So in the world of aerospace where you get ten-year contracts and development of things takes forever, suddenly you're "concerned" about a one-year delay. You must have burst an aneurysm when you found out about the Ares V!:D
SpaceX forces cargo liability back onto the customer, so its stealing from them with unavoidable risk and loss due to technical malfunctions. Previous NASA contract supply lift requirements weren't met for nearly a year after Musk agreed to the requirements, and lied about bulk as the cause when caught. Those are just a few of the problems glossed over by fan boys eager to, ehm, provide some service to Musk.
While your post, dripping with silly hatred, exposes your complete lack of understanding of how shit works. Consider that posting as na Anonymous Coward was at least ons smart thing you did today.
It'd be neat to know within decade precision when a supervolcano would blow, but that's still a pretty big window for humans to deal with practically. Can you do much to prepare for something on that scale that may or may not happen in 20 years?
I'm not certain that much can be done to prepare for it anyhow. There are enough unknowns to make most predictions just about worthless. Some speculate that Yellowstone is dying, and the hotspot that it lies over won't be an issue for a few million years, some think that while that may be true, there is still a caldera forming event to come as a grand finale for Yellowstone. I'd like to see more of the report before I give a semi-educated opinion. And they aren't making it easy to get.
And it is quite fashionable these days to accuse others of denying science.
FTFY
Okay, here's the thing. Somewhere in the deep dark past, I wrote that I believe in science. And believing in sciences doesn't mean you have faith in it, as the first commenter appeard to imply. and what a monumental task of trying to agree with anythig at all if belief means faith and only faith.
But as for anti-science? Well let's see. We have Lysenkoism, which postulates that plants and animals immediately change in response to the environment, we have creationism, which discards almost ll las of physics, and invents new ones, we have anti-vaxxers, who claim that ingredients not even in vaccines at present cause a disability that has been proven not to be caused by vaccines, we have ernergy retention by atmospheric composition deniers, who still haven't come up with the failure mechanism for teh greenhouse effect. We have GMO deniers who have managed to make Monsanto's stupid Roundup Ready BS into an indictment of any food manipulated to be more nutritious. We have people who believe that living near a cell phone tower causes cancer. There are more examples, but I'm getting bored.
So yeah, There is no need to "accuse" these people of anything. They are deniers.
Act of war? Spy services spy. That's why they exist and every country has spy services. How this is a shock to anyone is beyond me. Do you think that the NSA hasn't exploited every single A/V provider, hell, every single online anything?
Well fuck then. Why don't you get a clearance, then get some Top secret stuff and march right over to the nearest Russian embassy and hand it to them.They'll appreciate it, and since "spy agencies spy" It'll all be good, no problem, and mybe the people you stole teh information from will give you a promotion.
Sorry, I get this way when people make abysmally stupid remarks. The problem Boris, is that when you get caught, you then suffer the Ire of the nation you committed treason against. Sometimes the spy survives the experience, sometimes the spy gets a loadapolonium gift.
Supporting Russia or Russians isn't treason. We are not at war with Russia. In fact, they're our allies.
Treason includes giving aid or comfort the the nation's enemies (foreign or domestic).
You need to get out of Moscow once in a while, because you are not only wrong - One country does not have to be ar war with another country for that country to be an adversary - if not openly an enemy, and if you don't know that, and are willing to say such bullshit, I gotta say, You ain't no American, or at the very least an unintelligent traitor. Or a modern crypto conservative - but there I go repeating myself. Take your pick there Vladimir.
Global warming? I seriously doubt it. A problem for humans? Not unless this is the initial bowshots of a nascent super-volcano. Interesting as all hell, and it surely wouldn't hurt to find out the cause.
I love your ignorance-induced coolness. What if a great pocket of liquid ice has formed because of the thermal activity and is making its way to the ocean?
Search 'Lake Agassiz' and you will find that the Black Sea was formed 12,000 years ago, at once, due to a similar phenomenon in NORTH AMERICA.
