go by, I'm not alone. If you're in the Bay Area and you can get a Sonic fiber connection, I would highly recommend them over AT&T/Comcast/etc.

JimsonYang 4mo ago
Its either end of the spectrum-you do the best job(top 10%) or your everyone else. If you only do middle of the pack(for one reason or another-cost, talent, etc) you become incentivized to cause problems then fix it. Thus a net negative to society *Also recommend sonic-their pricing and service is top tier

jesterson 4mo ago

Well in a way you do. They send you a fine bill every month and you do credit some of your allegedly hard earned bucks.

blitzar 4mo ago

> I never gave credit to my electricity company That's what the moneys for ...