I came across a deal tonight for a 50inch 4K TV for under $500, in fact I can find them that cheap easily on Amazon. Did you somehow think that 4K TV are reserved for the uber rich or something?
This package or possibly one of their others should help you. This one is likely what I'll be grabbing as it most closely mirrors the functionality I needed from Slysoft but they have other packages too.
Folks that want higher quality? That want the extras? Folks with data caps? Folks that want stuff after the streaming service drops it? Folks don't want to be tracked or pay a monthly fee?
You might also be interested to know that Microsoft is adopting Docker as well. That you haven't heard of it is a little surprising because it's been talked about awhile both here and elsewhere. I too am in the Windows world nearly all of the time and had heard of it although I've yet to use it (one of my Linux based systems supports it though). It looks like pretty interesting concept although when I approach Linux guys about it the first thing they say is that it's a security nightmare
I'll never forget getting pushback from a lawyer regarding a desire to use AES with a claim that I'd need an export certificate. I pointed out that AES wasn't developed in the United States and that when I went to the Bureau of Standards website at the time that it linked to a foreign website for sources. Now how exactly was that an EXPORT or cryptography? Do these idiots think this country has a monopoly on crypto? On MATH? If they force the likes of Apple and Google to build in back doors then people will simply run their own apps to enforce it and they will be no closer to what they want. Sure, let's kill the cash cow that is our tech industry why don't we? Idiots...
Buy a tankless - endless hot water on demand! I compared the two efficiency graphs between the newish one I was dumping (remodel) and the new tankless. The tankless was way to the left in the cheap zone and the other was mode to the middle of the right on the higher cost zone. Then I realized that the two graphs didn't overlap! I was skeptical but sure enough my gas usage in the Summer time when the only appliance using gas was the water heater went down year to year in the first year I owned it. Hell in the Summer the fees cost me as much or more than my gas usage. I have endless hot water too for as long as I want to shower. The only two issues are that in super freezing temps I have to be careful not to run the shower and the jets at the same time as it can begin to overrun the heater with the arctic water coming in. The second "issue" was that I was required to get and use a softener because the water here is so hard it would kill the heating coils as they superheated the water flowing through. Not been a big deal though as the soap works much better and I got the added benefit of a whole house filter:-)
Toto Drake - best low flow toilet I've ever seen and I've yet to replace a part in mine after more than 5 years. I chose it after speaking to multiple plumbers at a trade show - they told me these things were great and I had one installed in my new addition. WOW! Works great. I wish I'd gotten the soft close lid option and the taller height but when I replace the rest of my toilets I WILL get those options:-)
Oh and it doesn't cost a pile more than the junk at the big box stores...
Oh and a little thing called a flexfuel sensor. The link below is to an OEM part, I'm about to install a fuel system on my car that uses one of them. I'm not sure I'd call it a hack since the software to function on a WIDE range of alcohol levels is pretty decently different and must accept input from that sensor. Seems that "e85" often isn't and in Winter has more gasoline in it to promote cold start. You may also find out your piddly little gasoline injectors can't handle the flow for ethanol use and that many injectors fail when exposed to e85 unless specifically designed for it and most OEM injectors are NOT although they finally seem to have the fuel lines and tanks done right. Sorry but on this one you're talking out of your ass if you think it's just a software flip.
P.S. Any vehicle that can run on both alcohol AND gasoline isn't running on alcohol "efficiently". Generally you want a ton more compression or a good bit more boost if it happens to be turbocharged. Alcohol makes a great race fuel but it's got much less bang per mole.
Aw man, I knew about the P&S firmware chdk but not MagicLantern! Naturally I have an old Rebel XTi that isn't covered and runs VXworks but there's firmware for that too! Dammit, now I want to upgrade to a newer model and play. Curse you! lol -)
Not always true although higher clockspeeds could be an exception. Lookup the fiasco with the Quadro cards. Lookup Apple specc'd cards that were sold for more money with the only difference being an identifier in the flash. HAM radios that have had features crippled. Scanners. DVD drives. I posted a list above but there's lots of examples and those were just the ones I knew about generally lol.
