As stated previously, 2015 trucks were 11% of all fatal accidents. According to this they are roughly 5% of the total vehicles, and drive a little over twice as many miles. They are responsible for less than 3% of the total passenger miles, however, so no matter how you slice it, these supposed professional drivers are involved in more fatal accidents than the regular passenger vehicle driver.
Disclaimer, all percentages were rough approximations taken at a glance.
That'd be an interesting list. I don't even have Chrome installed, except in a seldom used VM explicitly to test for something that Chrome can't handle. It's been dormant since Chrome 28 or something like that.
If there were massive crashes every day, why would they be news?
Yep, still news. Because road closures (usually what happens with trucks crashing) is something people need to know so they can avoid the area.
In all honesty, though, European roads are designed better on average. They have roundabouts but few rotaries, while Americans have rotaries that cause maximal contention points and more crashes. They have long merge lanes and stronger lane-control rules, whereas American highways are designed with the briefest window to get on the highway or else you're getting right back off, and so you're contending with people trying to exit while you're trying to enter. They've also got better driver's education--we learn to operate a car, and my driver's test was three right turns in a parking lot; I failed it; and the proctor passed me in frustration on my fourth try by falsifying some of the numbers.
Funny, I have seen multiple roundabouts, but no rotaries, in the US at least. Some admittedly seriously screwed up signaled intersections. Modern highways all have longer entrance/exit merge areas, except for those built prior to 1965 or so, as compared to the 0 merge areas on many autobahns in Europe. On driver's education, absolutely, it's far better in Europe. My impression is that if you can start the car and put it in gear, you'll get a license in half the US.
EU statistics for 2014 show that heavy trucks were responsible for 15% of deaths caused by road collisions. In the U.S, of 6 million crashes each year, 0.5 million (8.3%) involve trucks, and are responsible for 9% of deaths caused by road collisions. Unfortunately, nobody's doing the statistics of collisions per VMT, and what you really want to know is fatal and non-fatal collisions per vehicle miles traveled. For this particular problem, we want to know the statistics for highway collisions per highway miles traveled.
Does it really matter per mile traveled? Or total number per year? Btw, for 2008:
123,918 large trucks and 13,263 buses involved in non-fatal crashes
49,084 large trucks and 7,123 buses involved in injury crashes
73,047 injuries in crashes involving large trucks and 16,760 injuries in crashes involving buses
74,834 large trucks and 6,140 buses involved in tow-away crashes
2,609 large trucks and 11 buses involved in hazmat (HM) placard crashes
The U.S. doesn't allow trucks to ride the left lane in most locales. They ride in the center lane at speed, away from the busy right-lane contention points---you know, the string of constant intersections. Apparently most crashes occur there. Because of the high speed of travel in the left lane, trucks would either need a lot of stopping distance (which nobody is giving them) or a lower speed (causing dangerous lane changes around them, creating additional contention points and more collisions), so banning them from the left lane is sensible.
You, you pointed out problem #1 with trucks on the highway - they require significantly more distance to stop at speed. The European solution to require them to drive slower immediately works out. Also, since they require more distance, they should keep larger spacing between them and whomever is in front of them. So, the right lane contention becomes really no contention if they're a) moving more slowly and b) keep appropriate spacing. Trucks are a hazard to regular vehicles, and shouldn't be permitted to endanger them unnecessarily. They should share the roads responsibly. Right now, in the US, they do not.
I'm more intrigued about how the one night stand got identified.
The key to that is the little line: exchanged email addresses. How much you want to bet that at least 1 of those was a gmail address? I can't prove it yet, but experience indicates that FB and G share data.
Suppose that the information was retrieved from the SSL connection to Kapersky's servers. If so, then they'd have admitted that they either have compromised Kapersky's certificates (unlikely) or they have a standard MITM attack vector for all SSL connections (a lot more likely, as it's based on trust)
Either reveal is bad for national security, so they truly shouldn't say more. I personally haven't used Kapersky ever, as it was a 100% Russian product with root capabilities (well, on windows everything has root) that frequently called home to be at all useful.
2) you don't need to download 40GB: a decent x265-encoded version of a movie can be as small as 1-3GB (in 1080p resolution). Even the super-high-quality rips are maybe 8GB or so, though I seriously doubt anyone can really tell the difference without very careful examination.
1) 1-3GB is for simple cartoons.
