Inattentiveness is a natural consequence of a car that claims drives itself. Unless manufacturers figure a way of forcing attentiveness then crashes like this will continue to happen. Tesla is just the first to suffer this but it'll become even more of a problem as more automation appears in cars.
I don't see how its victim blaming because it's hard to see this person as a victim. He was "cheated" out of a few seconds of movie scenes. All the rest, the day driving to London, the fuel, his ridiculously high expectations etc. are completely his own fault.
Try UAE - it's a native Amiga emulator that should have no trouble emulating any Amiga at the correct clock from A1000 all the way to A4000. Perhaps this Amiga emulator isn't as optimal / mature but running over an event driven browser in JS certainly doesn't help. One neat thing about the browser version is how they're using AROS to replace the standard Kickstart / Workbench.
I said asm.js in the line before. I'm aware what it is, and no it doesn't even approach near-native speeds. If you are in doubt over this I suggest you load up some of the QT demos or CPython in a browser and run a few benchmarks. Performance is appalling and the reason for that is self-evident - Javascript is not designed to model a processor architecture and things like canvas interaction and the browser's event loop have hamstrung performance. Even along optimized paths with specilized objects that mimic memory buffers it is still appalling. And that's even before considering subjects like multi-threading and so on.
And no, PNaCl is not bytecode in some JVM sense. It uses LLVM bitcode which means it can be translated into native instructions and cached. PNaCl's performance is ~30% more than native but that's primarily due to software fault isolation instrumentation and other sandboxing mechanisms. It's still vastly better than asm.js.
It appears to use an emulator called SAE which is an Amiga emulator implemented in Javascript against the canvas API. Another way of doing the same would be to take an existing C/C++ emulator and run it through Emscripten compiler to produce asm.js (a subset of JS).
But web browsers desperately need a better way to run code than turning it into JS - something like LLVM bitcode that can be compiled and run at near-native speeds instead of the crappy 2-10x slower JS. Chrome did something called PNaCl along those lines but it would have to be adopted across all browsers.
He wasted an entire day and £160 to drive all the way from Scotland to London to watch a movie...
Sane people would simply visit their local cinema where the exact same movie got released on the exact same day as everywhere else in the UK. Rational people would wait for some critical consensus to form to justify their decision to visit rather than basing their expectations on studio hype and bullshit.
So I must surmise he is completely fucking stupid or a troll.
Some Apple apps are moving out the firmware. I suspect that's because they're running short of space and are freeing some up by moving less core apps out to user-land.
Google tried to launch Android "silver" handsets which were basically stock Android devices free of crapware (except Google's own of course), but the interest wasn't there from OEMs to buy into it. So we're stuck where we are.
Personally I couldn't really give a damn about crapware if only it wasn't baked into firmware and eating up space that could be in the user partition. I don't see why it can't be installed to the user partition so it can be removed completely if the user chooses to remove it.
A bad example since Cygwin is basically a kludge DLL with Posix functions and path mapping that allows recompiled binaries to think they're running against some kind of *nix environment.
A GOOD example would be coLinux which came out years ago and genuinely allowed a Linux dist like Debian to run in Windows at full speed. It wasn't a VM but used a modified kernel that ran over a low level driver. As far as the dist was concerned it was Linux but it was running over Windows.
Randomly assign a moderator based on trust, give them moderator points, allow them to downrank the trolls into oblivion. If an account accumulates enough points then other measures can be taken to either restrict access to certain feeds or block devices or users entirely.
I'm just pointing out there are an infinite number of pictures, many that prominent groups, companies etc. might legitimately want to be emojis but it's just nuts to try and maintain and catalogue them. Even if you just describe what the picture looks like, it's still an infinite number. And as we can see here, they can't even decide on what a generic gun is meant to look like. One implementor panders to political correctness and renders it as a water pistol while another a gun. I can imagine the fun in court when someone texts "you're going to get your ass kicked [picture of a water pistol]" and the recipient sees a gun.
Besides which emojis are so ephemeral that they'll be here and gone in a short span of time. Yet every piece of software, font rasterizer and phone OS will have to recognize and convert this bullshit from this day on.
