If the cars that fall back to AI then communicate their observations and decisions back to Google then to other cars then the next car wouldn't need AI and could improve knowledge of the area, plus any particularly bad problem spots can be highlighted for further investigation at Google HQ.

Normal drivers don't have LIDAR. I assume it is a massive assistance for some aspects of Google's work.

Doing it is easy. Doing it with a very very high degree of confidence? Hard.

You just have to miss that one stop light for something bad to happen.

Actually I go out of my way for counterfeit FTDI chips or competing chips.

FTDI chips are bloody expensive! Just for USB to Serial as well.
The CH340 chip also does USB to Serial, broad compatibility, and is $1.20 on eBay for a full breakout board with cables.
The FT232RL is $6.23 for the bare chip, or a bargain $3.89 in quantities of 2,000.

And the brain size seems inversely proportional to the number of guns. At least it seems that way viewing from a safe distance (Australia).

You hope they are professionals.

I'm pretty sure this article proves that they are not.

10 megabytes/s. One order of magnitude not two, over two different frequencies (non-ideal).

I've done some tests with my home setup, 2 stories, upstairs 2.4ghz 3 antenna AC -> downstairs router 3 antenna AC -> upstairs 3 antenna 5ghz AC. I get about 10mbps via SSH easily, and I suspect it would get significantly better 5ghz -> 5ghz. No channel bonding, full compatibility with N/G.

Its certainly not gigabit, but its way faster than anything you'd need on devices in arbitrary locations.
If I had gigabit then I'd have a NAS or spare computer right next to the router to suck stuff down at max speed, and AC for everything else.

Its plenty reliable. Not sure why you'd think it is unreliable.

You need slightly more than just the chip to send a signal.
Antenna, filtering, power amplification, etc... is all done outside the chip.

That is why the article says 'module' not 'chip'. The module has everything it needs to actually work.

One thing I've found with my 16gig Sony Z2 is 1080p slow motion videos funnily enough use a lot of space.
Probably should have thought about that.......

At least I can add a micro SD card to it.

If I was going for a car loan and i could shave a % off the interest rate in exchange for one of these devices I'd go for it.

I'd also be always on time with my payments of course.

I'm only against this if the person was not informed about the device. If they knew about the device before signing the contact then its really their own problem if they decide to fail to make a payment and then require the car.

My DB servers have a 0.07% failure rate. I imagine the parent is seeing a far higher percentage than that.

I never even considered bending with my Sony Z2 which isn't exactly a small phone. After several months of being in my jeans pockets a lot it is still dead flat. No warping when placed on a flat surface.

Technically from an objective point of view, men getting paid more around certain age brackets is good business sense.

Women go on maternity leave for long periods of time, men don't.
Thats fine for certain jobs (teaching, nursing, insert more stereotypes here) but if you have an employee you've invested a lot of time in to training working on a 12 month project and then she has a kid, the project is screwed. With a man in the exact same role it is a minor disruption.

I'm all for equality, but there is a reason behind some of it, its not just misogyny (although there is a bit of that too)

Most of these people have nothing to do with Obama. They'd still be there if the republicans won.

Incompetence is incompetence, its not limited to a single political side.

Yes there is a distinct advantage.

A) They are cookieless domains, which has a pile of benefits for static content
B) They are usually CDN's which have obvious benefits.