It may not be ethical to empty a malfunctioning Coke machine of all its product, but you're not going to get charged with a crime for figuring out that hitting a button is giving you a can without paying and then hitting all the buttons.
I'm not a huge fan of coal and reactivating this plant for digital jerking off is about the stupidest thing humanity can do. But you can only get to "millions" of innocent people if you make some serious extrapolations and assumptions of lung afflictions and global warming causing mass deaths. Meanwhile on the other side of the equation is the "save a buck" which has a very measurable impact on saving lives in 3rd world countries. More people in the world die due to lack of access to electricity than due to any pollution side effects of electricity production.
In fact, people in poor countries are so desperate for cheap fossil fuels that there are tragic mass deaths as people try to scavenge spilled gasoline from tanker trucks where they go in risking their lives for a cooking pot worth of fuel.
Yes, because the government was so worried about environmental protection in the 1950s and 60s... Biggest and worst polluted areas in the US are government sites where they enriched and refined nuclear weapon stockpiles.
Don't comment on what you clearly don't understand. Cracking is inherent in all concrete structures. It's the size and location of cracking that may be of concern to the structure. The cracking may be unrelated to the eventual failure.
Did I say ideal conditions? I said for the conditions. And the claimed 35 mph speed limit seems low even for low lighting conditions found at night when you are talking about a divided highway away from residences. No speed limit factors in the possibility of bike walkers jumping out from the median not in a crosswalk. It certainly doesn't factor in to the general speed of traffic.
I'm all for AI driving for the majority of the population. As an Atlanta metro area commuter, the bar is very low to be better than an average or even an above average driver. I mean shit, if AI can figure out a roundabout it's ahead of 75% of the drivers... At the very lease AI drivers will at least be predictable and use turn signals.
Was it an intersection? It says it occurred near the intersection and that the pedestrian wasn't in a crosswalk. I think you are making assumptions based on blaming the AI.
In a residential neighborhood it is reasonable to assume pedestrians might be anywhere. It's not reasonable to assume on a divided highway away from homes at 10PM at night. I guarantee you that this autonomous vehicle was obeying the speed limit which was probably set well below a reasonable and prudent speed and definitely below the 85th percentile speed for the conditions I'd wager.
Would a human driver been able to react differently? It is a difficult question. This woman was crossing a multi-lane divided highway at 10PM not at a crosswalk. The highway has plenty of landscaping (trees, shrubs, etc) and if It was dark, there may have been obstructions and she may not have been wearing colors or bright clothing that would have stood out. I don't want to victim blame, but I'm not going to AI blame for something that may have turned out the same for even the most highly trained human drivers.
It was a federal grant for improving transportation. It would have only improved pedestrian transportation for students at a single university. Hardly an appropriate use of federal funds... In addition, it was a massively over-expensive artistic bridge instead of a simple, practical one. But hey, I guess you need a gateway to the expensive luxury apartments for those broke college students saddled with unsustainable debt right? http://myinvestmentbrokers.com...
I think the cracking did have the same root cause. The root cause was the change in the plan to move the span into place. They changed the location of the supports in transport which changed the loading of the bridge design from supported at the ends to supported in the middle. They adjusted the tension members to compensate, but it was likely the cause of the cracking. The cracking might have been related to the failure or it might not have been. The immediate cause was changing the tension members back to the end supported case and it looks like they snapped one of the post-tensioning members in the process. Really a stupid decision to make to be doing that sort of work without 1) stopping traffic underneath the bridge and 2) having cribbing underneath the span.
Management needs to get off it's ass and actually do it's job, including dealing with safety issues.
Management at every company I work for (and I'm a civil engineer) thinks "safety" means wearing hard hats and having pre-job safety meetings. It's the same problem as with BP's oil well explosion. Everyone is looking for slips, trips, and falls and worried about checking the dates on fall protection harnesses. The real safety is in the design of the system, not the workers putting it together.
In this case, it may turn out to be that the workers who were tensioning the reinforcement screwed up, but the structure was designed without redundancy and had a critical failure that resulted in rapid collapse. This is why if you have reinforced concrete structure, you should probably make sure that snapping one of the reinforcing bars isn't failure critical.
Management doesn't have a clue how to make things safe, and the priorities they can make metrics based on do nothing to increase safety of the finished product.
The difference is in the 70s, you had to make a good movie to make money. Today you can just churn out turd after turd and people will pay for the nostalgia and special effects.
You don't actually need a permit to operate a car. You don't need registration for your vehicle either. You only need those things if you want to use public roads. If you want to drive on private streets and private property, you don't need a license or registration. I think guns should be the same way. No restrictions on private ownership and use. You need a permit and registration to carry them in public.
Come on, you mean the president that laughed at his opponent when the idea of Russia being a geopolitical threat came up? The president that was captured on a hot mic telling Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he will have “more flexibility” after the election?
The Democrats are accusing Republicans of siding with Russia... That's a knee slapper right there.
Please note, I'm not a Trump supporter or even a Republican supporter. This shit you just can't make up.
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Well it wasn't very well designed then considering in this circumstance it only killed one person and that was the operator...
It may not be ethical to empty a malfunctioning Coke machine of all its product, but you're not going to get charged with a crime for figuring out that hitting a button is giving you a can without paying and then hitting all the buttons.
I'm a Gary Johnson voter and my insult is calling her Hillary Fraudham Clinton.
Perhaps, but no reasonable person would prosecute that case right?
