Highways? Highways aren't fun. Empty B roads are fun. Roundabouts can be fun.
But hey, go ahead, decide what other people do or do not enjoy. I'll just go and have fun out there, within the rules of the road, while you look on disapprovingly. Deal?
New roads that aren't in the GPS system, for example, or private driving areas (e.g., parking lots) that aren't well-mapped.
Once these AI's take off, it'll only be a small amount of time before the signs next to roads will be modified or added to so automatic cars can "read" them and follow their instructions. Relying on GPS as the sole means of plotting and following a route would be ridiculous. Think roadworks, reduced speed limits due to all sorts of conditions, etc.
As another situation, I am very interested in how these cars handle icy driving conditions.
Modern cars already use ABS, TC and ESP to monitor the amount of grip the tires have and adjust braking and throttle, effectively overriding the driver, based on that.
If I floor my 14 year old car in slippery conditions and the tires start to spin, it'll decide all by itself that the trottle needs to be reduced. By the time my vastly slower human senses have figured out what is going on, the whole thing is over already.
wouldn't you rather be reading, talking on the phone, texting, preparing for your work presentation/speech, doing your homework, etc?
I thoroughly enjoy driving, so no, not really, but having the option available would be wonderful, especially if we reach the point where it's legal to have the car drive you home while under the influence.
And no, there's no doubt in my mind that the AI will do a better job of driving than I will ever be able to. There's nothing like have actually having eyes in the back of one's head(or in this case, car) for making the job easier.
Basically, I decide to buy a game online or watch a movie, start the download, prepare something to drink or snack and when I get back it's pretty much done. If it isn't, I can stream full HD alongside the download without a hitch.
Pretty much instant gratification.
Only downside is that there's few servers capable/willing to upload at speeds in the 80-120 Mbit area, but they'll catch up...eventually.
If you are getting a desktop, then you are either in it for raw power. In that case you get a system with a lot more memory, and faster physical drives, if you are not in it for raw power then you are in it for budget reasons. But for the most part on the desktop Solid State doesn't make too much sense.
As a primary disk an SSD is truly a joy a to work with. There's no need to use them to store tons of movies or MP3's, a simple 64 or 128 GB drive to run the operating system and most commonly used applications is more than enough to experience a truly significant increase in speed.
So yeah, pick your motive, take your chances. This mess is benefitting someone, somehow. I wonder if the US based creators of this film can be charged with negligent homicide. I sure hope so.
You know, your comment is so infuriating it makes me want to kill someone. The upside is that by your own logic you should be charged as well.
Actually, the person who first published the link...was Britt Dekker, the model for the pictures, who published the links on Twitter, so it was only available to her over 100k followers.
People should gain civic rights gradually and at an individual pace, much like your car insurance premiums.
There is one major problem with this and other suggestions for ways of "earning" the right to vote. There's gotta be people who determine who passed and who doesn't, and those people will inevitably yield to corruption. And because their victims can't vote, there's no way to get rid of them.
The concept has been twisted, it has been redefined, it has been framed, and you gobbled it straight up.
The ability of Americans to twist the meaning of words beyond recognition and then renounce them is astonishing. Then again, the entire US economy is now pretty much based on first setting up straw men and then expending vast amounts of money fighting them,so little surprise they do the same in politics.
You know what I find one of the scariest things on the road? Underpowered cars that can't get up to speed fast enough and hence have to enter the highway going 20 less than what everybody else is doing. When it's relatively quiet on the road you can change lanes so he has more room, but when it's busy that's not always an option. Then you see one car hitting the brakes (seriously folks, using the brakes on a highway = fail) and a whole cascade happens of people seeing brakelights, not knowing what is going on and hitting the brakes themselves. All because 1 little jackass in a tiny tin box couldn't be bothered to shell out for an extra 20 horses and the tires to get them on the road properly.
Now you really don't need more than about 90 bhp in a small car, but the big saloons and SUVs, especially the ridiculously large monsters that pass for cars in the US, need a lot of power to accelerate.