Amusing. I'm having trouble imagining this liquid Ice. Are you referring to supercooled water, or the fictional ice-9? Certainly if your scenario does happen, it will be a natural event that we cannot do much about, except the useless thoughts and prayers.
Not only is privacy dead, but the demand for privacy is as well.
Social media addiction has created a world full of narcissists who will gladly share every detail of their lives, and not care at all about inherent risk or impact.
This has fuck-all to do with the OS.
Some people don't care, but a lot of people do. And while the internet is an inherently non-private place, even the over-sharers are not expecting their credit card information to be exposed for the world to see. Or that bulk pack of dildos they ordered.
Regardless, these over-sharers were not created by social media, it merely gave them a fine outlet, and hey, who wouldn't be interested in your relative's new clit ring or ostomy bag? I have one relative on FB who approaches that level of oversharing. But I digress, and am creeping myself out here.
If privacy is utmost, we shouldn't be on the internet period. There is certainly a difference between knowing your data is shared, and finding out it isn't anonymized. Anonymization doesn't completely work either, but at least they have to work at it.
Underwater volcanism is my first guess. There is probably a convective current starting from the heated area at sea floor beneath the hole. The heat source was probably always there, but now the temperature of sea water has risen enough that with additional heating it is enough to melt the ice.
Perhaps. I'm a firm believer in the laws of thermodynamics, but I certainly wouldn't declare this as related to AGW. This despite the denialists rushing to declare that people are saying it is, so they can have a strawman to beat up.
And yes folks, we are allowed to speculate. Scientists do this all the time in order to eliminate unlikely candidates for the phenomenon, like the open water being caused by the pancake syrup at iHop.
You are correct that volcanic activity is a good first guess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Antarctica is a pretty busy place in that way. A group has claimed to have found 91 previously unknown volcanoes, https://www.engadget.com/2017/... but these have not been confirmed as of yet.
Global warming? I seriously doubt it. A problem for humans? Not unless this is the initial bowshots of a nascent super-volcano. Interesting as all hell, and it surely wouldn't hurt to find out the cause.
Now you mention it, pedantry does sound a bit too close to peasantry for my taste, maybe there's a word that means the same but sounds like badass or something lol
Ive been accused of douchebaggery on occasion.....
Unlikely as the cars have millions of miles of test drives.
The point is in this case, especially where the driver of the car is involved, is that with totally autonomous cars, the driver will by definition not be liable. You cannot be liable for a process that you are not involved in.
As it has no driver... of course not:D
Do you live in America? We are so reactionary that when anything happens, we scurry about waving our hands and wailing "This must never happen again!! We must punish someone!!" And we love punishing people or companies.
I don't think you understand that in America, we are in love with lawsuits, demand punisment in as many instances as possible, and seemingly love to turn a tragedy into profit.
Any of the accident scenariaos I've outlined are not about th eaccident itself, but the fault and punishment phase afterwards. My point in all of this is that someone will be sued, and the ethics of all this would be better worked out beforehand.
I'd make a wager, but I need to get on Abilify first so I can join the lawsuit. 8^)
Don't get me wrong. I agree for the most part win 8 is a bag of shit regardless, but op says there's nothing wrong with it AS LONG AS you do whatever, so if you haven't done that there is (in his opinion) something wrong with it.
Hold on though. If you have to do something to it, it kinda makes something wrong with it in my book. If I might make an example, in MacOS, there is a feature called launchpad. It's kinda like the W8 interface. The application icons are not little rectangles, but otherwise operate a bit like Metro.
But it is an option, and no third party apps needed to have the normal interface and what amounts to the taskbar at the bottom. An early Mac user would work their way around really easily.
And telling that hardly anyone that I know uses Launchpad.
So yeah, maybe I was being over pedantic, or maybe you were being a little pedantic about my pedantry. Ugh, pedantry sounds really bad!
There's nothing wrong with Windows 8, as long as you install ClassicShell and disable all the Metro crap.
Windows user tells us there's nothing wrong with Windows 8, then in the next sentence tells us what's wrong in Windows 8.
