Free flight do come back to home, or are supposed to, and many have failsafes to keep them from wandering to far. Lites and model rockets meet the definition of drones.
I was working on self driving cars in the early 90's, so probably yes. The idea goes back to I think the 1930's. The reason it's becoming popular now - or at least popularized - is that the building blocks, the underlying technology, is becoming god enough to make it feasible.
For example, when I was working on this problem in college, there was no GPS. What would driverless cars of today be without gps? They'd have to either have special roads built or have good vision systems, or more accurate vision systems. That in the field translates into faster which means faster computers. A car drove mostly autonomously across he country in the late 80's or 90's using a trunk full of PCs (48 class), but it did so at about 4mph. With 1,000x faster computers, you can process 100x as many images and drive faster. With gps you can reduce your reliance on only the vision part and cut the processing budget by a factor of 10. So using the same 15 year old technology and just replacing the old computers with news ones (limiting changes to only timing adjustment tweaks and maybe a gps position update integration (maybe a page of C code), you have a premade (in 1991) diverless car.
Of course with all your extra processing power, you're going to start fine tuning certain aspects, but fundamentally nothing new.
Those errors on the gps can be corrected and updated from the ground. They already are, but about twice a month instead of every two minutes. You can pay a commercial company
It comes down to engineering and economics. Could gps be made to work without relativistic corrections? Yes, but it would be more expensive. Besides, this problem would have been identified and corrected without einstein. You can pay a commercial company to get even better 10cm resolution.
My grandparents didn't even have mathbooks. The teacher would write a series of numbers on the chalkboard, students would copy the problems and write out the answer.
I majored in math and don't even get the point of most math books Even the upper level undergrad classes, we mostly used teacher self published (photocopied) notes or dover books.
They tried this at my school. Four students could not pass, the school held them back. Parents sued the school and they automagically passed. And a significantly disproportional effort was invested on them. They still couldn't pass. But did.
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Who needs a 3d printer? I have been building drones since the second grade out of wood and glue.
Free flight do come back to home, or are supposed to, and many have failsafes to keep them from wandering to far. Lites and model rockets meet the definition of drones.
How to deconstruct almost anything
Inflation is your friend (SNL)
If I built luxury yachts I absolutely extremely want you to earn $10M or more a year. http://www.nytimes.com/1991/01...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model
At Argonne National Laboratory years ago?
Am I the only person left who doesn't eat processed foods? And never really has. Buying processed food is expensive.
Why do people who have weight loss surgery that restricts the amount, but not the type, of food lose weight?
Is this one of those unduplicateable experiments?
You forgot built the first boat, the first car, the first rocket, the first electrical grid, the first loom and first farm.
For example, when I was working on this problem in college, there was no GPS. What would driverless cars of today be without gps? They'd have to either have special roads built or have good vision systems, or more accurate vision systems. That in the field translates into faster which means faster computers. A car drove mostly autonomously across he country in the late 80's or 90's using a trunk full of PCs (48 class), but it did so at about 4mph. With 1,000x faster computers, you can process 100x as many images and drive faster. With gps you can reduce your reliance on only the vision part and cut the processing budget by a factor of 10. So using the same 15 year old technology and just replacing the old computers with news ones (limiting changes to only timing adjustment tweaks and maybe a gps position update integration (maybe a page of C code), you have a premade (in 1991) diverless car.
Of course with all your extra processing power, you're going to start fine tuning certain aspects, but fundamentally nothing new.
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Those errors on the gps can be corrected and updated from the ground. They already are, but about twice a month instead of every two minutes. You can pay a commercial company It comes down to engineering and economics. Could gps be made to work without relativistic corrections? Yes, but it would be more expensive. Besides, this problem would have been identified and corrected without einstein. You can pay a commercial company to get even better 10cm resolution.
It started out as pure mathematics
Fourier analysis came out of the solution for the partial differential equation of heat transfer.
Yo weren't around 20 years ago, were you?
What good is nuclear power plant research if we cant build them?
The aclu disagrees with you. https://www.aclu.org/aclu-and-...
Slashdot is like a marginally tech related Bart's people
Wow. Can't tell if serious or joking.
This was the ACLU's argument.
I majored in math and don't even get the point of most math books Even the upper level undergrad classes, we mostly used teacher self published (photocopied) notes or dover books.
I've seen it. Not mercedes, but parents who have a lot of money but don't feel like making breakfast or packing lunch.
They tried this at my school. Four students could not pass, the school held them back. Parents sued the school and they automagically passed. And a significantly disproportional effort was invested on them. They still couldn't pass. But did.
That makes them evil like Amazon, right?
The ones that have made society an us-and-them situation
You mean like all politicians? George Washington warned of this in his farewell address.