Don't tell me let me guess, you are paid by an auto drive company. First and foremost, as soon as you said it was dark you lost me. The car had LIDAR, you know, that thing with it's own emitters that can see in the dark. In fact as I pointed out before, can see better in the dark because the sensor catching the return has better SNR without the sun. Secondly, why do these cars not have infrared detectors? I can get one on a BMW I know and I image many other premium cars. Or is uber too cheap? You know, like they were too cheap to have two people in the car like they used to. It was murder, someone needs to pay.
And lastly, the whole accident stat thing is a nonstarter at this point. There are not enough numbers to make it work. Depending on how you "work" the numbers, I've seen analysis where self drive are more dangerous by a factor of 3. As has been said often, statistics don't lie, liars use statistics.
This is exactly what I was thinking. So take very top ranking exec at self driving car company ? and have them walk in front of their car. Put your life where your mouth is!
Note your 17 mil is US and the Tesla number is worldwide. Given that china does around 30 mil, your.66 number is down to.12/47 or about.25% And we still have not included the eu, india, africa, australia,... I'd guess tesla is around.05% or less of worldwide priduction.
Actually TMZ reported several odd things about him. All from while he attended community college from blogs. He was homophobic. He was very pro choice. He had an odd perspective on the sex offender registry. He was against it feeling like those who served their time in prison should not be further penalized. Additionally, he was home schooled as you mentioned and a pretty religious family.
Did you not even bother to read TFS? In the summary it quite clearly states the other self drive companies were achieving 5600 miles between interventions while uber could not meet it's 13 mile goal. Sounds to me like uber's system is just plain not ready. I'd even question 5600 miles. Once they get to 1 million I'd say they are there.
So if it was daylight where the SNR of the LIDAR is worse with ambient light hitting the sensor and the car hit her where would you place blame? Because that is exactly what would have happened. The LIDAR system would still have missed her. The system failed period full stop. It is as bad as when Intel released the processor that did not always add right. I know the tech world is spending billions to make this work and it seems to be every techies wet dream for it to work, but it does not work yet. And deploying it in the wild is murder. It is not ready.
And when they do, the police respond. Not so much for a homeless person, which was my point. Uber will totally get away with this because it was a disposable person. You simply prove my point with your attitude.
I think you are missing something. A typical model S sized car runs around 4000-4200 lbs, some much less like the audi and caddy CT6 because they make heavy use of aluminum. The CT6 for example weighs around 3700lbs. The S also makes heavy use of aluminum in the chassis. The S comes in at 4600-4900 lbs, so it is quite a porker even with an aluminum chassis. Batteries are heavy. I also looked up just the battery weight, 1200lbs. A typical V8 performance engine comes in around 500lbs, with V6 and I4's being less of course.
Then why are there not utube's of rich people getting beaten up like homeless? And who even has standing for a civil suit against uber in the case of this act? She was homeless and I have yet to hear a relative speak out. And finally I just saw a video of a woman driving around on one of those battery grocery carts on freeways and surface streets. Somehow all the meat sacks managed not to hit her. Granted she was off, but yet people with their oh so inferior brains managed to miss her for 10+ minutes as she meandered thru the streets.
It was manslaughter. Lidar should have been able to see her. I think a meat slab MAY have missed her, but maybe not. Deer are common in my neighborhood and I have yet to hit one. A few panic stops, but no contact. And deer basically do exactly what this woman did only faster.
She is coming in from the drivers side and the impact point is on the passenger side. The car was not even trying to stop. It takes about a second walking to get from her point of visibility on the camera (crap quality so a person would have noticed her sooner) to the point of impact. In a second the car could have slowed to maybe 15mph, which might have been enough to save her. And given a person would have likely noticed the reflectors moving on the wheels of the bike, a person would likely have avoided the accident completely. But what is truly obscene is the Lidar system missed her. I checked, Uber supposedly uses a 360 degree lidar system mounted on the roof. And it missed her. Uber's also have a radar system in front, but someone on foot may not be a large enough reflection to trigger a stop. But how did the system not even begin to brake. It mowed her over. The programmer who designed this hot mess needs to go to jail.
The truly sad part is this woman was homeless and has no one advocating for her. This story will go away faster than a school shooting and nothing will change.
If it is clearly the woman's fault, then produce the video for us all to see. Please blur the impact though. I just want to see for myself how much time before the woman entered the lane until impact. Simple, where is the video?
Except the city can predict every home's usage based on weather and prior usage. They even show your prior usage by month for the past year on every bill. Nope, at least for austin it is totally about guiding your usage to what they think you should use, 500KWH/mo year round. Now the Nat Gas supplier on the other hand charges a flat rate and gives a slight tweak to the rate based on weather normalization, or the exact opposite of what the electric company does. When the winter is warm, rate is bumped slightly up as usage will be low. When the winter is cold, rate is bumped down as usage is high.
