The ill-fated driver of the Tesla in this crash, Joshua Brown, is the same person who earlier posted the video of the car avoiding a collision https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Perhaps he was more confident of the car's collision avoidance system than he should have been. He was *too loyal* a customer.
It's worth noting that Tesla's main feature is being an e-car. The self-driving features are something separate.
unless there are going to be huge subsidies for people to buy autonomous cars quickly, this dream of safer roads will never come to fruitation. I can't believe that an autonomous car will be anywhere near the price of a regular car, given that all current driver assist features are in more expensive cars.
If a new car has adaptive cruise control, lane keeper, self-parking, it doesn't need much more to be completely autonomous. Indeed, that's one reason the autonomous conversion will come quickly when it does. If the cameras and control mechanisms are there, it just software that's needed.
I'm not being heartless when I say this. But, all in all, it wasn't a bad way to go: riding in the cool car watching a movie, and it came quick. It can get a lot worse than that.
Some people have little need for cruise control. It's mostly only used on long trips. There's very few instances where you would need cruise control driving around it the city.
Maybe our experiences differ, but I've found cruise control beneficial even on relatively short trips - as long as they involve the expressway for at least a few miles. Engaging it only requires pressing 2 buttons (on the steering wheel) on my car; I do it as soon as I reach cruising speed.
Face it, it should have Lidar, but instead it uses cameras, and its comprehension of the cameras is not very good.
Thank you for the info. I had assumed Tesla was using Lidar, and I wondered about the mechanism of the failure.
That's the answer and the solution. The car only used visible wavelength cameras to detect obstacles. All autonomous cars should have Lidar, perhaps in infrared.
Actually, so-called "stealth" e-bikes are a thing. Some jurisdictions outlaw e-bikes (NYC, eg), and motorized bikes aren't allowed on bike paths or in the bus racks of some cities.
My favorite example was divulged in Lance's discussion with Joe Rogan. According to him (and, I guess, consider the source), cyclists have bitten down on a piece of cork tied to fishing line, pulled by a vehicle ahead. Getting pulled along by your teeth just to get a tiny bit extra seems right up there on the ridiculous meter.
I hadn't thought of that one. Nowadays, a drone could pull the line and then escape.
Personally, I'd like the challenge of beating the new system. I could do it. I currently don't have anything to do with the race, but I'm available for hire.
He's already admitted using drugs. And I hazard to say, there are still things he hasn't admitted to: like pre-storing red blood cells; and bribery.
A cautious writer would be hesitant declaring facts in caps. It's very possible Lance failed a test but managed to get the official result of the test declared as negative.
The word "sic" does not necessarily point out an error, it just clarifies that that was the way Tesla wrote it ("fabricated").
"Sic" is just latin for "like that".
The Latin adverb sic means "thus"; in full: sic erat scriptum, "thus was it written".
Simple quoting doesn't require a sic. If I were highlighting the source of the word "fabricated", I would have perhaps used [Tesla's characterization] after the word.
BTW, I'm not a big fan of Tesla or Elon Musk. I think electric cars (as opposed to hybrids) are a poor choice for cold climates or long distance driving..
Why would an e-vehicle be at a disadvantage in a cold climate?
Starting an electric motor is same for a wide range of temperature. There's no need for oil to circulate, and there's no complicated combustion chamber chemistry. In terms of starting, an e-vehicle is much more reliable than an internal combustion engine vehicle.
True, battery performance reduces with temperature. But the effect is not sufficient to require special attention in most climates. Moreover, as the vehicle uses the battery, it heats.
Heating the cabin *is* more difficult in an e-vehicle. ICEs have plenty of "waste" heat that can be used to heat the cabin, but electric motors don't have that. Thus, getting comfortable in an e-car is going to cost something on the range.
Sleep deprivation should be in that list. As should emotional condition, financial pressure, etc.
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Performance testing with a video game is superior to drug testing. In a performance critical job, like driving a forklift, the drivers should have to pass a game-based test before starting a workday.
I'm sorry, but you lose all credibility when you don't know the difference between "affect" and "effect" or "prescribe" and "proscribe". With your obvious lack of education, I seriously doubt that you are in any position to hire or fire.
You need to be careful when you criticize. English could be the poster's second language.
Regarding your education of the language, in what year of your schooling did your educators explain avoiding the introductory "I'm sorry"?
When I worked at Dover, my supervisor told us the company was going to begin mandatory urine testing. He said if he discovered someone coming up clean, *he wanted to know Why!*
I know several surgeons personally who have themselves routinely tested at an independent laboratory to protect themselves from legal claims of impairment...
You seem to be implying doctors don't do drugs. Even if your statement about testing is true, it doesn't mean much. Most urine tests are non-observed, particularly if you pay for them from a private company. A non-observed test is easy to circumvent.
But what kind of surgeons do you know? I haven't asked, but I really doubt the doctors I know would bother with a legal precaution like that.
. Do you test your heart surgeon for legal drugs?... How much caffeine did he imbibe...?