More than one HAM radio have been found to be subject to software tweaking for improvements in scan speed and frequencies covered.-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Got a RAID card? Some of them can be crossflashed to gain features BTW. Or you can pay thousands to the manufacturer for some features (*cough*PERC*cough*) http://www.servethehome.com/ib...
Oh look, your camera now supports RAW? Thought that was only for pro cameras not P&S pocket models...
I could go on and on with examples but suffice it to say yeah it DOES happen and it happens fairly often. It happens most often with system that have a full OS, often Linux, where a firmware flash can give you all sorts of features (OpenWRT or Tomato anyone?) but it also happens in cameras, lab bench tools, TVs, stereos, and just about anything else that is driven by software. Want more turbo boost in your car? Software baby! Want that printer to register an empty toner cartridge sooner? No problem!
Well, I'm sorry you feel that way - can't be helped and doesn't effect me. Except for being hit by others a time or two I get down the road just fine and likely pay better attention than most of the folks around me. It's amazing what you can see (and avoid) when you pay attention!
Ha, pay attention to people crossing an intersection making a turn. One lane coming towards you turning their left onto a road with two lanes. You will see almost all of them switch lanes even when the dashed lines have been placed in the intersection. In theory you facing them should be able to safely make a right on red but in my area you risk your life and will surely be honked at if not worse. Actually, rereading your post - that is EXACTLY what I'm talking about. You get it! People who swap lanes like that kill capacity and in my area have the nerve to get upset at YOU for daring to pull out. Argh!
Here's a peeve - I have crosswalks with signs all over my commute and I drive through them daily. I see pedestrians stranded at the curb all the time and I stop for them - they usually look shocked! Doing this I've been yelled at, honked at, cursed, passed on the right, and in one case the car behind me was rear-ended. I'm not panic stopping and the speed limits around many of these is just 25mph. It's courtesy! Many of these folks are going to a grocery store or walking to work when I see them. The flip side is that at night they are often wearing black and are near invisible if not under a streetlight. They often tend to skip crossing at the corner where it's lit and there's a crosswalk. I knew a guy growing up who thought he could "make it across" a road and didn't - he spent a good bit of time in the hospital as a result. He tried to cross a 4 lane road, no median, outside of a crosswalk - it was his fault for sure.
Stop signs.At a friend's house out walking their dog I see people literally drive through their 4 way and I see the same at the end of my street albeit with less traffic flow. Some of them barely slow. I was taught to look all ways and there's no way you can do that at 20 or more MPH and if someone else is coming doing the same on the cross you've got a problem. On my street it used to be a 2way until one too many cars ran it and ended up in a neighbor's yard up against their house.
Here's one education could fix - school bus coming towards you stops to let kids out, red lights flashing. It's a road with a median strip in the middle dividing it. In my state you don't stop, morons do usually by slamming on their brakes unexpectedly and then wondering why they're being passed and what all the noise behind them is about. That occurs about once a month, I try to miss school bus time...
Ding Ding! Winner! The vehicle entering the road is a threat to be watched! It used to be easy to detect a DWI, these days the kids on cell phones either talking or texting are just as bad. Some adults can't talk on the phone without waving their hands either:-O
My all time fave was coming across a guy who had nodded off at the wheel early one morning while traffic was light. Straight away with a slight jog to the right up ahead, we were doing a good 65MPH in the clear. He was tracking straight but I noticed his chin on his chest as I glanced at him passing. I let off the gas to stay beside him, confirmed he wasn't awake, and lightly beeped the horn as I knew he wouldn't make the turn ahead - I was prepared for a possible swerve. He woke right up and thankfully didn't steer towards me. When he realized what had happened he gave me a sheepish grin, mouthed thanks, and waved. No biggie I went on my way and hope he made it to his destination safely.
I've seen folks shaving in the car (electric), reading a newspaper on the wheel, and once someone was eating a bowl of cereal with a spoon - bowl balanced on the airbag. Yeah, I pay attention to what's around me and I'm happy not to have to travel that nightmare of a highway in the mornings anymore. I still sit in traffic though:(
LOL! It takes but a glance at night to recognize a sea of white and the distinctive blue banner on top. Some of us also follow properly and don't drive tanks that require a football field to stop. Get over yourself.
