"To underestimate how much automated trucks will inside out the industry is not to really understand it."
There are estimated to be _at least_ 80-160 million people worldwide involved in the transportation industry whose jobs will be directly affected by vehicle automation (ie, "drivers"), without the knock on effects of the industries that support or depend on those people (trainers, and even stuff like roadside services)
Automating driving on a freeway/autobahn is easy. It's the low-hanging fruit (Look at the stats and you'll see that the crash rate is miniscule anywhere in the world, compared to other road environments - it's just that when crashes occur, some are quite messy).
Automating city driving is a lot harder but even providing greater driver-assist and situational awareness is a good thing. A truck which refuses to let itself be turned across the path of a cyclist beside it would save dozens of lives each year in a city like London alone and because one of the reasons people drive when cycles would be better suited for the commute is perceived danger from "blind drivers", having vehicles which explicitly protect cyclists/pedestrians may result in increased levels of urban cycling/walking.
At freight speeds, satellite uplink/downlinks are probably the most reliable way of staying in contact, especially for places in the USA like the Black Hills.
That said, it's better if as much autonomy as possible is onboard the train, as it reduces bandwidth/latency issues.
There are plenty of automated rail systems around, mostly in the light commuter sphere. Many of them still have a human, if only to hit emergency stop if needed and work the doors (people like to take chances with closing ones).
There's another reason that autonomous driving is more likely to happen sooner in trucks: "Real Estate" and "space"
As in "Real estate to hang the sensors from" and "Space to put the processing hardware", with weight not being as important a consideration either.
Sticking all this stuff in cars is still problematic, even if Delphi has managed to get the back end down from a trunkful of kit to 1/4 of that size for a mostly autonomous machine.
Yes. Legionella is everywhere. It's a common soil bacteria.
Disinfection only lasts a short time and the bacteria is commonly brought in on the soles of shoes.
Many of the rooftop sites I worked on (radio masts) had strict procedures about working near cooling towers, including a requirement to wear clean-room overshoe booties whilst outside and in plantrooms to try and avoid contamination from this vector and _no_ sites allowed public roof access - the roof doors were usually pretty solid assemblies.
"intense UV in the outflow ducts might be able to do that"
And the easiest way to prevent UV embrittlement of plastics is to use stainless steel where the lights are. That's a solved problem.
The issue is that a lot of these installations predate disinfection requirements and/or management cheap out by not replacing sterilising lamps or skimping on the sodium hydrochlorite purchases.
There need to be criminal penalties and personal liability for lax processes when it comes ot public health issues. These have a tendency to focus management minds a bit. One of the best management memos I ever read started "I have no intention of going to jail for something that my staff have done, so failure to follow the rules is a sacking offence"
In a lot of countries, if you book a taxi whilst stating that you must catch a plane/train/etc and the taxo doesn't show, or is late or gets you there late, the company is on the hook for rebooking you - they may squirm a bit (especially in the UK, where blanket denial is standard policy) but when it hits the courts it's a slamdunk.
UK airlines also avoid their responsibilities under EU law for passenger compensation. One incident I can recall had a bunch of passengers arrive at Gatwick 6 hours late and Easyjet staff hid in the toilets rather than face them (even the airport manager couldn't get them to come out).
"It's not so easy to shift your body and head around a bit to double-check things when you're moving at 70mph as when you're turning left out of a driveway."
In a lot of countries if you don't do so at 70mph, you will _fail_ your driving test.
More to the point (if you're bringing up british studies), NOX and PM10 maps of british cities _pre_ NOX regulations going live in europe show that NOX levels are only a problem in urban (not suburban or rural) areas and that cars only accounted for half of it back then (it's about 1/3 now) with the rest coming from gas/oil heating and other stationary sources..
Britain doesn't have the inversion layers that pervade LA county or the CA central valley, but it's clear that "one size fits all" emissions regulations aren't wonderful. A car with a NOX sensor that switched to "low mode" when levels climbed too high or when it was in stop/start traffic might be the best compromise (and allowing higher NOX from petrol engines would allow better milage from those in areas where NOX isn't an issue - extreme lean burn can easily allow a car to improve milage by 25% or more.)
