Because one person has one jack out of fifty that they own get a little flaky over the ten years they owned the device and automatically people declare them bad.
I have enough devices to keep charged. I already find myself using wired headphones instead of my bluetooth headset because I can't be bothered to plug it in every day. I can handle plugging in my phone, and the phones and tablets of the rest of my family, but once it gets to plugging in peripherals it's a bit over the top. We have bluetooth headphones and headsets but we don't use them for this reason. To me, being beholden to plug in five extra little peripherals a night is the real leash. I just want my headphones to come out of a drawer when I need them and be good to use, even if they have been there for a month. What makes things worse is that I listen at night and in the day, so now I need two headphones, one to charge in the day and one at night. No thanks, add to the fact that these small batteries only have a certain lifetime, this is all just a commercial nightmare that I hope I don't have to take part in.
Whether you use flight mode or not, they tell you to turn off all transmitting and receiving functions. At least they do in most if not all of the domestic flights I have been on.
Then you're not listening. They have clearly said on many flights I have been on "turn off all wireless functions". Just because the flight attendant doesn't notice, doesn't mean you can use them.
I have seen people say that you will be so comfortable doing your own thing in your automated vehicle that you will happily accept a longer ride. Not something I'd be interested in, but there it is.
So in other words, soon we'll be seeing articles about how a self driving car ran over this child or that pet, and automated car proponents will be in full force explaining how that pet or child were using the outside wrong.
But what do you do if you run yours down to 40% one day and then you find out you have to escape from a forest fire or a hurricane? Tell the emergency to wait until your car charges? Or do you not use your EV if you know an emergency is coming just so that it will be ready when you have to evacuate?
It's called leverage and Apple knows how to get it. Apple is slowly raising the heat on people who now have too many iPhone apps and other iTunes purchases to want to start over. Also there are social reasons to buy an iPhone; I have a friend that wanted so badly for his daughter to own an Android phone but all her friends exclusively used Facetime and iMessage so she was not going to be part of the club she wanted to be in if he did so. Personally I own a macbook, not because I wanted one ever, but because I want to do iPhone development and everything else will work on a mac but not the opposite.
If you're referring to humans, then yes their behavior is consistent well understood. If it weren't, then insurance wouldn't work. On the contrary, a blip in AI, a sudden introduction of mishandling of one odd case, could one day create 100 accidents out of the blue before it could be stopped.
Except every step that led to the reduction of infant mortality had a demonstrable benefit and was proven to do no further harm. I see no such discretion with automated cars.
These are expensive sensors. Manufacturers put in gizmos if they cost pennies and if they will sell more cars. They had to be forced to put in seat belts at $5 a vehicle and air bags at who knows how much. How come my 12 year old Lexus had auto-levelling head lights and windshield wiper sensors but still most economy vehicles don't have these features?
Currently when you own a vehicle, you insure it, and you accept liability for what happens with it. It is not clear to me at all that passengers of automated vehicles will not be held liable for an accident that the vehicle gets into. I have not seen a method of insuring a vehicle that takes into consideration that the owner never controls the vehicle.
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Because one person has one jack out of fifty that they own get a little flaky over the ten years they owned the device and automatically people declare them bad.
I have enough devices to keep charged. I already find myself using wired headphones instead of my bluetooth headset because I can't be bothered to plug it in every day. I can handle plugging in my phone, and the phones and tablets of the rest of my family, but once it gets to plugging in peripherals it's a bit over the top. We have bluetooth headphones and headsets but we don't use them for this reason. To me, being beholden to plug in five extra little peripherals a night is the real leash. I just want my headphones to come out of a drawer when I need them and be good to use, even if they have been there for a month. What makes things worse is that I listen at night and in the day, so now I need two headphones, one to charge in the day and one at night. No thanks, add to the fact that these small batteries only have a certain lifetime, this is all just a commercial nightmare that I hope I don't have to take part in.
And clearly your uses are exactly the same as every one else's uses or you wouldn't be spouting such idle drivel.
Will that $8 dongle allow me to charge the phone too? I listen to audiobooks at night WHEN I CHARGE THE PHONE.
And how do you charge the phone while you are using them?
Whether you use flight mode or not, they tell you to turn off all transmitting and receiving functions. At least they do in most if not all of the domestic flights I have been on.
Then you're not listening. They have clearly said on many flights I have been on "turn off all wireless functions". Just because the flight attendant doesn't notice, doesn't mean you can use them.
I have seen people say that you will be so comfortable doing your own thing in your automated vehicle that you will happily accept a longer ride. Not something I'd be interested in, but there it is.
So in other words, soon we'll be seeing articles about how a self driving car ran over this child or that pet, and automated car proponents will be in full force explaining how that pet or child were using the outside wrong.
Social media aren't there to suppress anything about human nature. They can only exacerbate and accelerate it. Unfortunately some of it is bad.
The point is, you still can't use the EV the day before you have to leave. Unlike gas, which you could buy a month before if you want.
You mean why should people who talk the talk actually be able to walk the walk?
But what do you do if you run yours down to 40% one day and then you find out you have to escape from a forest fire or a hurricane? Tell the emergency to wait until your car charges? Or do you not use your EV if you know an emergency is coming just so that it will be ready when you have to evacuate?
Well there you go. Some people REALLY REALLY want their phones to work REALLY fast
The funny thing is, there isn't really a noticeable difference any more. Hasn't been for a few years now.
It's called leverage and Apple knows how to get it. Apple is slowly raising the heat on people who now have too many iPhone apps and other iTunes purchases to want to start over. Also there are social reasons to buy an iPhone; I have a friend that wanted so badly for his daughter to own an Android phone but all her friends exclusively used Facetime and iMessage so she was not going to be part of the club she wanted to be in if he did so. Personally I own a macbook, not because I wanted one ever, but because I want to do iPhone development and everything else will work on a mac but not the opposite.
My next phone will be a OnePlus.
Pray tell, how many innocent people did the Equifax breach kill?
So now you want to introduce a similar horror but with cars. I would like to think we have grown wiser since the 15th century.
If you're referring to humans, then yes their behavior is consistent well understood. If it weren't, then insurance wouldn't work. On the contrary, a blip in AI, a sudden introduction of mishandling of one odd case, could one day create 100 accidents out of the blue before it could be stopped.
I'm not following how this applies to the arguement, which vehicle in your example is controlled by a neural network that no one really understands?
Except every step that led to the reduction of infant mortality had a demonstrable benefit and was proven to do no further harm. I see no such discretion with automated cars.
So we should all have open fires in drums in our living rooms because people tell us it is safe?
These are expensive sensors. Manufacturers put in gizmos if they cost pennies and if they will sell more cars. They had to be forced to put in seat belts at $5 a vehicle and air bags at who knows how much. How come my 12 year old Lexus had auto-levelling head lights and windshield wiper sensors but still most economy vehicles don't have these features?
It's an unknown that is statistically quantifiable with little surprise.
Currently when you own a vehicle, you insure it, and you accept liability for what happens with it. It is not clear to me at all that passengers of automated vehicles will not be held liable for an accident that the vehicle gets into. I have not seen a method of insuring a vehicle that takes into consideration that the owner never controls the vehicle.