That would be a great idea if the data were available.
Local government authorities know where most of their signs are, and could provide updates when things change. Mapping companies would love to get hold of that data stream, but it's damn near impossible. The local government authorities want them to pay for the data, and they all negotiate separately. Even if they agree, there is no legal requirement for the data to be accurate or timely so at best you might notice they suck and sue them for breech of contract after your fleet of self-driving cars picks up a few thousand speeding tickets.
Local governments know all sorts of useful stuff. They know where road works are gong to be long before they appear, for example.
What we need is a national level data feed for this stuff, and a legal mandate for organizations involved to keep it up to date.
What will likely happen is some mapping company decides it's worth paying people to drive around surveying roads all day.
Commercial vehicles like trucks and tractors don't need to operate for 12 hours at a stretch. Even the current EU laws don't allow humans to drive them continuously for that long without a break, and they will be some of the first vehicles to get fully antonymous driving (and charging) anyway.
300 miles range at 70 MPH is already available and already more than enough for human beings. If you are driving for more than 4 hours straight without a break, you are not driving safely.
AC is better for keeping windows mist free than heat. My Leaf has a heat pump and AC system, so I normally blast both for maybe 20 seconds to fully de-mist the car when setting off (often automatically on a timer while it's still plugged in, so doesn't even touch the battery) and then just keep heat and AC on the minimum setting to maintain.
It ends up reducing range by 5-10%, depending on conditions and driving style.
Nonsense. I have owned two Leafs, the batteries are great. Very low degradation even under extreme conditions - taxi companies doing multiple rapid charges every day and a 100% charge overnight, for 200,000 miles. They actually removed the "long life mode" 80% charge option from newer models because it was pointless, the 100% charge having no real effect on the battery pack.
They are passively cooled, but that's fine for the Leaf. You only need active cooling if you want to charge at >50kW or for longer periods than a 30kWh pack needs, or if you are drawing more energy than the Leaf does even brodering it. Again, taxi firms running the cars hard, charging them hard, demonstrates this.
Being mainstream did not make those claims "right"
I'm not arguing that, I'm just saying that without the context of "a small minority of experts think this, against the opinions of the vast majority" the way this site presents the story is misleading.
Thanks. It's hard knowing that people around you want you to abandon your family, to deny you happiness and a life together. It's best to not discuss these things at work.
I basically agree. His conclusions are bogus and a form of biological essentialism. He also fails to understand how focusing on such things has very negative consequences for some of his co-workers.
That's fair. It was up when I checked it, but it's down now and I'll take your word for it that it was down earlier. Withdrawn.
What I'm saying about the experts they selected is that they don't represent the mainstream view, and it's misleading to omit that information.
Imagine a headline reading "experts agree climate change is not happening". That is technically true, you can certainly find some experts who will say that, but it's hardly convincing when compared to the number who disagree.
Some societies have more women studying CS than men, e.g. Iran. The women there moved into that relatively new field before it became male dominated, and view it as liberating. Of course the down side is that some men are not put off studying CS because it is seen as a woman's job.
Other examples include Iceland and New Zealand, where girls now slightly out-perform boys in maths at school. If it was not a social thing, if it was biological, then it's hard to explain how two different cultures with two different languages on opposite sides of the world and with little migration between them could be that way.
Interesting trick, using archive.org to hide the domain name of quillette.com, a site dedicated to giving fake legitimacy to alt-right views and news.
You portray it as "some actual experts", but let's look at who they actually are. The first is Lee Jussim, who is a professor in this field, but is well known for going against the prevailing views in academia. Nothing wrong with that of course, but it rather undermines the narrative that "some experts agree with this guy" because it's more like "some fringe experts who reject the mainstream, most widely accepted view agree with this guy".
I've had issues with co-workers political views lately, and it really does make things difficult. I try to be professional and work with them, but they want to be my friends even though I know they don't want my wife to immigrate and live with me. It would be better if we just didn't talk about it, but Brexit and the fact that I'm often taking time off to sort out visa issues and the like makes it impossible.
