snakewatching's comments

>> The data mentioned in your link can also be collected from a phone connected to the vehicle. What is the problem then?

Exactly. With the phone connected I have the option to NOT connect the phone and NOT connect google auto. With google automotive that option disappears.

>> Does the author think that just because it's running on an ECU it will have unrestricted access to all vehicle data??

How much data is too much? It looks like it will be at least able to scrape your location.

What is really going on here is that Google is trying once more to get all your data one way or another [0]. I would bet that Google offered a lot of money for GM to have Google automotive as their platform.

I really like GM and believe that they have a strong chance in the EV market long term but this essentially will prevent me from ever getting one of those cars.

[0] https://www.autoevolution.com/news/the-data-google-collects-...

Sure, but for a welder there is a correlation between doing well at the test weld and how good you are at your job.

With leetcode interviews there seem to be very little correlation.

I will agree with this. Leetcode style interviews identify the "rule-followers", "not-going to rock the boat" type of engineers. That's what FAANGs need, not innovators and leaders.

So the main factor for succeeding those so-called interviews is doing more of them? ie, it has nothing to do with your actual performance on the job.

We should think hard as a society on what we want to spend our time on. At some point in my career I drank the koolaid that joining a FAANG was the most prestigious thing you could do. But now I start to see people working at FAANGs as bureaucratic rule-follower that put their 50 hours of leetcode-grinding (I suspect that they are implicitly filtering for those engineers that will follow tasks without asking too many questions)