Not strictly necessary if you have the reflexes and no analysis paralysis. If someone decides to dart into the street a AI car will be able to determine the best course of action and react before the human driver even knows what's happening.
follow instructions of a cop
They can use the same system that emergency vehicles use to change lights to pull automated cars over. Plus there's nothing stopping the human in the car from grabbing the wheel once the rearview mirror lights up.
fault tolerance
I assume you're talking about reacting to a blown tire and things like that. I suspect that the computer would actually be much better at this, many of the common issues would not be hard to detect for a computer (e.g. sudden loss of pressure in a tire) and thus the computer would be able to compensate before the driver woudl eve be aware there was an issue, plus the computer can't panic and will provide appropriate correctios faster than a human as well. Doubtless there are issues that can't be programmed for, but those issues probably won't be easy for a human to handle either.
deadlock resolution
You seriously think computers would be worse at this? Realistically they wouldn't NEED to be good at it since with all automated cars deadlocks would be almost unknown. MOST of the traffic issues that I've see (I drive 90 miles per day for work) are caused by dipshits trying to get ahead of everyone else or assholes who don't know how to drive, neither of which would be a problem with self-driving cars. Even if deadlocks did happen computers would be able to sort things out faster than people and if they failed, well, turn off the auto-pilot and do it yourself.
Self driving cars will make astronomically dumb errors, like deadlocking because a leaf is on the road.
[citation needed]
Highly unlikely, and if they did do something like that, disengage the autopilot and continue
Except they aren't doing it for us. Apple is doing this to try to prevent themselves from being pushed into irrelevancy by the march of progress. Samsung is doing this to try and survive in the phone business and to prevent Apple from settign a precendent of being able to litigate a competitor out of business.
Ignoring it may result in fewer stories being posted, but it won't change the existence of the lawsuits.
Yeah, I'm not looking forward to the Free-to-play future we have looming. On the one hand it will make games cheaper for me since I'm not a sucker who'll pay $2 to bump myself up a level or get a shiny weapon that'll last me for 2-3 hours of play time. On the other hand games that are deliberately crippled to make them free-to-play are going to suck.
Thankfully there's plenty of games that I haven't even played yet that I'll be able to get many hours out of if complete games ever totally stop being released.
The only accident I've been in that was my fault (the rest have been people rear-ending ME) was largely because of this. Compounded by the fact that the stoplight was nearly horizontal due to wind, but primarily this.
Here in America we'd still drink just as much, drive home and then whine about getting a ticket even though we knew the law AND were sober enough to make the correct judgement call.
But that would require producing CONTENT in DLCs rather than just re-skins for weapons/characters and maps that were cut (or intentionally held back) during development.
My sister bought a Wii early on, she played it religiously for about a month. Since then I've clocked about 10 horus on it and that's far more than she has put in.
The best part? When they released the black Wii she wanted to get one.
No they went bankrupt but they were purchased by someone immediately.
I've heard people say that it looks like a dodge to get rid of all the liability without actually affecting the income, but either way it's still operational.
Companies are adding multi-player modes at fair expense in order to increase the play-time and reduce used game turnover. Modding tools let them use the community do that for them. Their investment is reduced since they don't need to put effort into producing their own content, they can just hand it over to the community and the community makes content for them.
There are still people playing Morrowind I know a guy who still makes maps for DOOM!, take away the modding tools and most of those people would have moved on long ago.
I haven't played Freelancer in a long time. I remember really liking the game but the campaign made everythign closed off. Are there open-world mods that let you just go everywhere and ignore the campaign? If so which mods would you recommend?
I got a 2.8 GPA in High school because I didn't care and I never did homework. In college I got a 3.9 because college actaully matters so I started caring.
Amusingly enough my teachers in high school loved me (one of them hugged me and cried when I left), despite the fact that I almost never turned in homework.
Wait, you mean that they aren't going to wait for 2-3 years before starting to work on their next set of hardware?
WHAAARGARBL!!
Is this really news? Cell phone manufacturers probably have 2 or 3 generations in development at a time, Intel probably has 3 or 4 generations planned out (it's why it took so long for them to drop the P4). MS starting wok on the next-gen of tablet is about as newsworthy as Apple making plans for the iPhone 5S.
And unless someone thinks I'm drinking the Haterade, come November I'll be getting either a Kindle Fire 2 or a Surface, probably a Surface.