Alamost all the Class-A assignments were made before ARIN and IANA existed (ie, personally assigned by Jon Postel) and as such are not ARIN/IANA property to take back.
As for Afrinic, taking those would stave off the end of days by a few months at most.
Grit your teeth, go to IPv6, get it over and done with. IPv4 was only intended to be in place for 5-10 years (in which case 4 billion was more than enough addresses).
IPv6 is NOT hard. Classical 1 to many NAT on the other hand is a clusterfuck kludge and needs to die.
methane precursor is a significant carbon emitter. Electrolysis is predicated on cheap nuclear electricity or thorium-level heat being available for non-electrolytic water-splitting.
Hypersonic travel is spent at altitudes so far up that lift/drag isn't much of an issue. Any higher and you'd need to resort to "skipping" into lower atmospheric levels to relight the engines and get thrust (This has been proposed but the negative points include endless passenger barfing)
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"To underestimate how much automated trucks will inside out the industry is not to really understand it."
There are estimated to be _at least_ 80-160 million people worldwide involved in the transportation industry whose jobs will be directly affected by vehicle automation (ie, "drivers"), without the knock on effects of the industries that support or depend on those people (trainers, and even stuff like roadside services)
Automating driving on a freeway/autobahn is easy. It's the low-hanging fruit (Look at the stats and you'll see that the crash rate is miniscule anywhere in the world, compared to other road environments - it's just that when crashes occur, some are quite messy).
Automating city driving is a lot harder but even providing greater driver-assist and situational awareness is a good thing. A truck which refuses to let itself be turned across the path of a cyclist beside it would save dozens of lives each year in a city like London alone and because one of the reasons people drive when cycles would be better suited for the commute is perceived danger from "blind drivers", having vehicles which explicitly protect cyclists/pedestrians may result in increased levels of urban cycling/walking.
At freight speeds, satellite uplink/downlinks are probably the most reliable way of staying in contact, especially for places in the USA like the Black Hills.
That said, it's better if as much autonomy as possible is onboard the train, as it reduces bandwidth/latency issues.
There are plenty of automated rail systems around, mostly in the light commuter sphere. Many of them still have a human, if only to hit emergency stop if needed and work the doors (people like to take chances with closing ones).
There's another reason that autonomous driving is more likely to happen sooner in trucks: "Real Estate" and "space"
As in "Real estate to hang the sensors from" and "Space to put the processing hardware", with weight not being as important a consideration either.
Sticking all this stuff in cars is still problematic, even if Delphi has managed to get the back end down from a trunkful of kit to 1/4 of that size for a mostly autonomous machine.
1440dpi is regarded as the minimum print resolution for glossy magazines. Many of the upmarket ones use higher densities than that....
Yes. Legionella is everywhere. It's a common soil bacteria.
Disinfection only lasts a short time and the bacteria is commonly brought in on the soles of shoes.
Many of the rooftop sites I worked on (radio masts) had strict procedures about working near cooling towers, including a requirement to wear clean-room overshoe booties whilst outside and in plantrooms to try and avoid contamination from this vector and _no_ sites allowed public roof access - the roof doors were usually pretty solid assemblies.
"intense UV in the outflow ducts might be able to do that"
And the easiest way to prevent UV embrittlement of plastics is to use stainless steel where the lights are. That's a solved problem.
The issue is that a lot of these installations predate disinfection requirements and/or management cheap out by not replacing sterilising lamps or skimping on the sodium hydrochlorite purchases.
There need to be criminal penalties and personal liability for lax processes when it comes ot public health issues. These have a tendency to focus management minds a bit. One of the best management memos I ever read started "I have no intention of going to jail for something that my staff have done, so failure to follow the rules is a sacking offence"
If it's not patented, then it's a trade secret or subject to copyright. These have their own sets of rules.
This in spades.
The USA has no "loser pays winners court fees" model, so the trolls can afford to keep banging away.
This model may change with a recent Supreme Court decision relating to patent trolls. Expect to see more orders for costs when they lose.
The patent in question was one of the "XYZ well-known business process ON A COMPUTER" variety.