It's not safe for the simple reason that the automatic cars will drive the speed limit, and cause accidents because everybody else is going 20 over.
Even today's higher end cars have cruise control that is set to keep a minimum distance X to the car in front of it. When that car slows, so does the cruise control, right down to a full/emergency stop if necessary.
What is it with Slasdotians pointing out the most obvious of possible shortcomings and then shouting out "Hah, you didn't think of that, did you?" You think the folks developing these are that stupid? These cars have sensors and reaction times that literally dwarf anything you or I could do behind the wheel.
When I read posts like yours, I can't help but see a Dalek screaming: "Conformity! Conformity!"
You may want to consider just to what extent you've been programmed to automatically associate certain looks with certain values. While prejudice saves a lot of time, it tends to make one miss out on a lot of interesting folks.
So? Human beings are bloody stupid and will believe some priest in a dress over what their own body is telling them, especially when that priest has men with pointy objects to drive the point home if you disagree.
If sex during pregnancy is truly bad for either the mother or the foetus, we'd probably have noticed by now...
But what about long-term exposure to perfectly legal images of violence? What about legal adult porn that is, by design, intentionally degrading to one or more of the actors in it? What about very detailed, explicit, gore and violence in video games?
In your first 2 examples, although people may arguably get harmed, they placed themselves in that situation willingly and knowingly.
There's a difference between watching something that is pretend and something that is real, especially when children are involved.
I don't know how picking up a women in US works, do you have to get prior permission to try to touch them? Or dou you wait for them to touch you first? But wait, isn't it harrassment in oposite way then?
The same way it works everywhere, by reading the non-verbal communication correctly. Which a lot of geeks can't do. Which is pretty much the argument of this story.
You can not blame this on introversion and weak social antennae.
The weak social antennae make it a lot more difficult to pick up on all the subtle little signals though. Some social norms are pretty much fixed in stone,but inbetween there's a whole big gray area of go/no-go zones that depend entirely on the circumstances and individuals involved. And the inability to distinguish between the "go on, make another joke, you're making me laugh" and the "you're creeping me the fuck out" signals seems unfortunately rather common.
Actually, we can. There are plenty of things private citizens are allowed to do that we do not want the government to do.
And as history has shown us time and time again, any and all government activity should be viewed with suspicion, for if we look away for even a split second we get screwed sideways. A politician, contrary to a suspect, is guilty of being a lying untrustworthy sack of shit until proven otherwise.
Mercedes also targets the upper market segment. And the stuff they put in their better series almost always finds its way to even the most basic vehicles across the board in a 10 year lifespan. Right now their cars already have cruise control that keeps track of the distance to the car in front of you and adjusts speed appropriately.
Cars take care of the driving more and more as we speak. Switching to full automation is more a question of if than when.
So I believe it's possible to give the fair assessment that a good driver is a better driver than an automated one, simply because that's the nature of driving. Unexpected situations.
Even if unexpected situations occur 9 times out of 10, they're still a matter of a lot of moving objects with speeds and directions in a 2 dimensional plane.
No matter what the exact reason, if the brakelights of the car(s) in front of you turn on and the distance between yourself and those cars starts to decrease, you should probably decrease speed as well.
If a car next to you starts getting closer (yay for jackasses changing lanes without looking properly) there's only 3 directions to escape, and some situations where you just need to stay where you are, even if it means physical contact between the vehicles.
Honestly, we teach this crap to 18 year olds (16 in some countries). If they can figure it out, so can a computer that has eyes in the back of its head and always pays attention.
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Highways? Highways aren't fun. Empty B roads are fun. Roundabouts can be fun.
But hey, go ahead, decide what other people do or do not enjoy. I'll just go and have fun out there, within the rules of the road, while you look on disapprovingly. Deal?
New roads that aren't in the GPS system, for example, or private driving areas (e.g., parking lots) that aren't well-mapped.
Once these AI's take off, it'll only be a small amount of time before the signs next to roads will be modified or added to so automatic cars can "read" them and follow their instructions. Relying on GPS as the sole means of plotting and following a route would be ridiculous. Think roadworks, reduced speed limits due to all sorts of conditions, etc.