Well aware of what they are and why they are - mine was added to a vehicle that wasn't equipped with one and it wasn't cheap junk. However as someone who has experience driving I know not to just jump in the car and take off. I turn in my seat to look and before I get in the car I look around the car. I have no small children running around but if I did they would be nowhere near a vehicle if at all possible when it was about to move. Pets are also a problem and I've had many many of those - again you have to be careful and taking the extra few minutes to take them in the house or have another watch them is the wise thing to do.
But people are always in a hurry and in parking lots you have inattentive parents. Cameras aren't a bad thing but I seldom need mine because I actually take some care and pay attention. I'm also not likely to be moving at more than a crawl in reverse as that's when you're also most likely to be hit by an asshat zooming down a parking lot aisle. The exhaust tone is likely to scare small kids away too:D
Oh, I also don't drive a behemoth that requires a team to guide in and out of a parking spot and has reasonable visibility. I do wish it had those nice little sensors for objects behind me but the previous owner skipped them. Hence the camera, no worries if I back into the garage...
Yes exactly, the guy claiming he can outperform his car's electronics is full of it and he has never tested in any scientific fashion at all. As I said previously, lot's of folks think they're better drivers than they are and he's a prime example.
You might want to learn a bit more about the ECUs in your car before you think plugging in an OBD-II scanner is some sort of an invasion. You're right, you don't know enough about these systems but you could certainly learn if you tried.
Hrm, I think your 17 star rated vehicle would probably weigh ten tons, have tracks, and sacrifice anything around it in order to keep the precious inside safe. Want to stop tailgating? Put a spike on the center of the steering wheel!:D
I believe better educated people might be better money spent at some point. I'm not sure we've hit that point yet though. Troubleshooting those various system 5 years or more from now is sure going to suck. Getting the ABS working right and continuing to work on one of my vehicles sure seems to take an act of God. My super duper uber scanner can't touch it:(
Heh, I got pulled over for not having one bolted on. The officer suggested I could use double stick tape to put it on my bumper since I refused to drill it or put it on my dashboard. I told him the dashboard sucked since I didn't want a blade flying in my car in the event of an accident and the double stick tape was as likely to get a motorcyclist killed as anything else. I told him I'd take the ticket thanks! He also dinged me on tint that was too dark thanks to the previous owner. It was and I stripped it off but I'm not going to get stupid with tape and my plate - I couldn't believe he was serious lol.
Perhaps we could up our game in driver's ed? While we're at it begin doing something about dumbass pedestrians?
The other day at late dusk I was driving through a neighborhood and had something move up ahead of me, I hit the brakes thinking it could be a deer. Nope, some schmuck in full desert cammo to include a backpack and hat had decided to stroll across the street in front of me. I was coming up on a T intersection where I had to turn and what was behind this moron was dead brown grass on a hill. He crossed about 25foot closer to me than the stop sign so NOT at the f'ing corner. Had I not noticed the movement this schmuck would've been a speed bump! I was within the speed limit but kripes this jerk gave me a heart attack.
Driver's education and testing these days needs to get better too. When I see someone lazing like they're in a lounger in front of their big screen, head propped up an elbow on the door peering into their side mirror trying to merge I cannot help but want to scream.Don't get me started on passengers with their feet on the dash asking to wear them as earrings in an accident. Vehicles so big they can barely look over a steering wheel or see what's behind them staring into a screen to reverse. Yapping on a cell phone call waving their hands doing 5 under the speed limit in the left lane weaving side to side. Staring at their lap texting moving at 70MPH in traffic, face lit by the glow of FaceBook (and yeah I've sometimes recognized the site they're on!). Technology isn't needed to solve these problems, people aware of what they're doing and some understanding of their responsibility would solve this. Heaven forbid we prevent one of these fools from their God Given Right!!!11! to get down the road to little boy's soccer match! I've watched some of these idiots try to parallel park and it's a comedy. Shame we can't take these folks out on a slick track to learn how to correct a skid, or parallel park in a tight space, maybe brake and avoid an obstacle. We could have an object run out in front of them forcing them to react. I recently had one of these distracted morons rear-end a car 4 behind me, the chain reaction was bad enough I was shoved into an SUV stopped to turn (3 of us stopped BTW) and I actually moved the damn thing I hit it so hard. The car he hit was sitting on his hood when I walked back, it's driver had to visit an ambulance. The guy who caused this all said he dropped something and when he tried to retrieve it he didn't see the string of cars stopped. Naturally his insurance was unable to cover anything other than the first car Do we still show kids in school videos of bloody bodies? Maybe we need to show adults this again at license renewal?
