You know how much you love riding on buses? Imagine if the people that brought you that lingering scent of urine everywhere you went decided to do taxi cabs as well.
yeah we get it, you hate interacting with other people, you could have stopped there
They don't have to be parked downtown in the middle of the city. They can sit all night and most of the day in remote lots, just outside of town, just like our commuter trains do today when they are not used. They won't be in the way at all and they won't be consuming expensive real estate when they are parked.
Decades of television brainwashing have convinced people to needlessly blow their paychecks on oversized overpowered motor vehicles. The military industrial complex continues to justify its existence by generating ever larger profits. The brainwashed masses plaster their vehicles with "patriotic" symbols, with the massive irony that their fuel purchases are destabilizing world politics and giving aid and comfort to those who wish us harm. The irony is lost, because the urge to own the biggest and most wasteful vehicle on the block is strong, the brainwashing is effective.
unless you are asserting that everyone else has exactly the same commute as you, it's pretty common knowledge that a single data point is not going to provide much insight into a problem with over two hundred million samples
Can you imagine the sheer carnage resulting from programming 20,000 cars to seek at the same time the same primo parking spaces in front of the Chipotle's restaurant
Facetious as this post is and given the ease at which cars are found to be hackable over remote connections, AC is highlighting what is going to be a real problem with drive by wire vehicles in the future.
So you've never seen human drivers exhibit the same behavior? Have you ever tried to park at Trader Joe's or Market Basket only to find that there are no parking spaces available at all, only people trolling around looking for parking? Who is responsible for this bug that causes more cars to arrive than there are parking spaces?
How about if it carried 30 -50 people in a vehicle 15m long, the population density over 100m would be between 200 - 330 people also assuming bumper to bumper. It would cause less congestion.
Yeah here on planet earth we call these things "the commuter rail", hundreds and hundreds of them take passengers into the train station every day, avoiding traffic and alleviating congestion.
I can't believe its taken this long to come up with such an idea.
Then you are gonna have a really hard time with the reality that these devices are already moving at well over 100 mph, in New Jersey, of all places.
Look, are robot cabs useful for: a. drunk people, b.disabled people (tremors, surgery, conditions), c. people with impaired vision or slow reactions (especially older people)?
Probably yes.
However, where we allow them and where they can operate might be different than for other cars.
And the first small child that dies it's lawsuit city, and they will never, ever, ever give up.
Humans behind the wheel kill over 30,000 people every year.
Only clint eastwood's empty chair says that robots must be perfect drivers.
The rest of us will be very happy if robots only kill 10,000 a year, and humans kill zero.
I'm a little curious as to in what universe you live in which each person brings 1.5 cars to the movie theater.
They need enough room in the parking lot to hold two theater's worth of people, unless you expect the lot to empty and fill instantaneously between shows.
One could say that edison was also just a guy who took the technological advances at his time and found a way to package them together into consumer products.
One could also point out that Edison spent much of his time defending patents, which indicates that the rest of the world was not very far behind him at all, because everything he did was also being done by other researchers.
The bubbles that end up at the top of the brew are not necessarily there because they are "better" bubbles, they got there thanks to luck and circumstance.
Human technology progress is as inevitable as running water or rising bubbles, the water molecules and bubbles are not noble.
That's what our great visionaries are: they're damned good people motivators who have taken the time to understand the realistic limits of the things they want to plug together.
Isn't this one of those "what could possibly go wrong" moments? Not saying that it is a massive problem, but when custom printing pills, wouldn't it be necessary to measure the end result in some way. It would suck pretty hard if a hickup caused a lethal dose to be printed.
Moral outrage over pricing! Even when it's not your money! Even when it's not taxpayer money! Oh my goodness, how shocking! This is the downfall of our civilization! Oh my goodness!
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You know how much you love riding on buses? Imagine if the people that brought you that lingering scent of urine everywhere you went decided to do taxi cabs as well.
yeah we get it, you hate interacting with other people, you could have stopped there
Parked.
They don't have to be parked downtown in the middle of the city. They can sit all night and most of the day in remote lots, just outside of town, just like our commuter trains do today when they are not used. They won't be in the way at all and they won't be consuming expensive real estate when they are parked.
Your English dialect uses the word "want" in a way that sounds very amusing to people in the western United States. HTH.
Your use of the word "want" is also amusing when it it comes to choosing a practical place to live.
