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  1. Re:Must past this test on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    I only ever drive manual. Still boring if the drive is boring.

  2. Re:Kobo on Barnes & Noble's Nook HD Tablets Face iPad, Kindle Fire HD · · Score: 1

    USB on the GO.

    SD card slots are going away because SD cards are slow. No one wants you to say their tablet is slow because it has to wait for writes to some SD card.

  3. Re:Must past this test on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    I see a joke some aspies are not getting.

    The swim 3000 miles thing is a joke, google did it for a laugh. Much like zooming too close on the moon at one point showed cheese.

  4. Re:Must past this test on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    Why would they?
    Great reaction times and snap judgements are about the opposite of good programming.

  5. Re:Must past this test on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    I am saying you are boring.

    I am quite familiar with double clutching and hitting the apex, and toe and heel. All pointless at highway speeds.

    Bottom line: Boring person, you likes boring things, driving pointlessly at low speed.

  6. Re:Numbers, The Law, Reality of Attention on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 0

    You mean AF447?
    Because that was really the humans failing when the computer through its hands up at the problem.

  7. Re:"Prepare for crash" code ... on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    How is what you are describing not AI?
    Hell, how is that not intelligence?

    My sensors(eyes) show my brain your post and I make this response because my upbringing as programmed me to be like this.

  8. Re:Numbers, The Law, Reality of Attention on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    I see that you made a ridiculous claim.

    If you enjoy muscle cars you might as well just ride in one. You enjoy riding in a fast moving object, not driving.
    If you follow the speed limit you might as well drive long straight stretches in an econobox, it will go 65mph as well as a muscle car.

  9. Re:Must past this test on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    Your passenger seat has peddles and a wheel?

    In my car they are often on the phone or playing with their smart devices. They would not be ready to take over, nor does that side of the car have the needed controls.

  10. Re:Must past this test on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    Because unless you drive fast enough for it to be challenging, where is the fun in it?

    It is only fun when it is dangerous.

  11. Re:Must past this test on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    Odds are cliffs do not move often and any automated car will have access to maps with topo data.

  12. Re:Angry Phone Call? Please. on Intel CEO Tells Staff Windows 8 Is Being Released Prematurely · · Score: 1

    For the great majority of businesses that is a pipe dream. To give an example my company is right now contractually obligated to use software provided by a customer that cannot be installed on anything but XP service pack2. Not only does it fail otherwise, but it will flat out kill and SP3 machine. On reboot you get the BSoD. You can fix it with a repair install, but that is it.

    This is what keeps people on windows, not any desire to be there.

  13. Re:if that's the question on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    No, because when you're sleep deprived, in a hurry and upset you will forget to turn it on.

    It really only needs to be better than the average driver, since odds are most of us are pretty near the average. Distribution curves, how do they work?

  14. Re:300 million miles on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 2

    I agree Colgan 3047 backs that up even further.

  15. Re:Numbers, The Law, Reality of Attention on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    To be clear muscle cars are boring as shit to drive. Might as well just put it on rails and have a fast train, not like they can turn anyway.

    I love driving on twisty abandoned roads, or rally or on race tracks. Public streets however are not the place for that. That kind of driving is not safe, and that is the whole point.

  16. Re:A better test on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    No problem, they can do that now.
    Just declare bankruptcy and sell the company off for pennies on the dollar to $NOT_CURRENT_NAME.

    For a nice example look at what GM did recently.

  17. Re:Must past this test on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 2

    Way to find analogies that totally suck.

    If you have to watch the computer driving at all time and be ready to take over instantly that is torture not a method of transportation.

  18. Re:Must past this test on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    Driving on a track is lots of fun, on the public roads it is very boring if you are driving safely.

  19. Re:Must past this test on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No that question is; Is the car a better driver than me when I am sleep deprived, upset at my wife and in a hurry to get home?

    The computer will always drive the same, humans are not the reliable.

  20. Re:"Prepare for crash" code ... on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 2

    Yes, and your point is?

    This is something we do without AI, with AI we could do a lot more. Maybe even have airbags on the outside of the car, to set off right before a crash.

  21. Re:Numbers, The Law, Reality of Attention on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 4, Informative

    Heck, modern planes even try to fix the problems itself. In the famous case of Colgan Air 3407(crashed near Buffalo NY) after shaking the yoke to alert the pilot the autopilot attempted to trade altitude for speed to get out of a stall. The human pilot overrode this safety feature and killed everyone on board by attempting to gain altitude and thus turned a recoverable stall into a crash.

  22. Re:Must past this test on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 5, Insightful

    1. your reaction time is absolute crap.
    2. advertisers disagree with your notion that human brains cannot be hacked.

  23. Re:"Prepare for crash" code ... on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    Most cars already have some of this. Hit the brakes too hard and the seatbelts tighten. I would imagine you are correct and this will only get better and better.

    Some sort of inflato hans-device would be awesome. Of course I always wanted a 5 point harness in my cars.

  24. Re:Must past this test on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    Why would you take over?
    This is a task a machine will always beat you at, it depends mostly on reaction time.

    Yes, I expect to have my car come pick me up from the bar and drive my drunk self home. Otherwise this is pointless.

  25. Re:Must past this test on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We can only hope that driving tests become harder and harder and only those who pass them will be allowed to drive themselves.

    Why would you ever want to turn off the automated driver? Do you think rich folks are constantly putting their limo driver in the back and taking the wheel themselves?