I think you seriously underestimate what that would take unless each vehicle was acting independently using it's own sensors - which is what companies like Google are striving for. I'm not sure that GPS would be accurate enough for this at speed and there are sometimes areas where GPS flat out isn't working and neither is a cell tower. Not to mention who funds this? I own several vehicles and I like them, are you going to give me what I feel they're worth? Doubtful. Some of us actually enjoy driving. Eventually we'll be able to have cars that get us from place to place without input but that time isn't yet here. You really want to be tracked like that?
Oh, ABS is a pretty well known thing now and doesn't require oodles of compute power. This isn't going to be cheaper than an ABS system nor will your idea work in traction limiting situations where ABS shines.
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I came across a deal tonight for a 50inch 4K TV for under $500, in fact I can find them that cheap easily on Amazon. Did you somehow think that 4K TV are reserved for the uber rich or something?
Apple has done well and earned tons, lets take it!
This package or possibly one of their others should help you. This one is likely what I'll be grabbing as it most closely mirrors the functionality I needed from Slysoft but they have other packages too.
http://www.dvdfab.cn/passkey-f...
Folks that want higher quality? That want the extras? Folks with data caps? Folks that want stuff after the streaming service drops it? Folks don't want to be tracked or pay a monthly fee?
How long a list you need?
You might also be interested to know that Microsoft is adopting Docker as well. That you haven't heard of it is a little surprising because it's been talked about awhile both here and elsewhere. I too am in the Windows world nearly all of the time and had heard of it although I've yet to use it (one of my Linux based systems supports it though). It looks like pretty interesting concept although when I approach Linux guys about it the first thing they say is that it's a security nightmare
I'll never forget getting pushback from a lawyer regarding a desire to use AES with a claim that I'd need an export certificate. I pointed out that AES wasn't developed in the United States and that when I went to the Bureau of Standards website at the time that it linked to a foreign website for sources. Now how exactly was that an EXPORT or cryptography? Do these idiots think this country has a monopoly on crypto? On MATH? If they force the likes of Apple and Google to build in back doors then people will simply run their own apps to enforce it and they will be no closer to what they want. Sure, let's kill the cash cow that is our tech industry why don't we? Idiots...
Buy a tankless - endless hot water on demand! I compared the two efficiency graphs between the newish one I was dumping (remodel) and the new tankless. The tankless was way to the left in the cheap zone and the other was mode to the middle of the right on the higher cost zone. Then I realized that the two graphs didn't overlap! I was skeptical but sure enough my gas usage in the Summer time when the only appliance using gas was the water heater went down year to year in the first year I owned it. Hell in the Summer the fees cost me as much or more than my gas usage. I have endless hot water too for as long as I want to shower. The only two issues are that in super freezing temps I have to be careful not to run the shower and the jets at the same time as it can begin to overrun the heater with the arctic water coming in. The second "issue" was that I was required to get and use a softener because the water here is so hard it would kill the heating coils as they superheated the water flowing through. Not been a big deal though as the soap works much better and I got the added benefit of a whole house filter :-)
Toto Drake - best low flow toilet I've ever seen and I've yet to replace a part in mine after more than 5 years. I chose it after speaking to multiple plumbers at a trade show - they told me these things were great and I had one installed in my new addition. WOW! Works great. I wish I'd gotten the soft close lid option and the taller height but when I replace the rest of my toilets I WILL get those options :-)
Oh and it doesn't cost a pile more than the junk at the big box stores...
