Tesla's autopilot is a combination of adaptive cruise control, a lane-keep algorithm, and an automatic braking system. It's not an autonomous car. It will hold your speed, stay in the lane, and brake if something gets in the way, at least in theory. It doesn't even use the GPS so it knows nothing of the road it's on other than what it can "see". The crash happened because the automatic braking system failed to detect the semi trailer. This is because the system only uses visual information from the cameras and has trouble seeing things that aren't at road level, but don't have enough clearance that the car can pass under them.
My car (automatic) obviously feeds back from the speedometer because the car will downshift as needed to maintain the set speed when going up a hill. I suppose it's possible that the manual version of my car uses a different cruise control that only looks at the RPM, but I'm guessing not.
But by not putting cruise control on the entry-level models, it makes it easier to upsell to the higher end models. Hence, the lack of cruise control (and all the other obvious decontenting found on many recent Toyotas). Things like this is why I think of Toyota as Japan's version of GM. Though at least they tend to be reliable.
I had a manual car with cruise control. It worked well enough. Obviously the car cannot change gears on its own, and touching the clutch pedal would automatically disengage the cruise. So if there was the need to downshift you would have to downshift and re-engage the cruise. And then upshift and re-engage the cruise once the need to be in the lower gear had passed. However, the since final gear in the manual version of a car is usually shorter than the overdrive in the automatic version, there wasn't really a need to downshift at highway speeds. (the difference in gear ratios is also how the automatic version gets better mileage than the manual)
I was about to say something similar. They haven't been making the same router for 11 years. They've been making a series of routers that share a model number and somewhat similar appearance feature set. Kind of like the LNE100TX (a 100mbit ethernet card) they made for years where you had to play guess-the-driver, because there were a ton of different revisions requiring completely different incompatible drivers. It's kind of like saying Apple has been making the same computer for 18 years now because they've been selling iMacs since 1998.
Using the same logic, it's also a vote for the Republican because you didn't vote for the Democrat. I'll most likely vote for the Libertarian, but I tend to lean more towards the Democrats than the Republicans. Does that mean I'm voting for Trump? It just doesn't make any sense.
Looks like the Lorem Ipsum is gone now (or it's crap rendering in Pale Moon), but I'd guess there's now less than 50 words on the entire website. Every link just keeps on going back to the same couple of useless landing pages.
To be fair, now there's nothing on their website that claims they do anything like the summary suggests, or that they actually do anything at all for that matter.
i wonder if fossil carbon fuels might not be just a fluke of terrestrial history, and that other planets might not discover a similar windfall of energy, which prevents them from getting the boost in mechanical technology that leads to space travel.
Most fossil fuels date back to the Carboniferous era, where basically trees developed lignin, but it was millions of years before fungi and bacteria developed that were able to break it down effectively. Needless to say, vast amounts of dead trees ended up buried and formed many of today's fossil fuels. It doesn't seem likely that given a do-over from the beginning that the same situation would occur and we wouldn't have all these fossil fuels.
Though I don't know if it's a good thing, as burning all these fossil fuels and releasing all this long-sequestered carbon dioxide could also be our downfall. I have to wonder if the universe is littered with the remains of civilizations that flourished for a few hundred years before completely screwing up their home planet. Perhaps the best situation would be to have enough fossil fuels to get things bootstrapped but not enough so that we'd have to move to other energy sources before civilization became completely dependent on them.
Even so, keeping an older car registered here is about $40 a year (where older is greater than 9 years). Unfortunately, you have to provide proof of insurance to register a car now, so while technically before you probably didn't have to insure it if you didn't drive it, now you'll have to carry some insurance. With that said, I've found the multiple car discount to be not much less than the cost of insuring a low-risk, low-value vehicle with the minimum insurance. So I could probably have my semi-mobile roadblock for a couple hundred a year plus the initial cost of buying the thing.
In the case of some homeowner's associations, the road is a private drive that is owned (and maintained) by the association. So in that sense we (as the homeowners) really do own the road in front of our houses. Luckily for us that while our road is a through street, it really doesn't go anywhere on the other side so through traffic is minimal.
Currently it's the trash trucks that end up tearing up the road the most. The snowplows also scrape them up a bit but that damage is mostly cosmetic.
The nice thing about trees alongside the road in a residential area is that anyone driving residential area speeds that goes off the road and hits one probably won't be seriously hurt. But Mr. Asshat in his F150 going 50 MPH won't be so lucky. So it's kind of self-solving problem, though it may take a while.
I've always wondered about those eBay-consignment shops. Sure, they keep almost everything that eBay doesn't take off the top. But to drop a bunch of crap off, get at least something for it, and walk off and not have to deal with the hassle seems rather appealing.
