I looked several times into moving to the US but it never made sense.
Reasons I never moved from Canada:
1) I wanted kids, and didn't want to pay for some stranger to bring them to swimming classes, music classes. Having my parents do it saved me thousands, and the kids got to know their grandparents.
2) I like nature, prefer at least an acre of land. Definitely don't want to live in some concrete land where you can touch your house and the next one at the same time. I like a private lot.
3) I don't like spending time in a car
4) Cheap mortgage
5) We still have communities here. Our kids played on the front street with other kids in the neighborhood, while the neighbors chatted. IN the US it seems like everyone just looks out for themselves.
6) Peace of mind for healthcare. I have to dick around with insurance companies for dental and I hate it. Can't imagine fighting for health. We ended up having a lot of health issues in my family and I would have hit a lifetime cap a long, long time ago. I would have been bankrupt right now.
I always put a cost to myself and my family on those things and no matter what job offer came up, it just wouldn't cover it.
If wait time is going to change your outcome, then they give you an MRI right away. Why do people not understand that EVERYONE doesn't need an immediate MRI.
I don't understand how people have families with an hour long commute, I used to get off work at five and had to get my kids to competitive swim practice by 6:30. Parents must have their kids spend a lot of time with strangers.
So Tesla advertises and advertises so people will trust the vehicle. And then they buy it and use it. Then the point is NOT to trust it or you may stop to late to avoid an accident. How Tesla pulled that off with no legal liability in the matter totally blows my mind.
I'm sure macbooks are fine if set down on a flat desk with no obstructions, plugged in once with cord carefully run straight to the floor and to a plug, and always used in a room with no dust. Never move them and never, ever put any sideways pressure on the power cord. Perhaps your co-workers are much more anal retentive than you think.
They have always chinsed in places that the 'average user' didn't care about. Now they are completely getting full of themselves. It remains to be seen whether this petition will even change anything. Apple got their money, why would they care about... anyone?
Holy cow, Zork. I played it on a mainframe once. Didn't get very far. Is that the came that starts at a stream with water flowing out of a crack in the rock?
My kids are absolutely disgusted with what Microsoft has done to Minecraft. They don't like the new 'more modern' textures for example, because the whole point of minecraft was the retro blocky-ness.
So you just repeated what I said.. they don't like people who don't spend money. Your account will get deleted for no reason and they won't help you, so it's not really free forever, just as long as they want it to be. 'free' normally implies 'use forever for free' if not qualified, such as 'free 30 day trial'.
My wife got into a couple games that technically weren't pay to play so she would play for free for months for free. For those games she experienced an exceptionally high rate of her online account status being "lost". Every time she called support and was told that it was gone and she needed to start over. They're not happy if they don't make money from you.
Heck I still want to finish GTA IV, Diablo II, and Neverwinter Nights one day. I'll find them somewhere and make them run somehow. Don't need the newest thing. Id I recall correctly, Diablo III went to pay to play so I won't be checking that out.
I'm so glad I stopped playing video games before this pay to play nonsense. Totally destroys the experience for me. I play video games to get away from things like a real life economy, not to make me a victim of it.
Your argument would make sense if we hadn't already seen many accidents that are clearly due to the vehicle not seeing or interpreting things as well as a human.
If there were ten million automated cars on the road and everyone saw them driving around successfully all the time, but then they hit one kid, it wouldn't be that much of a problem. But the fact of the matter is, there are only a handful of these on the road running in places that are carefully selected as being perfect conditions for them to drive in and they are still killing people. That's what the problem is, and in this case, emotional response is the correct one.
The lane markings were murky, because it was a parking lane that the automated car was partly in. The automated car had to steer around a sandbag by the curb though. The automated car thought it was already in the same lane as the bus (not merging into a lane) and so had right of way since it was in front. Or, it could not have seen the bus at all... possible. I would really hope it saw the bus.
Every kind of sensor has a weakness. Lidar doesn't work in fog, heavy snow and rain or if there is dirt on the sensor. Cameras don't work if they are dirty. The question is whether a few different types of sensors will ever be put together in a way that works all the time and is still affordable to a consumer.
In this situation it was a failure of the AI to understand what a bus is and how it inherently behaves. The SDC assumed the bus would stop quickly to allow right of way, but of course buses can't just stop like that because of the riders inside; something humans inherently know.
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I looked several times into moving to the US but it never made sense.
Reasons I never moved from Canada:
1) I wanted kids, and didn't want to pay for some stranger to bring them to swimming classes, music classes. Having my parents do it saved me thousands, and the kids got to know their grandparents.