Oh and a little thing called a flexfuel sensor. The link below is to an OEM part, I'm about to install a fuel system on my car that uses one of them. I'm not sure I'd call it a hack since the software to function on a WIDE range of alcohol levels is pretty decently different and must accept input from that sensor. Seems that "e85" often isn't and in Winter has more gasoline in it to promote cold start. You may also find out your piddly little gasoline injectors can't handle the flow for ethanol use and that many injectors fail when exposed to e85 unless specifically designed for it and most OEM injectors are NOT although they finally seem to have the fuel lines and tanks done right. Sorry but on this one you're talking out of your ass if you think it's just a software flip.
http://www.summitracing.com/pa...
P.S. Any vehicle that can run on both alcohol AND gasoline isn't running on alcohol "efficiently". Generally you want a ton more compression or a good bit more boost if it happens to be turbocharged. Alcohol makes a great race fuel but it's got much less bang per mole.
Aw man, I knew about the P&S firmware chdk but not MagicLantern! Naturally I have an old Rebel XTi that isn't covered and runs VXworks but there's firmware for that too! Dammit, now I want to upgrade to a newer model and play. Curse you! lol -)
Not always true although higher clockspeeds could be an exception. Lookup the fiasco with the Quadro cards. Lookup Apple specc'd cards that were sold for more money with the only difference being an identifier in the flash. HAM radios that have had features crippled. Scanners. DVD drives. I posted a list above but there's lots of examples and those were just the ones I knew about generally lol.
http://hackaday.com/2010/03/31...
http://hackaday.com/2013/03/14...
http://hackaday.com/2013/03/18...
http://www.extremetech.com/com...
https://www.avforums.com/threa...
Most any WiFi firmware artificially limits the radio -> http://www.qsl.net/kb9mwr/proj...
http://www.ilounge.com/index.p...
Whoa, your car has hidden features? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Extra cores on your CPU? No way! http://www.bit-tech.net/hardwa...
Cripple phone features? Oh noes! https://www.techdirt.com/artic... https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
More than one HAM radio have been found to be subject to software tweaking for improvements in scan speed and frequencies covered.-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Got a RAID card? Some of them can be crossflashed to gain features BTW. Or you can pay thousands to the manufacturer for some features (*cough*PERC*cough*) http://www.servethehome.com/ib...
Gains can be had by flashing custom firmware to your DVD\BD RW drives but I didn't feel like spending any time past a cursory search to find this. http://binflash.cdfreaks.com/ http://www.rpc1.org/viewtopic.... http://dvrflash.rpc1.org/
Firmware being used in external HDD has also been found to be crippled vs a standard drive, this didn't used to always be the case....
Here's one that's just an upgrade with features the manufacturer didn't include (see also ANY Jailbreaking post ever)
http://lifehacker.com/find-out...
http://lifehacker.com/5942229/...
http://www.digitaltrends.com/p...
Oh look, your camera now supports RAW? Thought that was only for pro cameras not P&S pocket models...
I could go on and on with examples but suffice it to say yeah it DOES happen and it happens fairly often. It happens most often with system that have a full OS, often Linux, where a firmware flash can give you all sorts of features (OpenWRT or Tomato anyone?) but it also happens in cameras, lab bench tools, TVs, stereos, and just about anything else that is driven by software. Want more turbo boost in your car? Software baby! Want that printer to register an empty toner cartridge sooner? No problem!
Tired now, think I've made my point?
Well, I'm sorry you feel that way - can't be helped and doesn't effect me. Except for being hit by others a time or two I get down the road just fine and likely pay better attention than most of the folks around me. It's amazing what you can see (and avoid) when you pay attention!
Ha, pay attention to people crossing an intersection making a turn. One lane coming towards you turning their left onto a road with two lanes. You will see almost all of them switch lanes even when the dashed lines have been placed in the intersection. In theory you facing them should be able to safely make a right on red but in my area you risk your life and will surely be honked at if not worse. Actually, rereading your post - that is EXACTLY what I'm talking about. You get it! People who swap lanes like that kill capacity and in my area have the nerve to get upset at YOU for daring to pull out. Argh!