They've always been widely regarded as tenuous - and in this case the company appears to be the creation of the lawyer representing them in court.
Can anyone say "Prenda Law"?
"Well, some of the most creepy, objectifying straight men worry intensely about gay men"
No, they worry that THEY might be gay. The whole pushing it off onto gay men thing is distraction.
"Sending them back to their nation of origin would work fine, and requires no killing."
In the case of Syria, no matter which side the civilians come from, there's generally not much to go back to.
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
People don't usually risk their lives going somewhere unless where they're coming from is pretty awful.
"Uber is, and always has been, an illegal service"
in the UK, Uber is a private hire car service (aka "minicabs" in UK parlance). Drivers are required to be licensed and insured accordingly.
In a lot of countries, if you book a taxi whilst stating that you must catch a plane/train/etc and the taxo doesn't show, or is late or gets you there late, the company is on the hook for rebooking you - they may squirm a bit (especially in the UK, where blanket denial is standard policy) but when it hits the courts it's a slamdunk.
UK airlines also avoid their responsibilities under EU law for passenger compensation. One incident I can recall had a bunch of passengers arrive at Gatwick 6 hours late and Easyjet staff hid in the toilets rather than face them (even the airport manager couldn't get them to come out).
The DMCA is only valid in the USA.
Do the reverse assembly elsewhere.
It's also why Queensland had a festering corruption problem which was finally admitted in the mid 1980s but still not entirely cleaned up.
" And yes, while nuke plants can't spin up quickly enough to cover unexpected loads, they can be adjusted to fit expected loads"
Assuming they get developed and deployed, LFTR plants can (xenon vents into the pump surge space and can be extracted for storage and resale).
At that point, wind and solar plants are superfluous.
"It's not so easy to shift your body and head around a bit to double-check things when you're moving at 70mph as when you're turning left out of a driveway."
In a lot of countries if you don't do so at 70mph, you will _fail_ your driving test.
More to the point (if you're bringing up british studies), NOX and PM10 maps of british cities _pre_ NOX regulations going live in europe show that NOX levels are only a problem in urban (not suburban or rural) areas and that cars only accounted for half of it back then (it's about 1/3 now) with the rest coming from gas/oil heating and other stationary sources..
Britain doesn't have the inversion layers that pervade LA county or the CA central valley, but it's clear that "one size fits all" emissions regulations aren't wonderful. A car with a NOX sensor that switched to "low mode" when levels climbed too high or when it was in stop/start traffic might be the best compromise (and allowing higher NOX from petrol engines would allow better milage from those in areas where NOX isn't an issue - extreme lean burn can easily allow a car to improve milage by 25% or more.)
There's a lot of milage in engaging those most likely to commit crime and leading them away from that path.
The US fixation on "revenge" rather than "justice" is rather worrying.
Alamost all the Class-A assignments were made before ARIN and IANA existed (ie, personally assigned by Jon Postel) and as such are not ARIN/IANA property to take back.
As for Afrinic, taking those would stave off the end of days by a few months at most.
Grit your teeth, go to IPv6, get it over and done with. IPv4 was only intended to be in place for 5-10 years (in which case 4 billion was more than enough addresses).
IPv6 is NOT hard. Classical 1 to many NAT on the other hand is a clusterfuck kludge and needs to die.
"It's not illegal to post public information on someone "
In a lot of countries, it is with intent to facilitate harrassment, or reasonably knowing that doing so will result in harrassment.
methane precursor is a significant carbon emitter. Electrolysis is predicated on cheap nuclear electricity or thorium-level heat being available for non-electrolytic water-splitting.
Hypersonic travel is spent at altitudes so far up that lift/drag isn't much of an issue. Any higher and you'd need to resort to "skipping" into lower atmospheric levels to relight the engines and get thrust (This has been proposed but the negative points include endless passenger barfing)
"some people have a lot more money than the $1600 needed for the current return ticket prices"
You'd have to attract the people who are currently paying for first class - which is about $10-15k a seat on these distances.
Some of them want the pampering, others would pay that much to get there sooner even if they had to sit on orange crates.