As another situation, I am very interested in how these cars handle icy driving conditions.
Modern cars already use ABS, TC and ESP to monitor the amount of grip the tires have and adjust braking and throttle, effectively overriding the driver, based on that.
If I floor my 14 year old car in slippery conditions and the tires start to spin, it'll decide all by itself that the trottle needs to be reduced. By the time my vastly slower human senses have figured out what is going on, the whole thing is over already.
wouldn't you rather be reading, talking on the phone, texting, preparing for your work presentation/speech, doing your homework, etc?
I thoroughly enjoy driving, so no, not really, but having the option available would be wonderful, especially if we reach the point where it's legal to have the car drive you home while under the influence.
And no, there's no doubt in my mind that the AI will do a better job of driving than I will ever be able to. There's nothing like have actually having eyes in the back of one's head(or in this case, car) for making the job easier.
Basically, I decide to buy a game online or watch a movie, start the download, prepare something to drink or snack and when I get back it's pretty much done. If it isn't, I can stream full HD alongside the download without a hitch.
Pretty much instant gratification.
Only downside is that there's few servers capable/willing to upload at speeds in the 80-120 Mbit area, but they'll catch up...eventually.
In the U.S.A. the determination of guilt or innocence takes place by a jury of one's "peers".
What are the odds they get it right every time? Astronomical doesn't even begin to cover it.
If you are getting a desktop, then you are either in it for raw power. In that case you get a system with a lot more memory, and faster physical drives, if you are not in it for raw power then you are in it for budget reasons. But for the most part on the desktop Solid State doesn't make too much sense.
As a primary disk an SSD is truly a joy a to work with. There's no need to use them to store tons of movies or MP3's, a simple 64 or 128 GB drive to run the operating system and most commonly used applications is more than enough to experience a truly significant increase in speed.
But no one is giving up their PC on their desktop in their office to do their daily work on an iPhone.
You'd be surprised how many folks out there have jobs that consist pretty much of:
1. Run around
2. Look busy
3. Answer and write e-mails
Also known as Middle Management. A smartphone with a backup laptop for when they actually need to do something is more than enough for these folks,
So yeah, pick your motive, take your chances. This mess is benefitting someone, somehow. I wonder if the US based creators of this film can be charged with negligent homicide. I sure hope so.
You know, your comment is so infuriating it makes me want to kill someone. The upside is that by your own logic you should be charged as well.
Actually, the person who first published the link...was Britt Dekker, the model for the pictures, who published the links on Twitter, so it was only available to her over 100k followers.
Also, the government's official manual for dealing with terrorist events should says in large friendly letters: "Don't Panic".
People should gain civic rights gradually and at an individual pace, much like your car insurance premiums.
There is one major problem with this and other suggestions for ways of "earning" the right to vote. There's gotta be people who determine who passed and who doesn't, and those people will inevitably yield to corruption. And because their victims can't vote, there's no way to get rid of them.
The key point is "your saved games may not be available". For many single-player games, this renders the game unplayable.
Not unless your last session with that game was on a different machine. The copy in the cloud is that that, a *copy*.
Hook, line and sinker.
The concept has been twisted, it has been redefined, it has been framed, and you gobbled it straight up.
The ability of Americans to twist the meaning of words beyond recognition and then renounce them is astonishing. Then again, the entire US economy is now pretty much based on first setting up straw men and then expending vast amounts of money fighting them,so little surprise they do the same in politics.
multi-hundred horsepower engines: less safe
You know what I find one of the scariest things on the road? Underpowered cars that can't get up to speed fast enough and hence have to enter the highway going 20 less than what everybody else is doing. When it's relatively quiet on the road you can change lanes so he has more room, but when it's busy that's not always an option. Then you see one car hitting the brakes (seriously folks, using the brakes on a highway = fail) and a whole cascade happens of people seeing brakelights, not knowing what is going on and hitting the brakes themselves. All because 1 little jackass in a tiny tin box couldn't be bothered to shell out for an extra 20 horses and the tires to get them on the road properly.
