Heavy shade thrown from someone inside the Apple culture on how others’ “fire, ready, aim” technology products fail to deliver.

When you buy an Apple product you don’t expect it to be in a testing phase. You expect a product of its highest quality and performance. This hardware development culture is also reflected in the software and service development culture at Apple.

I’ll never forget this one time when I was at a meeting with a product team from Apple TV, and someone said that we could do a release on the web and mobile platform, but we didn’t have the experience ready for TV. So the PM said “if we can’t launch the best experience across all our platforms now, we’re not launching it at all. If we need to wait another year to deliver the best experience for our customers, we’ll wait.”

I even got the chills! Never in my entire career have I heard a PM saying that we would delay the release to launch the best experience that people deserve to get.

Note that “people deserve” something in Apple terms. I like that.

It reminds me of the time I tried, and failed, to convince a friend working at Apple that they should stay instead of work for Uber. They went to Uber and got very, very rich while being a horrible person detached from morality or reality. And from there, as Uber fell apart, they went to work at Facebook, to get even more rich, being an even worse human.

Looking back it makes sense why they couldn’t stay at Apple. They didn’t care about anyone deserving anything, except themselves.

On that note, let’s just take a minute to recognize the extreme opposite from Apple. Tesla clearly believes people don’t deserve anything, which is why the poorly engineered and dangerously unprepared Tesla so often even takes their customer’s life away from them.

A new study shows that race car drivers blink their eyes in the exact same “safe” places to maintain control and avoid crashes around high-risk maneuvers.

We studied three top-level racing drivers. Their eyeblinks and driving behavior were acquired during practice sessions. The results revealed that the drivers blinked at surprisingly similar positions on the courses. We identified three factors underlying the eyeblink patterns: the driver’s individual blink count, lap pace associated with how strictly they followed their pattern on each lap, and car acceleration associated with when/where to blink at a moment. These findings suggest that the eyeblink pattern reflected cognitive states during in-the-wild driving and experts appear to change such cognitive states continuously and dynamically.

Three drivers is a start. Would like to see this study done with hundreds of thousands of drivers using ADAS in Los Angeles.

The UN report details a March 2022 military operation in Moura, Mali that lasted a week.

Investigators from the UN human rights office concluded that there are strong indications that more than 500 people were killed – the majority in extrajudicial killings – by Malian troops and foreign military personnel believed to be from Wagner, a mercenary outfit run by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close ally of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, which was linked to the massacre by internal messages obtained by the Guardian last year. […] “These are extremely disturbing findings,” said Volker Türk, the UN high commissioner for human rights. “Summary executions, rape and torture during armed conflict amount to war crimes and could, depending on the circumstances, amount to crimes against humanity.” […] Witnesses reported seeing “armed white men” who spoke an unknown language operating alongside the Malian forces and at times appearing to supervise operations, the report found. It cites witnesses who claimed Malian troops were rotated in and out of Moura daily, but the foreign personnel remained.

Related:

December 2022, Kremlin’s Criminal “Wagner Group” Trick the Mali Government Into Jailing UN Peacekeepers

A while ago now I showed how Tesla vehicles were being designed and trained to ignore traffic laws. We continue to see “pedal pump” evidence to this effect, as reported by annoyed law enforcement cleaning up after predictable disasters.

Today’s news is that yet another Tesla ignored a red light, and hit a very large and obvious bus.

The Sheriff’s Office bus was traveling northbound on Fifth Street when it was struck by a vehicle that had apparently run a red light while heading westbound on I Street, Gandhi said, based on preliminary investigation.

All signs, pun not intended, so far point to Tesla software being at fault.

This comes days after Tesla owners openly boasted that they were excited because the latest software release was now flagrantly ignoring urban traffic rules.

No, It’s Not Amazing That A Tesla Using FSD Blew Through A Crosswalk: Self-driving cars need to follow the law, not break it for convenience.

Tesla. Breaking the law and injuring or killing hundreds for years.

How convenient for them that they make everyone else pay for a privilege of making dumb mistakes without care or caution, even fatal ones.

The situation only is going to get worse with so many Tesla owners, in a nod to criminal intent, buying the vehicle in an attempt to spend their way above the law — expecting industrialized corruption of Tesla to mean they get to drive drunk, run stop signs and red lights.

Every time Tesla says they are “learning from mistakes” I want you to imagine a known violent offender saying that. Are they just wicked robots learning how to commit more and worse crimes?

Runaway Tesla Nearly Mowed Down Bystanders in NYC

Hey, ChatGPT what do you think?