I've seen the 10.13.4 update cause a boot failure and flashing question mark.
Yes, you can the machine going again by booting with the Option key down and selecting the original partition (so it's not a brick), but it gives you a brief moment of panic. It's a "point update" for pete's sake (10.13.4 -> 10.13.4) that, in the best of circumstances, seems to take like 30 minutes and 3-4 reboots on new hardware. It's bizarre.
If I recall correctly, Tesla doesn't use LIDAR. Not saying it's a good idea to skip LIDAR, but I could totally see Uber, in the wake of the Waymo settlement, rethinking their whole LIDAR strategy. Or, then again, maybe Uber replaced a big chunk of solid Waymo/Levandowski code (which they were SHOCKED to find) with a bunch of new, un-QA'ed code in their cars, so that's why the LIDAR didn't work. Either way, my guess is Uber knew the LIDAR was off or, maybe, the software was compromised.
Personally, I'm expecting to find out that Uber was secretly testing their car with the LIDAR intentionally off, to compare how well the system worked with and without LIDAR (i.e. to see if they could save a couple of bucks by not installing LIDAR).
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I've seen the 10.13.4 update cause a boot failure and flashing question mark. Yes, you can the machine going again by booting with the Option key down and selecting the original partition (so it's not a brick), but it gives you a brief moment of panic. It's a "point update" for pete's sake (10.13.4 -> 10.13.4) that, in the best of circumstances, seems to take like 30 minutes and 3-4 reboots on new hardware. It's bizarre.
If I recall correctly, Tesla doesn't use LIDAR. Not saying it's a good idea to skip LIDAR, but I could totally see Uber, in the wake of the Waymo settlement, rethinking their whole LIDAR strategy. Or, then again, maybe Uber replaced a big chunk of solid Waymo/Levandowski code (which they were SHOCKED to find) with a bunch of new, un-QA'ed code in their cars, so that's why the LIDAR didn't work. Either way, my guess is Uber knew the LIDAR was off or, maybe, the software was compromised.
Personally, I'm expecting to find out that Uber was secretly testing their car with the LIDAR intentionally off, to compare how well the system worked with and without LIDAR (i.e. to see if they could save a couple of bucks by not installing LIDAR).
Not to mention all the white males without college degrees who voted for Trump.