The front facing radar filters out objects that are stationary when the car is travelling at speed, because those things tend to be bogus returns from street furniture and the like. If you drive at a wall head on at 60 MPH it won't stop you.
On top of that the bit that it hit was wedge shaped, with the sharp end facing the car. The radar would have had a fairly small return from it anyway. The older V1 system could detect motorbikes which are obviously quite thin, but the newer V2 system at best sees them as cars.
What is more interesting here is that Autopilot failed to follow the road markings. This has been an on-going problem with it, especially since V2 was released. Particularly when the road forks it gets confused and can't be relied on to go the same way twice, or in this case not go straight down the middle.
It must require a very tiny amount of force, considering it can be fooled by wedging a bit of fruit into the wheel.
The GM system that does eye tracking seems better, but to be honest no level 2 systems are particularly good. Audi claim to have a level 3 system but in demonstrations their driver has always had to grab the wheel rather suddenly.
Look at, say, the 2018 Leaf. Yeah, you save $5k. You also get an econobox that looks like a catfish that only goes 2/3rds as far (which becomes even worse when you consider the need to leave yourself a safety buffer), charges at a max rate 1/3rd that of the Tesla before #RapidGate sets in, 1/5th the speed after #RapidGate sets in, with much worse performance.
That's not really a fair comparison, because you can't actually get a $35k Model 3 today, or any time in the foreseeable future. They are only selling the more expensive ones at the moment. And despite the problems (RapidGate is pretty serious) the Leaf 40 is selling quite well - so much so that they just bumped the price up 3%.
Also that $35k won't get you the features that a $5k cheaper Leaf will, such as ProPilot which does auto-sterring and auto parking that is actually more advanced that Tesla's. So it's not really a like-for-like comparison. Depending on the country the Leaf sometimes has a better charging network too, e.g. the UK where there are far more CHAdeMO pumps than Superchargers.
The real competition for the Leaf 40 is the Hyundai Ioniq and to a lesser extent the Renault Zoe. The Ioniq isn't widely available and the Zoe has its own rapid charging issues, as well as being an inferior car in every way.
Having said that, the Leaf 40 is a massive disappointment compared to what people were expecting. Maybe the 60 will be better... At least it should have active battery cooling to fix the charging problems.
Tesla are probably headed for a lawsuit over their self driving option soon. They already sold full self driving capability as a $4000 upgrade, with the promise of delivering it by software update one day.
At the rate they are going it won't be delivered in the lifetime of many of the vehicles, and certainly not the lease period many people are on. So maybe that will trigger some regulation.
I visit the continent regularly and it is a big deal. You get ripped off on the exchange rates and fees constantly, have to convert prices in your head all the time, and now your future is uncertain.
Brexiteers assume all rules were designed to punish the UK. Even the ones we wrote, like Article 50, are just an EU plot to frustrate Brexit.
It's not just ccTLDs either. Today the EU confirmed that we would lose access to the Galileo satellite navigation system. We could negotiate access to some service/manufacturing contacts, but all secrets like military decryption keys would be off limits. As any sensible person would expect.
The EU TLD is for sites based in the EU. The idea is to give EU citizens confidence that it is an EU site operating under EU rules on things like privacy.
Since the point of brexit is supposed to be ditching those rules and leaving the EU, it makes no sense to allow UK entities to have EU domains.
If the UK wants to negotiate access and agrees to abide by the rules, fine. But the UK doesn't want that. Agreeing to the rules is one of the government's red lines, although so far they have not meant much.
There are on going legal cases to determine if it can be undone, but realistically if the UK did change its mind the EU would accommodate it and change the rules if necessary.
TLD admin organizations can set whatever rules they like. Some countries allow anyone to register, some require them to be resident. The EU is one of the latter.
So once outside the EU, naturally they will not suspend the rules for the UK unless the UK negotiated that as part of the post-brexit deal. Since the UK has a very weak position and desperately needs things like financial service access that are near impossible to get,.EU domains are going to be way down that list of things to ask for.
Plus, the UK would have to contribute to the registra operating costs, which would just further annoy Brexiteers.
By the way, the EU is not a shadow government or unelected.
And what if everything you posted is set to private? This appears to be an admission that they can read everything on Facebook at will, public or otherwise.
Okay, it's a remote exploit through a network connection. Again, how would a different OS help other than security through obscurity? Other operating systems are not magically bug-free.
In fact, we say ransomware on MacOS. And that industrial control software they are using, why would the Linux version be any more secure than the Windows version? We have seen infections via application updates before, including people infiltrating open source repos and replacing packages with trojaned ones.
The way to secure these systems is to unplug the ethernet cable and de-solder the external USB ports. At the very least, put them on a separate secure network. But then it has a cost to the company, because they can't do the same level of integration as having fully networked systems allows.
I depends how the result of the test is used. If it jacks up insurance premiums then 50% false positives could be really bad. If it leads to a lifetime of worry it could be pretty terrible. But if all that happens is someone gets a more expensive, reliable test (cost amoritized over everyone who took the unreliable test) then it's probably not so bad.
