If you don't have to pay the salary of the driver, and the insurance of the car, and the fuel costs less, suddenly just hiring a car every time you want to go somewhere becomes much, much cheaper. Perhaps many people won't even own a car any more.
Given a huge economic motivation of every activity that spends money on delivery, transportation, fuel costs, parking, risk, etc, it is quite possible that most cars and trucks will be converted to driverless, and drivers who insist on driving, will simply have to pay more in insurance, parking, etc.
Not too different, arguments and many other apparenly innocent things cause accidents all the time. In fact accidents figure quite heavily in the obituaries in most places, especially for people under 60, at which point they start dying mostly of cancer and heart disease. Driving is more like a adventure sport than people are aware, lots of risks, adventure, adrenaline, and costs involved.
GPS is not even close to being enough data to drive cars. It has to be intensely based on sensors and cameras, with some extreme image processing, environment building, and prediction. Tons of unpredictable things happen in traffic, that depend on vision. Seeing signs, road stripes, seeing the road when the stripes are wrong, the other cars, predicting the other cars actions, seeing and predicting actions for pedestrians and bicycles, seeing brake lights, debri and obstacles on the road, etc.
can't wait for a self driven car. It will be a revolution in private transportation.
Likely it will evolve quickly through driverless > self-parking > self-fueling > outsourced service, until you simply make a call, say where you want to go, and something shows up and takes you there.
Straight line: Nowhere in the world do you get a straight line for most routes. Only in small roadside towns, and the salt flats. Not even planes fly in a straight line to their destination - there are designated flight paths - air roads, if you wish.
Mini-cars that that are automatic and take you door-to-door. The cars can be private or public. That's called a PRT system, which has been implemented in Masdar.
At the 2nd of 3rd generation of driverless cars. As a second priority,after a few years of use, consequence of many people having automated routing, driverless, more secure, economical and faster cars. After the end of faulty drivers causing accidents, cars get much smaller, lighter, and faster. The only reason we cant go 120mph all the time is accidents, most people couldnt even control the vehicle.
A huge amount of city planning actually could be called car-planning. Roads, traffic, parking, fines, licencing, pedestrians, safety, refueling, etc. Most importantly, space - roads, parking and car-services stores take up huge amounts of space. Changing the cars changes a lot of how the city works. Every uban planner is always complaing about the limitations cars impose on the possibilities. Look as Masdar cars.
Seems established that revolutionizing education with computer hardware access, in developed countries where pretty much everyone has access to computers, didn't revolutionize education.
Maybe the real education system has to be software. Maybe revolutionizing education really is just resolving to actually do it, hard work, and discipline. Maybe good tools just help teachers - and we will always need good teachers to get good students.
And so now the leading investment is in anti-drone missiles. Then, unmanned anti-missile-launcher robots. Then... every country just keeps on finding ways to shoot, rather than talk. Perhaps it will end when every growing leaf becomes either weaponized or dead.
The patent office's real job is to keep all of society locked in their cubes, think of dumb things that produce nothing but will make a ton of money, forget that society even exists, and depend solely on food delivery and masturbation for survival. So, let us patent "method for masturbation." Yes, the traditional one. What, me invent something?
He is a politician. He wants to get re-elected. Hollywood is in his state, and so is Silicon Valley, both paying him. There are a few voters too, but it is not clear if they are paying attention. They usually aren't, and besides, they have short memory. So politicians usually pander to money > buy ads > get votes.
It seems reasonable to debate that the political winds could eventually change direction, and "copyright owners" would simply start being viewed as "censors", rather than "legitimate business interests", "job generators", "authors and artists", etc. Possible or not?
much less turning this off because it is a security risk.
...but it's a security *feature*! See it's called "wifi protected setup". No way I'm disabling that, and then what, my wifi setup won't be protected? Are you kidding me? These hacker guys are trying to fool you into turning it off!
Lots of derogatory remarks towards managers. Not so easy to be in a position of orienting others be it for educating, leading, organizing, inspiring, managing or whatever else. I myself despise jobs coporations and management -do all kinds of things but never accept jobs anymore. But if you want to do anything bigger, you need more people, and you need organization. Whatever you do, whether it is open source coding, protesting, having a big party, or a small company, you will have people, jobs, money, decisions, time, deadlines, projections, taking risks, evaluating, persisting...
In fact I think a lot of things, democracy, neighborhoods, families, small businesses, open source projects, don't move along better just because the population has no training in how to work together. Even though lots of people work their ass off, there is no coordination, so everyone is pushing in opposite directions.
Of you really want to learn about managing people and projects, join a bunch of grassroots and other small projects where everyone is basically doing and saying what they want.
Well they have stated on the record that they don't really hope to block all file sharing - they just want to make it as hard, impractical, frustrating, and inefficient as possible. So poisoning downloads, breaking dns, domains, uploading fakes, scaring, suing, intimidating, etc, is their chosen strategy. War of attrition?
Slashdot Mirror
Now we won't transfer our warez over any wires or IP numbers at all, and will just teleport the data all over the place.
If you don't have to pay the salary of the driver, and the insurance of the car, and the fuel costs less, suddenly just hiring a car every time you want to go somewhere becomes much, much cheaper. Perhaps many people won't even own a car any more.
I have heard of many cities where driverless subways are a reality for many years now.