Pedant ignores qualifier words to make jibe;)
I even missed what you are talking about, so must be my dyslexic days..... Regardless, making it look like an earlier OS, and dealing with W8's Whack-a-Mole maintenance model, there is a hellava lot more wrong with it than OP's pretend W7 interface.
The touchy-feely site notes that 94 percent of accidents are caused by humans. I'm looking forward to my insurance premiums going down by 94 percent. I mean, that's how it works right? When humans are no longer responsible for accidents, the premiums will plummet, and we'll all have a lot more money in pocket.
A bit of dark humor I note as well - one of the sponsors is the Foundation for Blind Children. Who on earth is going to make some poor blind kid liable for an accident in his or her self driving car?
And MADD is also involved, which is interesting, since at base they are dog whistling prohibitionists. I guess when the last bit of control is wrested from human drivers, we'll be legally able to get shitfaced at the bar and have the car drive us home.
The driver was speeding and ignoring warnings, and attempting to use autopilot as autonomy - they are not remotely the same thing - but something tells me that there will be millions to be made in profit for the family.
The point is in this case, especially where the driver of the car is involved, is that with totally autonomous cars, the driver will by definition not be liable. You cannot be liable for a process that you are not involved in.
This is not how our society runs. Ever notice how disappointed people are if there is an accident, and the talking head notes at the end - "No charges have been filed"? If you go to that piece of shit page, which I suspect was designed by the same people who created "Ban Bossy", it is propaganda that old Adolf would have blushed at. Amazing how these people know! that without evidence, that autonomy is a dead lock to allow us a utopian future of safety, because as they say - "Because we should all get home safe".
tl;dr version If autonomy is as promoted, the only person involved that doesn't need liability insurance is the driver.
...especially supposedly technically knowledgeable people who are supposedly future-oriented. Here we are on the threshold of a revolutionary transformation in how transportation occurs and what I'm seeing so far here is an amalgam of: who can we sue when/if something fails?!?; it'll NEVER work 100% of the time! (omitting how shitty our current methodology scores); we need Standards(TM) first!! (ignoring how technology evolves); etc. Damn, just when I thought things could not get worse for America.
Chill. There are some who are against the autonomous vehicles, but yeah, it is pretty important that the things are predictable and safe. And there are some important questions as well, as how they will handle when there are a lot of AV's on the road. And while you dismiss liability, what happens when one loses control, and plows into my house? Who covers that?
Even then, would it not make complete sense for the manufacturers to tread very carefully? Look at the shitstorm Tesla is reaping from some dude who effectively killed himself when he ignored the autopilot warnings. A few really high profile accidents with a lot of people killed is going to stop a manufacturer in it's tracks.
And then there are the tactical issues. How do we prevent someone from loading a car with nasty stuff and autonomously driving it into some target? Or commandeering the vehicle to drive someone off a cliff - because you know these things are going to be part of the Internet of Pwned Things.
A good bit of caution is an engineers best tool. The US Government's shitting on State's rights in order to fast-track these things is a political tool.
And politics can only trump the laws of physics for a very short time.
If I were to suggest a path forward to full autonomy, I would suggest that the pieces be developed - and they are being developed - like the lane assist, the anti collision Infrared cameras, and anti tailgating radar (which of all these things needs mandated soon), and all of the other bits and pieces, but allows people to get used to this technology and the manufacturers to tweak it at the same time.
Trying to mandate that "you trust this stuff" without building any trust is simply going to fail. A lot of technology that covers what people cna and cannot do is also critical. Imagine thousands of people getting dropped off and their cars instructed to "circle the block" instead of parking. Imagine how you are going to program the car to where you want it to go and accommodate quick changes in destination. Imagine how the car will determine who to kill in the cases of unavoidable accidents. Do any of those choices include killing the occupants of it's own car? Or will the software always kill the occupants of the other car, or any pedestrians involved. Imagine how the cars will communicate with each other. You aren't going to have thousands of AV's on the road without them having ground truth, otherwise you will get some cases of AV gridlock, as occasions of impossible to solve problems come up.
