Avoiding crashes by braking and steering is something machines can do better than humans, anyway. They're not limited by human senses and attention span.
Well, if it were that simple we would be driving around in them already.
The immediate problem I can see with that is I don't think there is much clearance between the keyboard and the screen. Like we might be talking a sixteenth of an inch. So when you close your laptop it might mark the screen, and of course I couldn't see Apple supporting that.
Then why did they use it to replace so many functions of the keyboard? There weren't enough keyboard keys as it was. They should have kept the keybaord keys and then added the touchbar on top if they wanted.
Real power users use external keyboards.
I'm on a computer all the time. I'll be damned if I'll be sitting at a desk my entire life. It defeats the point of getting a laptop.
I find the touchbar is shit. If's different for every app so it's impossible to get used to, and it takes multiple presses now to get the same thing done, such as volume up and down. I'm a power user but no I'm not into dicking around with such crap that I can't use efficiently any way because there is no tactile feel to these buttons that are moving all around. F1 was always in the same place. The volume down was always in the same place. How the fuck is this better? Maybe I could somehow go through 20 screens and getting a volume up and volume down button but it's not worth the time investment.
Holy crap, that will be typing hell. My hands drift on the keyboard all the time on the flat key keyboard as it is. I hope they don't do that on laptops that developers are supposed to be using. That would be just as awful as removing the headphone jack. But courage right.... or maybe another $500 on wireless headphones and a keyboard.
No.. That's not true. You're liable IF you didn't do anything within a reasonable amount of time after the weather caused the situation. But since every one knows you can't control the weather, you are not liable if they try to come up your sidewalk ten minutes after the storm ends. Just like you shouldn't be liable for an automated car you can't control.
Where I'm from there are building codes for pools and you're not liable for that if you have followed code and by doing so, made a reasonable effort to prevent the accident.
I'm also aware of several occurrences where human drivers failed to stop automated cars from getting into fatal accidents.
Clearly if it is the case that the accident wouldn't have happened were the human driving in the first place, then humans are fools for trusting self driving. The driver isn't necessarily bad in this case, it is just as likely that control was passed back at an unreasonable time.
Being an Air Controller is known to be a very high stress job, but they don't generally come into contact with a plane as it has two seconds left before colliding with another one.
When that module gets in an accident, someone will still need to answer for the flaw that caused the accident and prove that a human would have made the same accident.
Which brings up another point. I sure hope these things are mandated to keep speeds with humans. One slow vehicle in a busy freeway would be dangerous enough.
This doesn't mean killing humans by self driving should be excused, ever. Maybe you are prepared to give self driving a 'pass' if they only kill 1.1 million a year, but I have a problem with technology killing anyone.
I'm worried more about the other drivers that expect a car on the road to do a certain thing, but then it does a totally different thing because the AI isn't flexible enough to think like a human. In the case of the truck backing up in Las Vegas incident. Yes, it was the truck driver's fault, but most truck drivers probably do the same thing all the time, but because you have an AI behind you that is basically an idiot, now all of a sudden it's a problem and it's you're fault too. I really have to feel for people that end up in that situation.
The idea that a human can drive better than a computer with the correct types of sensors in snow, rain, ice,etc. is purely human hubris.
You know there was just an article about how they can't even drive with water spots on the lenses, right? At this point snow, rain (hard enough to blur camera vision) and ice is not possible.
Technically as a passenger in an automated car, you should never need liability insurance. You shouldn't even need insurance against a scrape caused by a driving mistake. You should be insuring against incidental physical damage caused by another and that's it.
In that situation, going after the insurance company is what is supposed to happen. If the insurance company feels they shouldn't be covering the incident due to system failure, then they would go after the manufacturer.
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Driving people around is a shitty job; especially the sorts you will get at bottom dollar. I guess it's their choice to work for Uber in that case.
Avoiding crashes by braking and steering is something machines can do better than humans, anyway. They're not limited by human senses and attention span.
Well, if it were that simple we would be driving around in them already.
The immediate problem I can see with that is I don't think there is much clearance between the keyboard and the screen. Like we might be talking a sixteenth of an inch. So when you close your laptop it might mark the screen, and of course I couldn't see Apple supporting that.
