Can't each car send out signals, and the other cars figure out where they are via signal strength/direction? At least approximately? In order to *help* the situation, not necessarily completely prevent an accident?
While it's not quite the same as using public airwaves, to 'build a new bridge' (new cabling), wouldn't you have to (1) use public land AND (2) likely pass over private land, even that of non-subscribers?
For #2, you could pay them (like for cell phone towers). For #1, what do you do? Pay the government (which is us)?
Any crash avoidance and autonomous navigation system is going to have to deal with cars that aren't transmitting this type of data for at least a decade while cars were in transition and then even after that cars would have to deal with neighboring cars generating bad data, or if it relies on GPS for position then it is going to be completely useless for crash avoidance and even fine grained navigation...
J1772 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J1772) isn't standard? There are a couple of ones that don't 'support' that built in (e.g. Tesla), but I believe you do get an adapter with the car.
You left out "don't allow location access but still install the application anyway". I can and have turned on and off location access for apps on iOS after installation.
Bernadette is hot, a combination of her looks + Amy Farrah Fowler's brains (and both of their personalities) is way hotter than Penny.. who's just a ditz..
Medical innovation comes from, get this, medical research. I'm not going to buy the fundamental credibility of someone who hasn't even necessarily seen the inside of a university, much less a medical school.
I agree with you in general, but don't see it as being impossible that someone not in the field can invent/discover something new. In fact, they often "think outside the box".
Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of TV, was a farmer who thought of the plowing of his fields to come up with the idea of the scanlines.
The person who came up with angiogenesis inhibitors for cancer was stuck in a conference room when a new talk started and didn't want to climb over all of the other people to get out, and heard the next talk, and started work on them after seeing that new talk. (She told this story on an episode of "Nova".)
What I'd REALLY like, is to get a set of them surrounding my rear license plate, to blind cameras. I found some links to that awhile back, but it seemed far more complex than I had the skills for fabricating it....
I hope you do that, then get arrested, because it's illegal to obscure your license plate.
What I DO tend to do is freeze-frame newspapers and stuff where the character is reading a story out-loud relevant to the plot. I like to see if they just copy/paste the same paragraph over and over or use the cliche lorem ipsum.... text.
Sometimes they write articles that are actually on topic . I do this too, and read as much of the article I can.
The Smithsonian is already 3D scanning things and sharing them with the public. This is an article from about 2 months ago, but I read a more recent article in the paper the other day..
Why do they need to be replaced every 10 years? Do you just mean "planned obsolescence", or something actually breaking/wearing out that that needs replacing?
Even if Google stops putting out software/fixes for it, I can't imagine a current one just stops working (as well as it currently does) in 10 years.
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Why do you say this ALL has to be GPS related?
Can't each car send out signals, and the other cars figure out where they are via signal strength/direction? At least approximately? In order to *help* the situation, not necessarily completely prevent an accident?
While it's not quite the same as using public airwaves, to 'build a new bridge' (new cabling), wouldn't you have to (1) use public land AND (2) likely pass over private land, even that of non-subscribers?
For #2, you could pay them (like for cell phone towers). For #1, what do you do? Pay the government (which is us)?
Of *course* it's not a substitute for a seatbelt.
But even with a seatbelt, were there (many, non-isolated "random" issues) issues with seatbelts + old airbags that made them worse than no airbags?
It was not better than NO airbags?
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
...and originally, wasn't gasoline an *unwanted byproduct* of refining oil for other reasons?
J1772 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J1772) isn't standard? There are a couple of ones that don't 'support' that built in (e.g. Tesla), but I believe you do get an adapter with the car.
You can say that, but it's because oil was just so cheap/readily available.
You left out "don't allow location access but still install the application anyway". I can and have turned on and off location access for apps on iOS after installation.
One of the other external links from the Wikipedia article has more information: http://www.edge-online.com/fea...
(I added the other one mentioned in the summary to the Wikipedia page, though.)
Fewer, not less.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
Bernadette is hot, a combination of her looks + Amy Farrah Fowler's brains (and both of their personalities) is way hotter than Penny.. who's just a ditz..
But don't you at least *tone down* "your real self" at the beginning?
I agree with you in general, but don't see it as being impossible that someone not in the field can invent/discover something new. In fact, they often "think outside the box".
Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of TV, was a farmer who thought of the plowing of his fields to come up with the idea of the scanlines.
The person who came up with angiogenesis inhibitors for cancer was stuck in a conference room when a new talk started and didn't want to climb over all of the other people to get out, and heard the next talk, and started work on them after seeing that new talk. (She told this story on an episode of "Nova".)
[citation needed]
Umm, what exactly is in any way illegal here?
(Now, if you said "slimy"....)
Wow, really? I would have thought in the long run you save money due to fewer repairs needed due to weather, corrosion, etc.
I hope you do that, then get arrested, because it's illegal to obscure your license plate.
Sometimes they write articles that are actually on topic . I do this too, and read as much of the article I can.
Castle is serious? Castle is one of the fluffiest crime/mystery shows around (like "Monk" was before it). I like(d) both of them, btw.
The Smithsonian is already 3D scanning things and sharing them with the public. This is an article from about 2 months ago, but I read a more recent article in the paper the other day..
http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/13/5100190/the-smithsonian-is-now-sharing-3d-scans-of-artifacts-with-the-public
Sheesh, that's (1) a lot of work, (2) requires you to leave yet another thing powered in all the time.
(Yes, I think the Arduino is a tiny bit, so that's probably as little as a Nest power wise.)
Why would you say that? There is already an iOS app for ChromeCast, another Google hardware product.
Why do they need to be replaced every 10 years? Do you just mean "planned obsolescence", or something actually breaking/wearing out that that needs replacing?
Even if Google stops putting out software/fixes for it, I can't imagine a current one just stops working (as well as it currently does) in 10 years.