All these things are solvable, except for the ethical who dies problems, and make for a pretty cool opportunity to do some cool programming work.
But fast tracking it isn't going to turn out well.
Given the choice between being Microsoft's bitch, and being cold, hungry and living in a cardboard box, I think I'll take being Microsoft's bitch.
Enjoy your cardboard box.
Well now Sparky, that's a fine false dillemma you have going there. Be a pity if someone came along and smashed it all up.
If you want to be Microsoft's bitch, well then BOHICA brother. I made enough money using my Macs to retire at 55 on the salary I was making. And no BOHICA.
And in some cases, mainly in "big data" analysis fields, even moreso in bioinformatics, the "OS that runs the software I have to use" tend to be flavors of Unix - so're basically limited to macOS X or Linux.
(With only very recently Windows starting to be able to run these same software, thanks to WSL).
I have software that I run that is only available on MacOS. I don't brag about it like the Windows users who strut around because they are forced to use Office365.
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So in the world of aerospace where you get ten-year contracts and development of things takes forever, suddenly you're "concerned" about a one-year delay. You must have burst an aneurysm when you found out about the Ares V! :D
You are probably arguing with a Russiabot.
SpaceX forces cargo liability back onto the customer, so its stealing from them with unavoidable risk and loss due to technical malfunctions. Previous NASA contract supply lift requirements weren't met for nearly a year after Musk agreed to the requirements, and lied about bulk as the cause when caught. Those are just a few of the problems glossed over by fan boys eager to, ehm, provide some service to Musk.
While your post, dripping with silly hatred, exposes your complete lack of understanding of how shit works. Consider that posting as na Anonymous Coward was at least ons smart thing you did today.
It'd be neat to know within decade precision when a supervolcano would blow, but that's still a pretty big window for humans to deal with practically. Can you do much to prepare for something on that scale that may or may not happen in 20 years?
I'm not certain that much can be done to prepare for it anyhow. There are enough unknowns to make most predictions just about worthless. Some speculate that Yellowstone is dying, and the hotspot that it lies over won't be an issue for a few million years, some think that while that may be true, there is still a caldera forming event to come as a grand finale for Yellowstone. I'd like to see more of the report before I give a semi-educated opinion. And they aren't making it easy to get.
Have you ever interacted with the officials that award research grants? They aren't panicky people.
As well, the definition of a "lot of money" seems to be quite fluid.
Shouldn't we wait until most people are no longer worried about a global warming catastrophe before we create a new armageddon story?
The Yellowstone hot spot has been a cause for concern for a long, long time. It's also one of those things we can't do much about.
We also have case history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... as the hotspot travels and does it's thing. No need for humans to "create" anything.
And it is quite fashionable these days to accuse others of denying science.
FTFY
Okay, here's the thing. Somewhere in the deep dark past, I wrote that I believe in science. And believing in sciences doesn't mean you have faith in it, as the first commenter appeard to imply. and what a monumental task of trying to agree with anythig at all if belief means faith and only faith.
But as for anti-science? Well let's see. We have Lysenkoism, which postulates that plants and animals immediately change in response to the environment, we have creationism, which discards almost ll las of physics, and invents new ones, we have anti-vaxxers, who claim that ingredients not even in vaccines at present cause a disability that has been proven not to be caused by vaccines, we have ernergy retention by atmospheric composition deniers, who still haven't come up with the failure mechanism for teh greenhouse effect. We have GMO deniers who have managed to make Monsanto's stupid Roundup Ready BS into an indictment of any food manipulated to be more nutritious. We have people who believe that living near a cell phone tower causes cancer. There are more examples, but I'm getting bored.
So yeah, There is no need to "accuse" these people of anything. They are deniers.
> bowshots
I humbly submit you meant bow shocks, as in the waves ahead of a ship from the bow.
No, its from an old Navy saying, a shot over the bow, meaning a warning, and that the next one won't be a warning.