And that is different from the SJW message of "blame white males and rich people" how?
SJWs are largely a figment of the alt-right demagogues' imagination, and thus exhibit many similar traits to those alt-right demagogues.
As I said, you invest someone to blame. Obviously you have to invent them, because they aren't really to blame so you need to create some reason that it's all their fault.
It provides significant power during times of peak demand. And it's the first one.
Anyway, if we are willing to invest tens of billions of Euros in single nuclear plants that generate less than half that much, it seems like it's pretty "significant".
Page 85. The gap varies by country, thus cannot be entirely biological, maybe not even at all biological. Other research suggests that biology plays almost no part.
I ask the stop with the straw man arguments, so you throw out another straw man - the dreaded Social Justice Warriors again.
He didn't accuse anyone of violence. It's a straw man argument. It doesn't matter if other people who you feel are in some club with him did, he didn't say it and it's not what he is arguing and you can't expect him or anyone else to defend it.
Like all demagogues, Trump's message was basically "it's not your fault you lost your job or can't pay the bills, it's these other people's fault and you are victims." Blame immigrants, blame feminists, blame environmental protections, blame LGBT rights.
The blame has to be simple too. These problems are often complex, but the demagogues message has to be a slogan, a simple "get rid of X and everything will be fine again".
It's about saying that some employees are biologically unsuited to be engineers. It's about planting suspicion that any complaint from them might just be because they are neurotic or unable to hack it.
The rest of what he said would probably have been fine.
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The machine probably discards colour information, so that it can work at night when colour is either not available or inaccurate.
That would be a great idea if the data were available.
Local government authorities know where most of their signs are, and could provide updates when things change. Mapping companies would love to get hold of that data stream, but it's damn near impossible. The local government authorities want them to pay for the data, and they all negotiate separately. Even if they agree, there is no legal requirement for the data to be accurate or timely so at best you might notice they suck and sue them for breech of contract after your fleet of self-driving cars picks up a few thousand speeding tickets.
Local governments know all sorts of useful stuff. They know where road works are gong to be long before they appear, for example.
What we need is a national level data feed for this stuff, and a legal mandate for organizations involved to keep it up to date.
What will likely happen is some mapping company decides it's worth paying people to drive around surveying roads all day.
Commercial vehicles like trucks and tractors don't need to operate for 12 hours at a stretch. Even the current EU laws don't allow humans to drive them continuously for that long without a break, and they will be some of the first vehicles to get fully antonymous driving (and charging) anyway.
300 miles range at 70 MPH is already available and already more than enough for human beings. If you are driving for more than 4 hours straight without a break, you are not driving safely.
AC is better for keeping windows mist free than heat. My Leaf has a heat pump and AC system, so I normally blast both for maybe 20 seconds to fully de-mist the car when setting off (often automatically on a timer while it's still plugged in, so doesn't even touch the battery) and then just keep heat and AC on the minimum setting to maintain.
It ends up reducing range by 5-10%, depending on conditions and driving style.
Nonsense. I have owned two Leafs, the batteries are great. Very low degradation even under extreme conditions - taxi companies doing multiple rapid charges every day and a 100% charge overnight, for 200,000 miles. They actually removed the "long life mode" 80% charge option from newer models because it was pointless, the 100% charge having no real effect on the battery pack.
They are passively cooled, but that's fine for the Leaf. You only need active cooling if you want to charge at >50kW or for longer periods than a 30kWh pack needs, or if you are drawing more energy than the Leaf does even brodering it. Again, taxi firms running the cars hard, charging them hard, demonstrates this.
Why do you keep posting this? Can you link to a post you think has received sock-puppet mods and explain why you think those mods are not genuine?
Being mainstream did not make those claims "right"
I'm not arguing that, I'm just saying that without the context of "a small minority of experts think this, against the opinions of the vast majority" the way this site presents the story is misleading.
Always has been. They want their beliefs protected, but the problem is they then want to put them into practice.
