A Google Home is just a smart mic that responds to a keyword. What is it storing in "sleep" mode that it needs to spit back to Google when it wakes up? Is it recording at all times and spewing compressed audio back to the mothership?
I'd be surprised if paying for (essentially) a taxi every day were cheaper than buying something like a beater Corolla, putting liability-only insurance on it, and driving it to work every day.
Most people that benefit from Lyft or Uber live in denser areas that had taxi service or public transit anyway. Did the people being interviewed move in the last few years and maybe not buy another car?
In the same time frame, how many people moved to more suburban areas where a (non-shared) car is generally needed to get around?
No sarcasm intended: I'm on the side of the taxi companies. Not because they offer terribly great service, but because they accept cash. Cash = anonymity. Companies like Uber and Lyft building a map of personal travels to be kept for posterity is an awful idea.
Thanks Tesla for normalizing electric vehicles. No thanks Tesla for normalizing Draconian customer treatment. (1) All vehicles are tracked by Tesla at all times (2) Customers can't buy/sell their own parts, they have to go through Tesla to so much as change a headlight.
Yuck. If I have a vehicle, I want to OWN it. Really own it. Pretty sure my next electric vehicle would be something like a Miata or classic MG converted to electric. I can skip the tracking and customer abuse.
Or they knew it, and didn't care. 9/11 was a boon for big government, the surveillance state, and militarism in general. There were plenty of people who had an interest in allowing it to happen.
Busses and planes are operated by people who generally don't want to die in an accident. An autonomous car with maliciously altered software doesn't have to harm the perpetrator. THAT's the difference. A bus, train, or plane operator is essentially a hostage to proper operation of the vehicle, because their life is at stake if they fail too badly.
"Minimal control system capable of slamming on the brakes" -- spoken like someone who's never ridden a bike. Having a bike brake itself without warning to the user would likely result in a bike crash, since the rider can't prepare their body for sudden change of force.
If this is required, most cyclists would disable the damn thing the day they buy the bike. Enforcement? Please. US cities often require lights on bikes at night, and how many cyclists actually use lights?
In the air (other than immediately on takeoff and landing) the nearest hard objects are thousands feet away. Not four feet or less like on the road. There's actually LESS room for error in driving vs flying.
You could do it on a Chromebook. But why bother, when non-crippled PCs like refurb Thinkpads can be had for the same price, and don't steal your data by default.
Better it happen to me on a motorbike than pissing and shitting myself in a nursing home.
Famous quote from Con Air, via Steve Buscemi...
"What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to piss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?"
I hope there will be 2 or 3 redundant motors doing steering and brakes, hooked up to 3 computers with code written separately calling the shots. That's the way fly-by-wire airliners work, and their separation distance from hard, immovable objects is a lot further than cars'.
This might be the push to make me move to a developing country, where life and labor are "cheaper," and autonomous car-pods won't be popular for another 50 years (when I'm over 80!).
A country where all of my transportation options are (logged, paid via credit cars) autonomous rental cars is my definition of panopticon hell. I'd rather ride my own Honda 125 around a Latin American city.
Anyone remember the oil refinery scene at the beginning of Red Storm Rising? Now the fundie engineer doesn't even have to go near the refinery to cause chaos.
If there weren't theft and fraud, a good number of them would be out on the street, looking for a private-sector job. What makes you think they want to end such crimes?
We shouldn't have been in Korea either -- we wouldn't have lost much if the entire peninsula fell under Soviet or Chinese control, and we wouldn't be spending blood and treasure maintaining the DMZ today.
If we suffer another 9/11, so what? 4000 people died on 9/11. 9/11 was 16.5 years ago. 250 deaths/yr are nothing compared to deaths from smoking, guns, obesity, and cars. We could save more lives by putting the money spent on wars towards American public healthcare.
It's more like the violent mugging is 12000 miles away, and you fly there to kill the mugger. But while you're gone, your wife gets raped and your kids get their lunch money stolen.
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A Google Home is just a smart mic that responds to a keyword. What is it storing in "sleep" mode that it needs to spit back to Google when it wakes up? Is it recording at all times and spewing compressed audio back to the mothership?
