As for phone use while driving, statistics do show that hey have caused a massive increase in accidents, but the actual accidents in this case are almost all rear-enders and other more or less serious fender benders;
Well, except for my previous vehicle...t-boned by a teenage texter cruising through a red light at ~60mph. Rolled me right over on the roof, totaled truck. And it wasn't a 'last second red thing. Rather, she had a full 10 seconds of red light, with no one looking out the window.
Luckily, neither of us were seriously hurt. The only real damage was to my wallet, for a replacement vehicle.
1. Purchase said car advertised as having "Full Self-Driving capability"
2. Discover it does not, in fact, do that
3. Sue Tesla for false advertising
4. Profit!
Death and destruction due to the 'discovery' of said capability may be hazardous to your health.
Per capita countries like Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, SA kind of don't count, due to the nebulous and small population count. If 3/4 of the people there are not citizens but rather immigrants (read slave labor), the numbers might be a bit skewed.
Some years ago, a babysitter we hired had, unbeknownst to us, a boyfriend in prison. She called him in prison a couple of times from our house phone. We let her go for other reasons.
One evening, the phone rings. "This is a call from WTF Prison, for Mary Jones. Will you accept the call and charges?"
"No, I will not". And I hung up.
In this scenario, now my voice print would be captured and logged. Not cool.
That people actually think it is a severe hardship to go without the smartphone. Some people, the ad dept of this company, really think that everyone requires their smartphone, 24/7/365.
Listening to NPR last week about voting registration, etc, one of the commentators said that she was going to tell all her Republican relatives that election day had been changed to Wednesday. All of the other panelists agreed that this was acceptable, and a good idea.
Not fit enough, eat too much red meat, drive too fast....sucks to be you.
tracked on wearable devices such as a Fitbit or Apple Watch Yeah, THAT will go over well with my employer. Specifically, no smart watches in the building. AT all, ever.
Some of the tidbits:
Apparently, I own a Hyundai purchased in San Antonio. It keeps sending me emails reminding me to change its oil. I've not been in San Antonio in 40 years.
I'm behind on my rent in London
I applied for a warehouse job in Manchester UK
I was an adult leader of a Boy Scout troop in Pennsylvania
I missed my dentist appointment in Tuscon
The HOA president in Santa Monica is VERY upset with the company that build the wall for our subdivision (3000 miles away)
One guy was trying to send an email to his son in the Army. Came to me. I wrote back informing him of the mistake. He replied with a nastygram, accusing me of hacking his email
Flight and hotel reservation for the 2016 Superbowl through Booking.com. Because I'm a nice guy, I tried to "call" booking.com to fix it. No human available. His reservation got canceled. I wonder if he ever got it fixed.
And the coup de grace...I'm also a victim of idiot gmail not respecting the first.last@ dot convention anymore. Some guy in california signed up for a name that would be mine except for the dot.
I know where he lives, his age, how much he paid to move (too much), what kind of car he drives. And his pet dog is overdue for a shampoo. If it ever comes to it...he loses. I've had this account since gmail was invite only.
F1 cars are designed for that. It's not just the harness. They also cost lots and lots of money. If you want that level of 'safety', shell out $1,000,000 for your grocery getter, and be prepared to rebuild it after every little fender bender.
" access to its GPS location and license plate number, as well as an image of the car"
And there is the next level of Amazon data mining. Car location, photo, license plate. All in their DB, forever.
What will they use it for? They probably don't even know yet. But use it they will.
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Unless you personally use it 24/7 with no breaks, you can schedule that update and reboot for later that night, when you're asleep.
As for phone use while driving, statistics do show that hey have caused a massive increase in accidents, but the actual accidents in this case are almost all rear-enders and other more or less serious fender benders;
Well, except for my previous vehicle...t-boned by a teenage texter cruising through a red light at ~60mph. Rolled me right over on the roof, totaled truck.
And it wasn't a 'last second red thing. Rather, she had a full 10 seconds of red light, with no one looking out the window.
Luckily, neither of us were seriously hurt. The only real damage was to my wallet, for a replacement vehicle.
People who pay for parts and repairs at the Toyota dealership with a credit card?
This was supposed to be a good thing. Like RedHat, right?
Zuckerberg wants people to abandon competing, person-to-person forms of communication
OK, great. Doesn't mean he'll get that.
But he can 'want' all day long.
1. Purchase said car advertised as having "Full Self-Driving capability"
2. Discover it does not, in fact, do that
3. Sue Tesla for false advertising
4. Profit!
Death and destruction due to the 'discovery' of said capability may be hazardous to your health.
