1. Won't matter to most people. I don't live an hour for work because I have to come home, have supper with my family, and then take my kids to extra curricular activities. Time away from home is time away from home, doesn't matter if it is more productive time.
2. How much will that charging station cost? Parking where I live is now $18 a day with no electricity. People will smell profit potential.
3. You're assuming an automated car will just be able to find a spot on the street somewhere, as opposed to using a parking lot outfitted so that autonomous cars don't run into each other
4. And deal with shit/puke/piss in my car? No way. Have you ever seen the inside of a bus?
You're living in a dream world. People can't afford cars as it is. My van has an entertainment system in it that is probably $500 worth of electronics but the manufacturer calls it a $3000 option. Now you're putting $3000 of sensors in the car.. easily adding $10k to the list price. You're also introducing much more complexity; and electrical complexity which are the really expensive problems. I've known many people who have had electrical problems and just deal with it because they are too expensive to fix. I've had cars with lights not working, etc. Now you will be forced to fix it because you have no car otherwise. I just don't see it panning out the way you think it will. Capitalism is just not set up for people to afford the cost of ownership of an automated vehicle.
Impenetrable barrier? How much of real life can current AI really understand? It can win at Go.. Bid deal. A bunch of well known calculations stacked up on top of one another billions of times. You aren't fully appreciating how tuned the human mind is to anticipating events in the real world and I can't explain it to you.
Injuries and deaths now in the name of saving lives in the future only makes sense if:
- families now are compensated financially, and
- it is a statistically assured fact that automated cars are the same price as regular cars in the future and they are better than humans.
Right now I don't see how any of this will happen.
I didn't say it couldn't be done. I just said that it is a far stretch to assume it can be done. So far of a stretch that we can't really talk about it as if it is a viable possibility. I would concede that *if* thermal sensors are practical in cars some day then they may be used for this purpose but no one has any way of knowing that at present time.
Tesla cars don't detect the contour of the road, to my knowledge and can't see up to the top of the car. Lidar isn't used because it can't see through fog and gets fooled by simple things like a bag blowing in the wind in front of the car.
Ok well then let's stop talking about automated cars and look forward to transporter technology then, if our conversation is to have no basis in reality.
They're going to have to model the shape of the road.. where I am they don't plow down to pavement everywhere. If the tires don't match the ruts you can easily spin the car sideways and slide uncontrollably. The alternative is to drive 5 mph everywhere, which is what I am very afraid these vehicles will end up doing.
What vehicle has this technology in it? Google cars? A lot of people talk about 'what autonomous cars can do' and then list technology that no company has made work in a car ever. The fact that the technology exists and could theoretically be used in a car doesn't mean a company will make it commercially viable and reliable enough to put in an actual vehicle.
I would say a layperson would expect that taxes are for paying, and that is the intent of the law. If Apple had respected the intent then there would not have been an issue. It wasn't until lawyers tried to interpret the language, and got it incorrect, that Apple ran into trouble here.
Laws should always be focused on intent rather than wording. Only the wealthy can afford lawyers and accountants to sift through the wording, but most people can understand the intent.
Where I am from, Trump would have to track the use of the plane and could only claim the percentage equivalent to the amount of time the plane was used for business. So if he was meeting business associates for golf, although dubious, would still be a business use. Meeting friends for golf would be a different matter. Same with a house. If you're living in it, you can't claim personal quarters.. You have to declare what percentage of the house is your office and only claim that percentage on all house expenses.
6500 jobs is not worth $14.5 billion. 6500 jobs is a drop in the bucket. You could easily support more than 6500 families for their entire lifetimes with that much money.
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1. Won't matter to most people. I don't live an hour for work because I have to come home, have supper with my family, and then take my kids to extra curricular activities. Time away from home is time away from home, doesn't matter if it is more productive time.
2. How much will that charging station cost? Parking where I live is now $18 a day with no electricity. People will smell profit potential.