I personally know a highly respected neurosurgeon. He once told me any serious neurosurgeon would have quit caffeine because it makes you shake microscopically. He told me one colleague of his was "worthless under a microscope", meaning that the colleague would shake too much doing microsurgery under a microscope. The conversation made _me_ consider quitting coffee.
Regarding narcotics, although doctors get the highest respect rating of any profession, it's well known medical professionals, doctors included, self-medicate. Many are addicted. Even if they get caught, there generally is no punishment. It's one of the privileges of the job
I did heroin for many years. I was on methadone for years too. And now, for about 5 years, have been taking buprenorphine.
There is so much written on the subject http://www.bluelight.org/vb/th..., I hesitate to add, particularly since I criticize people for tending to be long-winded on it.
I currently have both Suboxone strips, for which placing under the tongue is the route of administration and Zubsolv, another formulation.
I, personally, wouldn't like an implant, because you can't adjust your dose to suit the circumstances. I guess the advantage is convenience.
There are lots of problems with this design. It doesn't deal with pedestrians, bicycles, and scooters that use the space between cars. It also doesn't handle trucks, or roof racks, that stick up above the height of a normal car. I cannot go under bridges or overpasses, or through intersections with suspended traffic lights. It doesn't even deal with people opening car doors to enter or exit. The design is just silly, and nobody should take it seriously.
Solving those problems is simple. Build an even higher bus to go over this one! - and so on.
A race gets special privilege in modern society. Consequently, people defending Islam want to elevate its status to race, allowing it avoid attacks from people who don't want to be labeled as racist.
For this issue, it's fortunate I'm an atheist. It can't be said that my anti-Islam attitude stems from my Christianity.
It isn't confirmed that this is a terrorist attack. Not at all.
I don't think it's clear at all that terror was responsible....
Let's use bomb or device instead of "terror". That word is ambiguous and fraught with unscientific meaning.
You can't conclude a bomb caused the crash with the current evidence, but you certainly can say things point to it. The plane was an EgyptAir flying from Paris to Cairo. That's an airline that recently experienced a bomb and cities that recently have had Muslim bombing activity.
The invoked sensors were all localized on the front right of the plane around the galley. The plane dropped quickly.
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Perhaps he was more confident of the car's collision avoidance system than he should have been. He was *too loyal* a customer.
It's worth noting that Tesla's main feature is being an e-car. The self-driving features are something separate.
unless there are going to be huge subsidies for people to buy autonomous cars quickly, this dream of safer roads will never come to fruitation. I can't believe that an autonomous car will be anywhere near the price of a regular car, given that all current driver assist features are in more expensive cars.
If a new car has adaptive cruise control, lane keeper, self-parking, it doesn't need much more to be completely autonomous. Indeed, that's one reason the autonomous conversion will come quickly when it does. If the cameras and control mechanisms are there, it just software that's needed.
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I'm not being heartless when I say this. But, all in all, it wasn't a bad way to go: riding in the cool car watching a movie, and it came quick. It can get a lot worse than that.
Some people have little need for cruise control. It's mostly only used on long trips. There's very few instances where you would need cruise control driving around it the city.
Maybe our experiences differ, but I've found cruise control beneficial even on relatively short trips - as long as they involve the expressway for at least a few miles. Engaging it only requires pressing 2 buttons (on the steering wheel) on my car; I do it as soon as I reach cruising speed.
Face it, it should have Lidar, but instead it uses cameras, and its comprehension of the cameras is not very good.
Thank you for the info. I had assumed Tesla was using Lidar, and I wondered about the mechanism of the failure.
That's the answer and the solution. The car only used visible wavelength cameras to detect obstacles. All autonomous cars should have Lidar, perhaps in infrared.
Actually, so-called "stealth" e-bikes are a thing. Some jurisdictions outlaw e-bikes (NYC, eg), and motorized bikes aren't allowed on bike paths or in the bus racks of some cities.
My favorite example was divulged in Lance's discussion with Joe Rogan. According to him (and, I guess, consider the source), cyclists have bitten down on a piece of cork tied to fishing line, pulled by a vehicle ahead. Getting pulled along by your teeth just to get a tiny bit extra seems right up there on the ridiculous meter.
I hadn't thought of that one. Nowadays, a drone could pull the line and then escape.
I hate sports too.
move focus ...towards sports like football ... where it's much less beneficial.
Football = Steroid Competition
Personally, I'd like the challenge of beating the new system. I could do it. I currently don't have anything to do with the race, but I'm available for hire.
Lance Armstrong has never failed a drug test.
That is a FACT.
He's already admitted using drugs. And I hazard to say, there are still things he hasn't admitted to: like pre-storing red blood cells; and bribery.
A cautious writer would be hesitant declaring facts in caps. It's very possible Lance failed a test but managed to get the official result of the test declared as negative.
Am I the only one who actively avoids videos whenever I'm not specifically seeking them out? If...
