Yes, they did accept the risk, by crossing the road not at an intersection in the face of oncoming traffic. Did they think it was a likely outcome? No.
The pedestrian certainly shares some of the blame, it would be very hard to argue otherwise. But it simply isn't relevant. Based on the dash cam video, the collision was precisely 100% avoidable.
Wrong; they disabled the manufacturers auto-breaking system and replaced it with one of their lown.
This is the way I understand it as well. I believe Volvo's technology would have stopped the car in plenty of time to avoid the pedestrian. Uber's didn't even try, not even when the pedestrian was only a few feet away. Not even a blip on the radar. It is outrageous that Uber put such blatantly disfunctional technology on a public road at all.
The problem here wasn't that the vehicle was experimental. It was that the safety driver was not doing their job.
Nonsense. The problem here was that the technology was obviously not tested sufficiently to be safe on a public road. Self driving technology that cannot discern, and then stop for or otherwise avoid an obstacle, is absolutely not ready to be operated on a public road, with or without a back up driver. The failure of the back up system is a secondary problem.
But that's solar energy, so it must be bad.
So is print/sign/scan/email. Or better yet, sign/scan/save, and then just paste your signature image into documents, then email. Paper sucks.
Not "what's a bioga", but "what are bioga". Bioga is plural for a number of individual biog. Biogs is singular for a [semi-]autonomous group or community of biog. It is OK to ask "what are bioga", but be careful with such terminology as "what's the matter with you biogs", or "I'm on the prowl for some biog ass."
Yep. You can use it crack certain cryptography problems faster; problem though, the algorithm scales differently and doubling the key size makes it much harder to crack. Whereas, using traditional brute force on regular computers, doubling the key size only helps a little bit.
Is it opposite day? I must have missed the tweet.
What the hell was wrong with "common sense shows"? It's a hell of a lot cheaper.
I love black coffee, radishes, bitter-sweet chocolate, and gin and tonic. And I hope everyone involved in this study dies in a fire.
You're talking about a liquid under pressure. Pressurize liquids store very little energy, because they are largely uncompressable. You may have noticed, no one is talking about pressurizing (liquid) water to store energy.
Washington State has lots of hydro power, and quite a bit of wind power, so Seattle wouldn't be such a bad area in that regard.
Nice example of how to do something completely wrong.
MS-DOS got interesting? Clearly I missed the memo.
Gravity.
Well let's see, it's a wind turbine. As such, it is tall, and therefore a lightening magnet. Also as such, it was placed in an area with unusually high wind potential. Not really all that unlucky.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
