Yes. there is a special dispersion system that upon impact all the contents are instantly turned into a fine powder and ejected out of the containment vessel. then to make sure it get's everywhere a final pyrotechnic charge is fired to make sure it hits everyone around and the occupants of the car.
but in a motorcycle it certainly would be doable. Imagine the typical European motorcycle for commuting the Honda NT700 it is light and has a small engine. now imaging buying a motorcycle that you never have to put gas in. That would be a game changer for large parts of the world. Even the USA would see a sudden major surge of small motorcycle sales if a motorcycle like that were made.
Your problem is you keep looking down the same road.
You are a programmer, over the past 2 years you should have been looking at updating your skillset to slide to an industry that is desperate for people.
Embedded programming.
This is what I did 4 years ago when everything started to go sideways. While working as a Corperate Code Ape I started studying embedded systems. I found it was easy, you just cant be lazy and expect the system to have a 8 processor core with 22TB of ram. You get a 33mhz processor with 128Meg of ram to run your Linux OS and your app in. no you dont get Swap space...
SO I slid over to that, I applied at a job and was hired instantly because of my extensive experience in programming and have been headhunted monthly ever cince.
Stop trying to do what you are used to. Find a CS career that is hit and heavy demand and slide into it. Programming detonators for Cruise Missiles or lighting systems for hospitals is far more lucrative than anything you will find in a corporate CS job reformatting TPS reports for the Accounting department.
Learn Industrial control, you know interfacing with real hardware.. The cool part is a bug can kill someone so they actually encourage you to take your time to test and fix bugs! It's refreshing!
A lot of people I know (I know a lot of the social media big wigs) and all the Industry giants that I have met along with a lot of the tech people that matter are there and posting daily. In fact I muted a couple of them recently for being too damn chatty and having 80,000 replies to everything they post.
Oh and there is Chris Prillio as well. But he's even still on MySpace....
And smack down jerk companies like Zenga that like to spam the hell out of everyone. I'm ok with others playing games, but if your game sends me crap all the time.... I'm going to punt you.
Also I want to see the API and the contract that lists ALL The data they hand deliver to the application. IF a game owns my profile and all my friends profiles then it's the Same crap from Facebook just recolored.
Again, you are showing how you not only do not know what anti lock brakes are but have not driven one in a failed state.
Anti lock brakes RELEASE THE BRAKES when triggered. in other words they run a pump that actually lifts your foot off the brake in a sense (it actually modulates the braking pressure) to pulse the brakes and make the tires stop sliding. guess what, there is a failure mode for Anti Lock that leaves the valve in the bypass and you CANT STOP. I have seen this failure mode many times and there are several driving conditions that will cause a working anti lock system to completely fail and cause the vehicle to not stop. It's why Anti Lock is instantly removed from any car that is used for racing because it is inherently unsafe. If the anti lock system is being triggered and does not disengage, you will have no brakes at all. because it's triggered and releasing pressure. Stop foaming at the mouth go find yourself a very bumpy road on a downhill incline and hit the brakes when you hit the bumps to experience exactly what I am talking about. In racing just hitting the side rumble strips while corner braking will trigger this problem. And because most cars are designed cheap, Anti Lock kicks in for BOTH the wheels in the set. Front tire triggered? both front tires go into antilock. 70% of your braking power is the front so you just lost 70% of your brakes... now the rear tires have to stop the car, they ski triggering the antilock... you now have 0% brakes.
so yes. Really. Just because you dont understand the systems well does not give you the right to claim they still work when failed. a light on the dash is not "failed" FYI.
Actually a lot of people are doing this as well. I bought a video black box for my car. It's a smallish radar detector like device that mounts behind my mirror. when I hit the brakes or if an impact is registered it write protects that file and the next recordings until it fills the device.. I have lots of entertaining video clips of idiot moves I have seen on my commute.
search amazon.com for accident recorder. better ones are 720P HD and will use MicroSDHC cards to record about 8 hours worth of video before the circular overwrite starts.
