No, it should be "cars equal." People shouldn't be subject to the death penalty just for daring to walk, cycle -- both are lower-carbon than driving. Also, exercise is healthy -- do you really want a world like Wall-E?
Then again, Bulgarians, Romanians, etc can get work permits in Germany fairly trivially. The situation is more like the US if California had a legal guest-worker agreement with Mexico.
If it can't drive at least as well as a human -- i.e. be able to respond to outside environment, signs, road markings, other vehicles, and follow a generalized map of how streets connect to one another, it's not "self driving."
Humans don't need a map to the nearest half-inch to drive a vehicle. An autonomous car should not need that either.
A human would have likely slowed down or moved to the center lane, based on their prediction of possible other-human behavior. Especially if there was a crowd from a concert on the sidewalk. Computers are good at following rules, bad at predictive reasoning. Though they can now add a rule...
I'm not expecting this from Goober. I'm expecting the law to mandate all this and more -- and that any company that doesn't implement redundant systems will be sued into bankruptcy.
"Highway" in this case doesn't mean a numbered state/national route. It means a public right-of-way -- basically all public roads where cars can legally go.
(1) We're talking about water that saves lives, not meth that destroys them.
(2) The water cache is usable by anyone lost in the desert. Hikers, ranchers, even a Border Patrol member in need.
(3) Nothing illegal about drinking water or offering it. Just monitor who is using the cache.
This is stupid...
Why destroy the caches instead of dropping a small wireless camera to monitor them, and catching the (well-hydrated and not dead) people who end up using them?
There's nothing sacred about the law itself-- plenty of laws should be rendered null and void for cost and human rights reasons.
e.g. cops that let drug offenses involving consenting adults slide, or do the same with prostitution between consenting adults are heroes. They're saving the state money and saving people from a record for not hurting anyone.
Many laws were written by a bunch of old impotents who managed to con the public into voting for them. Politicians and lawyers are two professions most likely to be outright psychopaths.
There should be redundant sensors, with the car refusing to move autonomously if one out of several fails or if performance is degraded due to dirt, dust, or ice.
The bigger issue is, are the computers themselves redundant? Are the actuators they run redundant? Is the electric system redundant enough so that a blown fuse doesn't result in a car plowing into a crowd?
How many times a year does your computer freeze and need to be power-cycled, versus your brain doing the same. I hope they're using three redundant computers with separately written software, sort of like fly-by-wire aircraft do. The computers "vote" -- if one is out of whack from the other two, it's taken out of the loop.
Even more important in cars since the separation distance between them and immovable objects tends to be measured in feet versus hundreds to thousands of feet.
I feel bad for the lady As well as the first responders who couldn't save her.
Uber and the team -- working for a company that wants to eventually replace private and public transport with their "rented" autonomous vehicles, nope. Uber's long-term model doesn't allow for privacy, since each rental is tied to a profile, reputation, and bank account or credit card. The data will be there, to be sold to marketeers and governments.
The "team" and "Uber" itself can go eat a week-old spoiled sausage.
In many civilized countries (i.e. UK), pedestrians always have the right-of-way -- cars are expected to exercise due care not to hit someone, and "jaywalking" as a legal concept does not exist.
But yeah, Tempe (and Phoenix sprawlopolis) in general are terribly designed for pedestrians -- you often have to walk a long distance to even get to a crosswalk, and traffic light timing can be too short to allow pedestrians to cross without running.
Actually, cutting in at the last minute is most efficient, since you have two lanes for as long as possible, and the choke-point is moved as far as possible forward. Also, is which lane goes where clearly marked ahead of time?
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Did you cuff them one in the nose after they safely stopped at a light?
No, it should be "cars equal." People shouldn't be subject to the death penalty just for daring to walk, cycle -- both are lower-carbon than driving. Also, exercise is healthy -- do you really want a world like Wall-E?
Then again, Bulgarians, Romanians, etc can get work permits in Germany fairly trivially. The situation is more like the US if California had a legal guest-worker agreement with Mexico.
If it can't drive at least as well as a human -- i.e. be able to respond to outside environment, signs, road markings, other vehicles, and follow a generalized map of how streets connect to one another, it's not "self driving."
