Because the french believe in Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité. The first one the USA can fully agree on. But the second one, equality, is a deal breaker.

That would be more efficient, but there are enough places with no bus or tram. And then you have services that are infrequent or shut down early and could use some help.

The end goal of robo-taxis is to shuttle people between the home/destination and the train station.

In this instance he is marketing what the final product is meant to do

He's been doing that with full self driving for the last decade and the event showed it might be a decade more. It doesn't give much confidence.

Ah yes, the "when brute force isn't working you ain't using enough of it" approach to AI.

Especially after promising self driving for a decade and then giving this little demo. It doesn't give much confidence for the robot to her autonomous anytime soon.

Meanwhile nurses and other care professionals are leaving the field. They love what they do, up to a point.

Many employers have tried the "if you love what you do, you'll love it without any raises, benefits or help." And now there's a lot of additional administration and bureaucracy to get all those important metrics and KPI.

Less people are willing to do the training for the job and more are leaving. Same thing happens for teachers, child care, elderly care.

It would be fun for that guy to discover transaction fees and wait times for crypto when he actually tries to pay with it.

To then complain their "work" doesn't receive a copyright.

Normally it's always promised next year, so a 2 year deadline means the project is in serious trouble.

It's not the diarrhea itself, it's the sudden "critical pressure reached, 30 seconds until launch" moments that make things difficult.