As a motorcycle rider. I would prefer a highway FULL of robot vehicles than the hand-full of complete idiots on the highway I see each morning that almost run people off the road. This morning I watched a complete idiot pass on the shoulder at 80+mph with his expedition XL because he did not want to wait for the traffic back up. the number of bend over reflector posts behind him made me grin wide knowing that his precious canyonero is now demolished in the front.
"if the anti-lock brakes fail, you just have normal brakes. the human can still stop."
you have never driven a car with anti lock brakes.
When they do fail and it happens a LOT in specific conditions you do NOT get "normal brakes" you get "OH SHIT NO BRAKES!"
there are two hills near where I work. BOTH if you approach the stoplight fast and hit the brakes kind of hard on dry pavement, the following will happen.
you start braking at a medium level nowhere near Anti lock trip point. and then you hit the washboard bumps that the city refuses to fix. this trips the antilock and disables the brakes because it keeps seeing the tires start to skid.
there is at least 4 rear-end accidents there a week due to this problem. when anti lock fails, you have NO brakes.
Yes the USA colored glasses also shows that "protect me from terrorists" is far more important than the pesky freedom thing that we claim to hold in the highest regard.
Every American that claims they love freedom bot does not loudly demand the PATRIOT act be repealed is a hypocrite.
My favorite was putting big electrolyte caps in the Switched AC outlets in the lab. Flip on the switches and BOOM! Always made the TA crap themselves when they opened the lab the next morning.
Do this today and I'm guessing they will do anal waterboarding at gitmo for attempted bombing.
I have a friend that has 3 PHD's in Archaeology and is a Viking Historian that heads up the local SCA Viking group. he had to change his name to a viking name to keep schools from googling him and labelling him as a "wierdo that dresses up" and losing teaching positions.
I have another friend that worked in the medical field and was getting questioned daily by his HR department demanding he "friend them" on Facebook. so he changed his name to a made up one, made a new "real profile" that is empty and friended them through that.
Give us laws that protect us from Assholes in the HR department, I.E. let me sue my boss for $34,986,231,15 for not giving me a raise because I posted a LOLCAT animated gif on my facebook wall.
They cant fire me for living in a blue house with yellow flowers growing outside, but yet the idiots in Washington think it's ok to let them do it because I am friends with people named Dave.
It wont give good readings and throw a SES code. that's the trick. Newer vehicles also store the sensor readings at the TIME of the code so I can read it and see if it's an intermittent problem like a squirrel stuck in the tailpipe.
Car ECMs are not poorly written garbage like PC code. they will not throw a SES code unless a sensor goes out of range and throws a bad reading. so you can not have all good reading and an error.
I dont mean YOU.. Eerk, I see that this got ploped in the wrong spot.
But in general most people know nothing at all about cars and assume the Stealer is the only place to take the car and pay the sodomy prices. I know of several highly paid people here that look at me like I am an alien because I change my own wiper blades. "but the dealer does that for me"
Sweet smoking Jesus... I knew it! Jesus likes Sweet Cigars! If anyone gives me proof he likes a good Coniac, I'll actually try to get to heaven.
No it cant. and the "sensor" is not a sensor. It's simply a timer based on engine run time/ Average RPM/ engine temperature. There is no special sensor that is in the oil stream checking viscosity and particulates. All cars with an engine oil life meter is simply calculating a Wild ass guess adjusted on the conservative side.
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Yes. there is a special dispersion system that upon impact all the contents are instantly turned into a fine powder and ejected out of the containment vessel. then to make sure it get's everywhere a final pyrotechnic charge is fired to make sure it hits everyone around and the occupants of the car.
Did you not read the article?
I'll take that 250KW motor.. I want to get down that first 1/4 mile really quickly.
but in a motorcycle it certainly would be doable. Imagine the typical European motorcycle for commuting the Honda NT700 it is light and has a small engine. now imaging buying a motorcycle that you never have to put gas in. That would be a game changer for large parts of the world. Even the USA would see a sudden major surge of small motorcycle sales if a motorcycle like that were made.