Humans don't need a map to the nearest half-inch to drive a vehicle. An autonomous car should not need that either.
Haha -- every fourth street (literally) in the Poenis, AZ area fits that description.
A human would have likely slowed down or moved to the center lane, based on their prediction of possible other-human behavior. Especially if there was a crowd from a concert on the sidewalk. Computers are good at following rules, bad at predictive reasoning. Though they can now add a rule...
I'm not expecting this from Goober. I'm expecting the law to mandate all this and more -- and that any company that doesn't implement redundant systems will be sued into bankruptcy.
"Highway" in this case doesn't mean a numbered state/national route. It means a public right-of-way -- basically all public roads where cars can legally go.
Close enough -- #2 and #7 are both involved in interpreting and enforcing the law. Also, guess which profession most politicians come from? :)
(1) We're talking about water that saves lives, not meth that destroys them. (2) The water cache is usable by anyone lost in the desert. Hikers, ranchers, even a Border Patrol member in need. (3) Nothing illegal about drinking water or offering it. Just monitor who is using the cache.
This is stupid... Why destroy the caches instead of dropping a small wireless camera to monitor them, and catching the (well-hydrated and not dead) people who end up using them?
There's nothing sacred about the law itself-- plenty of laws should be rendered null and void for cost and human rights reasons.
e.g. cops that let drug offenses involving consenting adults slide, or do the same with prostitution between consenting adults are heroes. They're saving the state money and saving people from a record for not hurting anyone.
Many laws were written by a bunch of old impotents who managed to con the public into voting for them. Politicians and lawyers are two professions most likely to be outright psychopaths.
And the pilot is typically paying attention during the autoland phase, ready to take over. Not sipping a latte and playing on their phone.
That's why we have things called "windshields" :)
Sleep is somewhat predictable, frozen software/hardware, less so.
An argument for not building cities where cars come first at the expense of people who want to walk or cycle. Regardless of what's driving the cars.
There should be redundant sensors, with the car refusing to move autonomously if one out of several fails or if performance is degraded due to dirt, dust, or ice. The bigger issue is, are the computers themselves redundant? Are the actuators they run redundant? Is the electric system redundant enough so that a blown fuse doesn't result in a car plowing into a crowd?
How many times a year does your computer freeze and need to be power-cycled, versus your brain doing the same. I hope they're using three redundant computers with separately written software, sort of like fly-by-wire aircraft do. The computers "vote" -- if one is out of whack from the other two, it's taken out of the loop.
Even more important in cars since the separation distance between them and immovable objects tends to be measured in feet versus hundreds to thousands of feet.
I feel bad for the lady As well as the first responders who couldn't save her.
Uber and the team -- working for a company that wants to eventually replace private and public transport with their "rented" autonomous vehicles, nope. Uber's long-term model doesn't allow for privacy, since each rental is tied to a profile, reputation, and bank account or credit card. The data will be there, to be sold to marketeers and governments.
The "team" and "Uber" itself can go eat a week-old spoiled sausage.
Depends on the state/country. In most of the US, this isn't true, unfortunately. The US is generally very abusive to pedestrians and cyclists.
Realistically, the robo-cage should react appropriately or slow way down in zones with pedestrian traffic.
In many civilized countries (i.e. UK), pedestrians always have the right-of-way -- cars are expected to exercise due care not to hit someone, and "jaywalking" as a legal concept does not exist.
But yeah, Tempe (and Phoenix sprawlopolis) in general are terribly designed for pedestrians -- you often have to walk a long distance to even get to a crosswalk, and traffic light timing can be too short to allow pedestrians to cross without running.
If you're storing files on OneDrive, you're part of the issue -- an enabler of MS's data theft (aka "cloud ecosystem").
Actually, cutting in at the last minute is most efficient, since you have two lanes for as long as possible, and the choke-point is moved as far as possible forward. Also, is which lane goes where clearly marked ahead of time?
(1) Don't feed the troll
(2) Consulting is where the $ are at -- consult to companies whose disasters exceed their ability, and bill 4x the hourly
(3) There's always the option of teaching, especially if you can code