Perhaps more of a concern is the issue where the car will fail in rain/snow
LIDAR does not "fail" in rain/snow/fog. It just doesn't work as well. So what? Neither do human eyeballs. Sure performance will be degraded in bad weather, and the car will have to slow down to compensate. Which is exactly what humans do.
didnt RTFA but seriously? Google car can't recognize a red light??
Yes, the Google car can recognize a traffic light. TFA is written by a confused journalist. He found out that Google maps out roads, keeping a database of signs, lane markings, etc. He then concluded that the Google car only works on pre-mapped roads. That is not true. If the car is driving on a pre-mapped road, it will use the info from the database. But it can still drive on other roads with good accuracy. There are still come problems to be worked out, and plenty of testing to be done, before SDCs are ready for sale to the public. But TFA is a very inaccurate description of those problems.
To be fair, dealers provide maintenance, repair, and recall services.
Those services are also provided by independent garages, usually at much lower prices.
That's a bigger factor in the history of these laws than the sales part.
No it wasn't. These laws were never, even in theory, about protecting the customer. They were about protecting existing dealer networks. Since Tesla never had a dealer network, these laws shouldn't apply to them.
The difference, of course, is that Czechoslovakia was never a part of Russia in any way, shape or form
Except for the thousands of square miles of Czech territory annexed by the Soviet Union in 1945.
While I don't agree with FTDI's tactic, they're not the only bad guy here by a long shot.
What? So if I shoot my neighbor, I can use the excuse that last night someone robbed a liquor store on the other side of town, so I am "not the only bad guy"?
Look, counterfeiting is wrong. But destroying the property of an end user, most likely unaware of the counterfeit device, is both wrong and illegal. Period.
This is not about solving problems but about power.
You just summed up the Democratic party.
He also just summed up the Republican Party.
The main problem with electronic stamp creation currently is the lack of a postmark date stamp from the postal service.
99.9% of the mail I receive is either metered or printed with a bulk permit. Neither of these is postmarked by the postal service.
That means that the item can be lost for any length of time without any accountability, just lost in the machine.
How does a postmark provide accountability? If you want to track the package or certify delivery, that is an extra charge, and an extra sticker.
Anyway, I read TFA, and I still don't understand what "problem" they are trying to solve. Normal stamps seem to work pretty well for me, for the two or three times a year that I mail a letter.
Computing IS anti social!
Not before the 1980s.
You get good at programming by staring at a screen and figuring things out.
In the 1970s, you got good at programming in a big noisy room full of other coders, reading over each others printouts, and then modifying your card deck, before submitting it to the operator at the window to the machine room. Then you sit around and socialize while you wait for your job to run. It was a very social activity.
Then personal computers came along, and all that changed. Coding became an isolated activity that you did in a cubicle, or in a bedroom at 2am. Computer screens were harder for collaboration than paper printouts. Fast compilers left no time for socializing.
You can always find something in a product name to critique
There is marketing research that shows that people remember words with hard consonants better. So a word like "Nokia" or "Kodak", is in some ways a measurably better brand than a word like "Lumia". Of course, the name wasn't enough to keep Kodak from going bankrupt.
that sells your car. Talk to the garage, they will have notification.
That is much more time consuming, and less accurate, than just clicking on a website.
Also, many of us are aspies, and we prefer to use an impersonal website, rather than interacting with a human.
many municipalities have found that the companies installing these have turned down the timing between amber and red
Citation please. I am unaware of a single time where a company has changed the timing. In every instance it has been our elected officials that made the decision.
It proves the cameras are working, and people are speeding less.
No, it does not prove that. Another possible explanation is that people were never speeding much in the first place. They may have overestimated the potential revenue.
Can they have their legs back when they get to Mars?
Going to Mars is dumb. It is cold and sterile. Once we get out of this gravity well, why do we want to go into another? If we want an off planet colony, we should build O'Neill Cylinders in Earth orbit, and then use them to construct a Dyson Sphere.
Send amputees missing their legs. Legs are dead weight in space. You can maneuver in zero G with just your arms.
Does the law also ban books or stories about underage sex acts?
No, I don't think so. According to Wikipedia, UK child porn laws only ban indecent images of children under 18, where "image" can apparently be a drawing, as well as a photo. A book or story without images is not illegal. But IANAL.
After a number of decimal places, nobody gives a damn.