2) I like nature, prefer at least an acre of land. Definitely don't want to live in some concrete land where you can touch your house and the next one at the same time. I like a private lot.
3) I don't like spending time in a car
4) Cheap mortgage
5) We still have communities here. Our kids played on the front street with other kids in the neighborhood, while the neighbors chatted. IN the US it seems like everyone just looks out for themselves.
6) Peace of mind for healthcare. I have to dick around with insurance companies for dental and I hate it. Can't imagine fighting for health. We ended up having a lot of health issues in my family and I would have hit a lifetime cap a long, long time ago. I would have been bankrupt right now.
I always put a cost to myself and my family on those things and no matter what job offer came up, it just wouldn't cover it.
If wait time is going to change your outcome, then they give you an MRI right away. Why do people not understand that EVERYONE doesn't need an immediate MRI.
I don't understand how people have families with an hour long commute, I used to get off work at five and had to get my kids to competitive swim practice by 6:30. Parents must have their kids spend a lot of time with strangers.
But why would the driver stop of he/she bought the car so that the car does it for them?
So Tesla advertises and advertises so people will trust the vehicle. And then they buy it and use it. Then the point is NOT to trust it or you may stop to late to avoid an accident. How Tesla pulled that off with no legal liability in the matter totally blows my mind.
I'm sure macbooks are fine if set down on a flat desk with no obstructions, plugged in once with cord carefully run straight to the floor and to a plug, and always used in a room with no dust. Never move them and never, ever put any sideways pressure on the power cord. Perhaps your co-workers are much more anal retentive than you think.
I just wish they would release iOS developers from having to buy into the Apple Mac club. It's not like developers type a lot or anything.
They have always chinsed in places that the 'average user' didn't care about. Now they are completely getting full of themselves. It remains to be seen whether this petition will even change anything. Apple got their money, why would they care about... anyone?
Holy cow, Zork. I played it on a mainframe once. Didn't get very far. Is that the came that starts at a stream with water flowing out of a crack in the rock?
My kids are absolutely disgusted with what Microsoft has done to Minecraft. They don't like the new 'more modern' textures for example, because the whole point of minecraft was the retro blocky-ness.
I have the original version around somewhere.
So you just repeated what I said.. they don't like people who don't spend money. Your account will get deleted for no reason and they won't help you, so it's not really free forever, just as long as they want it to be. 'free' normally implies 'use forever for free' if not qualified, such as 'free 30 day trial'.
I never really played arcade machines for that exact reason.
I don't see what this has to do with the fact that automated cars aren't really ready to be on the road yet.
My wife got into a couple games that technically weren't pay to play so she would play for free for months for free. For those games she experienced an exceptionally high rate of her online account status being "lost". Every time she called support and was told that it was gone and she needed to start over. They're not happy if they don't make money from you.
Oh and I am somewhere in Assassin's Creed 2 as well.
Heck I still want to finish GTA IV, Diablo II, and Neverwinter Nights one day. I'll find them somewhere and make them run somehow. Don't need the newest thing. Id I recall correctly, Diablo III went to pay to play so I won't be checking that out.
People crash once every 57,000 miles. No automation can touch that.
I'm so glad I stopped playing video games before this pay to play nonsense. Totally destroys the experience for me. I play video games to get away from things like a real life economy, not to make me a victim of it.
Your argument would make sense if we hadn't already seen many accidents that are clearly due to the vehicle not seeing or interpreting things as well as a human.
If there were ten million automated cars on the road and everyone saw them driving around successfully all the time, but then they hit one kid, it wouldn't be that much of a problem. But the fact of the matter is, there are only a handful of these on the road running in places that are carefully selected as being perfect conditions for them to drive in and they are still killing people. That's what the problem is, and in this case, emotional response is the correct one.
The lane markings were murky, because it was a parking lane that the automated car was partly in. The automated car had to steer around a sandbag by the curb though. The automated car thought it was already in the same lane as the bus (not merging into a lane) and so had right of way since it was in front. Or, it could not have seen the bus at all... possible. I would really hope it saw the bus.
Every kind of sensor has a weakness. Lidar doesn't work in fog, heavy snow and rain or if there is dirt on the sensor. Cameras don't work if they are dirty. The question is whether a few different types of sensors will ever be put together in a way that works all the time and is still affordable to a consumer.
In this situation it was a failure of the AI to understand what a bus is and how it inherently behaves. The SDC assumed the bus would stop quickly to allow right of way, but of course buses can't just stop like that because of the riders inside; something humans inherently know.
Entirely.. but the point is that pets can easily become a casualty if automated driving isn't done right.