The A9 connects Munich to Ingolstadt, which are respectively the main hubs for BMW and Audi, so it makes sense to use that road for testing. Moreover, both cities are in the state of Bavaria, which makes it easier to get things going on the government level.
Bavaria is also the home state of the traffic minister Dobrindt - so pork.
And 10% savings with no changes to technology (apart from the platooning system of course) or driving is pretty good, isn't it?
Only on a closed track, and remember that my assertion isn't that the gas savings aren't there, it's that even with self-driving cars 8 meters isn't safe once you start trying to move it to production, especially when you'd have cars of different makes, and maintenance levels in the 'platoons'. It'd also be limited(mostly) to the highway systems, which doesn't do much for most commutes.
The safety brake system (used in production cars) I mentioned was obviously tested to avoid collisions with suddenly breaking cars just 8 meters away without even pre-charging the breaks. Not to mention that the 10% saving is for 15 meters.
But you sure do know more about these things than the people who build them. Volvo. The guys with the car safety record.
15 meters is the max they measured, you really need to be within 9 meters to realize 10% fuel savings.
No, 8 meters is the closest they have measured with cars, and they only didn't g closer because the build-in proximity sensors (safety standard in the production cars) didn't allow them to go closer without the breaks pre-charging, ruining mileage. And 10% savings with no changes to technology (apart from the platooning system of course) or driving is pretty good, isn't it? Of course the least saving was showing for the big petrol engined car, so it's clear that this isn't for America with its huge engines.
Isn't the point to test automatic cars under real conditions? Google did this years ago. With hand-picked, pre-mapped roads, but still under real conditions with real human-driven traffic. Remember the euro search engine? The euro book digitizing project? Every time Germany/EU tries to copy what Google does, only years later, by government decree and without Google, the result is the same. Burnt money. Next thing they will try to ban undeutsche autonomous cars from deutsche autobahn.
German (and others) scientists did that years before Google even existed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Prometheus_Project
PROMETHEUS profited from the participation of Ernst Dickmanns, the 1980s pioneer of driverless cars, and his team at Bundeswehr Universität München, collaborating with Daimler-Benz. A first culmination point was achieved in 1994, when their twin robot vehicles VaMP and VITA-2 drove more than one thousand kilometers on a Paris multi-lane highway in standard heavy traffic at speeds up to 130 km/h. They demonstrated autonomous driving in free lanes, convoy driving, automatic tracking of other vehicles, and lane changes left and right with autonomous passing of other cars.
Well, it should be. York is in England, therefore New York should be in New England!
But it was once New Amsterdam (not Constantinople) - so it is in New Netherlands.
Research done has shown that for real mpg improvements you need to be closer than even a computer controlled car can compensate for, and you pay for it by needing to brake so often that you burn off any potential savings.
Mythbusters isn't "Research". This is.
Around 30-35% of iPhones in China are jailbroken, if reports are to be believed. In any case, the jailbreaking tools get millions of downloads,
Compared to over a hundred million iPhones sold each year? Yeah , whatever.
Actually, the second bomb and the threat of 9 more produced "peace".
Many have suggested that the second bomb brought hostilities to a close a day or two earlier than would otherwise have happened. It was taking the Japanese a while to get their heads around the problem of not being invincible.
Others have suggested it was removing the clause to indict the Emperor for war crimes (and instead leave him be head of state) from the conditions of surrender that let the Japanese allow to surrender without losing face.
If you poke a bear cub with a stick long enough, its mom might come and maul the shit out of you.
Yeah... you do know that bears are not people, right? We generally try to hold Muslims to higher standards than we do bears.
Or Pro-Lifers. Yes, all of them, because all Muslims raided Charlie Hebdo.
>. If the trap captures the first ant, it won't be able to capture many more ants later.
I wish all people were as smart as this plant.
I hope more people would be so smart as not to listen to life tips by people who accredit "smarts" to a plant. That's just bananas.
You might like the second sentence of the article:
things that were new to x86 were old hat to supercomputing, mainframe, and workstation folks.
Just curious, did you read one sentence of the article before commenting on it?
At least he didn't stop at "asked" and immediately fired off a diatribe against Ask Slashdot.
The sea level rise is probably the best thing to talk about. From what I've seen of the data, we're looking at about 2 mm per year throughout most of the world right now. At that rate, we're looking at about 7 inches per 100 years. At that rate, it is hard to argue we have a problem.
Yeah it's really hard to argue with someone who ignores that the sea level rise is accelerating and pretends he can do linear extrapolation. An easy way to tell it's accelerating is that the actual rise is 3 mm / year, not your old value.
BASIC is the Computer Science equivalent of `Scientific Creationism'.
