The question will be if the self driving car of the future will be cheaper then owning a car.
At certain moments everybody will want to use a car. e.g. morning and evening traffic. This will still mean that in a total less cars would be needed. But there will be overhead costs.
Who will pay when the kid throws up in the car? Obviously that car will be out of commission. Then there is the profit a company will want to make. Also the fact that not everybody will be as carefull if they just rent it.
To lower the cost significantly, you would need to reduce the amount of cars. This means to reduce the amount of cars needed during rush hour. And that means public transport.
This means busses that will take to to trains and then to busses to get to your final destination.
This should be doable in highly populated areas (cities and suburbs) And then it becomes clear that the fact that these cars are driverless or not becomes irrelevant.
If public transport is a good option (e.g. around the same time in travel, at the same or lower cost and you can sit) people will prefer it.
Where I work now, the company pays my public transport. My travel time is shorter and I am able to sit during my commute. I would be an idiot to take my car. I am even thinking about selling it and renting one when I need one. Or using cambio.be
The key to all this is public transport. Without it, people will not have an incentive to drop their cars.
About the visual (I did not see the video) FPV (First Person View) flight is pretty common. Buy some goggles, a cheap camera and a transmitter and you are done. Just search for 'fpv quadcopter'
Looks like a standard quadcopter to me. That means it will have a pretty limited flight time and even less once you add weight and some wind. Standard is around 10 minutes. So that is 5 minutes distance in flight.
Add to that the time you need to change the batteries and add the load and you are easily at 15 minutes for a 5 minute flight. Add some maintenance/setting up to that and you get to 20.
In that time you could easily do 99.99% of the deliveries by foot. And the 0.01% where it might be good, you would need a doctor with the patient as well and not just depend on the person being able to take those critical medical supplies.
Anything else besides medicine? Most likely to heavy, so the flying time is even shorter.
There are obviously helicopters already available, and there is a reason they are not used for delivery on a large scale.
The fact that they look at quarters is an issue. It means that short term is more important than long term. Why otherwise would quarters be so important?
I have done quarterly presentations and it is bullshit. It means they are focusing on short term and that means they will forget about long term.
(I need to re-read "the 7 habits of highly effective people" again. It is the part about the golden goose)
Should it be an requirement that a men follow his female coworkers/customers into bars and strip clubs where men are degraded and turned into sex objects in order to retain their jobs?
This is, I think, more about the social situation then it is about the % of DNA. People can become a parent even if they have 0% similar DNA. It never has been an issue, so now would it suddenly become one.
If they would start calling sugar, sugar and not list it as several different ingredients to avoid being the major ingredient in general food, that would be nice.
When I look at your A, B and C, I do not see how one excludes the other. This is not OR/OR, this is AND/AND. I would also add the fact that government is there for the companies and not for the people.
TIL: When I place a bomb, just put a note on it that it is an art object.
People have thrown away art objects that were displayed in museums.People have had trouble for having t-shirts with wires on them.
Thanks to the media, we are now afraid of everything. In Brussels there was a bomb-threat-alarm, because somebody put a suitcase next to a dumpster. As a male I am afraid to help a child in need, because people might think I am a pedophile.
We are learning to be afraid all the time and as it has been said before : You have nothing to fear, but fear itself.
I do mind it. I mind all ads. Be it on the street. Be it written on my underwear. I do not want it and if possible I will avoid it. Or as Banksy said:
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.
What struck me was the word 'possible'. They make it sound as if they are there to help those who lost their job, which would be great. What it actually means is that if you apply and you worked for GTAT, they won't hold it against you, much.
Adblock block ads. Adblock whitelists ads when companies pay. (and that is known) Some companies took them up on the offer and payed Adblock so they were whitelisted.
Just curious, but why did they email any of that information in the first place. Where I live, the ONLY information I ever get from my bank is that my statement is available online. That's it. The reason is that everybody should understand that banks don't send anything else.
If something needs to be signed, I will download it or I will get to them and sign it there. There is no reason to send me any other information I already have.
I know people who have asked the bank to send them papers to sign via email and the bank said no.