Your problem is you keep looking down the same road.
You are a programmer, over the past 2 years you should have been looking at updating your skillset to slide to an industry that is desperate for people.
Embedded programming.
This is what I did 4 years ago when everything started to go sideways. While working as a Corperate Code Ape I started studying embedded systems. I found it was easy, you just cant be lazy and expect the system to have a 8 processor core with 22TB of ram. You get a 33mhz processor with 128Meg of ram to run your Linux OS and your app in. no you dont get Swap space...
SO I slid over to that, I applied at a job and was hired instantly because of my extensive experience in programming and have been headhunted monthly ever cince.
Stop trying to do what you are used to. Find a CS career that is hit and heavy demand and slide into it. Programming detonators for Cruise Missiles or lighting systems for hospitals is far more lucrative than anything you will find in a corporate CS job reformatting TPS reports for the Accounting department.
Learn Industrial control, you know interfacing with real hardware.. The cool part is a bug can kill someone so they actually encourage you to take your time to test and fix bugs! It's refreshing!
A lot of people I know (I know a lot of the social media big wigs) and all the Industry giants that I have met along with a lot of the tech people that matter are there and posting daily. In fact I muted a couple of them recently for being too damn chatty and having 80,000 replies to everything they post.
Oh and there is Chris Prillio as well. But he's even still on MySpace....
And smack down jerk companies like Zenga that like to spam the hell out of everyone. I'm ok with others playing games, but if your game sends me crap all the time.... I'm going to punt you.
Also I want to see the API and the contract that lists ALL The data they hand deliver to the application. IF a game owns my profile and all my friends profiles then it's the Same crap from Facebook just recolored.
Again, you are showing how you not only do not know what anti lock brakes are but have not driven one in a failed state.
Anti lock brakes RELEASE THE BRAKES when triggered. in other words they run a pump that actually lifts your foot off the brake in a sense (it actually modulates the braking pressure) to pulse the brakes and make the tires stop sliding. guess what, there is a failure mode for Anti Lock that leaves the valve in the bypass and you CANT STOP. I have seen this failure mode many times and there are several driving conditions that will cause a working anti lock system to completely fail and cause the vehicle to not stop. It's why Anti Lock is instantly removed from any car that is used for racing because it is inherently unsafe. If the anti lock system is being triggered and does not disengage, you will have no brakes at all. because it's triggered and releasing pressure. Stop foaming at the mouth go find yourself a very bumpy road on a downhill incline and hit the brakes when you hit the bumps to experience exactly what I am talking about. In racing just hitting the side rumble strips while corner braking will trigger this problem. And because most cars are designed cheap, Anti Lock kicks in for BOTH the wheels in the set. Front tire triggered? both front tires go into antilock. 70% of your braking power is the front so you just lost 70% of your brakes... now the rear tires have to stop the car, they ski triggering the antilock... you now have 0% brakes.
so yes. Really. Just because you dont understand the systems well does not give you the right to claim they still work when failed. a light on the dash is not "failed" FYI.
In Detroit Directional signals are a sign of weakness... If you use it you will cause someone to FLOOR IT and close the spot you were looking at.
Actually a lot of people are doing this as well. I bought a video black box for my car. It's a smallish radar detector like device that mounts behind my mirror. when I hit the brakes or if an impact is registered it write protects that file and the next recordings until it fills the device.. I have lots of entertaining video clips of idiot moves I have seen on my commute.
search amazon.com for accident recorder. better ones are 720P HD and will use MicroSDHC cards to record about 8 hours worth of video before the circular overwrite starts.
"It's worth noting that the 'typical human driver' has no measurable 'skill'. "
you must see the drivers I see as well. You driving I-94 from Detroit to Chicago daily as well?
As a motorcycle rider. I would prefer a highway FULL of robot vehicles than the hand-full of complete idiots on the highway I see each morning that almost run people off the road. This morning I watched a complete idiot pass on the shoulder at 80+mph with his expedition XL because he did not want to wait for the traffic back up. the number of bend over reflector posts behind him made me grin wide knowing that his precious canyonero is now demolished in the front.