Here's a peeve - I have crosswalks with signs all over my commute and I drive through them daily. I see pedestrians stranded at the curb all the time and I stop for them - they usually look shocked! Doing this I've been yelled at, honked at, cursed, passed on the right, and in one case the car behind me was rear-ended. I'm not panic stopping and the speed limits around many of these is just 25mph. It's courtesy! Many of these folks are going to a grocery store or walking to work when I see them. The flip side is that at night they are often wearing black and are near invisible if not under a streetlight. They often tend to skip crossing at the corner where it's lit and there's a crosswalk. I knew a guy growing up who thought he could "make it across" a road and didn't - he spent a good bit of time in the hospital as a result. He tried to cross a 4 lane road, no median, outside of a crosswalk - it was his fault for sure.
Stop signs.At a friend's house out walking their dog I see people literally drive through their 4 way and I see the same at the end of my street albeit with less traffic flow. Some of them barely slow. I was taught to look all ways and there's no way you can do that at 20 or more MPH and if someone else is coming doing the same on the cross you've got a problem. On my street it used to be a 2way until one too many cars ran it and ended up in a neighbor's yard up against their house.
Here's one education could fix - school bus coming towards you stops to let kids out, red lights flashing. It's a road with a median strip in the middle dividing it. In my state you don't stop, morons do usually by slamming on their brakes unexpectedly and then wondering why they're being passed and what all the noise behind them is about. That occurs about once a month, I try to miss school bus time...
Ding Ding! Winner! The vehicle entering the road is a threat to be watched! It used to be easy to detect a DWI, these days the kids on cell phones either talking or texting are just as bad. Some adults can't talk on the phone without waving their hands either :-O
My all time fave was coming across a guy who had nodded off at the wheel early one morning while traffic was light. Straight away with a slight jog to the right up ahead, we were doing a good 65MPH in the clear. He was tracking straight but I noticed his chin on his chest as I glanced at him passing. I let off the gas to stay beside him, confirmed he wasn't awake, and lightly beeped the horn as I knew he wouldn't make the turn ahead - I was prepared for a possible swerve. He woke right up and thankfully didn't steer towards me. When he realized what had happened he gave me a sheepish grin, mouthed thanks, and waved. No biggie I went on my way and hope he made it to his destination safely.
I've seen folks shaving in the car (electric), reading a newspaper on the wheel, and once someone was eating a bowl of cereal with a spoon - bowl balanced on the airbag. Yeah, I pay attention to what's around me and I'm happy not to have to travel that nightmare of a highway in the mornings anymore. I still sit in traffic though :(
LOL! It takes but a glance at night to recognize a sea of white and the distinctive blue banner on top. Some of us also follow properly and don't drive tanks that require a football field to stop. Get over yourself.
Well aware of what they are and why they are - mine was added to a vehicle that wasn't equipped with one and it wasn't cheap junk. However as someone who has experience driving I know not to just jump in the car and take off. I turn in my seat to look and before I get in the car I look around the car. I have no small children running around but if I did they would be nowhere near a vehicle if at all possible when it was about to move. Pets are also a problem and I've had many many of those - again you have to be careful and taking the extra few minutes to take them in the house or have another watch them is the wise thing to do.
But people are always in a hurry and in parking lots you have inattentive parents. Cameras aren't a bad thing but I seldom need mine because I actually take some care and pay attention. I'm also not likely to be moving at more than a crawl in reverse as that's when you're also most likely to be hit by an asshat zooming down a parking lot aisle. The exhaust tone is likely to scare small kids away too :D
Oh, I also don't drive a behemoth that requires a team to guide in and out of a parking spot and has reasonable visibility. I do wish it had those nice little sensors for objects behind me but the previous owner skipped them. Hence the camera, no worries if I back into the garage...
Yes exactly, the guy claiming he can outperform his car's electronics is full of it and he has never tested in any scientific fashion at all. As I said previously, lot's of folks think they're better drivers than they are and he's a prime example.