Can you also ban non-vaccinated people or those who have non-vaccinated kids(*) from semi-public places like Disney World? From the work floor? From public transport or any other place where people gather? Because there are places, besides schools, where people could be together and transmit diseases. And yes I would ban the adults, not punish the children.
If you have Google Maps or Apple Maps, you need your data connection. There are other options available. I use Sygic and others are available. All offline. Some free, some you pay for.
If you add a (bluetooth) OBDII dongle, you can get the car data from the engine as well.
Many people have added their tablet (Apple and Android) as their primary interface for media. There is specific software available to do all this. Nothing stops you doing the same with your phone.
At this moment about 95% of the time all my radio does is transfer the sound of my phone to my boxes. I have not configured a radio station yet in the 5 years I have it. On big road trips, I prefer the Garmin, because it is easier to add a route like this into a route on the Garmin using Tyre and the Garmin software.
Added advantages for using my phone and not an internal system? When I want to do changes to it, I can do it at my desk. I can get a new device and upgrade or downgrade it as I please. If I drive with somebody, I can listen to their music. If they steal my car-radio, I buy a new one for 50-100EUR.
Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn't do anything.
"Are you feeling all right?" I asked her.
"I feel all sleepy," she said.
In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.
I am appalled that taxes are used for the people to be used for faster bandwidth. What they should do is give money to the ISPs who then in turn will provide faster internet.
Why has nobody done that in the past? What? Oh! (I only see a submit button, not a cancel button. Darn. Too late.)
My wife an I both work full time, yet we find time to cook from scratch every evening.
I am alone and make time to cook every day as well. Using a wok is an enourmous timesaver. Buy a book with recepies. Trow everything in a wok. Clean only one pan.
I am able to make a different menu with fresh produces every day in 5 minutes. And if I want to spend more time, I can. If you don't have experience it might take 20-30 minutes in the beginning. If I would do this for 2 people, the time would be the same.
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The question will be if the self driving car of the future will be cheaper then owning a car.
At certain moments everybody will want to use a car. e.g. morning and evening traffic. This will still mean that in a total less cars would be needed. But there will be overhead costs.
Who will pay when the kid throws up in the car? Obviously that car will be out of commission. Then there is the profit a company will want to make. Also the fact that not everybody will be as carefull if they just rent it.
To lower the cost significantly, you would need to reduce the amount of cars. This means to reduce the amount of cars needed during rush hour. And that means public transport.
This means busses that will take to to trains and then to busses to get to your final destination.
This should be doable in highly populated areas (cities and suburbs) And then it becomes clear that the fact that these cars are driverless or not becomes irrelevant.
If public transport is a good option (e.g. around the same time in travel, at the same or lower cost and you can sit) people will prefer it.
Where I work now, the company pays my public transport. My travel time is shorter and I am able to sit during my commute. I would be an idiot to take my car. I am even thinking about selling it and renting one when I need one. Or using cambio.be
The key to all this is public transport. Without it, people will not have an incentive to drop their cars.
Well, it happened a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away. Please don't judge me.
About the visual (I did not see the video) FPV (First Person View) flight is pretty common. Buy some goggles, a cheap camera and a transmitter and you are done. Just search for 'fpv quadcopter'
Looks like a standard quadcopter to me. That means it will have a pretty limited flight time and even less once you add weight and some wind. Standard is around 10 minutes.
So that is 5 minutes distance in flight.
Add to that the time you need to change the batteries and add the load and you are easily at 15 minutes for a 5 minute flight. Add some maintenance/setting up to that and you get to 20.
In that time you could easily do 99.99% of the deliveries by foot. And the 0.01% where it might be good, you would need a doctor with the patient as well and not just depend on the person being able to take those critical medical supplies.
Anything else besides medicine? Most likely to heavy, so the flying time is even shorter.
There are obviously helicopters already available, and there is a reason they are not used for delivery on a large scale.
The fact that they look at quarters is an issue. It means that short term is more important than long term. Why otherwise would quarters be so important?
I have done quarterly presentations and it is bullshit. It means they are focusing on short term and that means they will forget about long term.
(I need to re-read "the 7 habits of highly effective people" again. It is the part about the golden goose)
Should it be an requirement that a men follow his female coworkers/customers into bars and strip clubs where men are degraded and turned into sex objects in order to retain their jobs?