Act of war? Spy services spy. That's why they exist and every country has spy services. How this is a shock to anyone is beyond me. Do you think that the NSA hasn't exploited every single A/V provider, hell, every single online anything?
Well fuck then. Why don't you get a clearance, then get some Top secret stuff and march right over to the nearest Russian embassy and hand it to them .They'll appreciate it, and since "spy agencies spy" It'll all be good, no problem, and mybe the people you stole teh information from will give you a promotion.
Sorry, I get this way when people make abysmally stupid remarks. The problem Boris, is that when you get caught, you then suffer the Ire of the nation you committed treason against. Sometimes the spy survives the experience, sometimes the spy gets a loadapolonium gift.
Supporting Russia or Russians isn't treason. We are not at war with Russia. In fact, they're our allies.
Treason includes giving aid or comfort the the nation's enemies (foreign or domestic).
You need to get out of Moscow once in a while, because you are not only wrong - One country does not have to be ar war with another country for that country to be an adversary - if not openly an enemy, and if you don't know that, and are willing to say such bullshit, I gotta say, You ain't no American, or at the very least an unintelligent traitor. Or a modern crypto conservative - but there I go repeating myself. Take your pick there Vladimir.
"I'm a firm believer in the laws of thermodynamics"
Your belief is unnecessary and misplaced.
As is your comment. You have to have some way of introducing a subject. And it is quite fashionable these days to deny science.
Global warming? I seriously doubt it. A problem for humans? Not unless this is the initial bowshots of a nascent super-volcano. Interesting as all hell, and it surely wouldn't hurt to find out the cause.
I love your ignorance-induced coolness. What if a great pocket of liquid ice has formed because of the thermal activity and is making its way to the ocean?
Search 'Lake Agassiz' and you will find that the Black Sea was formed 12,000 years ago, at once, due to a similar phenomenon in NORTH AMERICA.
Amusing. I'm having trouble imagining this liquid Ice. Are you referring to supercooled water, or the fictional ice-9? Certainly if your scenario does happen, it will be a natural event that we cannot do much about, except the useless thoughts and prayers.
Not only is privacy dead, but the demand for privacy is as well.
Social media addiction has created a world full of narcissists who will gladly share every detail of their lives, and not care at all about inherent risk or impact.
This has fuck-all to do with the OS.
Some people don't care, but a lot of people do. And while the internet is an inherently non-private place, even the over-sharers are not expecting their credit card information to be exposed for the world to see. Or that bulk pack of dildos they ordered.
Regardless, these over-sharers were not created by social media, it merely gave them a fine outlet, and hey, who wouldn't be interested in your relative's new clit ring or ostomy bag? I have one relative on FB who approaches that level of oversharing. But I digress, and am creeping myself out here.
If privacy is utmost, we shouldn't be on the internet period. There is certainly a difference between knowing your data is shared, and finding out it isn't anonymized. Anonymization doesn't completely work either, but at least they have to work at it.
Underwater volcanism is my first guess. There is probably a convective current starting from the heated area at sea floor beneath the hole. The heat source was probably always there, but now the temperature of sea water has risen enough that with additional heating it is enough to melt the ice.
Perhaps. I'm a firm believer in the laws of thermodynamics, but I certainly wouldn't declare this as related to AGW. This despite the denialists rushing to declare that people are saying it is, so they can have a strawman to beat up.
And yes folks, we are allowed to speculate. Scientists do this all the time in order to eliminate unlikely candidates for the phenomenon, like the open water being caused by the pancake syrup at iHop.
You are correct that volcanic activity is a good first guess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Antarctica is a pretty busy place in that way. A group has claimed to have found 91 previously unknown volcanoes, https://www.engadget.com/2017/... but these have not been confirmed as of yet.
This one is active and confirmed https://www.livescience.com/41... .
Global warming? I seriously doubt it. A problem for humans? Not unless this is the initial bowshots of a nascent super-volcano. Interesting as all hell, and it surely wouldn't hurt to find out the cause.
Again already? But it just ended on Sept 23.
It's a buy one get one free deal.