I'm not a huge fan of coal and reactivating this plant for digital jerking off is about the stupidest thing humanity can do. But you can only get to "millions" of innocent people if you make some serious extrapolations and assumptions of lung afflictions and global warming causing mass deaths. Meanwhile on the other side of the equation is the "save a buck" which has a very measurable impact on saving lives in 3rd world countries. More people in the world die due to lack of access to electricity than due to any pollution side effects of electricity production.
In fact, people in poor countries are so desperate for cheap fossil fuels that there are tragic mass deaths as people try to scavenge spilled gasoline from tanker trucks where they go in risking their lives for a cooking pot worth of fuel.
Yes, because the government was so worried about environmental protection in the 1950s and 60s... Biggest and worst polluted areas in the US are government sites where they enriched and refined nuclear weapon stockpiles.
Whatever has the potential to cause any negative effect whatsoever.... So everything is harmful. Just ask California!
Something tells me everyone you've let ride your bike hasn't done so in inclement weather...
Yeah, that is totally incorrect. My results show that I am 99.8% European with 0.1% unknown and 0.1% broadly African.
Don't comment on what you clearly don't understand. Cracking is inherent in all concrete structures. It's the size and location of cracking that may be of concern to the structure. The cracking may be unrelated to the eventual failure.
Did I say ideal conditions? I said for the conditions. And the claimed 35 mph speed limit seems low even for low lighting conditions found at night when you are talking about a divided highway away from residences. No speed limit factors in the possibility of bike walkers jumping out from the median not in a crosswalk. It certainly doesn't factor in to the general speed of traffic.
I'm all for AI driving for the majority of the population. As an Atlanta metro area commuter, the bar is very low to be better than an average or even an above average driver. I mean shit, if AI can figure out a roundabout it's ahead of 75% of the drivers... At the very lease AI drivers will at least be predictable and use turn signals.
There are definitely trees and shrubs near the road on both sides and in the median.
Was it an intersection? It says it occurred near the intersection and that the pedestrian wasn't in a crosswalk. I think you are making assumptions based on blaming the AI.
In a residential neighborhood it is reasonable to assume pedestrians might be anywhere. It's not reasonable to assume on a divided highway away from homes at 10PM at night. I guarantee you that this autonomous vehicle was obeying the speed limit which was probably set well below a reasonable and prudent speed and definitely below the 85th percentile speed for the conditions I'd wager.
Would a human driver been able to react differently? It is a difficult question. This woman was crossing a multi-lane divided highway at 10PM not at a crosswalk. The highway has plenty of landscaping (trees, shrubs, etc) and if It was dark, there may have been obstructions and she may not have been wearing colors or bright clothing that would have stood out. I don't want to victim blame, but I'm not going to AI blame for something that may have turned out the same for even the most highly trained human drivers.
It was a federal grant for improving transportation. It would have only improved pedestrian transportation for students at a single university. Hardly an appropriate use of federal funds... In addition, it was a massively over-expensive artistic bridge instead of a simple, practical one. But hey, I guess you need a gateway to the expensive luxury apartments for those broke college students saddled with unsustainable debt right?
http://myinvestmentbrokers.com...
I think the cracking did have the same root cause. The root cause was the change in the plan to move the span into place. They changed the location of the supports in transport which changed the loading of the bridge design from supported at the ends to supported in the middle. They adjusted the tension members to compensate, but it was likely the cause of the cracking. The cracking might have been related to the failure or it might not have been. The immediate cause was changing the tension members back to the end supported case and it looks like they snapped one of the post-tensioning members in the process. Really a stupid decision to make to be doing that sort of work without 1) stopping traffic underneath the bridge and 2) having cribbing underneath the span.
Management needs to get off it's ass and actually do it's job, including dealing with safety issues.
Management at every company I work for (and I'm a civil engineer) thinks "safety" means wearing hard hats and having pre-job safety meetings. It's the same problem as with BP's oil well explosion. Everyone is looking for slips, trips, and falls and worried about checking the dates on fall protection harnesses. The real safety is in the design of the system, not the workers putting it together.
In this case, it may turn out to be that the workers who were tensioning the reinforcement screwed up, but the structure was designed without redundancy and had a critical failure that resulted in rapid collapse. This is why if you have reinforced concrete structure, you should probably make sure that snapping one of the reinforcing bars isn't failure critical.
Management doesn't have a clue how to make things safe, and the priorities they can make metrics based on do nothing to increase safety of the finished product.
It would be awesome if you could import real cities into a Sim City type game and improve and expand them.
Ahh who am I kidding? EA sucks and would ruin any chance of it being a decent game...
Mass Effect died when they made a sequel that took the franchise from an RPG to a FPS...
The difference is in the 70s, you had to make a good movie to make money. Today you can just churn out turd after turd and people will pay for the nostalgia and special effects.
You mean the seniors who are overwhelmingly targeted by scammers because they are gullible?
You don't actually need a permit to operate a car. You don't need registration for your vehicle either. You only need those things if you want to use public roads. If you want to drive on private streets and private property, you don't need a license or registration. I think guns should be the same way. No restrictions on private ownership and use. You need a permit and registration to carry them in public.
Sounds simple enough right?
Come on, you mean the president that laughed at his opponent when the idea of Russia being a geopolitical threat came up? The president that was captured on a hot mic telling Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he will have “more flexibility” after the election?
The Democrats are accusing Republicans of siding with Russia... That's a knee slapper right there.
Please note, I'm not a Trump supporter or even a Republican supporter. This shit you just can't make up.