Decades of television brainwashing have convinced people to needlessly blow their paychecks on oversized overpowered motor vehicles. The military industrial complex continues to justify its existence by generating ever larger profits. The brainwashed masses plaster their vehicles with "patriotic" symbols, with the massive irony that their fuel purchases are destabilizing world politics and giving aid and comfort to those who wish us harm. The irony is lost, because the urge to own the biggest and most wasteful vehicle on the block is strong, the brainwashing is effective.
unless you are asserting that everyone else has exactly the same commute as you, it's pretty common knowledge that a single data point is not going to provide much insight into a problem with over two hundred million samples
Cities have that. But then there's the whole bribing ecosystem that messes everything up.
it's those stupid humans again, the alien overloads will make you much happier
Can you imagine the sheer carnage resulting from programming 20,000 cars to seek at the same time the same primo parking spaces in front of the Chipotle's restaurant
Facetious as this post is and given the ease at which cars are found to be hackable over remote connections, AC is highlighting what is going to be a real problem with drive by wire vehicles in the future.
So you've never seen human drivers exhibit the same behavior? Have you ever tried to park at Trader Joe's or Market Basket only to find that there are no parking spaces available at all, only people trolling around looking for parking? Who is responsible for this bug that causes more cars to arrive than there are parking spaces?
How about if it carried 30 -50 people in a vehicle 15m long, the population density over 100m would be between 200 - 330 people also assuming bumper to bumper. It would cause less congestion.
Yeah here on planet earth we call these things "the commuter rail", hundreds and hundreds of them take passengers into the train station every day, avoiding traffic and alleviating congestion.
I can't believe its taken this long to come up with such an idea.
Then you are gonna have a really hard time with the reality that these devices are already moving at well over 100 mph, in New Jersey, of all places.
And a cyclist or small child dies.
Look, are robot cabs useful for: a. drunk people, b.disabled people (tremors, surgery, conditions), c. people with impaired vision or slow reactions (especially older people)?
Probably yes.
However, where we allow them and where they can operate might be different than for other cars.
And the first small child that dies it's lawsuit city, and they will never, ever, ever give up.
Humans behind the wheel kill over 30,000 people every year.
Only clint eastwood's empty chair says that robots must be perfect drivers.
The rest of us will be very happy if robots only kill 10,000 a year, and humans kill zero.
Require more affordable parking in downtown areas.
building out parking lots for peak demand is bad business, bad real estate usage, bad tax planning, just bad all around
your situation is actually ideal, you should be punished for driving into downtown
their overhead long term is going to be very, very low.
how convenient, when they eventually get sued out of business, there will be no assets for the victims
That's easy to fix, charge demand-based overnight parking fees, adjust the fees to distribute the cars as needed.
I'm a little curious as to in what universe you live in which each person brings 1.5 cars to the movie theater.
They need enough room in the parking lot to hold two theater's worth of people, unless you expect the lot to empty and fill instantaneously between shows.
A lot of corporations have a no-GPL-in-the-door policy. Yeah I know, but still a fact.
they confiscate your android phone at the door?
Those with Android phones have to climb in through the window. LOL
Most data centers don't have windows, many of them don't have Windows.
One could say that edison was also just a guy who took the technological advances at his time and found a way to package them together into consumer products.
One could also point out that Edison spent much of his time defending patents, which indicates that the rest of the world was not very far behind him at all, because everything he did was also being done by other researchers.
The truth is even more subtle than that:
The bubbles that end up at the top of the brew are not necessarily there because they are "better" bubbles, they got there thanks to luck and circumstance.
Human technology progress is as inevitable as running water or rising bubbles, the water molecules and bubbles are not noble.
That's what our great visionaries are: they're damned good people motivators who have taken the time to understand the realistic limits of the things they want to plug together.
All tautologies are tautologies
Isn't this one of those "what could possibly go wrong" moments?
Not saying that it is a massive problem, but when custom printing pills, wouldn't it be necessary to measure the end result in some way. It would suck pretty hard if a hickup caused a lethal dose to be printed.
robots hiccup a lot less often than people do
rube goldberg called, he wants his thesis project back
A lot of corporations have a no-GPL-in-the-door policy. Yeah I know, but still a fact.
they confiscate your android phone at the door?
the owner wasn't able to keep up with the maintenance and cleaning of the facility, so he hired a man to help.
"hiring someone to help" doesn't relieve you of your responsibilities
Who could ever equate the legal disposal of human remains with the legal disposal of human remains?
It is tax payer money. Money is fungible.
why aren't you lobbying for grocery stores to divest themselves of their drug stores that sell deadly drugs that kill unborn babies?
why aren't you lobbying to keep taxi companies from profiting by driving women to planned parenthood?
why are you not lobbying to boycott the construction companies that built planned parenthood facilities?
It's still easier for me to eat meat or cheese than any plant product..
Besides, my own dietary requirements right now likely could not be sustained without animal products. Although I am certainly a corner case.
Planned Parenthood should be donating to you, I think it would be a good match.
then you're not going to the game and it doesn't apply to you
Moral outrage over pricing! Even when it's not your money! Even when it's not taxpayer money! Oh my goodness, how shocking! This is the downfall of our civilization! Oh my goodness!