"correctly" is where you can just barely see a tiny bit of the car in the mirror, because when you have them set like that, you get a clean panoramic view looking from left to center to right and back again and they all make sense. and the "correct" way to merge is to turn your head to check your blind spot.
Here's a better idea - make the A-pillar (as viewed from the drivers position) no wider than the distance between the center of your eyes. This prevents the pillar from blocking your vision, and no electronics are needed.
You can't reasonably do that, the A-pillars have grown to meet the engineering demands of modern rollover safety standards. Everyone has complained about it, but they are still horribly big compared to the cars of the 80s. Eventually they'll figure it out, but right now it's still a problem.
I concur. The idea I've had is that we'll eventually get to a wearable visor that projects 360 degrees in 180 degrees, and as you move your head, changes the view. The middle 90 or 120 degrees will be real-space, and the remainder will be compressed to fill the visual field and give full 360 view.
I don't think that will happen for anyone other than perhaps fighter pilots, who actually wear visors. Maybe race drivers, they would certainly benefit. The rest of us would benefit more from the the driverless cars of the future you predict, anyway. I don't want to have to wear some shit on my head when I drive, sometimes I get headaches.
Eventually, when we get contact lenses with camera and display elements in them then that will be fairly compelling... for those of us who can tolerate contacts. I'm not even sure whether that includes me, I've never tried.
Due to its size and economic might, I expect that Chinese will become more influential in the future, and it will slowly become more significant outside of Asia.
I predict that any slow change in Chinese uptake will also be small, because the language is difficult to learn and the culture is impenetrable.
most of us don't care so much about port 80.
Who is "us"? Most internet users care very much about port 80, not that they even know it. Most of them do pretty much everything through their browser.
(I wonder if you are done with your childish laughing attack?)
I started having one when you suggested that most of us don't care about port 80. Welcome to slashdot, you must never have been here.
Soon it will be. With the inevitable demise of the technological society the death of science will be unavoidable.
The death of science is the death of humanity, not just technological society. Figuring things out will still be a thing, and there will still be a best way to do that which will be discovered once again even if lost.
They don't give one tenth of one shit about the grieving process. Some of them may have told themselves that to make themselves more comfortable sleeping on a gigantic bed stuffed with money. The mortuaries have managed to get themselves written into law and they're fighting tooth and nail to remain there. But ultimately, less of us believe in an afterlife than ever before, and thus we don't need a corpse present at a memorial. When I'm done, I'd like to have a tree stuck up my arse and be stuck head-down into the soil, thanks. Anyone who would like to remember me can do so in a drinking establishment.
stop being a snooty prick. You're a goddamned Mexican so no one here is believing the cops don't follow you around all the time.
Snooty prick? My 1982 Mercedes 300SD won't impress anyone, apparently, except cops at long range. Even when my tags are expired they don't pull me over, they follow me long enough to see if I've paid my fees, then if I have then they don't bother to pull me over. This is not about being a snooty prick. This is about recognizing reality.
Also, I am a secret Mexican. I look just like everybody white.
1. Unfortunate but not unusual in any era.
2. None of our business, and zzz
3. The privacy was broken by the hackers, not by Sony
4. Not news.
5. Finally! Something illegal and worth complaining about!
Let's just stick with the things they did that we can all agree are a problem
How are Sony's private memos, emails, and employee information a "matter of public importance" ??
Because Sony is a publicly-held corporation.
If they don't want to be of public importance, perhaps they should move into a garage
"Except Local Traffic" doesn't work because to enforce, an officer would have to follow the driver from the moment they entered the neighborhood until they left, to ensure that they conducted no business in the neighborhood.
You've never had that experience? It doesn't happen to me in my Mercedes, but otherwise...
Everyone is trying to get to destinations inside that corridor, _and_ through that corridor to get to other destinations
That's why the part of the suggestion involving some lanes around town has merit. Although, where you'd put them that you could actually get away with I don't know either.
How would the OS X UI be inappropriate for a phone docked to a Bluetooth keyboard and AirPlay monitor? The docked phone's touch screen would behave like a trackpad. Or how would it be inappropriate for an iPad with a clip-on keyboard and trackpad?
It would be squinty, or it would use a lot of screen real estate just like it did on teeny tiny macs back in the day.
Show me a license which protects my interests, and I'll show you some enthusiasm.
Which is already happening. Tesla is in the process of installing grid storage at their superchargers.
Yeah, note there was no complaint for that. It's hard to complain about people adding grid storage, which we desperately need anyway. The thing is, upgrading the grid and using more EVs means less trucks driving around delivering fuel, and even with our mostly-not-HVDC system we only lose about 5% in transmission in the USA and once the system is built it has few externalities, unlike OTR trucking which produces a lot of CO2 and does most of the road damage.
I continue to [casually] promote rail-based solutions including freight rail and PRT, the latter of which is not an inherently rail-based solution but that's how I envision it because tires are always a compromise.
Byte your tongue.