Thanks. It's hard knowing that people around you want you to abandon your family, to deny you happiness and a life together. It's best to not discuss these things at work.
I basically agree. His conclusions are bogus and a form of biological essentialism. He also fails to understand how focusing on such things has very negative consequences for some of his co-workers.
That's fair. It was up when I checked it, but it's down now and I'll take your word for it that it was down earlier. Withdrawn.
What I'm saying about the experts they selected is that they don't represent the mainstream view, and it's misleading to omit that information.
Imagine a headline reading "experts agree climate change is not happening". That is technically true, you can certainly find some experts who will say that, but it's hardly convincing when compared to the number who disagree.
Kind of hard to access most of that cable when it's underwater though... And it's not even 1000 miles long to reach Europe.
Some societies have more women studying CS than men, e.g. Iran. The women there moved into that relatively new field before it became male dominated, and view it as liberating. Of course the down side is that some men are not put off studying CS because it is seen as a woman's job.
Other examples include Iceland and New Zealand, where girls now slightly out-perform boys in maths at school. If it was not a social thing, if it was biological, then it's hard to explain how two different cultures with two different languages on opposite sides of the world and with little migration between them could be that way.
Interesting trick, using archive.org to hide the domain name of quillette.com, a site dedicated to giving fake legitimacy to alt-right views and news.
You portray it as "some actual experts", but let's look at who they actually are. The first is Lee Jussim, who is a professor in this field, but is well known for going against the prevailing views in academia. Nothing wrong with that of course, but it rather undermines the narrative that "some experts agree with this guy" because it's more like "some fringe experts who reject the mainstream, most widely accepted view agree with this guy".
I get a little nervous when people start compiling dossiers of evidence...
I've had issues with co-workers political views lately, and it really does make things difficult. I try to be professional and work with them, but they want to be my friends even though I know they don't want my wife to immigrate and live with me. It would be better if we just didn't talk about it, but Brexit and the fact that I'm often taking time off to sort out visa issues and the like makes it impossible.
And that is different from the SJW message of "blame white males and rich people" how?
SJWs are largely a figment of the alt-right demagogues' imagination, and thus exhibit many similar traits to those alt-right demagogues.
As I said, you invest someone to blame. Obviously you have to invent them, because they aren't really to blame so you need to create some reason that it's all their fault.
It's not fear of radiation that makes nuclear unpopular in Europe, it's the cost. The new plant in the UK is the most expensive object on earth.
It provides significant power during times of peak demand. And it's the first one.
Anyway, if we are willing to invest tens of billions of Euros in single nuclear plants that generate less than half that much, it seems like it's pretty "significant".
Stop virtue signalling abut virtue signalling!
It's a silencing tactic.
Virtue signalling - stop criticising me!
Political correctness - stop shaming my bigotry!
Social Justice Warrior - stop caring about my bigotry!
Virtual signalling is the most ironic, because every who accuses you of it is themselves guilty of virtue signalling about virtue signalling.
In the Iceland and New Zealand girls overtook boys in mathematics at school several years ago:
http://webarchive.nationalarch...
Page 85. The gap varies by country, thus cannot be entirely biological, maybe not even at all biological. Other research suggests that biology plays almost no part.
I ask the stop with the straw man arguments, so you throw out another straw man - the dreaded Social Justice Warriors again.
He didn't accuse anyone of violence. It's a straw man argument. It doesn't matter if other people who you feel are in some club with him did, he didn't say it and it's not what he is arguing and you can't expect him or anyone else to defend it.
Like all demagogues, Trump's message was basically "it's not your fault you lost your job or can't pay the bills, it's these other people's fault and you are victims." Blame immigrants, blame feminists, blame environmental protections, blame LGBT rights.
The blame has to be simple too. These problems are often complex, but the demagogues message has to be a slogan, a simple "get rid of X and everything will be fine again".
It's about saying that some employees are biologically unsuited to be engineers. It's about planting suspicion that any complaint from them might just be because they are neurotic or unable to hack it.
The rest of what he said would probably have been fine.