Now you really don't need more than about 90 bhp in a small car, but the big saloons and SUVs, especially the ridiculously large monsters that pass for cars in the US, need a lot of power to accelerate.
It's not safe for the simple reason that the automatic cars will drive the speed limit, and cause accidents because everybody else is going 20 over.
Even today's higher end cars have cruise control that is set to keep a minimum distance X to the car in front of it. When that car slows, so does the cruise control, right down to a full/emergency stop if necessary.
What is it with Slasdotians pointing out the most obvious of possible shortcomings and then shouting out "Hah, you didn't think of that, did you?" You think the folks developing these are that stupid? These cars have sensors and reaction times that literally dwarf anything you or I could do behind the wheel.
When I read posts like yours, I can't help but see a Dalek screaming: "Conformity! Conformity!"
You may want to consider just to what extent you've been programmed to automatically associate certain looks with certain values. While prejudice saves a lot of time, it tends to make one miss out on a lot of interesting folks.
So? Human beings are bloody stupid and will believe some priest in a dress over what their own body is telling them, especially when that priest has men with pointy objects to drive the point home if you disagree.
If sex during pregnancy is truly bad for either the mother or the foetus, we'd probably have noticed by now...
Except when the study gets conducted Bible in hard by folks looking for very hard for proof of what they already believe in...
In any case, a God who feels a proper way to worship him is to cut off part of the genitals of infants can go fuck himself.
But what about long-term exposure to perfectly legal images of violence? What about legal adult porn that is, by design, intentionally degrading to one or more of the actors in it? What about very detailed, explicit, gore and violence in video games?
In your first 2 examples, although people may arguably get harmed, they placed themselves in that situation willingly and knowingly.
There's a difference between watching something that is pretend and something that is real, especially when children are involved.
I don't know how picking up a women in US works, do you have to get prior permission to try to touch them? Or dou you wait for them to touch you first? But wait, isn't it harrassment in oposite way then?
The same way it works everywhere, by reading the non-verbal communication correctly. Which a lot of geeks can't do. Which is pretty much the argument of this story.
You can not blame this on introversion and weak social antennae.
The weak social antennae make it a lot more difficult to pick up on all the subtle little signals though. Some social norms are pretty much fixed in stone,but inbetween there's a whole big gray area of go/no-go zones that depend entirely on the circumstances and individuals involved. And the inability to distinguish between the "go on, make another joke, you're making me laugh" and the "you're creeping me the fuck out" signals seems unfortunately rather common.
YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS.
Actually, we can. There are plenty of things private citizens are allowed to do that we do not want the government to do.
And as history has shown us time and time again, any and all government activity should be viewed with suspicion, for if we look away for even a split second we get screwed sideways. A politician, contrary to a suspect, is guilty of being a lying untrustworthy sack of shit until proven otherwise.
Mercedes also targets the upper market segment. And the stuff they put in their better series almost always finds its way to even the most basic vehicles across the board in a 10 year lifespan. Right now their cars already have cruise control that keeps track of the distance to the car in front of you and adjusts speed appropriately.
Cars take care of the driving more and more as we speak. Switching to full automation is more a question of if than when.
So I believe it's possible to give the fair assessment that a good driver is a better driver than an automated one, simply because that's the nature of driving. Unexpected situations.
Even if unexpected situations occur 9 times out of 10, they're still a matter of a lot of moving objects with speeds and directions in a 2 dimensional plane.
No matter what the exact reason, if the brakelights of the car(s) in front of you turn on and the distance between yourself and those cars starts to decrease, you should probably decrease speed as well.
If a car next to you starts getting closer (yay for jackasses changing lanes without looking properly) there's only 3 directions to escape, and some situations where you just need to stay where you are, even if it means physical contact between the vehicles.
Honestly, we teach this crap to 18 year olds (16 in some countries). If they can figure it out, so can a computer that has eyes in the back of its head and always pays attention.