I use keywords and phrases to decide what to read. For example, if a post begins with, "Am I the only..." I pass it up.
The word "sic" does not necessarily point out an error, it just clarifies that that was the way Tesla wrote it ("fabricated").
"Sic" is just latin for "like that".
The Latin adverb sic means "thus"; in full: sic erat scriptum, "thus was it written".
Simple quoting doesn't require a sic. If I were highlighting the source of the word "fabricated", I would have perhaps used [Tesla's characterization] after the word.
BTW, I'm not a big fan of Tesla or Elon Musk. I think electric cars (as opposed to hybrids) are a poor choice for cold climates or long distance driving..
Why would an e-vehicle be at a disadvantage in a cold climate?
Starting an electric motor is same for a wide range of temperature. There's no need for oil to circulate, and there's no complicated combustion chamber chemistry. In terms of starting, an e-vehicle is much more reliable than an internal combustion engine vehicle.
True, battery performance reduces with temperature. But the effect is not sufficient to require special attention in most climates. Moreover, as the vehicle uses the battery, it heats.
Heating the cabin *is* more difficult in an e-vehicle. ICEs have plenty of "waste" heat that can be used to heat the cabin, but electric motors don't have that. Thus, getting comfortable in an e-car is going to cost something on the range.
- The blogger who fabricated this issue (sic) is the same person who previously wrote a blog titled "Tesla Death Watch"
What's the "sic" for? I don't see the error.
Sleep deprivation should be in that list. As should emotional condition, financial pressure, etc.
...
Performance testing with a video game is superior to drug testing. In a performance critical job, like driving a forklift, the drivers should have to pass a game-based test before starting a workday.
I'm sorry, but you lose all credibility when you don't know the difference between "affect" and "effect" or "prescribe" and "proscribe". With your obvious lack of education, I seriously doubt that you are in any position to hire or fire.
You need to be careful when you criticize. English could be the poster's second language.
Regarding your education of the language, in what year of your schooling did your educators explain avoiding the introductory "I'm sorry"?
When I worked at Dover, my supervisor told us the company was going to begin mandatory urine testing. He said if he discovered someone coming up clean, *he wanted to know Why!*
I know several surgeons personally who have themselves routinely tested at an independent laboratory to protect themselves from legal claims of impairment...
You seem to be implying doctors don't do drugs. Even if your statement about testing is true, it doesn't mean much. Most urine tests are non-observed, particularly if you pay for them from a private company. A non-observed test is easy to circumvent.
But what kind of surgeons do you know? I haven't asked, but I really doubt the doctors I know would bother with a legal precaution like that.
. Do you test your heart surgeon for legal drugs?... How much caffeine did he imbibe ...?
I personally know a highly respected neurosurgeon. He once told me any serious neurosurgeon would have quit caffeine because it makes you shake microscopically. He told me one colleague of his was "worthless under a microscope", meaning that the colleague would shake too much doing microsurgery under a microscope. The conversation made _me_ consider quitting coffee.
Regarding narcotics, although doctors get the highest respect rating of any profession, it's well known medical professionals, doctors included, self-medicate. Many are addicted. Even if they get caught, there generally is no punishment. It's one of the privileges of the job
I met a real drug addict about a year ago,
I did heroin for many years. I was on methadone for years too. And now, for about 5 years, have been taking buprenorphine. There is so much written on the subject http://www.bluelight.org/vb/th..., I hesitate to add, particularly since I criticize people for tending to be long-winded on it. I currently have both Suboxone strips, for which placing under the tongue is the route of administration and Zubsolv, another formulation. I, personally, wouldn't like an implant, because you can't adjust your dose to suit the circumstances. I guess the advantage is convenience.
There are lots of problems with this design. It doesn't deal with pedestrians, bicycles, and scooters that use the space between cars. It also doesn't handle trucks, or roof racks, that stick up above the height of a normal car. I cannot go under bridges or overpasses, or through intersections with suspended traffic lights. It doesn't even deal with people opening car doors to enter or exit. The design is just silly, and nobody should take it seriously.
Solving those problems is simple. Build an even higher bus to go over this one! - and so on.
...who do you blame for the IRA's terrorism?
Religion plays a large role.
Since when was Islam a race?
A race gets special privilege in modern society. Consequently, people defending Islam want to elevate its status to race, allowing it avoid attacks from people who don't want to be labeled as racist.
For this issue, it's fortunate I'm an atheist. It can't be said that my anti-Islam attitude stems from my Christianity.
It isn't confirmed that this is a terrorist attack. Not at all.
I don't think it's clear at all that terror was responsible....
Let's use bomb or device instead of "terror". That word is ambiguous and fraught with unscientific meaning.
You can't conclude a bomb caused the crash with the current evidence, but you certainly can say things point to it. The plane was an EgyptAir flying from Paris to Cairo. That's an airline that recently experienced a bomb and cities that recently have had Muslim bombing activity. The invoked sensors were all localized on the front right of the plane around the galley. The plane dropped quickly.
=Muslim bomb.