Demand EU style data protection laws. Basically it requires individual consent and stops companies selling / aggregating data, or using data in ways contrary to the reasons someone consented to.
Maybe an NRA logo, and a happy guy holding his AR-15, and a woman with her concealed carry Ruger LC-9, and a kid with a deer in his sights and a purse snatcher laying dead in a pool of blood. Let's define a shitload of gun themed emojis and submit them to Unicode. If Apple / Microsoft / Google can do it, then why not anyone else. Let's not stop at the NRA either. I'm sure Black Lives Matter, Coca Cola, the Church of Scientology, and NAMBLA all have some great ideas for emojis.
Perhaps at some point Unicode might realise the fucking lunacy allowing emojis into their system in the first place.
This actually shows how great autopilot can be, especially if it combines a camera, radar, and other sensors, compared to humans who can be sooo easily defeated.
It's only great if it actually works in every circumstance, or if it largely works but the driver's attentiveness is enforced to act as a backup just in case. Then and only then can it be said to be safer than a driver by themselves in every scenario.
But in any case, this is just about attacking a car : it is illegal. There are many other (cheap) ways to cause an accident : blow a tire, use light, fumes, oil, ice, or use a missile. If someone wants to attack a car, there are plenty of choices.
And now there will be plenty more. It's emerging technology and techniques to grief / attack it will emerge too. A sharpie pen could cripple a car. Strong light or radio interference might blind the car. Coated / reflective glass on buildings, or carried by passing vehicles might confuse the vehicle. A box thrown in the road could bring a car to a halt. Even existing hazards like broken glass, bricks, potholes might pose more risk because a human can see them but the car cannot.
If fully autonomous vehicles ever became a real thing on the roads that even robbers will develop low-tech techniques to exploit the car's behaviour. e.g. toss a box in the road, wait for car to stop, toss a blanket over the sensors and then rob the occupants or vehicle at leisure.
As it happens, I am writing this on a 4-year old MacBook Pro. It is fast and reliable and I have yet to find any Mac software I want that I cannot run.
Perhaps that's because Mac software has stagnated too. It can't become more demanding because the hardware wouldn't keep up with it any more.
The EU is regulating roaming down - it used to be exorbitant but now phone calls, text and data are charged at domestic rate plus a small tariff and from the middle of next year there should be no tariff at all.
I don't see much reason Brazil to do for some random Japanese network although South America could collectively ban roaming charges if they wished for the same reasons as Europe - travel, trade, border towns etc.
Business people can be ethical and honest. It just happens that Trump is neither ethical nor honest. He has fucked over so many people, businesses and banks that it's amazing he can still find anyone to do business with.
Perhaps astronauts who go into deep space are feted and find themselves traveling more, eating out more, being in more smoke filled environments, stressing out in front of large audiences etc. A few days in space might not be what did it but everything that came after. Or maybe it's just a statistical blip from a small sample size.
Guy, I too, am an industrial engineer. I have to worry about all the risk assessment bureaucracy you do. If all the engineers are as anal as you, and there are many, then we wouldn't ever get shit done. There is such a thing as over analyzing and being ridiculously over cautious. You have repeatedly stated that you will only accept the product if two conditions are met.
It's not bureaucracy to assess risk and implement your design accordingly. Putting autonomous features in cars will obviously run the higher risk of inattentive drivers. This is a forseeable problem that must be addressed.
And no, not all engineers should be anal. But those that involve hazards to life and limb absolutely should be. And no I haven't repeatedly stated I would "only accept" this if two conditions were met. I repeatedly stated that these are the two conditions that have to be met for the claim that autonomous driving to be safer than a human driving to hold true and the Tesla meets neither. Learn the difference.
You're not budging. You're asking for perfection.
You seem to have serious comprehension issues here. I'm not asking for perfection. If it was perfection then there would be no need for a human to be a backup would there? Instead the assumption should be that the autonomous mode is NOT perfect and therefore attentiveness is critical for the human to act as a backup to override the car if necessary.