2) 1080p high quality rips with TrueHD 7.1+ sound usually start at about 7GB and have been as large as 16GB.
3) Yes you can easily see compression artifacts in more highly compressed sources. Most cable/satellite sources are good examples with blocking readily evident
4) 4K content will be a minimum 30GB compressed pretty severely. I haven't looked yet, but the reported sizes are up to 70GB for H265 movies.
5) Physical media will, for the near term future, always be much much better than anything streamed.
I have one as well. It's never been connected to any network, and never will. It's fronted by a mini HTPC system which is the only thing that connects to the internet. I prefer to not have my TV spy on me, thank you very much.
speed is a major impactor of range, and semis drive slower than cars. Furthermore, if they have the aforementioned platooning, then all trailing vehicles will use significantly less power than the lead vehicle.
Maybe in your corner of the universe. Here, they drive as fast or faster than the cars, and above the speed limit. I personally cannot wait for autonomous trucks to arrive (probably concurrently with EVs) and have them run at 50 mph in the right lane. Sanity would finally return to our roads and something like 20% of all fatal accidents would magically disappear. Yes, something like less than 8% of the vehicles on US roads cause more than 20% of all fatalities, yet we're worried about those cars going 2mph over the speed limit. Oh wait, that's "revenue enhancement".
Do note that BMW has trademarked a variety of M names, although a quick perusal only showed M1, M2, M4, M6 and M8 CS trademarks. I can't believe they wouldn't have trademarked M3 already years ago.
I'll have to agree with arth1, anywhere I've been, M3 is BMW, Model 3 is Tesla. That is in discussions, though, and not in forums. I'm sure in a forum dedicated to Tesla that M3 will be used for the Model 3. I say this as someone who was actually considering both.
It certainly is easier to staff with junior js people. It'll wind up being really expensive down the road, when something major comes up, like changing data or service definitions, or, say, an npm package gets removed.
Node is a clusterfuck waiting for the maintenance window to take its toll. It's not old nor widely used enough yet to have the pains of maintainability really rear its ugly head.
That is most assuredly correct. They were a great company. In the 80s. In the 90s they started doing this stupid crap because they thought they could get away with it. As they milked their brand for all it was worth, they cut all spending on anything innovative, and promptly fell off the cliff even if their stock price rose to ridiculous heights due to the MBA "value" of the company. Like all things MBA, it vanished as soon as they milked their customer good will dry and their well of IP hit bottom, and there was nothing to replace it. I can only explain it as the MBA pyramid scheme played out to the end, because anything else would state that all these folks that ran a multi-national conglomerate all got hit with a case of zombie idiocy virus all at the same time in the early 90s and just happened to accidentally make bad business decisions from the perspective of the future of the company for short-term market benefits.
If you want a case study of how well this works, check Sony out. There's a largish contingent who won't buy any Sony product, period, thanks to their anti-consumerism stances, bait and switch tactics with their name branded devices, and blatantly illegal practices (for me, the CD rootkit they put on their audio CDs blacklisted them). They have not improved since then. Sony may survive, they may not. But 15 years on, they're a shell of the company they used to be, and I'm merely waiting for the shoe to drop and they become a pure holding company merely licensing their name or disappear altogether (the preferred solution)
Is it irrational animosity towards a corporate entity? You can argue that, but if that entity shits on its customers repeatedly, perhaps its time to avoid being crapped on, especially with other choices out there. And making all your friends aware of these superior alternatives, well, that's just "viral marketing" of the kind a brand just can't buy. To couch it in positive terms, for other brands.
This meme of "Freedom of speech != freedom from consequences" is one of the stupidest fucking things I've ever encountered on this site. It is absolutely rampant, too. Do you really have freedom of speech if you lose your job, your friends, you family over your political beliefs?
"Boss, I think you're an idiot" in the middle of a staff meeting. Freedom of speech? Sure. Freedom from consequences? Maybe in some other world.
All depends upon the quality of the devs and the size of the team. A team of more than 3 people will usually have at least 1 weak link that starts causing problems. When you get to a team size of 40, that becomes too large for such an adhoc process. It can be successful, but it requires a certain level of dev with broad knowledge and almost OCD tendencies, because they're going to be spending time doing things they wouldn't normally do.
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As stated previously, 2015 trucks were 11% of all fatal accidents. According to this they are roughly 5% of the total vehicles, and drive a little over twice as many miles. They are responsible for less than 3% of the total passenger miles, however, so no matter how you slice it, these supposed professional drivers are involved in more fatal accidents than the regular passenger vehicle driver.