It's a very common configuration for baseboard heating. Without forced air circulation a central thermostat can't really control the temperature in rooms far away from it, so most don't even try and use a thermostat in each room to control that room's heaters. It's also handy because baseboard heating is really expensive so it's good to be able to turn it on only in rooms you're using.
I don't know what I'd do for sure, but I might start with only putting smart thermostats in the rooms you actually use often.
Not necessarily. You can have a bug that causes undesirable behavior, but that undesirable behavior would still be consistent everywhere. Like if the creator had fat-fingered a physical constant or something. Since we have no idea what the value is *supposed* to be, we'd have no idea that the value we observe isn't what was intended.
And even if we discover something like that some super-massive blackholes are not singularities, would we be like "A ha! We are in a simulation!" or would we assume it's a natural phenomenon and we get to work on coming up with new physical theories to try to explain it? I mean, a lot things in cosmology are pretty strange and there's no obvious reason why things are that way. Things like the Hubble constant and dark energy could be explained as a physics simulation that was created to model a solar system being scaled up way beyond what it was designed for.
The question is, would we even recognize a bug, or would just accept it as normal because we wouldn't know any different? I mean, we could have a bug in gravity that causes large astronomical objects to act like they have much more mass than they actually do. Do we actually recognize it as a bug, or do we invent dark matter and other physics to try to explain it as a natural phenomenon?
I wouldn't count on that. I've seen Windows kick off a batch of updates on a system that didn't have enough free space, and the results weren't pretty when suddenly Windows Update failed in the middle of doing its thing.
Though perhaps if there isn't enough free space for Windows 10 to download then maybe it could work.
Maybe if the civilization-ending asteroid strikes Earth. Otherwise, they'll be truckers in five years. They'll still be truckers in ten years. After that, it starts getting a bit iffy, but I bet they'll still be some people driving trucks even in twenty years. Even if not, I'd still say you'd have better job security than IT.
I assume that the only difference is that the i7 has a few features disabled, such as multi-CPU support and ECC, and Intel figures they can extract more money from the people who want/need those features.
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The alternative being that the system detected the huge piece of machinery directly in front of it and decided to plow into it at full speed anyway?
Tesla's autopilot is a combination of adaptive cruise control, a lane-keep algorithm, and an automatic braking system. It's not an autonomous car. It will hold your speed, stay in the lane, and brake if something gets in the way, at least in theory. It doesn't even use the GPS so it knows nothing of the road it's on other than what it can "see". The crash happened because the automatic braking system failed to detect the semi trailer. This is because the system only uses visual information from the cameras and has trouble seeing things that aren't at road level, but don't have enough clearance that the car can pass under them.
My car (automatic) obviously feeds back from the speedometer because the car will downshift as needed to maintain the set speed when going up a hill. I suppose it's possible that the manual version of my car uses a different cruise control that only looks at the RPM, but I'm guessing not.
But by not putting cruise control on the entry-level models, it makes it easier to upsell to the higher end models. Hence, the lack of cruise control (and all the other obvious decontenting found on many recent Toyotas). Things like this is why I think of Toyota as Japan's version of GM. Though at least they tend to be reliable.
I had a manual car with cruise control. It worked well enough. Obviously the car cannot change gears on its own, and touching the clutch pedal would automatically disengage the cruise. So if there was the need to downshift you would have to downshift and re-engage the cruise. And then upshift and re-engage the cruise once the need to be in the lower gear had passed. However, the since final gear in the manual version of a car is usually shorter than the overdrive in the automatic version, there wasn't really a need to downshift at highway speeds. (the difference in gear ratios is also how the automatic version gets better mileage than the manual)
Geez. If it's dirty just put it through the dishwasher and let it dry. Good as new!
I was about to say something similar. They haven't been making the same router for 11 years. They've been making a series of routers that share a model number and somewhat similar appearance feature set. Kind of like the LNE100TX (a 100mbit ethernet card) they made for years where you had to play guess-the-driver, because there were a ton of different revisions requiring completely different incompatible drivers. It's kind of like saying Apple has been making the same computer for 18 years now because they've been selling iMacs since 1998.
According to the news, he was apparently watching a Harry Potter DVD. Truly an idiot.
In many ways it is like an airplane autopilot. But then again, a lot of people don't understand how those work either.
Using the same logic, it's also a vote for the Republican because you didn't vote for the Democrat. I'll most likely vote for the Libertarian, but I tend to lean more towards the Democrats than the Republicans. Does that mean I'm voting for Trump? It just doesn't make any sense.
Well to be fair, he is still more qualified than she is.
