You realize there are triple crowns all over, right? Anyhow, I think they should but I have no way to enforce it nor do I insist they must. I just think that they should.
I did not say they had to. I said I think they should. At least I am pretty sure that is what I said. It has been so very long and clicking the parent button is so very far away.
I dissected a frog in school. I do not recall there being an entry hole large enough for a firecracker. I did not go on to study medicine or any icky biology field. But I have been curious for a long time (don't get me started on the raped ape thing) and have to ask. How, pray tell, does one actually go about sticking a firecracker into a frogs anus? Google is not forthcoming and I refuse to do an image search. This important, scientific (I believe), question has to be answered and we rely on you.
Heh... I used similar with a friend. Fewer people are dying from cigarette-induced health problems - smoking must be safer. I was explaining the potential travesty of looking for the wrong thing when one models vehicular traffic. There are more accidents at a rotary/roundabout than there are on a divided highway? Rotaries are dangerous!
The reality is that if we had smart enough drivers and a properly designed highway system we could actually not have any stop signs or light-controlled intersections. We, as Americans, lack both.
Nobody is paid well enough to be immune to bribery. Morals stop that, not being impoverished or wealthy. I am, by some standards, fairly well-to-do. I also have morals but, let us think on this for a brief moment. I can imagine a sum that is large enough for me to look away for a few minutes. I hope that I am never offered that sum (and there is nothing to gain by bribing me at this point in time). However, after watching long enough, I am running (on my own dime - I will accept not even a single donation, thanks) for the State Senate. So, I do think about this. I ponder it more often than is healthy. I *hope* that my imagination is wrong and that I maintain my moral fiber should that situation ever arise. As I have never been in that situation, I am unsure how I will respond. I could claim that I will act appropriately but I do not know this.
In my neck of the woods the highest group of illegal immigrants are Canadians. They drive pulp trucks. They work in the mills. They chop down trees. They have expired visas and the likes. Oh well. Nobody cares. They are not usually arrested, they are not brown. Nobody notices.
They are covered by the laws where they registered the vehicle. I think... I am not sure that they travel out of the area very far - maybe up to Georgia or over to Alabama. This is an area in the panhandle known as The Redneck Riviera. Think, say, Panama City Beach (origin of the Spring Break it seems)... Yeah, those people... I only know of that area specifically but I have it on good authority that there are other areas. I have just not been made aware of them.
What does the German University Sports Federation do? A quick search indicates that there are sports at the universities. I did not dig deeper than a couple of clicks. I guess I do not understand and none of the search results looked interested in explaining how university sports were not university sports. One was helpful enough to exclude fencing. Maybe fencing is not a sport. Others mentioned rugby and the results of the GUSF at the 2012 Olympics. Is it just not included as a university activity? Is it still a de-facto university activity but not funded by the university?
I owned a traffic modeling business, consulting and design, where we modeled vehicular traffic before expanding to pedestrian traffic modeling as well. Very few people actually understand traffic and how their driving relates to the pattern. I have a degree in Applied Mathematics and I minored in Electrical Engineering, my thesis was computer *assisted* traffic modeling, specifically vehicular, and even I, to this day, do not understand all of the various factors. Many of these externalities are regional in nature. In order to properly model traffic you need to examine the data, both in person and the available statistics, for a specific region - people in New England drive different than those in the Mid-West.
Can these differences be accounted for? Absolutely but it will require more work. The broad assumption of quick, timely perhaps, adoption of autonomous driving vehicles is likely a pipe-dream. The idea that the price will decrease as the wealthy lead the way is a bit of a stretch. Those who have enough wealth may well have human drivers not because they can not drive, or are too busy, but because of the prestige. The implied safety benefits do not seem to account for the variations in driving conditions nor do they have as large a benefit until the vast majority of people are utilizing autonomous vehicles. Currently a person adhering to the speed limit, on a closed highway, is actually a cause for traffic jams and the decreased safety involved in that. It may seem contrary to logic but sometimes going faster, keeping up with traffic instead of the posted limits, is safer for you and for the drivers behind you.
I could probably type out a 100,000 word treatise on the subject but I lack the initiative and motivation. Suffice to say, there will likely be a number of factors that are not being considered by the idealists or those who simply do not know. This does not mean that we should avoid expanding on this technology. What it does mean is that a system which is ideal or neigh-on-perfect is likely to be multi-generational before fruition. The system making the driving choices needs to be able to not rely on simply binary statements but to apply logic and intelligence for myriad known potentials and for unknown potentials. It simply can not be relied on if there are instances where it would throw an exception fault nor should it default to any position - including a stopped position. I also see a likely need to have these be standards based and communicate with vehicles around them in some sort of a mesh network that can add/drop as needed. This network needs to be robust and exchange a lot of data beyond what laymen seem to think (if I am reading this thread properly).