What is even more bizarre in y opinion is the way my utility has a base rate and then 5 tiers for residential. The base is quite cheap and you gett 500KWH/mo at that rate. Then a significant bump for 500-1000, another from 1000-1500,... Churches get a break, and then super big industrials get a break. Middle size biz gets a screw. Power pricing has become like taxes, the whim of politicians.
Interesting I just tried it. So for me in the NW part of what is considered to be the core of the city, I can drive downtown in 12 minutes or take buses and get there in an hour and 19 minutes. Or I could just walk and take 2 1/2 hours. Riding a bike gets me there in about an hour. I did see an article where Arlington TX was dumping its buses and switching to on demand mini-vans at 3 bucks/ride. They claimed it was cheaper for the city than buses. I think possibly a great idea, but I wonder if demand will skyrocket as it sounded like they are offering subsidized taxi service.
Easy, road humps. They do it in Austin on many roads. It discourages anyone from using the road unless they absolutely have to. Personally I think it is a terrible idea. They cost a fortune to put in and are the equivalent of a paid pothole.
It is actually worse than your analysis because part of that 2.54/gallon is federal/local taxes to maintain the roads (well so they say anyway). So once everyone is driving an electric, those road taxes have to come from the EV drivers making that cost/mile difference even smaller. At this moment in time, even with incentives and no road tax, it just is more expensive to drive an EV due to upfront cost.
The rich also find ways to escape sales taxes. Numerous cases of the rich buying art, boats, etc outside of NY to escape NY tax. Some get caught but how many succeed. I imagine it is quite hard to find short of doing an inventory of their penthouses.
No I don't think it is normal. Consider Ford switched to aluminum for their F-150. Something they make more of in a month than Tesla makes all year. And yet somehow, like magic, they all pop out like cookies perfectly baked. For the 3, I keep thinking the old Lucy comedies where Lucy & her friend are on an assembly line and can't keep up. Hilarious comedy because you think it can't happen. But maybe it is over in Fremont.
Check out adafruit for just a few examples of stuff you can build. Between beaglebone and pi (to name just two) anyone with decent tinkering skills can do their own home automation with no snoop from google, apple,... I know I have built a pool controller, irrigation controller, garage door interface, AC monitor, furnace monitor, CO2 monitor and soon to add ????. The main limitation I have found is power. They are too hungry to run off batteries.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't tell me let me guess, you are paid by an auto drive company. First and foremost, as soon as you said it was dark you lost me. The car had LIDAR, you know, that thing with it's own emitters that can see in the dark. In fact as I pointed out before, can see better in the dark because the sensor catching the return has better SNR without the sun. Secondly, why do these cars not have infrared detectors? I can get one on a BMW I know and I image many other premium cars. Or is uber too cheap? You know, like they were too cheap to have two people in the car like they used to. It was murder, someone needs to pay.
And lastly, the whole accident stat thing is a nonstarter at this point. There are not enough numbers to make it work. Depending on how you "work" the numbers, I've seen analysis where self drive are more dangerous by a factor of 3. As has been said often, statistics don't lie, liars use statistics.
Then whistleblow. Call the company that Oracle defrauded and let them file criminal charges against oracle and your old boss. Then make some popcorn.
This is exactly what I was thinking. So take very top ranking exec at self driving car company ? and have them walk in front of their car. Put your life where your mouth is!
Note your 17 mil is US and the Tesla number is worldwide. Given that china does around 30 mil, your .66 number is down to .12/47 or about .25% And we still have not included the eu, india, africa, australia, ... I'd guess tesla is around .05% or less of worldwide priduction.
Actually TMZ reported several odd things about him. All from while he attended community college from blogs.
He was homophobic.
He was very pro choice.
He had an odd perspective on the sex offender registry. He was against it feeling like those who served their time in prison should not be further penalized.
Additionally, he was home schooled as you mentioned and a pretty religious family.
Did you not even bother to read TFS? In the summary it quite clearly states the other self drive companies were achieving 5600 miles between interventions while uber could not meet it's 13 mile goal. Sounds to me like uber's system is just plain not ready. I'd even question 5600 miles. Once they get to 1 million I'd say they are there.
I think you are the one making this political.
So if it was daylight where the SNR of the LIDAR is worse with ambient light hitting the sensor and the car hit her where would you place blame? Because that is exactly what would have happened. The LIDAR system would still have missed her. The system failed period full stop. It is as bad as when Intel released the processor that did not always add right. I know the tech world is spending billions to make this work and it seems to be every techies wet dream for it to work, but it does not work yet. And deploying it in the wild is murder. It is not ready.
I guess we are going to have to disagree then. I think you are confused, you think I am.
And we them. Example 25% on trucks.
And when they do, the police respond. Not so much for a homeless person, which was my point. Uber will totally get away with this because it was a disposable person. You simply prove my point with your attitude.
I think you are missing something. A typical model S sized car runs around 4000-4200 lbs, some much less like the audi and caddy CT6 because they make heavy use of aluminum. The CT6 for example weighs around 3700lbs. The S also makes heavy use of aluminum in the chassis. The S comes in at 4600-4900 lbs, so it is quite a porker even with an aluminum chassis. Batteries are heavy. I also looked up just the battery weight, 1200lbs. A typical V8 performance engine comes in around 500lbs, with V6 and I4's being less of course.
