a) Autopilot gives an ergonomic improvement so you don't have to be constantly applying pressure to the steering wheel to micromanage your course. Yes, you have to touch the wheel with one hand. But you don't need to apply any forces. b) Autopilot allows the user to spend less time looking at the lane markings and translating that into steering wheel position, and more time scannign ahead for obstacles. c) Autopilot isn't as good at maintaining lane as a human yet. But it will be. It's a technology in progress.
You say cars without AutoPilot don't allow drivers to stop paying attention. And yet collisions in manually driven cars often occur when people have stopped paying attention.
Fatigue. If you're driving a long distance, you will arrive less fatigued it your hands haven't spent hours doing micro-management of steering wheel position. Just as existing cruise control and adaptive cruise control gave that benefit to your right foot. And it's not just muscular fatigue, it's the mental fatigue of micromanaging.
Autopilot lets you take one step back. You are acting as the manager of the drive, not the worker doing the driving.
You've made a whole load of assumptions there. And you've missed out out other factors that may not favour the wealthier driver. Like what speed they are doing, and how likely they are to be using a cellphone whilst driving.
There are plenty of ways to solve that problem that don't turn the car into an unmovable brick in the middle of a public street when a sensor fails.
A hysterical person would say no to existing cars on the basis that the might break down in the middle of the road. But it doesn't happen often enough for it to cause a problem.
Ones like this that run on their own dedicated tracks?
No, those are guided and run separately from other traffic. I'm taking about ones that look similar but run on the airport roads with other traffic.
The USA's "selective availability" was taken away years ago. And then there are several other systems by other world powers in place. LOTs of things rely on GPS. Created by engineers who's idea of GPS isn't stuck in the 1990s.
GPS doesn't go out. If any critical sensor fails, it's slow down and move to the side of the road. The launch will be in a limited geographical area, so they'll have ensured the map is completely up to date and keep it that way. It's a ride-hailing service (taxi) so micromanaging where it moves or parks is none of your business.
An employee phoning head office to tell them the police have arrived is not a crime. It's perfectly reasonable behaviour. What the head office choose to do with that information is not the responsibility of the employee doing the phoning.
Nonsense. In the fork lift example you use work to turn electrical energy to the potential energy of a load at a higher level.
Moving the electrons around in a mining rig does no such thing. There is no potential energy created.
You could charge a battery to create potential energy from the work of moving electrongs. But that's not what's happening here.
Conservation of energy does indeed mean that all that electrical energy that is put into the mining rig emerges as heat, as in the long term, there is no conversion to potential energy.
Refer back to my original comment before the challenges:
"In general [it's a disaster for the environment] yes. However if you use some rigs for domestic heating it's not a waste at all. A kW of electricity put into a mining rig will give you just as much heating as a kW put into an electric heater."
The condition that it's IF you use an electric heater is there right from the start. The heat pump thing is a massive distraction for all the people that don't have a heat pump, nor plans to have one.
The point of the anecdote? It's literally the reason that I ordered the parts for a mining rig this week. Because for at least 9 months of the year my home is heated. Which means that any heat generated by a mining rig will simply reduce the energy that the rest of the heating needs produce. Every kW put into mining will be a kW less produced by the heating. Which essentially means free electricity.
That makes a break even or very marginally profitable mining rig become definately become profitable.
It's not theoretical. It's actual. And heat pumps are irrelevant because there isn't one, like the vast majority of other UK houses.
That's probably the difference. On the domestic scale there's no need for aircon in the UK. Except for the odd rare exceptionally hot summer day, opening a window is perfectly adequate.
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a) Autopilot gives an ergonomic improvement so you don't have to be constantly applying pressure to the steering wheel to micromanage your course. Yes, you have to touch the wheel with one hand. But you don't need to apply any forces.
b) Autopilot allows the user to spend less time looking at the lane markings and translating that into steering wheel position, and more time scannign ahead for obstacles.
c) Autopilot isn't as good at maintaining lane as a human yet. But it will be. It's a technology in progress.
