The lynchpin in these arguments is that you'll somehow be able to summon a vehicle on a moments notice and all your usage will still be less expensive than personal ownership. The cost will be low because no humans are involved...

Except it didn't work for ZipCar or the rental agencies that have added hourly options -- sure it's not bad, but is it really pushing people out of car ownership? No...

Ride sharing similarly hasn't worked to push people out of car ownership either -- it's just killed traditional taxi services by compensating drivers less and eliminating the flag down monopoly some cities have maintained (a taxi medallion in Boston/NYC used to be worth hundreds of thousands... no one wants them now)

All these share options work for low use scenarios like the city dweller who wants a weekly trip to a shopping center, but for the daily commuter/driver it won't ever make sense... and it'll never make sense for those that need to keep things in their car like child seats, diapers, a walker, tools, etc...

Bike/Scooter shares haven't eliminated personal ownership either because of the scarcity issue at peak times.

My observation in that all of these things (plus delivery services, Amazon, etc.) can make a difference at the margins. If someone doesn't have a daily commute (or has a reasonable transit or bicycle/walk option) and otherwise isn't transporting themselves, other family members, home improvement stuff, etc. on a daily or near-daily basis, collectively they may let a household do without a car (or at least a second car).

A couple I know in SF don't have a car but they seem to make a lot of use of cars in some form or other pretty regularly.

Not to mention, do you really trust 20 strangers to treat your possessions as well as you do?

Have these people never been in the back of a taxi, or any kind of public transit?

I've pretty much abandoned Zipcar for this reason.

In the early days, it was great. But once membership increased, there was an increasing chance that I would get a car that was not particularly usable.

Filthy on the outside (dirt, mud, etc) and/or inside (dog hair, bodily fluids, etc).

Or a car that had one or more warning lights illuminated (check engine, brake, no wiper fluid, low gas, etc).

And each time I had to phone into Zipcar support to report it (and/or swap cars), otherwise the next user could report it -- leading to me being charged some cleaning fee or such.

The best experience I had was in Seattle when I entered a dirty Zipcar and called support who said I had to take the vehicle to a car wash otherwise they would charge me a cleaning fee.

While I understand I could have probably escalated to someone who understood the situation ("oh? you just got into the car 5 minutes ago?"), I decided it was a better use of my time to avoid short-term car rental programs altogether.

It'd be a pain in the ass for zipcar, but every parking space should have an attendant to do a quick once over every time someone parks a car.

Less hassle with verifying who actually trashed it, but also if you have to stare someone in the face after your ride, you'll probably be more respectful of the car.

But really, there's just not a satisfactory solution I can think of to make me want to use the service.

It's reasonable to assume an open door will prevent movement...

...being plugged in to a charger (that doesn't have some sort of automated disconnect) would also be disable.

The question is valid though after you've put the kid in and you're on 30 second excursion to push the shopping carriage back... what if the car is recalled? Seems like a potential disaster and tragedy.

> While I’m not saying summon is a great feature, it would not have hit the things you’re mentioning.

...and auto pilot won't drive into giant barriers in the middle of well-marked, and mapped, highway divide either, right?

Alaska might end up seasonally uninhabitable -- they have periods of the year where the sun doesn't set, with increased greenhouse gases in the area it could become intensely hot for periods of the year. Combine that with periodic ozone holes that appear over arctic areas and it might be just as nasty as areas we worry over today...

Areas near large bodies of stable fresh water are likely going to be livable for the longest periods as the planet rapidly shifts away from what we humans need.

Unemployment is probably a fraction of their salaries.

It's a shame

Appreciate your posting the filing.

Keep in mind, what you post to FCC is public with your contact info. Posting it here verbatim creates a linkage between your persona here and IRL. You may not mind, but it's something to consider.

Yeah, that train left the station a long long time ago. But it is good advice for people who haven't been on the net long enough. Another fun fact, get your HAM license and "whoops" they use your address as the station address.

The same is true for taxi services, fast food, and cashiers...

We're moving to a point where all low-value jobs will be replaced by either self-service or automation.

The question is what happens to the people who filled those jobs?

I can recall working in retail as a HS student and observing some of the full time staff and wondering what the heck these people would do without their job as cashier, now 25 years later that same store has replaced most cashiers with self checkout. What happened to those people? What job do they have today?

Having your life compromised is never comfortable, but it's never less comfortable then when you suddenly realize you're being watched and having your home "invaded" in a potentially very personal way.

So if I understand it, the scenario is the digital equivalent of someone who uses a single key to fit every lock in their lives -- front door, back door, car door, ignition, safe deposit box, etc...

The key is stolen, possibly through no specific fault of the owner, and the owner may not realize it has even happened...

...and then these discord shock jocks go off and brute force these compromised email/password combinations until they stumble upon a working pair and then the hapless victim is subjected to the electronic analog of them unlocking the front door of their home and bursting into the living room yelling "hahaha gotcha, kill yourself!"

...all in order to increase their views/ratings.

I think it's just a shitty thing to do, but even more so when it involves children, or people who have no control over the cameras (like animal shelter workers)... I suppose _maybe_ if they made an effort to alert the owner first, an email "hey we have your u/p, if you don't change it in 72 hours you're going to be on our show"...

I think the nulledcast crew ought to take a lesson from Jon Stewart: BE A FUCKING PERSON ... think about how shitty what you're doing is, and no, the fact that these people are saps with insecure logins does not mean they deserve this.

I'm trying to figure out exactly how these ring hacks are happening. My whole family and extended family is concerned about them. So just to be clear, there isn't a known vuln with Ring specifically, right? It's just that people's email/passwords are getting popped somewhere else on the internet, and then because of password reuse their Ring account is also compromised? Is that the gist of it?

Correct, there are no actual vulnerabilities in the hardware or whatever. It's that people are re-using passwords, getting phished etc.

But... based on the number of people I've seen had their Facebook account "hacked", there are going to be lots and lots of potential victims here. Enable 2fa, use a unique password for this account, and this will never happen to you.

Thats it. And as messed up as it is maybe people will finally wake up to using better passwords. I'm really tired of local news covering this stuff and barely mentioning or not mentioning at all how the "hackers" are getting into the accounts.

Like they woke up after the first decade of facebook "hacks". Or more likely they will continue on as normal until we stop using passwords as the only source of authentication.

Something you know. Something you have.

The typical two factor is a password (know) and SMS to a cellphone or code to an email (have).

...though that creates a vulnerability when the cell number can be ported, or the same password is used to access email... better to use authenticator apps or a physical "key".

The API that was dragged out of my company's software team ticks oh so many of these boxes...

It's eerie, almost as if the author tried to use our system and then decided to write this...

It is interesting...

Makes you wonder if the things they are claiming to have working, and the accomplishments, are actually true, or just smoke as they hope for a high flying payday by a cash flush competitor hoping to buy advancements.