And we still haven't recovered from the May 2011 end of the world. Ahhh, those were good times.
Now you mention it, pedantry does sound a bit too close to peasantry for my taste, maybe there's a word that means the same but sounds like badass or something lol
Ive been accused of douchebaggery on occasion.....
Unlikely as the cars have millions of miles of test drives.
The point is in this case, especially where the driver of the car is involved, is that with totally autonomous cars, the driver will by definition not be liable. You cannot be liable for a process that you are not involved in. As it has no driver ... of course not :D
Do you live in America? We are so reactionary that when anything happens, we scurry about waving our hands and wailing "This must never happen again!! We must punish someone!!" And we love punishing people or companies.
There is a gambling addiction lawsuit against the makers of Ability right now. https://www.youhavealawyer.com...
I don't think you understand that in America, we are in love with lawsuits, demand punisment in as many instances as possible, and seemingly love to turn a tragedy into profit.
Any of the accident scenariaos I've outlined are not about th eaccident itself, but the fault and punishment phase afterwards. My point in all of this is that someone will be sued, and the ethics of all this would be better worked out beforehand. I'd make a wager, but I need to get on Abilify first so I can join the lawsuit. 8^)
Don't get me wrong. I agree for the most part win 8 is a bag of shit regardless, but op says there's nothing wrong with it AS LONG AS you do whatever, so if you haven't done that there is (in his opinion) something wrong with it.
Hold on though. If you have to do something to it, it kinda makes something wrong with it in my book. If I might make an example, in MacOS, there is a feature called launchpad. It's kinda like the W8 interface. The application icons are not little rectangles, but otherwise operate a bit like Metro.
But it is an option, and no third party apps needed to have the normal interface and what amounts to the taskbar at the bottom. An early Mac user would work their way around really easily.
And telling that hardly anyone that I know uses Launchpad.
So yeah, maybe I was being over pedantic, or maybe you were being a little pedantic about my pedantry. Ugh, pedantry sounds really bad!
There's nothing wrong with Windows 8, as long as you install ClassicShell and disable all the Metro crap.
Windows user tells us there's nothing wrong with Windows 8, then in the next sentence tells us what's wrong in Windows 8.
Pedant ignores qualifier words to make jibe ;)
I even missed what you are talking about, so must be my dyslexic days..... Regardless, making it look like an earlier OS, and dealing with W8's Whack-a-Mole maintenance model, there is a hellava lot more wrong with it than OP's pretend W7 interface.
The owners, I would say, just like with humans.
The touchy-feely site notes that 94 percent of accidents are caused by humans. I'm looking forward to my insurance premiums going down by 94 percent. I mean, that's how it works right? When humans are no longer responsible for accidents, the premiums will plummet, and we'll all have a lot more money in pocket.
A bit of dark humor I note as well - one of the sponsors is the Foundation for Blind Children. Who on earth is going to make some poor blind kid liable for an accident in his or her self driving car?
And MADD is also involved, which is interesting, since at base they are dog whistling prohibitionists. I guess when the last bit of control is wrested from human drivers, we'll be legally able to get shitfaced at the bar and have the car drive us home.
what happens when one loses control, and plows into my house? Who covers that? And how should that happen?
Bottom line the same insurance that would cover a human drier that "loses control".
Structural failure of a component responsible for maintaining control of the car is one. Failure of a sensor. A software bug.
While you may find it interesting to cherry pick my argument, I'll just leave this link here: https://www.reuters.com/articl...
The driver was speeding and ignoring warnings, and attempting to use autopilot as autonomy - they are not remotely the same thing - but something tells me that there will be millions to be made in profit for the family.
The point is in this case, especially where the driver of the car is involved, is that with totally autonomous cars, the driver will by definition not be liable. You cannot be liable for a process that you are not involved in.
