Sure, blame the person who has actually paid for a right to drive people around on the road. That doesn't seem backwards at all. If it were true that Uber is supplanting urban cars than these studies must be all wrong. If you know better, point out the flaw; otherwise stop making stuff up.
No, because this is the whole reason for regulating number of taxi medallions and fares. There are only ever the number of taxis on the road that the city wants to allow on the road, and they are priced at a point where taking a bus is a better option.
Let's also remember here that Uber rides are priced artificially low. After taxis are out of business they will move to charging rates that will make them money. It would be interesting to know what level that rate would be at today. Significantly more expensive than they are now, probably similar to a taxi.
Autonomous fleets may be affordable if you join a fleet that doesn't guarantee you a ride during rush hour. Otherwise, as part of paying into the fleet you will need to subsidize part of the fleet to sit and do nothing during off-peak hours and it will be very expensive for what you get.
Yes it will create more congestion absolutely. It will make driving a manual car completely unworkable. But I can guarantee you even if I don't do it, thousands of other people will. Also because having the automatic car parked at my work doesn't help my stay at home wife during the day either.
On a regular car, sure, you do a few sweeps over the roof and it's mostly gone. That won't work if you have sensors with nooks and crannies up there, and lenses that need to be totally clean.
The biggest challenge I see in that is to make an 'eyelid' that would still open and close without fail in situations where water has penetrated into the hinges or mechanisms and frozen solid. Even windshield wipers get stuck until rammed repeatedly with the scraping end of a brush.
Cars have a hard enough time in the cold. I don't need a car with a complicated plumbing of antifreeze running though it. I don't need another thing to fill because it can make my car not work. I'm already going to have range anxiety because it will probably be an electric car with an overworked battery because it has to power heaters to melt the half inch of ice from the night before.
They're trying to get us to NOT warm up our vehicles before starting out in the morning for the sake of the environment. How much energy and time is it going to take to melt off six inches of snow? Even half an inch of ice.
It sounds to me like all that crap would get broken very easily (and very costly) when frozen solid and has an equally frozen plastic brush ramming against it. It's not like it is ever daylight out as we try to clean off our vehicles and head off to work in the morning, desperately clutching onto our steaming travel mug with the other mitted hand.
Clearly you have never had to operate a vehicle in freezing temperatures. There is no hosing off your vehicle. You wipe off the snow as best as you can in five minutes and go.
Even since the Vietnam war, the capabilities of the US military in terms of surgical strikes has grown immensely. Not to mention, the Viet Cong had a huge home court advantage and you will be fighting in the military's home court.
If a person is mildly depressed, life events can bring that out more from time to time. But you still have to think of it as two different factors at play. A good doctor would not prescribe meds without asking a lot of questions and determining whether underlying depression is causing symptoms enough to medicate. If sadness is being caused 95% by a recent situation though, then that person wouldn't be a good candidate for medication. The people who really need medication have it with them all the time no matter what is going on.
Python strikes a really good balance between readability, simplicity, and power. The library support for the language is enormous. Want to write a GUI app? Wxpython. Want to make an asynchronous application? Twisted. Wamp server? Autobahn. Want to connect it to redis? pyredis. Want to do job queueing? Many available. You get the point.
Why do you people always get so fixated on speed? Even with geographically dispersed cloud websites, Python's speed is just fine for a web server. I wouldn't create an OS with it, but for a web server it's great.
The original post I made was questioning the courageousness of someone who hides behind a gun. By displaying how much fear you have of the government, you are proving my case. Move to a different country if you don't feel safe where you are.
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Sure, blame the person who has actually paid for a right to drive people around on the road. That doesn't seem backwards at all. If it were true that Uber is supplanting urban cars than these studies must be all wrong. If you know better, point out the flaw; otherwise stop making stuff up.
No, because this is the whole reason for regulating number of taxi medallions and fares. There are only ever the number of taxis on the road that the city wants to allow on the road, and they are priced at a point where taking a bus is a better option.