Disclaimer, all percentages were rough approximations taken at a glance.
That'd be an interesting list. I don't even have Chrome installed, except in a seldom used VM explicitly to test for something that Chrome can't handle. It's been dormant since Chrome 28 or something like that.
If there were massive crashes every day, why would they be news?
Yep, still news. Because road closures (usually what happens with trucks crashing) is something people need to know so they can avoid the area.
In all honesty, though, European roads are designed better on average. They have roundabouts but few rotaries, while Americans have rotaries that cause maximal contention points and more crashes. They have long merge lanes and stronger lane-control rules, whereas American highways are designed with the briefest window to get on the highway or else you're getting right back off, and so you're contending with people trying to exit while you're trying to enter. They've also got better driver's education--we learn to operate a car, and my driver's test was three right turns in a parking lot; I failed it; and the proctor passed me in frustration on my fourth try by falsifying some of the numbers.
Funny, I have seen multiple roundabouts, but no rotaries, in the US at least. Some admittedly seriously screwed up signaled intersections. Modern highways all have longer entrance/exit merge areas, except for those built prior to 1965 or so, as compared to the 0 merge areas on many autobahns in Europe. On driver's education, absolutely, it's far better in Europe. My impression is that if you can start the car and put it in gear, you'll get a license in half the US.
EU statistics for 2014 show that heavy trucks were responsible for 15% of deaths caused by road collisions. In the U.S, of 6 million crashes each year, 0.5 million (8.3%) involve trucks, and are responsible for 9% of deaths caused by road collisions. Unfortunately, nobody's doing the statistics of collisions per VMT, and what you really want to know is fatal and non-fatal collisions per vehicle miles traveled. For this particular problem, we want to know the statistics for highway collisions per highway miles traveled.
Does it really matter per mile traveled? Or total number per year? Btw, for 2008:
and in 2015, 11% of US fatalities were truck related.
The U.S. doesn't allow trucks to ride the left lane in most locales. They ride in the center lane at speed, away from the busy right-lane contention points---you know, the string of constant intersections. Apparently most crashes occur there. Because of the high speed of travel in the left lane, trucks would either need a lot of stopping distance (which nobody is giving them) or a lower speed (causing dangerous lane changes around them, creating additional contention points and more collisions), so banning them from the left lane is sensible.
You, you pointed out problem #1 with trucks on the highway - they require significantly more distance to stop at speed. The European solution to require them to drive slower immediately works out. Also, since they require more distance, they should keep larger spacing between them and whomever is in front of them. So, the right lane contention becomes really no contention if they're a) moving more slowly and b) keep appropriate spacing. Trucks are a hazard to regular vehicles, and shouldn't be permitted to endanger them unnecessarily. They should share the roads responsibly. Right now, in the US, they do not.
If the only way to get said information is to break SSL....
Because they're....public?
I'm more intrigued about how the one night stand got identified.
The key to that is the little line: exchanged email addresses. How much you want to bet that at least 1 of those was a gmail address? I can't prove it yet, but experience indicates that FB and G share data.
Suppose that the information was retrieved from the SSL connection to Kapersky's servers. If so, then they'd have admitted that they either have compromised Kapersky's certificates (unlikely) or they have a standard MITM attack vector for all SSL connections (a lot more likely, as it's based on trust)
Either reveal is bad for national security, so they truly shouldn't say more. I personally haven't used Kapersky ever, as it was a 100% Russian product with root capabilities (well, on windows everything has root) that frequently called home to be at all useful.
My Windows setup also requires no interaction because block lists are automatically updated through Chrome,
Wow, you are secure! Windows and Chrome.
I guess that's why we're reading about massive numbers of crashes in Europe involving trucks every day?
2) you don't need to download 40GB: a decent x265-encoded version of a movie can be as small as 1-3GB (in 1080p resolution). Even the super-high-quality rips are maybe 8GB or so, though I seriously doubt anyone can really tell the difference without very careful examination.
1) 1-3GB is for simple cartoons.
2) 1080p high quality rips with TrueHD 7.1+ sound usually start at about 7GB and have been as large as 16GB.
3) Yes you can easily see compression artifacts in more highly compressed sources. Most cable/satellite sources are good examples with blocking readily evident
4) 4K content will be a minimum 30GB compressed pretty severely. I haven't looked yet, but the reported sizes are up to 70GB for H265 movies.