You say cars without AutoPilot don't allow drivers to stop paying attention. And yet collisions in manually driven cars often occur when people have stopped paying attention.
Fatigue. If you're driving a long distance, you will arrive less fatigued it your hands haven't spent hours doing micro-management of steering wheel position. Just as existing cruise control and adaptive cruise control gave that benefit to your right foot. And it's not just muscular fatigue, it's the mental fatigue of micromanaging.
Autopilot lets you take one step back. You are acting as the manager of the drive, not the worker doing the driving.
You've made a whole load of assumptions there. And you've missed out out other factors that may not favour the wealthier driver. Like what speed they are doing, and how likely they are to be using a cellphone whilst driving.
it was most likely not on. And wither way it'll be the driver's insurance paying.
You can count as many pi as you like.
There are plenty of ways to solve that problem that don't turn the car into an unmovable brick in the middle of a public street when a sensor fails.
A hysterical person would say no to existing cars on the basis that the might break down in the middle of the road. But it doesn't happen often enough for it to cause a problem.
Ones like this that run on their own dedicated tracks?
No, those are guided and run separately from other traffic. I'm taking about ones that look similar but run on the airport roads with other traffic.
That's now. Who told you trends stop here?
Actually yes I am a car geek. I drive an EV. Do you?
I can't wait for driverless cars. Not only am I lazy, I'm a geek.
Sadly, there's not many geeks left on Slashdot.
Trouble is everyone owning cars means everyone lives in traffic jams much of the time.
For when the person in the car doesn't own the car. In a taxi, you can't just grab the controls because you think you know better than the driver.
We've had pods at various airports for a couple of years that drive around autonomously without any controls for the passengers.
Autonomous driving is very useful indeed.
The USA's "selective availability" was taken away years ago. And then there are several other systems by other world powers in place.
LOTs of things rely on GPS. Created by engineers who's idea of GPS isn't stuck in the 1990s.
No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
Sure. The Jacquard loom will never catch on either.
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GPS doesn't go out.
If any critical sensor fails, it's slow down and move to the side of the road.
The launch will be in a limited geographical area, so they'll have ensured the map is completely up to date and keep it that way.
It's a ride-hailing service (taxi) so micromanaging where it moves or parks is none of your business.
An employee phoning head office to tell them the police have arrived is not a crime. It's perfectly reasonable behaviour. What the head office choose to do with that information is not the responsibility of the employee doing the phoning.
Last time I looked Quebec was in North America.
Nonsense. In the fork lift example you use work to turn electrical energy to the potential energy of a load at a higher level.
Moving the electrons around in a mining rig does no such thing. There is no potential energy created.
You could charge a battery to create potential energy from the work of moving electrongs. But that's not what's happening here.
Conservation of energy does indeed mean that all that electrical energy that is put into the mining rig emerges as heat, as in the long term, there is no conversion to potential energy.
The question is not, "What is the most efficient form of heating?"
Refer back to my original comment before the challenges:
"In general [it's a disaster for the environment] yes. However if you use some rigs for domestic heating it's not a waste at all. A kW of electricity put into a mining rig will give you just as much heating as a kW put into an electric heater."
The condition that it's IF you use an electric heater is there right from the start. The heat pump thing is a massive distraction for all the people that don't have a heat pump, nor plans to have one.
The point of the anecdote? It's literally the reason that I ordered the parts for a mining rig this week. Because for at least 9 months of the year my home is heated. Which means that any heat generated by a mining rig will simply reduce the energy that the rest of the heating needs produce. Every kW put into mining will be a kW less produced by the heating. Which essentially means free electricity.
That makes a break even or very marginally profitable mining rig become definately become profitable.
It's not theoretical. It's actual. And heat pumps are irrelevant because there isn't one, like the vast majority of other UK houses.
That's probably the difference. On the domestic scale there's no need for aircon in the UK. Except for the odd rare exceptionally hot summer day, opening a window is perfectly adequate.