It's possible they are learning. TFA does mention that the government might not green light it because they are worried about the down-stream effects (no pun intended).
China has been pushing really hard, maybe harder than anyone to clean up its environment and deal with climate change. They started in a very bad place, hit peak coal a few years ago, installed more wind than the rest of the world combined... It's not perfect by any means but they seem to be serious about it.
Search Ads is about improving App Store placement, which means all data stays internal to Apple. You just get a higher hit rate (potentially) in App Store visibility.
That is exactly the same as Google's ad platform. You don't get any of the data, Google just targets it at the demographics you select.
Yet somehow Google is evil. Not saying they aren't, only that if Google is evil then so is Apple.
I'm surprised no-one has made a dildo with a headphone jack yet. The user could "program" it by simply playing back different audio tracks. There could be a whole market for different experiences, pop artists could release songs with bass lines designed to stimulate their audiences directly...
Their privacy policy is precisely why I'm surprised they're not selling data.
McDonalds doesn't sell tables and chairs, but those are one of the main attractions of going there (it's definitely not the food).
Apple says it shares your personal data with "strategic partners". What is a strategic partner, and more important how much do you have to pay Apple to become one?
Facebook made themselves a core part of many people's social lives. They organize events on Facebook, they post photos there, they want to chat on Facebook Messenger. So your choice is either lose those relationships and social interactions, or use Facebook.
In fact, without your participation Facebook might lose those users, so it's in their interest that even people who rarely log in and block all their ads/tracking are still on the service because it keeps the high value cash cows on there too.
Fortunately my friends have moved away from Facebook now, unfortunately it was on to WattsApp so now I need their app installed. I firewall it and block their ads and notifications, and don't feel bad about it.
Code and new computer devices don't improve grades every generation.
Are they supposed to? Or are they supposed to shift the focus away from older, less valuable skills like cursive handwriting and towards more useful ones such as computer literacy, logic and basic programming?
More teachers don't help with test scores. More cash did not help bring parts of the USA to some new educational level.
Those things really helped in the UK. In particular class sizes (number of children per teacher) has been shown to have a significant impact on outcomes. There must be a reason why it failed to help in the US.
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Could be a couple of things.
The front facing radar filters out objects that are stationary when the car is travelling at speed, because those things tend to be bogus returns from street furniture and the like. If you drive at a wall head on at 60 MPH it won't stop you.
On top of that the bit that it hit was wedge shaped, with the sharp end facing the car. The radar would have had a fairly small return from it anyway. The older V1 system could detect motorbikes which are obviously quite thin, but the newer V2 system at best sees them as cars.
What is more interesting here is that Autopilot failed to follow the road markings. This has been an on-going problem with it, especially since V2 was released. Particularly when the road forks it gets confused and can't be relied on to go the same way twice, or in this case not go straight down the middle.
It must require a very tiny amount of force, considering it can be fooled by wedging a bit of fruit into the wheel.
The GM system that does eye tracking seems better, but to be honest no level 2 systems are particularly good. Audi claim to have a level 3 system but in demonstrations their driver has always had to grab the wheel rather suddenly.
Look at, say, the 2018 Leaf. Yeah, you save $5k. You also get an econobox that looks like a catfish that only goes 2/3rds as far (which becomes even worse when you consider the need to leave yourself a safety buffer), charges at a max rate 1/3rd that of the Tesla before #RapidGate sets in, 1/5th the speed after #RapidGate sets in, with much worse performance.
That's not really a fair comparison, because you can't actually get a $35k Model 3 today, or any time in the foreseeable future. They are only selling the more expensive ones at the moment. And despite the problems (RapidGate is pretty serious) the Leaf 40 is selling quite well - so much so that they just bumped the price up 3%.
Also that $35k won't get you the features that a $5k cheaper Leaf will, such as ProPilot which does auto-sterring and auto parking that is actually more advanced that Tesla's. So it's not really a like-for-like comparison. Depending on the country the Leaf sometimes has a better charging network too, e.g. the UK where there are far more CHAdeMO pumps than Superchargers.
The real competition for the Leaf 40 is the Hyundai Ioniq and to a lesser extent the Renault Zoe. The Ioniq isn't widely available and the Zoe has its own rapid charging issues, as well as being an inferior car in every way.
Having said that, the Leaf 40 is a massive disappointment compared to what people were expecting. Maybe the 60 will be better... At least it should have active battery cooling to fix the charging problems.
Better than the Japanese one which just says
omae ha mou shindeiru
And then your head explodes
IIRC she wasn't even in the game itself, just on the loading screens.
That's not how influence works. Constant exposure to these lies warps people's perceptions of the world.
Tesla are probably headed for a lawsuit over their self driving option soon. They already sold full self driving capability as a $4000 upgrade, with the promise of delivering it by software update one day.
At the rate they are going it won't be delivered in the lifetime of many of the vehicles, and certainly not the lease period many people are on. So maybe that will trigger some regulation.
How do you feel about bakeries being required to reproduce certain messages?
I visit the continent regularly and it is a big deal. You get ripped off on the exchange rates and fees constantly, have to convert prices in your head all the time, and now your future is uncertain.