Let's also remember here that Uber rides are priced artificially low. After taxis are out of business they will move to charging rates that will make them money. It would be interesting to know what level that rate would be at today. Significantly more expensive than they are now, probably similar to a taxi.
Now that sounds a lot like a bus. It had better be almost as cheap.
Autonomous fleets may be affordable if you join a fleet that doesn't guarantee you a ride during rush hour. Otherwise, as part of paying into the fleet you will need to subsidize part of the fleet to sit and do nothing during off-peak hours and it will be very expensive for what you get.
Yes it will create more congestion absolutely. It will make driving a manual car completely unworkable. But I can guarantee you even if I don't do it, thousands of other people will. Also because having the automatic car parked at my work doesn't help my stay at home wife during the day either.
remote holding areas? I'm planning to send my self driving car back to my house where it can charge and park the cheapest.
On a regular car, sure, you do a few sweeps over the roof and it's mostly gone. That won't work if you have sensors with nooks and crannies up there, and lenses that need to be totally clean.
So if the car is frozen to your driveway, how would that work?
The biggest challenge I see in that is to make an 'eyelid' that would still open and close without fail in situations where water has penetrated into the hinges or mechanisms and frozen solid. Even windshield wipers get stuck until rammed repeatedly with the scraping end of a brush.
Yet somehow people use them in Norway. They must have heating coils installed in all the roads.
How do you protect a camera against splashing frozen sand sludge??
Mod up.
Cars have a hard enough time in the cold. I don't need a car with a complicated plumbing of antifreeze running though it. I don't need another thing to fill because it can make my car not work. I'm already going to have range anxiety because it will probably be an electric car with an overworked battery because it has to power heaters to melt the half inch of ice from the night before.
They're trying to get us to NOT warm up our vehicles before starting out in the morning for the sake of the environment. How much energy and time is it going to take to melt off six inches of snow? Even half an inch of ice.
It sounds to me like all that crap would get broken very easily (and very costly) when frozen solid and has an equally frozen plastic brush ramming against it. It's not like it is ever daylight out as we try to clean off our vehicles and head off to work in the morning, desperately clutching onto our steaming travel mug with the other mitted hand.
Clearly you have never had to operate a vehicle in freezing temperatures. There is no hosing off your vehicle. You wipe off the snow as best as you can in five minutes and go.
If your code was properly readable, you would have to waste time documenting.
Even since the Vietnam war, the capabilities of the US military in terms of surgical strikes has grown immensely. Not to mention, the Viet Cong had a huge home court advantage and you will be fighting in the military's home court.
If a person is mildly depressed, life events can bring that out more from time to time. But you still have to think of it as two different factors at play. A good doctor would not prescribe meds without asking a lot of questions and determining whether underlying depression is causing symptoms enough to medicate. If sadness is being caused 95% by a recent situation though, then that person wouldn't be a good candidate for medication. The people who really need medication have it with them all the time no matter what is going on.
Oh and how could I not mention Django for web framework!
Python strikes a really good balance between readability, simplicity, and power. The library support for the language is enormous. Want to write a GUI app? Wxpython. Want to make an asynchronous application? Twisted. Wamp server? Autobahn. Want to connect it to redis? pyredis. Want to do job queueing? Many available. You get the point.
Why do you people always get so fixated on speed? Even with geographically dispersed cloud websites, Python's speed is just fine for a web server. I wouldn't create an OS with it, but for a web server it's great.
The original post I made was questioning the courageousness of someone who hides behind a gun. By displaying how much fear you have of the government, you are proving my case. Move to a different country if you don't feel safe where you are.
Only a coward hides behind a gun. How the NRA perceives it as a symbol of courage is beyond me.
How is a person hiding behind a gun considered courageous? A person with a gun is a mark of cowardice, not a mark of courage.