3. You're assuming an automated car will just be able to find a spot on the street somewhere, as opposed to using a parking lot outfitted so that autonomous cars don't run into each other
4. And deal with shit/puke/piss in my car? No way. Have you ever seen the inside of a bus?
You're living in a dream world. People can't afford cars as it is. My van has an entertainment system in it that is probably $500 worth of electronics but the manufacturer calls it a $3000 option. Now you're putting $3000 of sensors in the car.. easily adding $10k to the list price. You're also introducing much more complexity; and electrical complexity which are the really expensive problems. I've known many people who have had electrical problems and just deal with it because they are too expensive to fix. I've had cars with lights not working, etc. Now you will be forced to fix it because you have no car otherwise. I just don't see it panning out the way you think it will. Capitalism is just not set up for people to afford the cost of ownership of an automated vehicle.
Do you know how much seat belts cost? $5. Car companies had to be forced by law to put them in.
Impenetrable barrier? How much of real life can current AI really understand? It can win at Go.. Bid deal. A bunch of well known calculations stacked up on top of one another billions of times. You aren't fully appreciating how tuned the human mind is to anticipating events in the real world and I can't explain it to you.
Injuries and deaths now in the name of saving lives in the future only makes sense if:
- families now are compensated financially, and
- it is a statistically assured fact that automated cars are the same price as regular cars in the future and they are better than humans.
Right now I don't see how any of this will happen.
Doesn't Autopilot need to see lane markings?
I didn't say it couldn't be done. I just said that it is a far stretch to assume it can be done. So far of a stretch that we can't really talk about it as if it is a viable possibility. I would concede that *if* thermal sensors are practical in cars some day then they may be used for this purpose but no one has any way of knowing that at present time.
Tesla cars don't detect the contour of the road, to my knowledge and can't see up to the top of the car. Lidar isn't used because it can't see through fog and gets fooled by simple things like a bag blowing in the wind in front of the car.
yeah I'm a touch typer so touch screen is out for me.. no matter how ironic that sounds.
Does your crystal ball mention if anyone will be able to afford one of these vehicles in their driveway?
It's uncontrollable because the movement of the car is perpendicular to the direction of the wheels.
Ok well then let's stop talking about automated cars and look forward to transporter technology then, if our conversation is to have no basis in reality.
They're going to have to model the shape of the road.. where I am they don't plow down to pavement everywhere. If the tires don't match the ruts you can easily spin the car sideways and slide uncontrollably. The alternative is to drive 5 mph everywhere, which is what I am very afraid these vehicles will end up doing.
Natural sketching? How many degrees of pressure sensitivity does it have?
What vehicle has this technology in it? Google cars? A lot of people talk about 'what autonomous cars can do' and then list technology that no company has made work in a car ever. The fact that the technology exists and could theoretically be used in a car doesn't mean a company will make it commercially viable and reliable enough to put in an actual vehicle.
Definitely vi. Emacs is so terrible it's not worth mentioning.
Really? The first answer and he thinks we care what version of TextMate he uses? I stopped reading there. Who cares what editor he uses.
Or perhaps they could do all this on a laptop?
I would say a layperson would expect that taxes are for paying, and that is the intent of the law. If Apple had respected the intent then there would not have been an issue. It wasn't until lawyers tried to interpret the language, and got it incorrect, that Apple ran into trouble here.
Laws should always be focused on intent rather than wording. Only the wealthy can afford lawyers and accountants to sift through the wording, but most people can understand the intent.
The whole article centers on "they don't have to carry as much around". Not exactly a compelling case.
Where I am from, Trump would have to track the use of the plane and could only claim the percentage equivalent to the amount of time the plane was used for business. So if he was meeting business associates for golf, although dubious, would still be a business use. Meeting friends for golf would be a different matter. Same with a house. If you're living in it, you can't claim personal quarters.. You have to declare what percentage of the house is your office and only claim that percentage on all house expenses.
6500 jobs is not worth $14.5 billion. 6500 jobs is a drop in the bucket. You could easily support more than 6500 families for their entire lifetimes with that much money.
In this case, the point was brought up and ignored. Person in question bragged about it very loudly.
If a truck turning out onto a road at 5mph isn't predictable then you're driving way too fast.
It's not legit where I live. It doesn't matter whether the corp owns the house or not, you can only claim the amount of the house used for business.