5) Physical media will, for the near term future, always be much much better than anything streamed.
I have one as well. It's never been connected to any network, and never will. It's fronted by a mini HTPC system which is the only thing that connects to the internet. I prefer to not have my TV spy on me, thank you very much.
From a hardware perspective, aren't they basically just low-end Android devices (with worse mobos and worse, but bigger screens)?
FTFY
speed is a major impactor of range, and semis drive slower than cars. Furthermore, if they have the aforementioned platooning, then all trailing vehicles will use significantly less power than the lead vehicle.
Maybe in your corner of the universe. Here, they drive as fast or faster than the cars, and above the speed limit. I personally cannot wait for autonomous trucks to arrive (probably concurrently with EVs) and have them run at 50 mph in the right lane. Sanity would finally return to our roads and something like 20% of all fatal accidents would magically disappear. Yes, something like less than 8% of the vehicles on US roads cause more than 20% of all fatalities, yet we're worried about those cars going 2mph over the speed limit. Oh wait, that's "revenue enhancement".
Do note that BMW has trademarked a variety of M names, although a quick perusal only showed M1, M2, M4, M6 and M8 CS trademarks. I can't believe they wouldn't have trademarked M3 already years ago.
I'll have to agree with arth1, anywhere I've been, M3 is BMW, Model 3 is Tesla. That is in discussions, though, and not in forums. I'm sure in a forum dedicated to Tesla that M3 will be used for the Model 3. I say this as someone who was actually considering both.
It certainly is easier to staff with junior js people. It'll wind up being really expensive down the road, when something major comes up, like changing data or service definitions, or, say, an npm package gets removed.
Node is a clusterfuck waiting for the maintenance window to take its toll. It's not old nor widely used enough yet to have the pains of maintainability really rear its ugly head.
I wonder how many now legacy ruby apps people regret writing.
All of them?
That is most assuredly correct. They were a great company. In the 80s. In the 90s they started doing this stupid crap because they thought they could get away with it. As they milked their brand for all it was worth, they cut all spending on anything innovative, and promptly fell off the cliff even if their stock price rose to ridiculous heights due to the MBA "value" of the company. Like all things MBA, it vanished as soon as they milked their customer good will dry and their well of IP hit bottom, and there was nothing to replace it. I can only explain it as the MBA pyramid scheme played out to the end, because anything else would state that all these folks that ran a multi-national conglomerate all got hit with a case of zombie idiocy virus all at the same time in the early 90s and just happened to accidentally make bad business decisions from the perspective of the future of the company for short-term market benefits.
If you want a case study of how well this works, check Sony out. There's a largish contingent who won't buy any Sony product, period, thanks to their anti-consumerism stances, bait and switch tactics with their name branded devices, and blatantly illegal practices (for me, the CD rootkit they put on their audio CDs blacklisted them). They have not improved since then. Sony may survive, they may not. But 15 years on, they're a shell of the company they used to be, and I'm merely waiting for the shoe to drop and they become a pure holding company merely licensing their name or disappear altogether (the preferred solution)
Is it irrational animosity towards a corporate entity? You can argue that, but if that entity shits on its customers repeatedly, perhaps its time to avoid being crapped on, especially with other choices out there. And making all your friends aware of these superior alternatives, well, that's just "viral marketing" of the kind a brand just can't buy. To couch it in positive terms, for other brands.
In this case: Soylent Green.
This meme of "Freedom of speech != freedom from consequences" is one of the stupidest fucking things I've ever encountered on this site. It is absolutely rampant, too. Do you really have freedom of speech if you lose your job, your friends, you family over your political beliefs?
"Boss, I think you're an idiot" in the middle of a staff meeting. Freedom of speech? Sure. Freedom from consequences? Maybe in some other world.
All depends upon the quality of the devs and the size of the team. A team of more than 3 people will usually have at least 1 weak link that starts causing problems. When you get to a team size of 40, that becomes too large for such an adhoc process. It can be successful, but it requires a certain level of dev with broad knowledge and almost OCD tendencies, because they're going to be spending time doing things they wouldn't normally do.
That's gonna be interesting watching a 96x54 pixel YouTube video while you read your report 3 words at a time.
Well, at least the YT video will be viewable at native resolution!
It was available in Android 4. The new version is less useful and harder to use.
So, an improvement?