This is not how our society runs. Ever notice how disappointed people are if there is an accident, and the talking head notes at the end - "No charges have been filed"? If you go to that piece of shit page, which I suspect was designed by the same people who created "Ban Bossy", it is propaganda that old Adolf would have blushed at. Amazing how these people know! that without evidence, that autonomy is a dead lock to allow us a utopian future of safety, because as they say - "Because we should all get home safe".
tl;dr version If autonomy is as promoted, the only person involved that doesn't need liability insurance is the driver.
...especially supposedly technically knowledgeable people who are supposedly future-oriented. Here we are on the threshold of a revolutionary transformation in how transportation occurs and what I'm seeing so far here is an amalgam of: who can we sue when/if something fails?!?; it'll NEVER work 100% of the time! (omitting how shitty our current methodology scores); we need Standards(TM) first!! (ignoring how technology evolves); etc. Damn, just when I thought things could not get worse for America.
Chill. There are some who are against the autonomous vehicles, but yeah, it is pretty important that the things are predictable and safe. And there are some important questions as well, as how they will handle when there are a lot of AV's on the road. And while you dismiss liability, what happens when one loses control, and plows into my house? Who covers that?
Even then, would it not make complete sense for the manufacturers to tread very carefully? Look at the shitstorm Tesla is reaping from some dude who effectively killed himself when he ignored the autopilot warnings. A few really high profile accidents with a lot of people killed is going to stop a manufacturer in it's tracks.
And then there are the tactical issues. How do we prevent someone from loading a car with nasty stuff and autonomously driving it into some target? Or commandeering the vehicle to drive someone off a cliff - because you know these things are going to be part of the Internet of Pwned Things.
A good bit of caution is an engineers best tool. The US Government's shitting on State's rights in order to fast-track these things is a political tool.
And politics can only trump the laws of physics for a very short time.
If I were to suggest a path forward to full autonomy, I would suggest that the pieces be developed - and they are being developed - like the lane assist, the anti collision Infrared cameras, and anti tailgating radar (which of all these things needs mandated soon), and all of the other bits and pieces, but allows people to get used to this technology and the manufacturers to tweak it at the same time.
Trying to mandate that "you trust this stuff" without building any trust is simply going to fail. A lot of technology that covers what people cna and cannot do is also critical. Imagine thousands of people getting dropped off and their cars instructed to "circle the block" instead of parking. Imagine how you are going to program the car to where you want it to go and accommodate quick changes in destination. Imagine how the car will determine who to kill in the cases of unavoidable accidents. Do any of those choices include killing the occupants of it's own car? Or will the software always kill the occupants of the other car, or any pedestrians involved. Imagine how the cars will communicate with each other. You aren't going to have thousands of AV's on the road without them having ground truth, otherwise you will get some cases of AV gridlock, as occasions of impossible to solve problems come up.
All these things are solvable, except for the ethical who dies problems, and make for a pretty cool opportunity to do some cool programming work.
But fast tracking it isn't going to turn out well.
Given the choice between being Microsoft's bitch, and being cold, hungry and living in a cardboard box, I think I'll take being Microsoft's bitch.
Enjoy your cardboard box.
Well now Sparky, that's a fine false dillemma you have going there. Be a pity if someone came along and smashed it all up.
If you want to be Microsoft's bitch, well then BOHICA brother. I made enough money using my Macs to retire at 55 on the salary I was making. And no BOHICA.
Have you really had issues with systemd or even pulseaudio or network manager?
Welcome to the darkside of Linux users. its fashionable to shit on systemd, because its fashionable to shit on systemd.
I have it on a lot of systems, and aside from fsome early burps when it first came out, it's running well.
There's nothing wrong with Windows 8, as long as you install ClassicShell and disable all the Metro crap.
Windows user tells us there's nothing wrong with Windows 8, then in the next sentence tells us what's wrong in Windows 8.
And in some cases, mainly in "big data" analysis fields, even moreso in bioinformatics, the "OS that runs the software I have to use" tend to be flavors of Unix - so're basically limited to macOS X or Linux.
(With only very recently Windows starting to be able to run these same software, thanks to WSL).
I have software that I run that is only available on MacOS. I don't brag about it like the Windows users who strut around because they are forced to use Office365.