It's not happening. Should I be installing hazard mitigation equipment on everything in the plant because sometimes the workers get bored and play forklift jousting? I think not. I fire the employees who are being idiots and I move on. That isn't hyperbole either. Three of the factories I've worked at have all had incidents of forklift jousting. You want stupid fixed and that is impossible.
Got any more pathetic slippery slope arguments you want to engage in? There are forseeable risks in factories that can be mitigated by design and safety systems. Mitigation does not eliminate all risk or stop someone determinedly undermining a safety feature or doing something unforseeable. But neither does it mean that factories should do nothing. Safety in factories saves lives. Safety in cars saves lives. This is why cars have seat bags, airbags, crumple zones etc. This is why modern vehicles will even complain loudly or not even move unless the driver / passengers are buckled up. I expect even the Tesla gets that bit right.
An autonomous mode in a semi-autonomous car that does not enforce attentiveness to act as a backup is not a safe system. The sooner you figure that out, the sooner you might understand what I am talking about.
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Inattentiveness is a natural consequence of a car that claims drives itself. Unless manufacturers figure a way of forcing attentiveness then crashes like this will continue to happen. Tesla is just the first to suffer this but it'll become even more of a problem as more automation appears in cars.
I don't see how its victim blaming because it's hard to see this person as a victim. He was "cheated" out of a few seconds of movie scenes. All the rest, the day driving to London, the fuel, his ridiculously high expectations etc. are completely his own fault.
Try UAE - it's a native Amiga emulator that should have no trouble emulating any Amiga at the correct clock from A1000 all the way to A4000. Perhaps this Amiga emulator isn't as optimal / mature but running over an event driven browser in JS certainly doesn't help. One neat thing about the browser version is how they're using AROS to replace the standard Kickstart / Workbench.
And no, PNaCl is not bytecode in some JVM sense. It uses LLVM bitcode which means it can be translated into native instructions and cached. PNaCl's performance is ~30% more than native but that's primarily due to software fault isolation instrumentation and other sandboxing mechanisms. It's still vastly better than asm.js.
But web browsers desperately need a better way to run code than turning it into JS - something like LLVM bitcode that can be compiled and run at near-native speeds instead of the crappy 2-10x slower JS. Chrome did something called PNaCl along those lines but it would have to be adopted across all browsers.
Sane people would simply visit their local cinema where the exact same movie got released on the exact same day as everywhere else in the UK. Rational people would wait for some critical consensus to form to justify their decision to visit rather than basing their expectations on studio hype and bullshit.
So I must surmise he is completely fucking stupid or a troll.
Some Apple apps are moving out the firmware. I suspect that's because they're running short of space and are freeing some up by moving less core apps out to user-land.
Personally I couldn't really give a damn about crapware if only it wasn't baked into firmware and eating up space that could be in the user partition. I don't see why it can't be installed to the user partition so it can be removed completely if the user chooses to remove it.
I'd take these findings more seriously if someone started this report but couldn't be bothered to finish it.
A GOOD example would be coLinux which came out years ago and genuinely allowed a Linux dist like Debian to run in Windows at full speed. It wasn't a VM but used a modified kernel that ran over a low level driver. As far as the dist was concerned it was Linux but it was running over Windows.
Randomly assign a moderator based on trust, give them moderator points, allow them to downrank the trolls into oblivion. If an account accumulates enough points then other measures can be taken to either restrict access to certain feeds or block devices or users entirely.
Besides which emojis are so ephemeral that they'll be here and gone in a short span of time. Yet every piece of software, font rasterizer and phone OS will have to recognize and convert this bullshit from this day on.
No dumbo, it's a statement that has two conditions, either of which must hold true for the outcome to also be true.
Demand EU style data protection laws. Basically it requires individual consent and stops companies selling / aggregating data, or using data in ways contrary to the reasons someone consented to.
Perhaps at some point Unicode might realise the fucking lunacy allowing emojis into their system in the first place.
This actually shows how great autopilot can be, especially if it combines a camera, radar, and other sensors, compared to humans who can be sooo easily defeated.
It's only great if it actually works in every circumstance, or if it largely works but the driver's attentiveness is enforced to act as a backup just in case. Then and only then can it be said to be safer than a driver by themselves in every scenario.
