This only sorta works for today and if your friends never share images or videos online. The ever-increasing amount of people taking pictures and filming and posting them online means the day is quickly approaching where you could be identified and tracked through other people’s content, security & surveillance cameras, etc.

If stores start adopting the tracking used at Walmart and the Amazon biometric data, social media will be the last of your worries.

who tf subscribes to this?

I’d bet mastodon saw an increase, but i haven’t seen the numbers.

It’s also hard to get a good count since it’s not centralized. So whatever numbers we do see, could be wildly underreported.

The named email says Abbott’s teams are working to “verify and confirm compatibility”, so it’s unclear if this is an actual issue or just a precaution over what they think could be an issue.

I don’t think we know.

Makes me wonder of the dev team is on a much-needed vacation or if they only run nvidia gpus. lol

They are right now because there’s a focus on getting greenlit to grow this as a business. At some point, a companies will start to chip away at any regulation that may be in place and optimize for lower-cost cars with fewer sensors or prioritize say travel speed over safety, at which point it’s likely going to place them exactly where humans are for much decision making.