The number of people that have died from slipping on KY jelly while trying to do Auto-erotic Asphyxia is higher than TERRORISM deaths in the USA.
It's that low of a bar.... but we need to increase security!!!!!
"if the anti-lock brakes fail, you just have normal brakes. the human can still stop."
you have never driven a car with anti lock brakes.
When they do fail and it happens a LOT in specific conditions you do NOT get "normal brakes" you get "OH SHIT NO BRAKES!"
there are two hills near where I work. BOTH if you approach the stoplight fast and hit the brakes kind of hard on dry pavement, the following will happen.
you start braking at a medium level nowhere near Anti lock trip point. and then you hit the washboard bumps that the city refuses to fix. this trips the antilock and disables the brakes because it keeps seeing the tires start to skid.
there is at least 4 rear-end accidents there a week due to this problem. when anti lock fails, you have NO brakes.
Dont worry, we printed all over it "Made in IRAN"
Not for a computer newbie that is pretty much 90% of the people out there. Have you tried iMovie? it's brain dead easy. That is what is needed.
Brain dead easy. I'd love one for Windows. I really would.
Why not? It worked for Scientology quite well.
Every number below 12 on that are NOT flashmobbing. There is some serious bias on that site.
Yes the USA colored glasses also shows that "protect me from terrorists" is far more important than the pesky freedom thing that we claim to hold in the highest regard.
Every American that claims they love freedom bot does not loudly demand the PATRIOT act be repealed is a hypocrite.
It does not exist. I'd love for a decent super easy video editing and DVD authoring all in one app to Exist on the PC.
It does not. I have looked.
This! This is full of win.
My favorite was putting big electrolyte caps in the Switched AC outlets in the lab. Flip on the switches and BOOM! Always made the TA crap themselves when they opened the lab the next morning.
Do this today and I'm guessing they will do anal waterboarding at gitmo for attempted bombing.
Why? because of Stupid HR people.
I have a friend that has 3 PHD's in Archaeology and is a Viking Historian that heads up the local SCA Viking group. he had to change his name to a viking name to keep schools from googling him and labelling him as a "wierdo that dresses up" and losing teaching positions.
I have another friend that worked in the medical field and was getting questioned daily by his HR department demanding he "friend them" on Facebook. so he changed his name to a made up one, made a new "real profile" that is empty and friended them through that.
Give us laws that protect us from Assholes in the HR department, I.E. let me sue my boss for $34,986,231,15 for not giving me a raise because I posted a LOLCAT animated gif on my facebook wall.
They cant fire me for living in a blue house with yellow flowers growing outside, but yet the idiots in Washington think it's ok to let them do it because I am friends with people named Dave.
It wont give good readings and throw a SES code. that's the trick. Newer vehicles also store the sensor readings at the TIME of the code so I can read it and see if it's an intermittent problem like a squirrel stuck in the tailpipe.
Car ECMs are not poorly written garbage like PC code. they will not throw a SES code unless a sensor goes out of range and throws a bad reading. so you can not have all good reading and an error.
I dont mean YOU.. Eerk, I see that this got ploped in the wrong spot.
But in general most people know nothing at all about cars and assume the Stealer is the only place to take the car and pay the sodomy prices. I know of several highly paid people here that look at me like I am an alien because I change my own wiper blades. "but the dealer does that for me"
Sweet smoking Jesus... I knew it! Jesus likes Sweet Cigars! If anyone gives me proof he likes a good Coniac, I'll actually try to get to heaven.
Not anymore. Audi has taken over as the Douchebag car.
Your auto knowledge is years out of date.
No it cant. and the "sensor" is not a sensor. It's simply a timer based on engine run time/ Average RPM/ engine temperature. There is no special sensor that is in the oil stream checking viscosity and particulates. All cars with an engine oil life meter is simply calculating a Wild ass guess adjusted on the conservative side.