It would make a terrible keyboard
Then why did they use it to replace so many functions of the keyboard? There weren't enough keyboard keys as it was. They should have kept the keybaord keys and then added the touchbar on top if they wanted.
Real power users use external keyboards.
I'm on a computer all the time. I'll be damned if I'll be sitting at a desk my entire life. It defeats the point of getting a laptop.
I miss the ESC key all.. the.. time. It really messes me up in vi.
I find the touchbar is shit. If's different for every app so it's impossible to get used to, and it takes multiple presses now to get the same thing done, such as volume up and down. I'm a power user but no I'm not into dicking around with such crap that I can't use efficiently any way because there is no tactile feel to these buttons that are moving all around. F1 was always in the same place. The volume down was always in the same place. How the fuck is this better? Maybe I could somehow go through 20 screens and getting a volume up and volume down button but it's not worth the time investment.
Exactly, now they get to tap users for wireless headphones if they have an iphone and a proper keyboard if they buy a mac.
The sad part is that you have to buy a mac if you want to develop anything for iPhone. Yet the keyboards are crap for developers.
Holy crap, that will be typing hell. My hands drift on the keyboard all the time on the flat key keyboard as it is. I hope they don't do that on laptops that developers are supposed to be using. That would be just as awful as removing the headphone jack. But courage right.... or maybe another $500 on wireless headphones and a keyboard.
No.. That's not true. You're liable IF you didn't do anything within a reasonable amount of time after the weather caused the situation. But since every one knows you can't control the weather, you are not liable if they try to come up your sidewalk ten minutes after the storm ends. Just like you shouldn't be liable for an automated car you can't control.
Where I'm from there are building codes for pools and you're not liable for that if you have followed code and by doing so, made a reasonable effort to prevent the accident.
I'm worried stuff like this will happen.. and the person at fault will be the poor soul behind the automated car that gets confused and stops.
Read my words. If a city can't afford decent public transit, then the taxes aren't high enough.
I'm also aware of several occurrences where human drivers failed to stop automated cars from getting into fatal accidents.
Clearly if it is the case that the accident wouldn't have happened were the human driving in the first place, then humans are fools for trusting self driving. The driver isn't necessarily bad in this case, it is just as likely that control was passed back at an unreasonable time.
So if a computer draws a straighter line on its screen than I can draw on paper, you would conclude that it is the better artist?
Being an Air Controller is known to be a very high stress job, but they don't generally come into contact with a plane as it has two seconds left before colliding with another one.
When that module gets in an accident, someone will still need to answer for the flaw that caused the accident and prove that a human would have made the same accident.
Which brings up another point. I sure hope these things are mandated to keep speeds with humans. One slow vehicle in a busy freeway would be dangerous enough.
This doesn't mean killing humans by self driving should be excused, ever. Maybe you are prepared to give self driving a 'pass' if they only kill 1.1 million a year, but I have a problem with technology killing anyone.
If you weren't controlling it when it ran over someone and it didn't tell you to control it, why the hell would you be liable?
Then why is no one giving them a standard drivers test?
I'm worried more about the other drivers that expect a car on the road to do a certain thing, but then it does a totally different thing because the AI isn't flexible enough to think like a human. In the case of the truck backing up in Las Vegas incident. Yes, it was the truck driver's fault, but most truck drivers probably do the same thing all the time, but because you have an AI behind you that is basically an idiot, now all of a sudden it's a problem and it's you're fault too. I really have to feel for people that end up in that situation.
The idea that a human can drive better than a computer with the correct types of sensors in snow, rain, ice ,etc. is purely human hubris.
You know there was just an article about how they can't even drive with water spots on the lenses, right? At this point snow, rain (hard enough to blur camera vision) and ice is not possible.
Technically as a passenger in an automated car, you should never need liability insurance. You shouldn't even need insurance against a scrape caused by a driving mistake. You should be insuring against incidental physical damage caused by another and that's it.
In that situation, going after the insurance company is what is supposed to happen. If the insurance company feels they shouldn't be covering the incident due to system failure, then they would go after the manufacturer.