App is another strike against it: (a) you have to pay for a data plan (b) your phone has to be charged to use it
I'd be surprised if paying for (essentially) a taxi every day were cheaper than buying something like a beater Corolla, putting liability-only insurance on it, and driving it to work every day.
Most people that benefit from Lyft or Uber live in denser areas that had taxi service or public transit anyway. Did the people being interviewed move in the last few years and maybe not buy another car?
In the same time frame, how many people moved to more suburban areas where a (non-shared) car is generally needed to get around?
No sarcasm intended: I'm on the side of the taxi companies. Not because they offer terribly great service, but because they accept cash. Cash = anonymity. Companies like Uber and Lyft building a map of personal travels to be kept for posterity is an awful idea.
Thanks Tesla for normalizing electric vehicles.
No thanks Tesla for normalizing Draconian customer treatment.
(1) All vehicles are tracked by Tesla at all times
(2) Customers can't buy/sell their own parts, they have to go through Tesla to so much as change a headlight.
Yuck. If I have a vehicle, I want to OWN it. Really own it. Pretty sure my next electric vehicle would be something like a Miata or classic MG converted to electric. I can skip the tracking and customer abuse.
Or they knew it, and didn't care. 9/11 was a boon for big government, the surveillance state, and militarism in general. There were plenty of people who had an interest in allowing it to happen.
Busses and planes are operated by people who generally don't want to die in an accident. An autonomous car with maliciously altered software doesn't have to harm the perpetrator. THAT's the difference. A bus, train, or plane operator is essentially a hostage to proper operation of the vehicle, because their life is at stake if they fail too badly.
"Minimal control system capable of slamming on the brakes" -- spoken like someone who's never ridden a bike. Having a bike brake itself without warning to the user would likely result in a bike crash, since the rider can't prepare their body for sudden change of force. If this is required, most cyclists would disable the damn thing the day they buy the bike. Enforcement? Please. US cities often require lights on bikes at night, and how many cyclists actually use lights?
In the air (other than immediately on takeoff and landing) the nearest hard objects are thousands feet away. Not four feet or less like on the road. There's actually LESS room for error in driving vs flying.
Polish language is an interesting exception -- "herbata" = "tea".
New iMacs seem to still have removable RAM and SSD. Even the latest, bleeding-edge Pro models.
You could do it on a Chromebook. But why bother, when non-crippled PCs like refurb Thinkpads can be had for the same price, and don't steal your data by default.
Better it happen to me on a motorbike than pissing and shitting myself in a nursing home. Famous quote from Con Air, via Steve Buscemi... "What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to piss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?"
I hope there will be 2 or 3 redundant motors doing steering and brakes, hooked up to 3 computers with code written separately calling the shots. That's the way fly-by-wire airliners work, and their separation distance from hard, immovable objects is a lot further than cars'.
Honestly, I don't have much concern about that -- I'm not a coward.
This might be the push to make me move to a developing country, where life and labor are "cheaper," and autonomous car-pods won't be popular for another 50 years (when I'm over 80!).
A country where all of my transportation options are (logged, paid via credit cars) autonomous rental cars is my definition of panopticon hell. I'd rather ride my own Honda 125 around a Latin American city.
Anyone remember the oil refinery scene at the beginning of Red Storm Rising? Now the fundie engineer doesn't even have to go near the refinery to cause chaos.
If there weren't theft and fraud, a good number of them would be out on the street, looking for a private-sector job. What makes you think they want to end such crimes?
If we were honest and ACTUALLY concerned about security, we would have sanctioned the Saudis (or even invaded) on 9/12/2001.
We shouldn't have been in Korea either -- we wouldn't have lost much if the entire peninsula fell under Soviet or Chinese control, and we wouldn't be spending blood and treasure maintaining the DMZ today.
If we suffer another 9/11, so what? 4000 people died on 9/11. 9/11 was 16.5 years ago. 250 deaths/yr are nothing compared to deaths from smoking, guns, obesity, and cars. We could save more lives by putting the money spent on wars towards American public healthcare.
It's more like the violent mugging is 12000 miles away, and you fly there to kill the mugger. But while you're gone, your wife gets raped and your kids get their lunch money stolen.
Maybe it's time to re-think what we're interested in fighting for. We no longer need foreign oil. We can't save people who are unwilling to be saved.
Fine -- so let other neighboring countries clean up their own mess (regarding ISIS).