I got that impression too, but that means it wouldn't be braking excessively in the first place.
The OEM radar based AEB in the volvo was disabled to not interfere with the self driving control module.
What I was talking about was the Uber specific camera based AEB code in their self driving module, but was discovered in this report to be disabled as well by Uber.
Well, the Dutch don't have a horse in this race. I'd much rather trust them than an Anonymous Coward.
I don't know if I would give the Dutch a free pass about anything in Malaysia or Indonesia...
https://www.independent.co.uk/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It is likely they have no horse in this race, but the Dutch have had more than their fair share of horses in that part of SE asia since the days of the Dutch East India Company...
Apparently the way they had it was that the computer would drive and the driver would stop it from driving, if needed. That doesn't seem like an obviously ridiculous arrangement, even if having the computer ping the driver would have been better.
I suspect that the alerting the driver wasn't gonna be any better. This is all speculation, but if Uber turned off the AEB (automatic emergency braking) system in self driving mode because it would have actuated the brakes too often making the driving erratic, simply notifing the driver about the same potential collisions would eventually result in alert fatigue in the driver.
Then the driver would start ignoring the alerts for basically the same reason that they turned off the AEB system originally.
If you've ever taught someone to drive who was overly cautious and braked all the time you know how that goes. The flaw is that simply seeing the pedestrian isn't enough to make the braking decision and the driver has to learn to anticipate the actions in the environment to drive successfully.
The driving instruction not only has to anticipate the environment, but also the driver to know when to intervene (grab steering wheel or apply the brake). Most self driving systems don't give these driving observers (not instructors) enough information and training to anticipate what the system is going to do to make them effective at intervening.
This is the problem of allowing people to walk before they can crawl... Sometimes you can't bypass stages of learning. If the system's AEB system activates too much, you kind of have to let it do that until it can learn not to do that.
Why do you think credit card transaction fees exist?
It's to cover fraud/theft with some margin for profit.
Unfortunately transaction fees don't cover the costs for fraud/theft. Basically credit card issuing banks are permitted to charge usury interest rates from people who carry monthly balances (and demographically are generally poor) to make their profit.
The merchants and issuing banks pay transaction fees to the VISA/MC, but the banks charge the interest (and assume the fraud/theft risk).
Just last year, VISA+MC received only $7.8B+$6.1B in worldwide transaction processing fees, but Citibank (one of the largest V/M card issuers ~15%) made a whopping $4B in credit card interest on a loan balance of $146B in the USA and Canada alone.
Note the transaction fees are not only payed to Visa/MC, payment processors (like square) also take a cut of the fees paid by merchants before it even gets to Visa/MC.
(fwiw, Visa also made $6B on currency exchange operations last year which is a profit center for them nearly equivalent to transaction processing fees).
And if you are wondering where them money for "rewards" cards come from, basically it comes directly from the merchants who pay more to payment processors to clear rewards cards than cards without rewards...
If everyone was after you, you would be paranoid too.
And “Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.” - Catch 22
$20 trillion is a lot of jobs created and with more people dying from the effects of climate change that could really boost wages
Don't worry, because in the future most people will be on Universal Basic Income by then because jobs will be scarce.
There's no reason to boost wages, only people who want to work will work, because they don't have to work because...
</sarcasm>
I just hope that guy who claims to be from the future is just a hoax.
Because he says 2019 there will be two nuclear strikes, NC will hit Hawaii and US will hit back.
Then in 2020 there would be WWIII which will last for 3 years.
Short background on Korea vs Corea (aka Chosun empire).
John Ross, was a Scottish Protestant missionary to Northeast China who established Dongguan Church in Shenyang. He is also known for translating the first Korean Bible and wrote the famous first book on the History of Corea (where he westernized the Hangul spelling as "COREA")... Nobody knows when the common westernized spelling actually changed to Korea, but some suspect that the Japanese had some influence on that during the Treaty of Shimonoseki on the spelling (because K is after J)...
