Oh fun, now I can invest even more time and energy into grocery shopping.

If avoiding the collision with the robot increases the risk of colliding with a human the right thing to do is plow right into that robot. Same as if an animal surprised you directly in front of your vehicle. If you swerve you are taking on risk that you don't need to.

A good reason to care about accessing the car from the outside with and without power is if say you left your dog or child in it with 'dog mode' running and it stops for whatever reason.

It'd be nice if you or any passerby could easily open the door without any thought don't you think?

In that specific situation, yes.

But it would also make car breakins trivially easy, and I don't think people would accept that tradeoff.

With all due respect you are quite incorrect.

Most people think and do use for to protect themselves from threats like all humans.

The issue was bringing the US style castle doctrine defence argument where some folks feel that since the intruder is trespassing they have carte blanche to murder them.

This is a complete mischaracterization of the Castle Doctrine. It simply means you have no duty to retreat when attacked in your own home. Using disproportionate force is still some flavor of illegal homicide.

A top performer is not immune to exploitation by capital.

Sure, no one is. However, a top performer is much less likely to be exploited and much more likely to have their pay reduced by collective bargaining.

You could also find new codes in magazines like Nintendo power which was always fun.

The backup unlock is the watch.

Apple users can send a facetime link that is usable on non-apple devices.

Which I suppose is a failure of marketing by Apple? If casual non-Apple readers of HN don’t know the links work for non-Apple devices, no one does :)

(I’m an Apple reader of HN and I didn’t know this either!)

How do you handle calls from unknowns like Doctors, hospitals or clinics?

Tell them to leave a message.

The problem runs the other direction as well. Friends in the US tell me that the local hospital no longer permits direct calls to rooms, on account of both robocalls and spams. It's now necessary to call through the operator.

This is a (slight) inconvenience to friends and family, and a considerable workload and staffing burden for the hospital.

I've been predicting the death of telephony, as in a universal direct-contact, single-directory (as in: everyone has an identifier which can be reached by any other party regardless of provider) for about a decade now. It's a death-by-a-thousand-cuts phenomenon, but increasingly it's difficult or impossible to reach specific individuals or organisations by phone. The issue isn't just landlines (used by a minority of households in many states, though some such as New York are apparently still above 50%, contrast < 20% throughout much of the central US), but all public switch telephone networks.

Expect a fragmentation to various online services (FB, WhatsApp, Google, Skype, Zoom), home-rolled networks, and those who just opt out fully.

Fortunately I've had very little need to receive calls like this but I would ask them what number they will be calling from and add that as a contact.

I think they’re just saying no one group is immune.

Yes, and thinking about it, I believe they choose specific tactics of deception or scams for each group