You might want to learn a bit more about the ECUs in your car before you think plugging in an OBD-II scanner is some sort of an invasion. You're right, you don't know enough about these systems but you could certainly learn if you tried.
Hrm, I think your 17 star rated vehicle would probably weigh ten tons, have tracks, and sacrifice anything around it in order to keep the precious inside safe. Want to stop tailgating? Put a spike on the center of the steering wheel! :D
I believe better educated people might be better money spent at some point. I'm not sure we've hit that point yet though. Troubleshooting those various system 5 years or more from now is sure going to suck. Getting the ABS working right and continuing to work on one of my vehicles sure seems to take an act of God. My super duper uber scanner can't touch it :(
Heh, I got pulled over for not having one bolted on. The officer suggested I could use double stick tape to put it on my bumper since I refused to drill it or put it on my dashboard. I told him the dashboard sucked since I didn't want a blade flying in my car in the event of an accident and the double stick tape was as likely to get a motorcyclist killed as anything else. I told him I'd take the ticket thanks! He also dinged me on tint that was too dark thanks to the previous owner. It was and I stripped it off but I'm not going to get stupid with tape and my plate - I couldn't believe he was serious lol.
At what point do you declare diminishing returns?
Perhaps we could up our game in driver's ed? While we're at it begin doing something about dumbass pedestrians?
The other day at late dusk I was driving through a neighborhood and had something move up ahead of me, I hit the brakes thinking it could be a deer. Nope, some schmuck in full desert cammo to include a backpack and hat had decided to stroll across the street in front of me. I was coming up on a T intersection where I had to turn and what was behind this moron was dead brown grass on a hill. He crossed about 25foot closer to me than the stop sign so NOT at the f'ing corner. Had I not noticed the movement this schmuck would've been a speed bump! I was within the speed limit but kripes this jerk gave me a heart attack.
Driver's education and testing these days needs to get better too. When I see someone lazing like they're in a lounger in front of their big screen, head propped up an elbow on the door peering into their side mirror trying to merge I cannot help but want to scream.Don't get me started on passengers with their feet on the dash asking to wear them as earrings in an accident. Vehicles so big they can barely look over a steering wheel or see what's behind them staring into a screen to reverse. Yapping on a cell phone call waving their hands doing 5 under the speed limit in the left lane weaving side to side. Staring at their lap texting moving at 70MPH in traffic, face lit by the glow of FaceBook (and yeah I've sometimes recognized the site they're on!). Technology isn't needed to solve these problems, people aware of what they're doing and some understanding of their responsibility would solve this. Heaven forbid we prevent one of these fools from their God Given Right!!!11! to get down the road to little boy's soccer match! I've watched some of these idiots try to parallel park and it's a comedy. Shame we can't take these folks out on a slick track to learn how to correct a skid, or parallel park in a tight space, maybe brake and avoid an obstacle. We could have an object run out in front of them forcing them to react. I recently had one of these distracted morons rear-end a car 4 behind me, the chain reaction was bad enough I was shoved into an SUV stopped to turn (3 of us stopped BTW) and I actually moved the damn thing I hit it so hard. The car he hit was sitting on his hood when I walked back, it's driver had to visit an ambulance. The guy who caused this all said he dropped something and when he tried to retrieve it he didn't see the string of cars stopped. Naturally his insurance was unable to cover anything other than the first car Do we still show kids in school videos of bloody bodies? Maybe we need to show adults this again at license renewal?
I think you seriously underestimate what that would take unless each vehicle was acting independently using it's own sensors - which is what companies like Google are striving for. I'm not sure that GPS would be accurate enough for this at speed and there are sometimes areas where GPS flat out isn't working and neither is a cell tower. Not to mention who funds this? I own several vehicles and I like them, are you going to give me what I feel they're worth? Doubtful. Some of us actually enjoy driving. Eventually we'll be able to have cars that get us from place to place without input but that time isn't yet here. You really want to be tracked like that?
Oh, ABS is a pretty well known thing now and doesn't require oodles of compute power. This isn't going to be cheaper than an ABS system nor will your idea work in traction limiting situations where ABS shines.