Dental is not covered in Canada so you need coverage for that. Also, health coverage will do things like top you up to a guaranteed private room in the hospital, coverage for financial loss while ill (beyond employment insurance), things like that. But the biggest cost is dental coverage for sure.
I used to contract. At first I thought I was getting paid more, but then I found out I needed to pay an accountant $2K a year and health coverage for my family was easily $600/month. And I'm in Canada so that is basically for dental coverage. Add to that the stress of always having to worry about 'the next gig' and contracting definitely wasn't worth it for me.
I kind of said it above, but I could never enjoy any kind of regular workout. You know what, if there is a tree to cut or some furniture to move then awesome I'll sweat. But moving something from one side of a room to another for the sake of moving it without accomplishing anything; that is what is distasteful to me.
For me it doesn't really matter what I am doing, physical exertion makes that activity unpleasant, period. The thought of that being the core of my life underscores a kind of meaningless to life to be honest. Like we're all just hamsters in a wheel cage.
Find something that is fun, LIKE VIDEO GAMES?
Find something to relax your mind, LIKE VIDEO GAMES?
If you are social, no I am most definitely not. In fact I don't really want to go outside, no not even to get to the car.
Seriously, I really wish I could like jogging. If I lived in a national park with all kinds of trails everywhere I would jog every day. But the thought of going around the same set of blocks or through the same parks over and over I find very dull. Same with biking. That is the kind that I find calming (until I get tired then nothing is calming). The problem is, I have never really lived in a place where I could do that kind of exercise daily.
...and you had better work a lot of overtime to afford that professional too, so that defeats the purpose of this exercise 'nonsense'. There, problem solved. Go get a doughnut.
You're talking about the accidents that the safety driver couldn't prevent; and it is questionable whether a human should be held responsible when the car is acting non-human. If a self-driving car slams on the breaks gets rear ended, it may legally be the fault of the driver behind but it is technically important that the car is going to cause accidents on an ongoing basis if they don't act human.
Then let's immediately take every self driving car and let's let them go everywhere without safety drivers until they hit 3.22 trillion miles like humans do. If you think chaos would not ensue, you are crazy.
33,000 deaths is pretty good, considering humans managed to drive 3.22 TRILLION miles during that time. The human piloted automobile has an incredible safety rate that will not be matched mile for mile by self driving cars soon.
But they have to UNDERSTAND what they are sensing, regardless of the condition of the sensor. That seems to be the part that no company has scratched the surface of yet.
Thank you, this is what I was trying to say. How much are we willing to roll the dice on an unexpected situation? If the car is that good then why do we need the map? It's the gap in which how safe the car is when it goes off the map that is key here. 10M miles doesn't prove anything. How many times was it off the map?
Regardless, because of the reason that the 10 million miles were hand picked and a safety driver likely had to intervene many times, the point is that ten million mies doesn't mean a thing.
"Doesn't matter much"... sure it does. Don't know how accidents work where you are from, but where I am from you pay larger premiums and it goes against your driving record. No way am I taking that penalty for entering directions in my car that I had no reason to believe were dangerous.
The problem with your reasoning is, you are the only person who is able to keep your dog from biting a kid so yes of course you will get sued if it happens. This is not so with a self driving car. The owner is just entering directions that are assumed to be within safe parameters. The liability to make sure it doesn't hit a person rests entirely with the manufacturer.
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Oh and a porcelain crown. Those are ridiculously expensive.
three sets of braces, three root canals, an implant in the future.. it's paying off for me.
Dental is not covered in Canada so you need coverage for that. Also, health coverage will do things like top you up to a guaranteed private room in the hospital, coverage for financial loss while ill (beyond employment insurance), things like that. But the biggest cost is dental coverage for sure.
I used to contract. At first I thought I was getting paid more, but then I found out I needed to pay an accountant $2K a year and health coverage for my family was easily $600/month. And I'm in Canada so that is basically for dental coverage. Add to that the stress of always having to worry about 'the next gig' and contracting definitely wasn't worth it for me.
I kind of said it above, but I could never enjoy any kind of regular workout. You know what, if there is a tree to cut or some furniture to move then awesome I'll sweat. But moving something from one side of a room to another for the sake of moving it without accomplishing anything; that is what is distasteful to me.
For me it doesn't really matter what I am doing, physical exertion makes that activity unpleasant, period. The thought of that being the core of my life underscores a kind of meaningless to life to be honest. Like we're all just hamsters in a wheel cage.
Find something that is fun, LIKE VIDEO GAMES?
Find something to relax your mind, LIKE VIDEO GAMES?
If you are social, no I am most definitely not. In fact I don't really want to go outside, no not even to get to the car.
Seriously, I really wish I could like jogging. If I lived in a national park with all kinds of trails everywhere I would jog every day. But the thought of going around the same set of blocks or through the same parks over and over I find very dull. Same with biking. That is the kind that I find calming (until I get tired then nothing is calming). The problem is, I have never really lived in a place where I could do that kind of exercise daily.
...and you had better work a lot of overtime to afford that professional too, so that defeats the purpose of this exercise 'nonsense'. There, problem solved. Go get a doughnut.
Yes, millions of carefully selected miles with safety drivers. You people always forget that part.
You're talking about the accidents that the safety driver couldn't prevent; and it is questionable whether a human should be held responsible when the car is acting non-human. If a self-driving car slams on the breaks gets rear ended, it may legally be the fault of the driver behind but it is technically important that the car is going to cause accidents on an ongoing basis if they don't act human.
Don't machines need to first know how to pick out a woman with a bike or a concrete barrier? Where does that fit in?
Then let's immediately take every self driving car and let's let them go everywhere without safety drivers until they hit 3.22 trillion miles like humans do. If you think chaos would not ensue, you are crazy.
They have gone millions of carefully selected miles with safety drivers that have to interact about once every 1000 miles or so.
They have to be WAY better than a human for that, AND they need to have critical mass on the roads. That is many years down the line.
33,000 deaths is pretty good, considering humans managed to drive 3.22 TRILLION miles during that time. The human piloted automobile has an incredible safety rate that will not be matched mile for mile by self driving cars soon.
But they have to UNDERSTAND what they are sensing, regardless of the condition of the sensor. That seems to be the part that no company has scratched the surface of yet.
You day this despite the fact that there is no shred of demonstrable proof that any car has ever driven on its own safer than a human.
I'll wait until I can drive ten minutes in one direction and find.a free charging station.
Thank you, this is what I was trying to say. How much are we willing to roll the dice on an unexpected situation? If the car is that good then why do we need the map? It's the gap in which how safe the car is when it goes off the map that is key here. 10M miles doesn't prove anything. How many times was it off the map?
That IS a small change to the environment!
But if it has the possibility to be that safe and explore the environment on its own, why use the maps at all?
Of course the manufacturer knows it's defective. They wouldn't feel any need to test it otherwise.
Regardless, because of the reason that the 10 million miles were hand picked and a safety driver likely had to intervene many times, the point is that ten million mies doesn't mean a thing.
"Doesn't matter much"... sure it does. Don't know how accidents work where you are from, but where I am from you pay larger premiums and it goes against your driving record. No way am I taking that penalty for entering directions in my car that I had no reason to believe were dangerous.
The problem with your reasoning is, you are the only person who is able to keep your dog from biting a kid so yes of course you will get sued if it happens. This is not so with a self driving car. The owner is just entering directions that are assumed to be within safe parameters. The liability to make sure it doesn't hit a person rests entirely with the manufacturer.