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Oculus VR Co-founder Andrew Reisse Killed In Auto Collision
ccguy writes with this excerpt from a sad report on CNET: "Oculus Rift co-founder and lead engineer Andrew Reisse was hit in Santa Ana, where he was a resident, by a speeding car being pursued by police." Reisse was killed, says the report, when the car "slammed into two vehicles during the pursuit before hitting Reisse at Flower Street and MacArthur Boulevard."
But then again, at least we've caught the speeding vehicle.
Police were pursuing a vehicle for an unnamed offense which ran several red lights before striking Reisse's vehicle at an intersection. The cynic in me says the offense wasn't extremely grievous if it has thus far gone unnamed: these testosterone-fueled police chases kill far too many innocents.
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Too young :(
"It's so real, it's like it's coming right at me !"
It's a strong thing to say, but this is what happens when the bus factor strikes.
I don't know enough about the gentleman to do so but it stands to reason he deserves mention on their wiki page, albeit posthumously.
At a glance i see no mention of him and it appears he was rather integral.
The Police in the UK would have either abandoned the pursuit unless it was for a major crime or used a helicopter to track him unknowingly.
Sadly the yanks are always to quick to go into yee-haw mode and it costs lives.
let's see here....
Jwalk, risk a cop stop but probably live through them all
vs.
Crosswalk, where you face death all around you
In addition to the fault that lies with the driver that struck him, Reisse is also a victim of these "hero" cops' negligence and incompetence in chasing that suspect in the first place. New York City seems to manage with its no-pursuit policy; what's the Santa Ana Police Department's excuse?
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Another tech fluffing, hoax generating, loan chaser gone! And the world is a better place!
I could also say, if they weren't chased at all, the criminals would've done something violent the next day which might've killed more people.
Stick to facts.
"Victor Sanchez". There's a nice, 'American' name...
Had enough of third worlders destroying your country yet? Or not enough white people killed by them for you...
Go on, say the magic word, "racist". It's lost its strength, MOST white people have had enough and are sick up to here with non-white INVADERS in our countries. Why don't these worthless parasites want to live around their own kind? I can't imagine...
At any cost !! Tomorrow, it might be your ticket that gets punched !! Orange County Law Enforcement answers your prayers with "Another One Bites the Dust" !! But look on the bright side !! These criminals are charged with these homicides !! Life on the Streets !! In Orange County !! LIVE and DIE in L.A. !!
Too bad these do not make it onto the "20 Worst...Drivers". Homicide don't play well in Peoria !! Unless it is Hollywood !! So close !!
RIP
Reisse was killed, says the report, when the car "slammed into two vehicles during the pursuit before hitting Reisse at Flower Street and MacArthur Boulevard."
If this were a program, it would probably sneak past the compiler but have an off-by-one error with strange symptoms at run time. It's like using i++ where you needed ++i ...
Reisse was killed, says the report, after the car "slammed into two vehicles during the pursuit before hitting Reisse at Flower Street and MacArthur Boulevard."
there should be a better way of catching perps, a way that doesnt involve putting the innocent at grave risk.
perhaps we dont chase them withe swarm of squad cars but deploy a swarm of small UAVs to keep an eye on them until a more local unit can pick them up sans the dangerous chase.
there has to be a better way..
where was the armed drone when they needed it?
Anyone else find it freaky that the first real attempt at creating a consumer VR headset since the Virtual Boy in 1995 and the creator also dies in a road collision?
Protect and serve... our ego's.
No mention of the initial crime, give plenty of time to dress it up, so it appears justified. I guess if your associate was fatally shot, you'd run too.
The police chase people when there's a need, people run when there's a need. The answer isn't to have the police stop the chases, letting the offenders go to commit more serious offenses -- that's potentially worse and may result in many more lost lives.
It's like we were taught in grade school -- when you hear the police siren, pull over. The siren may emanate from a police car a block or two away from the speeding car, the one you don't see because it's light's are off. That siren doesn't mean 'get out of the cop's way' it is a safety warning to you to get out of the way of what-ever is happening, even if you don't immediately see it.
My thoughts and sympathies to his family.
They'll just run like mad to get away UAV or not. If they are in flight mode they'll instinctively run like a wild animal without reason. This is why somebody surrounded will jump out of the car and run hopelessly on foot - the survival instinct is strong in those perps...
Real Solutions:
GPS gun. Shoot the car with a tracking device.