But in any case, this is just about attacking a car : it is illegal. There are many other (cheap) ways to cause an accident : blow a tire, use light, fumes, oil, ice, or use a missile. If someone wants to attack a car, there are plenty of choices.
And now there will be plenty more. It's emerging technology and techniques to grief / attack it will emerge too. A sharpie pen could cripple a car. Strong light or radio interference might blind the car. Coated / reflective glass on buildings, or carried by passing vehicles might confuse the vehicle. A box thrown in the road could bring a car to a halt. Even existing hazards like broken glass, bricks, potholes might pose more risk because a human can see them but the car cannot.
If fully autonomous vehicles ever became a real thing on the roads that even robbers will develop low-tech techniques to exploit the car's behaviour. e.g. toss a box in the road, wait for car to stop, toss a blanket over the sensors and then rob the occupants or vehicle at leisure.
Kim Jong Un has been playing Kerbal Space Program a little too much recently.
As it happens, I am writing this on a 4-year old MacBook Pro. It is fast and reliable and I have yet to find any Mac software I want that I cannot run.
Perhaps that's because Mac software has stagnated too. It can't become more demanding because the hardware wouldn't keep up with it any more.
There are still suckers who buy them because they say Apple on the outside.
I don't see much reason Brazil to do for some random Japanese network although South America could collectively ban roaming charges if they wished for the same reasons as Europe - travel, trade, border towns etc.
Business people can be ethical and honest. It just happens that Trump is neither ethical nor honest. He has fucked over so many people, businesses and banks that it's amazing he can still find anyone to do business with.
Perhaps astronauts who go into deep space are feted and find themselves traveling more, eating out more, being in more smoke filled environments, stressing out in front of large audiences etc. A few days in space might not be what did it but everything that came after. Or maybe it's just a statistical blip from a small sample size.
It's not the length that matters but the girth.
Guy, I too, am an industrial engineer. I have to worry about all the risk assessment bureaucracy you do. If all the engineers are as anal as you, and there are many, then we wouldn't ever get shit done. There is such a thing as over analyzing and being ridiculously over cautious. You have repeatedly stated that you will only accept the product if two conditions are met.
It's not bureaucracy to assess risk and implement your design accordingly. Putting autonomous features in cars will obviously run the higher risk of inattentive drivers. This is a forseeable problem that must be addressed.
And no, not all engineers should be anal. But those that involve hazards to life and limb absolutely should be. And no I haven't repeatedly stated I would "only accept" this if two conditions were met. I repeatedly stated that these are the two conditions that have to be met for the claim that autonomous driving to be safer than a human driving to hold true and the Tesla meets neither. Learn the difference.
You're not budging. You're asking for perfection.
You seem to have serious comprehension issues here. I'm not asking for perfection. If it was perfection then there would be no need for a human to be a backup would there? Instead the assumption should be that the autonomous mode is NOT perfect and therefore attentiveness is critical for the human to act as a backup to override the car if necessary.
It's not happening. Should I be installing hazard mitigation equipment on everything in the plant because sometimes the workers get bored and play forklift jousting? I think not. I fire the employees who are being idiots and I move on. That isn't hyperbole either. Three of the factories I've worked at have all had incidents of forklift jousting. You want stupid fixed and that is impossible.
Got any more pathetic slippery slope arguments you want to engage in? There are forseeable risks in factories that can be mitigated by design and safety systems. Mitigation does not eliminate all risk or stop someone determinedly undermining a safety feature or doing something unforseeable. But neither does it mean that factories should do nothing. Safety in factories saves lives. Safety in cars saves lives. This is why cars have seat bags, airbags, crumple zones etc. This is why modern vehicles will even complain loudly or not even move unless the driver / passengers are buckled up. I expect even the Tesla gets that bit right.
An autonomous mode in a semi-autonomous car that does not enforce attentiveness to act as a backup is not a safe system. The sooner you figure that out, the sooner you might understand what I am talking about.
They should only "stop trying" if you're being stupid by making a contrary remark. Which you are. So well done.