Looks like the Lorem Ipsum is gone now (or it's crap rendering in Pale Moon), but I'd guess there's now less than 50 words on the entire website. Every link just keeps on going back to the same couple of useless landing pages.
To be fair, now there's nothing on their website that claims they do anything like the summary suggests, or that they actually do anything at all for that matter.
Clearly you haven't owned anything made by GM in the 1970's.
Most fossil fuels date back to the Carboniferous era, where basically trees developed lignin, but it was millions of years before fungi and bacteria developed that were able to break it down effectively. Needless to say, vast amounts of dead trees ended up buried and formed many of today's fossil fuels. It doesn't seem likely that given a do-over from the beginning that the same situation would occur and we wouldn't have all these fossil fuels.
Though I don't know if it's a good thing, as burning all these fossil fuels and releasing all this long-sequestered carbon dioxide could also be our downfall. I have to wonder if the universe is littered with the remains of civilizations that flourished for a few hundred years before completely screwing up their home planet. Perhaps the best situation would be to have enough fossil fuels to get things bootstrapped but not enough so that we'd have to move to other energy sources before civilization became completely dependent on them.
Even so, keeping an older car registered here is about $40 a year (where older is greater than 9 years). Unfortunately, you have to provide proof of insurance to register a car now, so while technically before you probably didn't have to insure it if you didn't drive it, now you'll have to carry some insurance. With that said, I've found the multiple car discount to be not much less than the cost of insuring a low-risk, low-value vehicle with the minimum insurance. So I could probably have my semi-mobile roadblock for a couple hundred a year plus the initial cost of buying the thing.
In the case of some homeowner's associations, the road is a private drive that is owned (and maintained) by the association. So in that sense we (as the homeowners) really do own the road in front of our houses. Luckily for us that while our road is a through street, it really doesn't go anywhere on the other side so through traffic is minimal.
Currently it's the trash trucks that end up tearing up the road the most. The snowplows also scrape them up a bit but that damage is mostly cosmetic.
The nice thing about trees alongside the road in a residential area is that anyone driving residential area speeds that goes off the road and hits one probably won't be seriously hurt. But Mr. Asshat in his F150 going 50 MPH won't be so lucky. So it's kind of self-solving problem, though it may take a while.
I've always wondered about those eBay-consignment shops. Sure, they keep almost everything that eBay doesn't take off the top. But to drop a bunch of crap off, get at least something for it, and walk off and not have to deal with the hassle seems rather appealing.
It's a very common configuration for baseboard heating. Without forced air circulation a central thermostat can't really control the temperature in rooms far away from it, so most don't even try and use a thermostat in each room to control that room's heaters. It's also handy because baseboard heating is really expensive so it's good to be able to turn it on only in rooms you're using.
I don't know what I'd do for sure, but I might start with only putting smart thermostats in the rooms you actually use often.
Not necessarily. You can have a bug that causes undesirable behavior, but that undesirable behavior would still be consistent everywhere. Like if the creator had fat-fingered a physical constant or something. Since we have no idea what the value is *supposed* to be, we'd have no idea that the value we observe isn't what was intended.
And even if we discover something like that some super-massive blackholes are not singularities, would we be like "A ha! We are in a simulation!" or would we assume it's a natural phenomenon and we get to work on coming up with new physical theories to try to explain it? I mean, a lot things in cosmology are pretty strange and there's no obvious reason why things are that way. Things like the Hubble constant and dark energy could be explained as a physics simulation that was created to model a solar system being scaled up way beyond what it was designed for.
The question is, would we even recognize a bug, or would just accept it as normal because we wouldn't know any different? I mean, we could have a bug in gravity that causes large astronomical objects to act like they have much more mass than they actually do. Do we actually recognize it as a bug, or do we invent dark matter and other physics to try to explain it as a natural phenomenon?
I wouldn't count on that. I've seen Windows kick off a batch of updates on a system that didn't have enough free space, and the results weren't pretty when suddenly Windows Update failed in the middle of doing its thing.
Though perhaps if there isn't enough free space for Windows 10 to download then maybe it could work.
Maybe if the civilization-ending asteroid strikes Earth. Otherwise, they'll be truckers in five years. They'll still be truckers in ten years. After that, it starts getting a bit iffy, but I bet they'll still be some people driving trucks even in twenty years. Even if not, I'd still say you'd have better job security than IT.
Try copying a very large number of small files. Even deleting a very large number of small files can take some time.
For extra fun, make them image files so you have Windows 7's brain-dead thumbnailer interfering with things.
I assume that the only difference is that the i7 has a few features disabled, such as multi-CPU support and ECC, and Intel figures they can extract more money from the people who want/need those features.