This is, I think, more about the social situation then it is about the % of DNA.
People can become a parent even if they have 0% similar DNA. It never has been an issue, so now would it suddenly become one.
If they would start calling sugar, sugar and not list it as several different ingredients to avoid being the major ingredient in general food, that would be nice.
When I look at your A, B and C, I do not see how one excludes the other. This is not OR/OR, this is AND/AND.
I would also add the fact that government is there for the companies and not for the people.
TIL: When I place a bomb, just put a note on it that it is an art object.
People have thrown away art objects that were displayed in museums.People have had trouble for having t-shirts with wires on them.
Thanks to the media, we are now afraid of everything. In Brussels there was a bomb-threat-alarm, because somebody put a suitcase next to a dumpster.
As a male I am afraid to help a child in need, because people might think I am a pedophile.
We are learning to be afraid all the time and as it has been said before : You have nothing to fear, but fear itself.
So, where is picture for Darwin awards ceremony?
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I do mind it. I mind all ads. Be it on the street. Be it written on my underwear. I do not want it and if possible I will avoid it. Or as Banksy said:
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.
What struck me was the word 'possible'. They make it sound as if they are there to help those who lost their job, which would be great. What it actually means is that if you apply and you worked for GTAT, they won't hold it against you, much.
Adblock block ads.
Adblock whitelists ads when companies pay. (and that is known)
Some companies took them up on the offer and payed Adblock so they were whitelisted.
So what makes this newsworthy again?
Yes, so it would not be a HUD perhaps, but the screen could be a display. That way it could work during the day as well.
Yep, it works.
Would it be possible to use this as a Head-Up Display in a car. Onbiously not to show movies when driving, but GPS and other essential data.
Just curious, but why did they email any of that information in the first place.
Where I live, the ONLY information I ever get from my bank is that my statement is available online. That's it.
The reason is that everybody should understand that banks don't send anything else.
If something needs to be signed, I will download it or I will get to them and sign it there. There is no reason to send me any other information I already have.
I know people who have asked the bank to send them papers to sign via email and the bank said no.
Should they be allowed to visit Disney? What about the playground in the park? What about any public place?
Should the parents be allowed to visit those places?
Can you also ban non-vaccinated people or those who have non-vaccinated kids(*) from semi-public places like Disney World? From the work floor? From public transport or any other place where people gather?
Because there are places, besides schools, where people could be together and transmit diseases.
And yes I would ban the adults, not punish the children.
(*)except those who have a medical condition
If you have Google Maps or Apple Maps, you need your data connection. There are other options available. I use Sygic and others are available. All offline. Some free, some you pay for.
If you add a (bluetooth) OBDII dongle, you can get the car data from the engine as well.
Many people have added their tablet (Apple and Android) as their primary interface for media. There is specific software available to do all this. Nothing stops you doing the same with your phone.
At this moment about 95% of the time all my radio does is transfer the sound of my phone to my boxes. I have not configured a radio station yet in the 5 years I have it. On big road trips, I prefer the Garmin, because it is easier to add a route like this into a route on the Garmin using Tyre and the Garmin software.
Added advantages for using my phone and not an internal system? When I want to do changes to it, I can do it at my desk. I can get a new device and upgrade or downgrade it as I please. If I drive with somebody, I can listen to their music. If they steal my car-radio, I buy a new one for 50-100EUR.
Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn't do anything.
"Are you feeling all right?" I asked her.
"I feel all sleepy," she said.
In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.
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I am appalled that taxes are used for the people to be used for faster bandwidth. What they should do is give money to the ISPs who then in turn will provide faster internet.
Why has nobody done that in the past? What? Oh! (I only see a submit button, not a cancel button. Darn. Too late.)
I am alone and make time to cook every day as well. Using a wok is an enourmous timesaver. Buy a book with recepies. Trow everything in a wok. Clean only one pan.
I am able to make a different menu with fresh produces every day in 5 minutes. And if I want to spend more time, I can.
If you don't have experience it might take 20-30 minutes in the beginning.
If I would do this for 2 people, the time would be the same.
So the defense of Uber that they are not a taxi company is that the cars were driving on their own anyway? Are these cars sentient beings?