Use the car's built-in blackbox GPS cell modem (high end but often those features become standard)
Cell phone tracking - detect any pings from the phone in the car then track it... even possibly ID the driver.
Have all cars give off radio IDs (could even be audio) which can be triangulated accurately; which is being done today with gunshot sounds (even to the point of knowing the kind of gun.)
Use computer tracking to smartly predict where to intercept.
Stun gun for cars or remote shutdown of cars. Don't know why a stun gun system hasn't already been mandated. Radio freq stops all cars within range for example. You have zero rights to prevent such things; but the lawyers and prisons love that you are constantly given choices that can be used against you for their benefit.
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So tldr; : No cars would mean even bigger cities. Not in terms of density, but sheer diameter and area filled with people.
The parent doesn't spell this out, but denser == better. As density increases, per capita will fall, public transportation dollars give you more bang for the buck.
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This is why police should have a method of remotely disabling cars available to them.
As someone completely uninvolved in American politics can I at least say 'rest in peace' to the victim of an unfortunate 'accident' and leave my comment at that.
While wearing the Oculus Rift...
I bet you could almost reach out and touch the crunching metal as it folding in around you until the screen faded to black.
he should have wore a google glass to record his final moment so it could have been shipped as a demo with the rift, so every buyer could relive the final moment of it's cofounder including prayers to god, screams and finally what perhaps sounded like water pouring...
Your comment *might* apply outside the US, but within the US it is historically and culturally wrong
The US is very large and due to the way land was made available to average people and the history of agriculture the population was NOT originally packed into big cities and then allowed to spread-out by the arrival of the car.... the population was spread-out broadly with a huge number of small (and very small) towns serving the needs of the farmers, miners, ranchers etc plus a few big cities like New York and Chicago where the bankers, stock traders, rail hubs, and sea ports were. In the US, the arrival of the car enabled the creation of many of the big cities like Los Angeles (one reason why LA is not well-suited to mass transit... the development is horizontal rather than vertical). You can easily tell that Chicago and NYC pre-date the car; they developed with much more dense cores and more early vertical development... and mass transit actually works there for the poor and the stupid (the wealthier still travel point-to-point like Americans outside of the big cities always have, but they do it in cabs, limos, etc... which is to be expected as the elites always champion schemes for the masses that they exempt themselves from)
In the US if you took away all the cars, a huge portion of the population would not even DREAM of moving into big cities; they'd happily gravitate toward the smaller towns with low crime, peaceful living, clean air, clean water, etc. The natural home of the American is NOT the over-stuffed over-paved metropolis; those who think it is are happy to go/stay there and leave the rest of us alone
Sounds like this was a tragic loss for not only Oculus but for the developer world as well. I hope Oculus will be able to continue and my thoughts are with the Reisse's family as well.
Full of fat nerds whose weight would damage a bicycle simply by trying to mount it.
If there is blame to place it is on the people who fled the police and ran over an innocent bystander and not the police who were doing their job of catching suspects.
Where were the fucking drones when we needed them?
Oh that's right the libertarians and Co. have been working to ban them.
Its a damn good thing there were all those helpful citizens with their concealed firearms to help the police out!
So, does anyone here actually give a shit for the life, intelligence and potential lost with the passage of this life or are you emotionally inept cum towels just going to keep pebble spraying each other over who's right about where cars/guns/criminals/mexicans/drones should be allowed?
Oh wait. This is slashdot. My bad.
R.I.P Andrew. At least one of us see's your passing as something beyond an opportunity to garner insightful mod points.
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You're comparing 4000 years of growth and 100 years of growth as if they're somehow equivalent?
That conclusion doesn't fit the data. Here's U.S. census data from 1800 to 1990 of the percentage of the population living in urban vs. rural areas. As you can see, the advent of widespread car ownership does not correlate with a slowdown in urbanization as you're hypothesizing.
The definition of "urban" used by the census includes both urban cores and relatively low-density suburbs surrounding those since 1950. Thus census data would not distinguish between the growth of the urban core or the growth of the surrounding agglomeration.
Ironically, he made something for us to experience a virtual reality where the end of the game did not mean life was over in the real world. Yet in reality the same circumstances really mean life is over. So tactics for staying alive in a game need to be applied in the real world all the time: having an out, acquiring protection, etc. The world is friendly enough to let us develop the science and technology to simulate a virtual world but the real world isn't always that friendly either.
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