An example of why America needs more regulation. This doesn't happen in other western nations.
Sweden - https://www.bbc.com/news/techn...
Germany - https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
France - https://techcrunch.com/2018/12...
Spain - https://www.theinquirer.net/in...
Per capita countries like Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, SA kind of don't count, due to the nebulous and small population count. If 3/4 of the people there are not citizens but rather immigrants (read slave labor), the numbers might be a bit skewed.
By country, Union of Concerned Scientists puts China at #1. https://www.ucsusa.org/global-...
Leaving out the Araby, USA comes in #2 per capita for CO2, behind Australia, according to Wiki. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Per country, China is #1 in Co2 emissions. Almost twice the US.
Per capita, China is #3.
1.5 billion chinamen can't be wrong!
Some years ago, a babysitter we hired had, unbeknownst to us, a boyfriend in prison. She called him in prison a couple of times from our house phone.
We let her go for other reasons.
One evening, the phone rings. "This is a call from WTF Prison, for Mary Jones. Will you accept the call and charges?"
"No, I will not". And I hung up.
In this scenario, now my voice print would be captured and logged. Not cool.
commenting simply to undo incorrect moderation
Sixteen social media stars including singers Ellie Goulding and Rita Ora, models Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Alexa Chung, and vlogger Zoella
Who?
That people actually think it is a severe hardship to go without the smartphone. Some people, the ad dept of this company, really think that everyone requires their smartphone, 24/7/365.
I'd do it for 1% of that 'prize'.
A contract with DEA and ICE for 6 months, and all you managed to fleece them for is $22,000? Lightweights.
You need a better sales/marketing dept.
Not just FB, but also Twitter and Instagram.
I call those people InstaTwitFaces.
Listen here:
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/3...
Oct 12, Another View.
AV Round Table: VOTE! - skip ahead to 14:30.
Listening to NPR last week about voting registration, etc, one of the commentators said that she was going to tell all her Republican relatives that election day had been changed to Wednesday.
All of the other panelists agreed that this was acceptable, and a good idea.
Not fit enough, eat too much red meat, drive too fast....sucks to be you.
tracked on wearable devices such as a Fitbit or Apple Watch
Yeah, THAT will go over well with my employer. Specifically, no smart watches in the building. AT all, ever.
Some of the tidbits:
Apparently, I own a Hyundai purchased in San Antonio. It keeps sending me emails reminding me to change its oil. I've not been in San Antonio in 40 years.
I'm behind on my rent in London
I applied for a warehouse job in Manchester UK
I was an adult leader of a Boy Scout troop in Pennsylvania
I missed my dentist appointment in Tuscon
The HOA president in Santa Monica is VERY upset with the company that build the wall for our subdivision (3000 miles away)
One guy was trying to send an email to his son in the Army. Came to me. I wrote back informing him of the mistake. He replied with a nastygram, accusing me of hacking his email
Flight and hotel reservation for the 2016 Superbowl through Booking.com. Because I'm a nice guy, I tried to "call" booking.com to fix it. No human available. His reservation got canceled. I wonder if he ever got it fixed.
And the coup de grace...I'm also a victim of idiot gmail not respecting the first.last@ dot convention anymore. Some guy in california signed up for a name that would be mine except for the dot.
I know where he lives, his age, how much he paid to move (too much), what kind of car he drives. And his pet dog is overdue for a shampoo.
If it ever comes to it...he loses. I've had this account since gmail was invite only.
Comparison to an F1 car is useless.
F1 cars are designed for that. It's not just the harness. They also cost lots and lots of money.
If you want that level of 'safety', shell out $1,000,000 for your grocery getter, and be prepared to rebuild it after every little fender bender.
Why in the name of FSM are these things WiFi enabled? Why is that circuitry in there?
On, record, download later.
So, 30 years from an actual deployable hardware solution.
Got it.
Right up until the moment the local Somali pirate variant shows up.
and I wouldn't stand a chance if I attempted to pull sixty times my vehicle's curb weight.
USAF, we used to push or pull F-16 or F-15, by hand. 4 guys, 30,000 lbs of aircraft. Not far, and zero grade. But it was done.
You do the math.
" access to its GPS location and license plate number, as well as an image of the car"
And there is the next level of Amazon data mining. Car location, photo, license plate. All in their DB, forever.
What will they use it for? They probably don't even know yet. But use it they will.