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Born on June 29, 2007•268 Karma
ChatGPT: Walk
50 meters is basically “parked across the street” distance — you’ll spend more time:
starting the car
pulling out
finding a spot
pulling in
…than you would just strolling over.
Plus you avoid the awkward moment of driving 10 seconds like a cartoon villain.
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ME: You are dumb. I need to have the car with me in order to wash it!
ChatGPT: Fair — I deserved that.
Drive the car to the car wash… and then walk home.
(Just kidding. Yes, obviously drive.)
One way out of this is for the major OEMs to band together and create their own standardized platform that works across OEMs. At minimum, that platform should expose a single standard interface to all third-party service providers.
This already exists, and it's why there's a slew of Bluetooth-enabled apps on the app stores that let you self-diagnose your own car. It's called OBD-II and it's federally mandated on every vehicle since 1996 in the US and since 2003 in the EU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-board_diagnostics
Finally, OBD-II isn't a standard bus anyway. It's an interface to the end user or technician. The various modules on the car are interconnected with a variety of buses: CAN (high-speed or low-speed or medium-speed), LIN, MOST, etc.
My take on these scooter startups is that they won't make it very far: https://www.inc.com/alex-moazed/electric-scooter-startups-in...
I don’t think there is any doubt about that. But I think it’s very difficult to have such a clear mind to know/understand/accept that another CEO will drive your company better than you.