In short, this can happen and likely will happen. This is a good thing. It may take much longer than people are anticipating and it may be quite some time before the system is robust enough to be self-sustaining. In my area there is often snow at varied elevations - during a storm, and often there will be no other precipitation in any other areas as wind, water, and varied elevations are wont to do. Additionally animals wander into the paths of vehicles - often at the last second. A human may notice this but I am not certain the algorithms could note this when they blend into the foliage along the edge of the road. So, yes, it is going to be a minute. One does not go moose-watching while driving at night, one engages in stupid-moose-avoiding.
I do not know if this is valid in your area but I have a number of vehicles because I like automobiles. I buy old vehicles and send them out to specialists to have them modified or restored. I like vehicles of specific years and specific trim packages. In my case I have property insurance that covers the vehicles but I do not have specific vehicle insurance. Instead I insured my license - meaning that I pay for coverage on my license and any vehicle I drive is insured. The exception was a BMW that I was paying payments on (I was just going to trade it in after two years) that I decided to keep. That had full coverage until I just said to hell with it and paid it off. The insurance is a bit more expensive but it is less than I would pay for two cars. It is about 1.5x the single car cost with exceptions being that some cars are more expensive.
We call it an 'Inspection Sticker' and it is affixed to the windshield. It is not universal but is the standard in most areas of the United States. One area, Bay County Florida, is one that I know of that, specifically, does not have one and allows all sorts of things on the road including giant swap buggies. It is odd, it is Florida. Chaos has not been the result of them not needing an inspection sticker and there are very few poorly looking vehicles on the road even with that exception.
I began looking into the quote to find out what Einstein actually said only to find that, in all likelihood, he never actually said or wrote the witticism about insanity.
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If you could be so kind as to tell me, in detail, what you think it is that I wrote...
You realize there are triple crowns all over, right? Anyhow, I think they should but I have no way to enforce it nor do I insist they must. I just think that they should.
I did not say they had to. I said I think they should. At least I am pretty sure that is what I said. It has been so very long and clicking the parent button is so very far away.
I admit that this is off-topic.
I dissected a frog in school. I do not recall there being an entry hole large enough for a firecracker. I did not go on to study medicine or any icky biology field. But I have been curious for a long time (don't get me started on the raped ape thing) and have to ask. How, pray tell, does one actually go about sticking a firecracker into a frogs anus? Google is not forthcoming and I refuse to do an image search. This important, scientific (I believe), question has to be answered and we rely on you.
Heh... I used similar with a friend. Fewer people are dying from cigarette-induced health problems - smoking must be safer. I was explaining the potential travesty of looking for the wrong thing when one models vehicular traffic. There are more accidents at a rotary/roundabout than there are on a divided highway? Rotaries are dangerous!
The reality is that if we had smart enough drivers and a properly designed highway system we could actually not have any stop signs or light-controlled intersections. We, as Americans, lack both.
Wait, what? That is not mandatory?
FML... Does this make me gay?
Nobody is paid well enough to be immune to bribery. Morals stop that, not being impoverished or wealthy. I am, by some standards, fairly well-to-do. I also have morals but, let us think on this for a brief moment. I can imagine a sum that is large enough for me to look away for a few minutes. I hope that I am never offered that sum (and there is nothing to gain by bribing me at this point in time). However, after watching long enough, I am running (on my own dime - I will accept not even a single donation, thanks) for the State Senate. So, I do think about this. I ponder it more often than is healthy. I *hope* that my imagination is wrong and that I maintain my moral fiber should that situation ever arise. As I have never been in that situation, I am unsure how I will respond. I could claim that I will act appropriately but I do not know this.
In my neck of the woods the highest group of illegal immigrants are Canadians. They drive pulp trucks. They work in the mills. They chop down trees. They have expired visas and the likes. Oh well. Nobody cares. They are not usually arrested, they are not brown. Nobody notices.
I am definitely racist. I hate all races equally though, so there is that.
Republicans are usually the ones with strawmen...
I kid... I kid...
Or do I?
He is not older than 35. We have some STANDARDS, you know...
The previous sentence was particularly painful to type.
That will end up being one guy who codes from his mother's basement. He is also from Latvia.
They are covered by the laws where they registered the vehicle. I think... I am not sure that they travel out of the area very far - maybe up to Georgia or over to Alabama. This is an area in the panhandle known as The Redneck Riviera. Think, say, Panama City Beach (origin of the Spring Break it seems)... Yeah, those people... I only know of that area specifically but I have it on good authority that there are other areas. I have just not been made aware of them.
