Is it worse than falling asleep at the wheel in a car without EAP?
BTW, we have hundreds of thousands of traffic lights and so many signs and warnings on the highways and the roads. Still road accidents happen, and tens of thousands of people die in the accidents. Please go ahead and post snarky comments about these things too.
As it is shipped today, the Enhanced Auto Pilot supports only freeway driving. It has no ability to recognize stop signs, traffic lights, 90 degree turns, etc. All it can do is to follow the lane markings, follow the car ahead at a fixed distance, make lane changes when commanded. That is all. Even that only with the proviso that the human driver remains active and engaged in driving.
In short you engage EAP and drive normally as though you don't have EAP. It will help you avoid dumb mistakes like drifting to another lane or making a lane change without fully checking blind spots.
To me, it is not worth the price. I did not buy EAP.
Almost Frsit Psot.. You seem to be more obsessed with TSLA than even Rei.
Went above 360 today, approaching the 420 tweet levels. Some talk about being included in S&P 500 index.
One day Facebook lost 125 billion in market cap. 2.5 times the total valuation of TSLA! 12 times the total short interest in TSLA! If someone has shorted TSLA, and their trusted news sources did not even give them an inkling of the killing they could have made in Facebook, they should realize by now, they are being played for the sucker.
Whether it is a good idea or not, if the goal is to get rid of mosquitoes, this method might succeed better than lasers zapping the mosquitoes!
This is different from drugs killing large percent of the population, leaving behind immunized populations to propagate. These sterile mosquitoes, fight for and win females and resources and then squander them. So even if a rare mutated immunized mosquito is formed, it is not likely to get far. Its progeny need to find similar immunized males to propagate the immunity. In the drug based fight, ALL surviving insects have immunity. Here the individual with immunity is likely to mate with one without immunity and the mutation will not propagate much further.
For beneficial mutations to propagate, the vast majority of the matings should take place between individuals genetically more distant than the first cousin and closer than third cousin, second cousin seems to form the ideal distance. Closer than first cousins, deleterious mutations propagate faster taking away any benefit from beneficial mutations.
I see UHD TVs being sold for 300$, all kinds of dvd recorders and blue ray players under 50, 64GB memory under 50, Chromebooks under 100...
And the stupid set top box that they installed several years ago is being charged 10 to 20 $ a month!
Just last week I had an hour long chat with Xfinity rep. Started with the low ball, 80$ a month triple play. Ended up at 130$ a month with two year contract. Compared to Gigabit internet from FiOS currently at 150$. Even that contract price has hidden fees it looks like..
Resigned to paying the highway robbery prices for now... But a day will come there will be enough bandwidth to skip all these fibers and coax cables. There will be true competition. I will have no sympathy for these companies then.
But... all those Criminal This Officer and Criminal ThatOfficer would have cashed in their chips and be sharpening their shears for the next round of fleecing in a new industry. The share holders of these companies are the ones who will end up seeing their investments dwindle in value. The middle management and workers will have their livelihoods devastated.
It went after the electric cars in 1999. It took back every EV1 it leased to the customers, who begged and pleaded to keep them. With dogged determination it went after the electric cars, took back every last one of them and crushed it in the junk yard. Hobbyists and users were rebuffed.
Dont worry. From the oppressed and completely enslaved population, there will be a man with fiercely independent spirit (with a decent looking face and hunky body) who will put together a rag tag band of rebels, two pretty females, one who will eventually sacrifice herself for the cause, and few more men and women with expressive faces and body language, who will take on the mighty and bring it all crashing down, typically in 85 minutes, with 5 minutes to spare for the credits and the blooper reel.
To thwart lawyers finding out the true intentions of the strategies, Bill Gates decreed that the code should not have comments. Famously he said, "I am paying you to write code, not comment."
Pull over to the shoulder safely and lock the car and wait for the cops to arrive at the scene. Can be done much sooner. Elon, are you listening? Expect a tweet "Already done, next software update will have this feature" soon
Tons of articles in shady stock trading sites, China is going to eat Tesla alive is a constant recurring theme. Every little announce is received with great joy and repeated endlessly.
Anyway, I dont trade any individual stock, so got not horse in the stock market race one way or the other.
All I want is the death of diesel and gasoline engines. That is all. That day is coming. Already, existing known battery tech has batteries at 120 $/kWh. If this technology lowers the price even more, it is great. Even otherwise BEVs are on track to achieve price parity with ICEV in 2020, 2022 time frame. So I believe I would live to see the death of ICE.
Steam locomotives are romantic and majestic, I love them. ICEs are pestilence I abhor them.
These journal articles have very small readership. How many people are going to read, say, "Shewchuck's predicates for binary space partitions" or "Constructing Voronoi diagrams and Delaunay tessellations by Bowyer and Watson". It costs money and effort to collect the papers, properly document them, index them, cross reference them and make it available for the rare researcher working in computation geometry. For the impact it has on the future and advancement, 40% margin is something we should gladly accept.