Brexiteers assume all rules were designed to punish the UK. Even the ones we wrote, like Article 50, are just an EU plot to frustrate Brexit.
It's not just ccTLDs either. Today the EU confirmed that we would lose access to the Galileo satellite navigation system. We could negotiate access to some service/manufacturing contacts, but all secrets like military decryption keys would be off limits. As any sensible person would expect.
The EU TLD is for sites based in the EU. The idea is to give EU citizens confidence that it is an EU site operating under EU rules on things like privacy.
Since the point of brexit is supposed to be ditching those rules and leaving the EU, it makes no sense to allow UK entities to have EU domains.
If the UK wants to negotiate access and agrees to abide by the rules, fine. But the UK doesn't want that. Agreeing to the rules is one of the government's red lines, although so far they have not meant much.
There are on going legal cases to determine if it can be undone, but realistically if the UK did change its mind the EU would accommodate it and change the rules if necessary.
TLD admin organizations can set whatever rules they like. Some countries allow anyone to register, some require them to be resident. The EU is one of the latter.
So once outside the EU, naturally they will not suspend the rules for the UK unless the UK negotiated that as part of the post-brexit deal. Since the UK has a very weak position and desperately needs things like financial service access that are near impossible to get, .EU domains are going to be way down that list of things to ask for.
Plus, the UK would have to contribute to the registra operating costs, which would just further annoy Brexiteers.
By the way, the EU is not a shadow government or unelected.
And what if everything you posted is set to private? This appears to be an admission that they can read everything on Facebook at will, public or otherwise.
All the evidence is that it works the opposite way. Society becomes more permissive over time.
Some people will always try to drag us backwards, but overall and over the longer term it's pretty much impossible to resist.
I'd assume he has done his time for whatever horrendous crime he committed and is being let out on compassionate grounds.
Okay, it's a remote exploit through a network connection. Again, how would a different OS help other than security through obscurity? Other operating systems are not magically bug-free.
In fact, we say ransomware on MacOS. And that industrial control software they are using, why would the Linux version be any more secure than the Windows version? We have seen infections via application updates before, including people infiltrating open source repos and replacing packages with trojaned ones.
The way to secure these systems is to unplug the ethernet cable and de-solder the external USB ports. At the very least, put them on a separate secure network. But then it has a cost to the company, because they can't do the same level of integration as having fully networked systems allows.
I depends how the result of the test is used. If it jacks up insurance premiums then 50% false positives could be really bad. If it leads to a lifetime of worry it could be pretty terrible. But if all that happens is someone gets a more expensive, reliable test (cost amoritized over everyone who took the unreliable test) then it's probably not so bad.
It's possible they are learning. TFA does mention that the government might not green light it because they are worried about the down-stream effects (no pun intended).
China has been pushing really hard, maybe harder than anyone to clean up its environment and deal with climate change. They started in a very bad place, hit peak coal a few years ago, installed more wind than the rest of the world combined... It's not perfect by any means but they seem to be serious about it.
Search Ads is about improving App Store placement, which means all data stays internal to Apple. You just get a higher hit rate (potentially) in App Store visibility.
That is exactly the same as Google's ad platform. You don't get any of the data, Google just targets it at the demographics you select.
Yet somehow Google is evil. Not saying they aren't, only that if Google is evil then so is Apple.
I'm surprised no-one has made a dildo with a headphone jack yet. The user could "program" it by simply playing back different audio tracks. There could be a whole market for different experiences, pop artists could release songs with bass lines designed to stimulate their audiences directly...
BRB, filing patent...
Their privacy policy is precisely why I'm surprised they're not selling data.
McDonalds doesn't sell tables and chairs, but those are one of the main attractions of going there (it's definitely not the food).
Apple says it shares your personal data with "strategic partners". What is a strategic partner, and more important how much do you have to pay Apple to become one?
Facebook made themselves a core part of many people's social lives. They organize events on Facebook, they post photos there, they want to chat on Facebook Messenger. So your choice is either lose those relationships and social interactions, or use Facebook.
In fact, without your participation Facebook might lose those users, so it's in their interest that even people who rarely log in and block all their ads/tracking are still on the service because it keeps the high value cash cows on there too.
Fortunately my friends have moved away from Facebook now, unfortunately it was on to WattsApp so now I need their app installed. I firewall it and block their ads and notifications, and don't feel bad about it.
Code and new computer devices don't improve grades every generation.
Are they supposed to? Or are they supposed to shift the focus away from older, less valuable skills like cursive handwriting and towards more useful ones such as computer literacy, logic and basic programming?
More teachers don't help with test scores.
More cash did not help bring parts of the USA to some new educational level.
Those things really helped in the UK. In particular class sizes (number of children per teacher) has been shown to have a significant impact on outcomes. There must be a reason why it failed to help in the US.
Almost everyone can learn to read and write to a decent level. Almost everyone can master basic maths. Nearly every kid can learn to assemble Lego.
It doesn't seem like school level coding should be any different. It's not brain surgery.