Honestly I'm an apple guy and felt the same until I drove their Blazer EV and loved the native google maps. This is way better than projecting from phone. The native integration knows about car's battery state all the time and auto-suggests stops. Any native map in car do they but they usually aren't good quality maps. In GM's case, the native maps are google maps. I can also sign in on my google account and I don't need internet to use it (in case I'm in a remote area).
I feel I want every car to have native google maps now.
>The native integration knows about car's battery state all the time and auto-suggests stops.
CarPlay does this on my F150 Lightning. It manages state, preconditioning when routing to a charging stop, will suggest charging stops as I'm routing, etc. etc.
There's really nothing special about GM's implementation IMO, except that they charge you monthly to access it.
I was sold on Waymo when in San Francisco I saw it treat a human holding a Stop sign in a construction zone just like a human driver did.
For anyone who doesn't know this, in a construction zone if a human is holding a stop sign, it means stay stopped until they flip the sign and suggest you to move slowly. Waymo just handled this as a human would
There has always been this argument that allowing H1bs to switch jobs easily and clearing the green card backlog for India will increase labor liquidity in the market which may in turn result in higher wages for local and foreign population.
Employers don't want this. Policymakers also don't want this because higher wages (for everyone) may put inflation pressure. Instead, the middle ground is to have employers have their way by having hostage labor, while at the same time, keep spreading hate for H1bs so that local population doesn't feels alienated by policymakers.
It's already relatively simple for a H-1B holder to transfer jobs under AC21.
The reason backlogged Green Card applicants stay in their sponsoring positions is because they don't want to restart the PERM process which is not transferable to another employer.
When a H-1B transfers to a new employer the approved I140 should be transferred too, assuming it's older than 180 days and the job meets the other requirements set out by AC21.
That would unlock a wave of job portability.
Also, it's not only Indians backlogged now. Almost all EB categories are backlogged across all nationalities although nowhere near as severe as India's.
Part of this is that employers stubbornly refuse to start PERM until you've started on the job. There's no legal reason to do this and it means adding even more months to an already long and uncertain process, compared to doing it when you've accepted the job offer.
The mobility → wages connection is clear in the data. Interesting point
about green card backlogs adding another mobility restriction layer.
I focused on what's measurable: the wage gap and its correlation with
job-switching constraints. Policy intentions are beyond my scope - I'm
just showing what the numbers reveal.
The majority of all tourists (B1/2) in the US come from countries with either visa-free access or sub 5% visa overstay rates [0]
And plenty of poor countries with Sub-Saharan developmental indicators like Pakistan, Cambodia, and Nepal don't have elevated B1/2 visa overstay rates compared to other countries, so if some countries with similar developmental indicators are seeing elevated abuse of the B1/2 program, then it should be cracked down on.
I feel I want every car to have native google maps now.
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