Having said that, the cost has fallen significantly over the last two decades. Very powerful algorithms, machine readable file formats, (almost all of them seem to be LaTeX or TeX compatible text files, it looks like) etc has cut down the cost. If the actual price goes down, takes advantage of the advancing technology, then 40% margin is not something I would quibble about.
But if they try to maintain the prices set back in the day when all the articles were in print form, and one had laboriously retype everything to build catalogs and references, it is time to disrupt them. Journal articles and papers should be an order of magnitude cheaper than what it was in 1994, my grad school years, where the first year of the PhD was typically "literature survey", literally thumbing through printed bound volumes for weeks on end.
There is this whole genre of people who constantly post/trade negative stories and rumors about Elon Musk. He is going to jail, he is Felon Musk, he lies, he is going to Mars because Mars does not have an extradition treaty with USA (honest, they said that.) and they cast doubt on anyone not as strongly anti Elon as they are. SEC has been paid off, the CA work place safety officer has been bribed, there is no one trustworthy person in the federal, state governments of USA, or the banks, or the regulatory agencies like NTHSA or SEC, or the traditional media, or the alternative media. All of them are colluding crooks.
The same gang, is now praising to high heaven this Chinese company announcement as though it is the Word of God revealed directly to them. That people who are that so extremely skeptical on one side are so very credulous on the other side is so mind boggling.
If the Chinese company is right, good luck to them. I can't wait to rid the world of diesel and gasoline engines. It is always nice to have plan B, another basket to keep the eggs in. Cant depend totally on Tesla.
Ah... Why you think only the lowest level employees are gamified?
The next line, team leads, crew heads, etc earn game points by finding cheating team members.
The floor foremen, shift supervisors earn game points by adjusting the rewards and schemes of the pyramid below them.
Eventually you find a drummer beating, "Cruise Speed", "Battle Speed".... Keep increasing the rhythm till only Charles Heston could still be at the oar.
Because they [the westerners] eat uncooked salads. Lettuce cant be cooked.
Spinach is always cooked in India, and we have so many kinds of spinach too. There are uncooked foods in Indian cuisine, the chutneys, raitha, kosumari... but usually they manage to avoid contamination. Now I have lost all immunity. I avoid uncooked foods in all restaurants there.
I got several tweets saying the nbcnews.com article is bogus, written by the flunky of cable companies Ajit Pai who is an Indian mole placed in the FCC by Indian PM Narendra Modi. Pai's father and uncles were civil servants in Govt of India and his brother is a general in the Indian spy agency RAW.
There is no special breaks for buses. A 300 hp diesel engine will emit more pollutants and it will pay higher taxes for the pollution. It will spread the tax among more passengers. A Prius might emit a lot less, but it has fewer seats to spread the cost to.
Same way, use IPass like identification and number plate readers and calculate the square-foot-minutes occupied by the vehicle. Tax them exactly the same amount per square-foot-minute. Give absolutely no special breaks for the buses.
You will see hue and cry from the car owners and taxi owners. Ask them to pay their fair share, only then people will realize the real cost of cars vs buses. Give some valuable resource free, they will squander it and misuse it. Then they will sit back and preach the value of free market and how somehow the bus companies should learn to be more efficient and self funding.
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BTW, we have hundreds of thousands of traffic lights and so many signs and warnings on the highways and the roads. Still road accidents happen, and tens of thousands of people die in the accidents. Please go ahead and post snarky comments about these things too.
The driver alertness detector is so easy to defeat. Apparently people just hang a weight on the steering wheel and that stops the nag.
As it is shipped today, the Enhanced Auto Pilot supports only freeway driving. It has no ability to recognize stop signs, traffic lights, 90 degree turns, etc. All it can do is to follow the lane markings, follow the car ahead at a fixed distance, make lane changes when commanded. That is all. Even that only with the proviso that the human driver remains active and engaged in driving.
In short you engage EAP and drive normally as though you don't have EAP. It will help you avoid dumb mistakes like drifting to another lane or making a lane change without fully checking blind spots.
To me, it is not worth the price. I did not buy EAP.
Went above 360 today, approaching the 420 tweet levels. Some talk about being included in S&P 500 index.
One day Facebook lost 125 billion in market cap. 2.5 times the total valuation of TSLA! 12 times the total short interest in TSLA! If someone has shorted TSLA, and their trusted news sources did not even give them an inkling of the killing they could have made in Facebook, they should realize by now, they are being played for the sucker.
Usually it is the juveniles who make fucking jokes. Most likely you are the kid.
It is the carnivores who think it is an advantage to make vegetables look and taste lime meat.
This is different from drugs killing large percent of the population, leaving behind immunized populations to propagate. These sterile mosquitoes, fight for and win females and resources and then squander them. So even if a rare mutated immunized mosquito is formed, it is not likely to get far. Its progeny need to find similar immunized males to propagate the immunity. In the drug based fight, ALL surviving insects have immunity. Here the individual with immunity is likely to mate with one without immunity and the mutation will not propagate much further.