Racist... Yes, you are racist. Perhaps you can consult the OED for a definition?
What does the German University Sports Federation do? A quick search indicates that there are sports at the universities. I did not dig deeper than a couple of clicks. I guess I do not understand and none of the search results looked interested in explaining how university sports were not university sports. One was helpful enough to exclude fencing. Maybe fencing is not a sport. Others mentioned rugby and the results of the GUSF at the 2012 Olympics. Is it just not included as a university activity? Is it still a de-facto university activity but not funded by the university?
I owned a traffic modeling business, consulting and design, where we modeled vehicular traffic before expanding to pedestrian traffic modeling as well. Very few people actually understand traffic and how their driving relates to the pattern. I have a degree in Applied Mathematics and I minored in Electrical Engineering, my thesis was computer *assisted* traffic modeling, specifically vehicular, and even I, to this day, do not understand all of the various factors. Many of these externalities are regional in nature. In order to properly model traffic you need to examine the data, both in person and the available statistics, for a specific region - people in New England drive different than those in the Mid-West.
Can these differences be accounted for? Absolutely but it will require more work. The broad assumption of quick, timely perhaps, adoption of autonomous driving vehicles is likely a pipe-dream. The idea that the price will decrease as the wealthy lead the way is a bit of a stretch. Those who have enough wealth may well have human drivers not because they can not drive, or are too busy, but because of the prestige. The implied safety benefits do not seem to account for the variations in driving conditions nor do they have as large a benefit until the vast majority of people are utilizing autonomous vehicles. Currently a person adhering to the speed limit, on a closed highway, is actually a cause for traffic jams and the decreased safety involved in that. It may seem contrary to logic but sometimes going faster, keeping up with traffic instead of the posted limits, is safer for you and for the drivers behind you.
I could probably type out a 100,000 word treatise on the subject but I lack the initiative and motivation. Suffice to say, there will likely be a number of factors that are not being considered by the idealists or those who simply do not know. This does not mean that we should avoid expanding on this technology. What it does mean is that a system which is ideal or neigh-on-perfect is likely to be multi-generational before fruition. The system making the driving choices needs to be able to not rely on simply binary statements but to apply logic and intelligence for myriad known potentials and for unknown potentials. It simply can not be relied on if there are instances where it would throw an exception fault nor should it default to any position - including a stopped position. I also see a likely need to have these be standards based and communicate with vehicles around them in some sort of a mesh network that can add/drop as needed. This network needs to be robust and exchange a lot of data beyond what laymen seem to think (if I am reading this thread properly).
In short, this can happen and likely will happen. This is a good thing. It may take much longer than people are anticipating and it may be quite some time before the system is robust enough to be self-sustaining. In my area there is often snow at varied elevations - during a storm, and often there will be no other precipitation in any other areas as wind, water, and varied elevations are wont to do. Additionally animals wander into the paths of vehicles - often at the last second. A human may notice this but I am not certain the algorithms could note this when they blend into the foliage along the edge of the road. So, yes, it is going to be a minute. One does not go moose-watching while driving at night, one engages in stupid-moose-avoiding.
As we increase the safety we increase the complexity, MSRP, and repair expenses.
I do not know if this is valid in your area but I have a number of vehicles because I like automobiles. I buy old vehicles and send them out to specialists to have them modified or restored. I like vehicles of specific years and specific trim packages. In my case I have property insurance that covers the vehicles but I do not have specific vehicle insurance. Instead I insured my license - meaning that I pay for coverage on my license and any vehicle I drive is insured. The exception was a BMW that I was paying payments on (I was just going to trade it in after two years) that I decided to keep. That had full coverage until I just said to hell with it and paid it off. The insurance is a bit more expensive but it is less than I would pay for two cars. It is about 1.5x the single car cost with exceptions being that some cars are more expensive.
We call it an 'Inspection Sticker' and it is affixed to the windshield. It is not universal but is the standard in most areas of the United States. One area, Bay County Florida, is one that I know of that, specifically, does not have one and allows all sorts of things on the road including giant swap buggies. It is odd, it is Florida. Chaos has not been the result of them not needing an inspection sticker and there are very few poorly looking vehicles on the road even with that exception.
Mine is AAA, thank you.
I began looking into the quote to find out what Einstein actually said only to find that, in all likelihood, he never actually said or wrote the witticism about insanity.
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I will just climb to the top of the mountain and yell out, at the top of my lungs, "Help me Anonymous Coward!"
I do not think "hitting you up" is probable or, even, possible.
I am a happy backer. I have no regrets and will continue to fund them to some extent.
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Obviously.
I believe WOOSH is in order.
My only concern with your statement is that I am not sure if you mean motorcycle or if you mean motor cycle.