Given a huge economic motivation of every activity that spends money on delivery, transportation, fuel costs, parking, risk, etc, it is quite possible that most cars and trucks will be converted to driverless, and drivers who insist on driving, will simply have to pay more in insurance, parking, etc.
Not too different, arguments and many other apparenly innocent things cause accidents all the time. In fact accidents figure quite heavily in the obituaries in most places, especially for people under 60, at which point they start dying mostly of cancer and heart disease. Driving is more like a adventure sport than people are aware, lots of risks, adventure, adrenaline, and costs involved.
GPS is not even close to being enough data to drive cars. It has to be intensely based on sensors and cameras, with some extreme image processing, environment building, and prediction. Tons of unpredictable things happen in traffic, that depend on vision. Seeing signs, road stripes, seeing the road when the stripes are wrong, the other cars, predicting the other cars actions, seeing and predicting actions for pedestrians and bicycles, seeing brake lights, debri and obstacles on the road, etc.
can't wait for a self driven car. It will be a revolution in private transportation.
Likely it will evolve quickly through driverless > self-parking > self-fueling > outsourced service, until you simply make a call, say where you want to go, and something shows up and takes you there.
Straight line: Nowhere in the world do you get a straight line for most routes. Only in small roadside towns, and the salt flats. Not even planes fly in a straight line to their destination - there are designated flight paths - air roads, if you wish.
I guess pedestrians can be planned for just as other cars can. Separate roadways, levels, or sensors and driving system avoidance.
Mini-cars that that are automatic and take you door-to-door. The cars can be private or public. That's called a PRT system, which has been implemented in Masdar.
At the 2nd of 3rd generation of driverless cars. As a second priority,after a few years of use, consequence of many people having automated routing, driverless, more secure, economical and faster cars. After the end of faulty drivers causing accidents, cars get much smaller, lighter, and faster. The only reason we cant go 120mph all the time is accidents, most people couldnt even control the vehicle.
A huge amount of city planning actually could be called car-planning. Roads, traffic, parking, fines, licencing, pedestrians, safety, refueling, etc. Most importantly, space - roads, parking and car-services stores take up huge amounts of space. Changing the cars changes a lot of how the city works. Every uban planner is always complaing about the limitations cars impose on the possibilities. Look as Masdar cars.
They don't have to "revolutionize" education.
Seems established that revolutionizing education with computer hardware access, in developed countries where pretty much everyone has access to computers, didn't revolutionize education.
Maybe the real education system has to be software. Maybe revolutionizing education really is just resolving to actually do it, hard work, and discipline. Maybe good tools just help teachers - and we will always need good teachers to get good students.
No? Then why can they know what we search for? Do we work for them, or the other way around?
And so now the leading investment is in anti-drone missiles. Then, unmanned anti-missile-launcher robots. Then... every country just keeps on finding ways to shoot, rather than talk. Perhaps it will end when every growing leaf becomes either weaponized or dead.
The patent office's real job is to keep all of society locked in their cubes, think of dumb things that produce nothing but will make a ton of money, forget that society even exists, and depend solely on food delivery and masturbation for survival. So, let us patent "method for masturbation." Yes, the traditional one. What, me invent something?
Oh, his principles? Forget it, the voters themselves don't know their principles, how can they see any?
He is a politician. He wants to get re-elected. Hollywood is in his state, and so is Silicon Valley, both paying him. There are a few voters too, but it is not clear if they are paying attention. They usually aren't, and besides, they have short memory. So politicians usually pander to money > buy ads > get votes.
It seems reasonable to debate that the political winds could eventually change direction, and "copyright owners" would simply start being viewed as "censors", rather than "legitimate business interests", "job generators", "authors and artists", etc. Possible or not?
It already costs nearly nothing. Discount?
http://www.fastvps.co/vps-hosting.php
These guys are having a promo for $1 a month, although it ends today. Something's just odd. It's just too cheap.
much less turning this off because it is a security risk.
...but it's a security *feature*! See it's called "wifi protected setup". No way I'm disabling that, and then what, my wifi setup won't be protected? Are you kidding me? These hacker guys are trying to fool you into turning it off!
Maybe universities have dedicated the most effort into making the ideal computer lab system.
http://vcl.ncsu.edu/
Lots of derogatory remarks towards managers. Not so easy to be in a position of orienting others be it for educating, leading, organizing, inspiring, managing or whatever else. I myself despise jobs coporations and management -do all kinds of things but never accept jobs anymore. But if you want to do anything bigger, you need more people, and you need organization. Whatever you do, whether it is open source coding, protesting, having a big party, or a small company, you will have people, jobs, money, decisions, time, deadlines, projections, taking risks, evaluating, persisting...
In fact I think a lot of things, democracy, neighborhoods, families, small businesses, open source projects, don't move along better just because the population has no training in how to work together. Even though lots of people work their ass off, there is no coordination, so everyone is pushing in opposite directions.
Of you really want to learn about managing people and projects, join a bunch of grassroots and other small projects where everyone is basically doing and saying what they want.
Well they have stated on the record that they don't really hope to block all file sharing - they just want to make it as hard, impractical, frustrating, and inefficient as possible.
So poisoning downloads, breaking dns, domains, uploading fakes, scaring, suing, intimidating, etc, is their chosen strategy. War of attrition?