For beneficial mutations to propagate, the vast majority of the matings should take place between individuals genetically more distant than the first cousin and closer than third cousin, second cousin seems to form the ideal distance. Closer than first cousins, deleterious mutations propagate faster taking away any benefit from beneficial mutations.
Now you just need to sling mud and make it impossible to tell sincerity from hypocrisy.
We are going back to Middle Ages and serfdom. Glad I will not live long enough to suffer in that era.
The disclosure is in the name.
Dupe (v) = to cheat, to mislead, to mulct
Lacs (n) (rhymes with packs) = A lot, very many, plethora, umpteen, innumerable, (from Hindi lac meaning one hundred thousand)
And the stupid set top box that they installed several years ago is being charged 10 to 20 $ a month!
Just last week I had an hour long chat with Xfinity rep. Started with the low ball, 80$ a month triple play. Ended up at 130$ a month with two year contract. Compared to Gigabit internet from FiOS currently at 150$. Even that contract price has hidden fees it looks like..
Resigned to paying the highway robbery prices for now... But a day will come there will be enough bandwidth to skip all these fibers and coax cables. There will be true competition. I will have no sympathy for these companies then.
But... all those Criminal This Officer and Criminal ThatOfficer would have cashed in their chips and be sharpening their shears for the next round of fleecing in a new industry. The share holders of these companies are the ones who will end up seeing their investments dwindle in value. The middle management and workers will have their livelihoods devastated.
Somehow Tesla manages to sell cars.
That is how GM pursues electric cars.
Dont worry. From the oppressed and completely enslaved population, there will be a man with fiercely independent spirit (with a decent looking face and hunky body) who will put together a rag tag band of rebels, two pretty females, one who will eventually sacrifice herself for the cause, and few more men and women with expressive faces and body language, who will take on the mighty and bring it all crashing down, typically in 85 minutes, with 5 minutes to spare for the credits and the blooper reel.
To thwart lawyers finding out the true intentions of the strategies, Bill Gates decreed that the code should not have comments. Famously he said, "I am paying you to write code, not comment."
Pull over to the shoulder safely and lock the car and wait for the cops to arrive at the scene. Can be done much sooner. Elon, are you listening? Expect a tweet "Already done, next software update will have this feature" soon
Anyway, I dont trade any individual stock, so got not horse in the stock market race one way or the other.
All I want is the death of diesel and gasoline engines. That is all. That day is coming. Already, existing known battery tech has batteries at 120 $/kWh. If this technology lowers the price even more, it is great. Even otherwise BEVs are on track to achieve price parity with ICEV in 2020, 2022 time frame. So I believe I would live to see the death of ICE.
Steam locomotives are romantic and majestic, I love them. ICEs are pestilence I abhor them.
Having said that, the cost has fallen significantly over the last two decades. Very powerful algorithms, machine readable file formats, (almost all of them seem to be LaTeX or TeX compatible text files, it looks like) etc has cut down the cost. If the actual price goes down, takes advantage of the advancing technology, then 40% margin is not something I would quibble about.
But if they try to maintain the prices set back in the day when all the articles were in print form, and one had laboriously retype everything to build catalogs and references, it is time to disrupt them. Journal articles and papers should be an order of magnitude cheaper than what it was in 1994, my grad school years, where the first year of the PhD was typically "literature survey", literally thumbing through printed bound volumes for weeks on end.
The same gang, is now praising to high heaven this Chinese company announcement as though it is the Word of God revealed directly to them. That people who are that so extremely skeptical on one side are so very credulous on the other side is so mind boggling.
If the Chinese company is right, good luck to them. I can't wait to rid the world of diesel and gasoline engines. It is always nice to have plan B, another basket to keep the eggs in. Cant depend totally on Tesla.
Battle speed ... attack speed... ramming speed ...
The next line, team leads, crew heads, etc earn game points by finding cheating team members.
The floor foremen, shift supervisors earn game points by adjusting the rewards and schemes of the pyramid below them.
Eventually you find a drummer beating, "Cruise Speed", "Battle Speed" .... Keep increasing the rhythm till only Charles Heston could still be at the oar.
... .lettuce not deny the seriousness of the issue.
Spinach is always cooked in India, and we have so many kinds of spinach too. There are uncooked foods in Indian cuisine, the chutneys, raitha, kosumari ... but usually they manage to avoid contamination. Now I have lost all immunity. I avoid uncooked foods in all restaurants there.
Looks like my post whoooshed over the heads of the mods...
So I think nbcnews.com article must be fake news.
Same way, use IPass like identification and number plate readers and calculate the square-foot-minutes occupied by the vehicle. Tax them exactly the same amount per square-foot-minute. Give absolutely no special breaks for the buses.
You will see hue and cry from the car owners and taxi owners. Ask them to pay their fair share, only then people will realize the real cost of cars vs buses. Give some valuable resource free, they will squander it and misuse it. Then they will sit back and preach the value of free market and how somehow the bus companies should learn to be more efficient and self funding.