Then why are there not utube's of rich people getting beaten up like homeless? And who even has standing for a civil suit against uber in the case of this act? She was homeless and I have yet to hear a relative speak out. And finally I just saw a video of a woman driving around on one of those battery grocery carts on freeways and surface streets. Somehow all the meat sacks managed not to hit her. Granted she was off, but yet people with their oh so inferior brains managed to miss her for 10+ minutes as she meandered thru the streets.
It was manslaughter. Lidar should have been able to see her. I think a meat slab MAY have missed her, but maybe not. Deer are common in my neighborhood and I have yet to hit one. A few panic stops, but no contact. And deer basically do exactly what this woman did only faster.
She is coming in from the drivers side and the impact point is on the passenger side. The car was not even trying to stop. It takes about a second walking to get from her point of visibility on the camera (crap quality so a person would have noticed her sooner) to the point of impact. In a second the car could have slowed to maybe 15mph, which might have been enough to save her. And given a person would have likely noticed the reflectors moving on the wheels of the bike, a person would likely have avoided the accident completely. But what is truly obscene is the Lidar system missed her. I checked, Uber supposedly uses a 360 degree lidar system mounted on the roof. And it missed her. Uber's also have a radar system in front, but someone on foot may not be a large enough reflection to trigger a stop. But how did the system not even begin to brake. It mowed her over. The programmer who designed this hot mess needs to go to jail.
The truly sad part is this woman was homeless and has no one advocating for her. This story will go away faster than a school shooting and nothing will change.
If it is clearly the woman's fault, then produce the video for us all to see. Please blur the impact though. I just want to see for myself how much time before the woman entered the lane until impact. Simple, where is the video?
Except the city can predict every home's usage based on weather and prior usage. They even show your prior usage by month for the past year on every bill. Nope, at least for austin it is totally about guiding your usage to what they think you should use, 500KWH/mo year round. Now the Nat Gas supplier on the other hand charges a flat rate and gives a slight tweak to the rate based on weather normalization, or the exact opposite of what the electric company does. When the winter is warm, rate is bumped slightly up as usage will be low. When the winter is cold, rate is bumped down as usage is high.
What is even more bizarre in y opinion is the way my utility has a base rate and then 5 tiers for residential. The base is quite cheap and you gett 500KWH/mo at that rate. Then a significant bump for 500-1000, another from 1000-1500, ... Churches get a break, and then super big industrials get a break. Middle size biz gets a screw. Power pricing has become like taxes, the whim of politicians.
Indiana was not going to re-elect Pence as governor. Indi-frekin-ana. If they don't want him, no one does.
Interesting I just tried it. So for me in the NW part of what is considered to be the core of the city, I can drive downtown in 12 minutes or take buses and get there in an hour and 19 minutes. Or I could just walk and take 2 1/2 hours. Riding a bike gets me there in about an hour. I did see an article where Arlington TX was dumping its buses and switching to on demand mini-vans at 3 bucks/ride. They claimed it was cheaper for the city than buses. I think possibly a great idea, but I wonder if demand will skyrocket as it sounded like they are offering subsidized taxi service.
Easy, road humps. They do it in Austin on many roads. It discourages anyone from using the road unless they absolutely have to. Personally I think it is a terrible idea. They cost a fortune to put in and are the equivalent of a paid pothole.
It is actually worse than your analysis because part of that 2.54/gallon is federal/local taxes to maintain the roads (well so they say anyway). So once everyone is driving an electric, those road taxes have to come from the EV drivers making that cost/mile difference even smaller. At this moment in time, even with incentives and no road tax, it just is more expensive to drive an EV due to upfront cost.
It will be interesting as one of the prime's MCM, has had issues in the past. MCM gives generously to Christie and Rubio.
The rich also find ways to escape sales taxes. Numerous cases of the rich buying art, boats, etc outside of NY to escape NY tax. Some get caught but how many succeed. I imagine it is quite hard to find short of doing an inventory of their penthouses.
No I don't think it is normal. Consider Ford switched to aluminum for their F-150. Something they make more of in a month than Tesla makes all year. And yet somehow, like magic, they all pop out like cookies perfectly baked. For the 3, I keep thinking the old Lucy comedies where Lucy & her friend are on an assembly line and can't keep up. Hilarious comedy because you think it can't happen. But maybe it is over in Fremont.
Check out adafruit for just a few examples of stuff you can build. Between beaglebone and pi (to name just two) anyone with decent tinkering skills can do their own home automation with no snoop from google, apple, ... I know I have built a pool controller, irrigation controller, garage door interface, AC monitor, furnace monitor, CO2 monitor and soon to add ????. The main limitation I have found is power. They are too hungry to run off batteries.
There has been this company called flex (someone else owns them now I think) that can control software usage in every way imaginable.