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predict behaviors of pedestrians
Not strictly necessary if you have the reflexes and no analysis paralysis. If someone decides to dart into the street a AI car will be able to determine the best course of action and react before the human driver even knows what's happening.
follow instructions of a cop
They can use the same system that emergency vehicles use to change lights to pull automated cars over. Plus there's nothing stopping the human in the car from grabbing the wheel once the rearview mirror lights up.
fault tolerance
I assume you're talking about reacting to a blown tire and things like that. I suspect that the computer would actually be much better at this, many of the common issues would not be hard to detect for a computer (e.g. sudden loss of pressure in a tire) and thus the computer would be able to compensate before the driver woudl eve be aware there was an issue, plus the computer can't panic and will provide appropriate correctios faster than a human as well. Doubtless there are issues that can't be programmed for, but those issues probably won't be easy for a human to handle either.
deadlock resolution
You seriously think computers would be worse at this? Realistically they wouldn't NEED to be good at it since with all automated cars deadlocks would be almost unknown. MOST of the traffic issues that I've see (I drive 90 miles per day for work) are caused by dipshits trying to get ahead of everyone else or assholes who don't know how to drive, neither of which would be a problem with self-driving cars. Even if deadlocks did happen computers would be able to sort things out faster than people and if they failed, well, turn off the auto-pilot and do it yourself.
Self driving cars will make astronomically dumb errors, like deadlocking because a leaf is on the road.
[citation needed]
Highly unlikely, and if they did do something like that, disengage the autopilot and continue
Which lends credence to the idea that managers are doing it.
And rationality too.
What a bastion of freedom.
I blame Obama. Who's with me?
Except they aren't doing it for us. Apple is doing this to try to prevent themselves from being pushed into irrelevancy by the march of progress. Samsung is doing this to try and survive in the phone business and to prevent Apple from settign a precendent of being able to litigate a competitor out of business. Ignoring it may result in fewer stories being posted, but it won't change the existence of the lawsuits.
Yeah, I'm not looking forward to the Free-to-play future we have looming. On the one hand it will make games cheaper for me since I'm not a sucker who'll pay $2 to bump myself up a level or get a shiny weapon that'll last me for 2-3 hours of play time. On the other hand games that are deliberately crippled to make them free-to-play are going to suck.
Thankfully there's plenty of games that I haven't even played yet that I'll be able to get many hours out of if complete games ever totally stop being released.
Also, stopping by the store and selling it is a lot less work, and people are lazy.
I wouldn't want to do the big battles thing probably. I'd want the Elite style setup.
The only accident I've been in that was my fault (the rest have been people rear-ending ME) was largely because of this. Compounded by the fact that the stoplight was nearly horizontal due to wind, but primarily this.
As someone who lives in the US, I agree with this statement. It seems to be getting worse too.
Here in America we'd still drink just as much, drive home and then whine about getting a ticket even though we knew the law AND were sober enough to make the correct judgement call.
Such is life in the States.
Bethesda doesn't make games, they make tech demos for mod tools.
Already pledged
But that would require producing CONTENT in DLCs rather than just re-skins for weapons/characters and maps that were cut (or intentionally held back) during development.
The various script extenders for TES and current-gen Fallout games are another example.
My sister bought a Wii early on, she played it religiously for about a month. Since then I've clocked about 10 horus on it and that's far more than she has put in.
The best part? When they released the black Wii she wanted to get one.
No they went bankrupt but they were purchased by someone immediately.
I've heard people say that it looks like a dodge to get rid of all the liability without actually affecting the income, but either way it's still operational.
Companies are adding multi-player modes at fair expense in order to increase the play-time and reduce used game turnover. Modding tools let them use the community do that for them. Their investment is reduced since they don't need to put effort into producing their own content, they can just hand it over to the community and the community makes content for them. There are still people playing Morrowind I know a guy who still makes maps for DOOM!, take away the modding tools and most of those people would have moved on long ago.
Trials Evolution 'nuf said.
I haven't played Freelancer in a long time. I remember really liking the game but the campaign made everythign closed off. Are there open-world mods that let you just go everywhere and ignore the campaign? If so which mods would you recommend?
Some people can't be motivated, some teachers may be able to motivate tons of students, but not be able to motivate that particular one.
+1
I got a 2.8 GPA in High school because I didn't care and I never did homework. In college I got a 3.9 because college actaully matters so I started caring.
Amusingly enough my teachers in high school loved me (one of them hugged me and cried when I left), despite the fact that I almost never turned in homework.
Cost.
The fact that you're in the extreme minority
Time
Wait, you mean that they aren't going to wait for 2-3 years before starting to work on their next set of hardware?
WHAAARGARBL!!
Is this really news? Cell phone manufacturers probably have 2 or 3 generations in development at a time, Intel probably has 3 or 4 generations planned out (it's why it took so long for them to drop the P4). MS starting wok on the next-gen of tablet is about as newsworthy as Apple making plans for the iPhone 5S.
And unless someone thinks I'm drinking the Haterade, come November I'll be getting either a Kindle Fire 2 or a Surface, probably a Surface.