Indeed. The reason fascist states can still be constructed is that there is a large population of morally-challenged morons that a) are willing to apply any amount of violence to anybody that is not like them and b) that have no clue that they are just a bit later in the chain of victims.
Ironically, I think you just described ANTIFA members too... Many are a bit morally challenged, they are willing to apply violence to anybody like them and it is inevitable that left will turn against them when the tides of public opinion change about free speech...
Or you could mount rockets on the moon and use it as a gravitational tugboat - no messy impacts threatening to wipe out most life on the planet that way, much finer control, and assuming you're planning on taking the moon with anyway, there's no difference in impulse needed to modify the Earth's orbit.
Neither is particularly feasible with today's technology though - unless you simply mean "no fundamentally new technology would have to be discovered"
Small matter of conservation of momentum.
Basically you'd have to get some momentum coming from somewhere else to add to the moon-earth system to reach solar escape velocity. Developing a rocket that first generates that amount of momentum (using action/reaction) would take lots of mass or a more limited mass would have to be accelerated to quite a velocity quickly. A rocket engine that could generate high thrust at high specific impulse would qualify as fundamentally new technology as rocket concepts today are only known to generate high thrust at lower specific impulse, or high specific impulse, but low thrust (like an ion drive).
For example, if the "rocket" were to consume the moon to use as ejection mass that might solve the mass problem, but of course that might not be a desired solution... Accelerating things that fast with reasonable sized rockets and minimal mass would probably require lots of energy which would have to come from somewhere and something to withstand that energy conversion...
Getting the momentum from other celestial bodies (e.g.,rogue asteroids) is probably the only feasible way to inject that much momentum into the joint earth-moon system...
On the other hand, if you had a few billion more years, you could get away with less, but then again where would you go anyhow?
Rudyard Kipling, the guy that invoked the "white-man's burden" as an ongoing theme in his poetry...
Yeah, we should definitely worship everything he has ever written...
... even if it's premature speculation.
An object as remotely located as "planet nine," would be part of the Kuiper belt.
Like most of the planets in the solar system are mostly in a similar plane, the Kuiper belt (like the asteroid belt) is mostly like a disc also on a plane (maxing out at about 15 degree inclination from that plane)
The recently discovered dwarf object BP519 is on a different plane about 50 degrees inclined (Pluto is only about 17 degrees inclined) which is why some scientists think it is potential evidence of another planet at extreme inclination: the postulated highly inclined "planet 9".
Of course if an object is far enough, it might be part of the Oort cloud (which is more spherical, but out past 2000AUs). However, this object has an orbit that varies from 30AU to 250AUs where the Kupier belt objects tend to have lower orbital eccentricity varying only from 30-50AUs and nearer to our orbital plane...
But it helps if you want to keep it.
It's a great tax savings plan:
Set up your own scammy ICO in a fake name.
Buy it all up yourself.
Transfer the cash to the Cayman Islands.
Reveal the ICO to be a scam, and claim the losses on your taxes.
Profit!
I have this terrible feeling in my gut that all this speculation will incite yet another banking crisis. In order to avoid complete devastation, the government will do a bailout.
Guess who gets to pay for the speculators losses . . . ?
People were using this tax scam long before ICOs...
To partially counteract this, the IRS limits passive loss write-off to at most the passive gains you report in a tax year. This means you could avoid paying about 1/2 the taxes on your legitimate investments in the best case...
Why 1/2? Because you could taken that money you used to declare a loss and invested it in your actual investments and presumably doubled the gain.
an app (really a giant AI in the background) providing alternative solutions that you can decide between could be Utopian.
I would suggest to you that even this level of choice is going to be largely an Illusion. The AI will simply give you a choice, one that it has identified the most likely decision you will make already (95% confidence level), the choice being an illusion of control, when the reality the AI doesn't really need your input, but asks just to be "nice".
Because we know what happens when AI doesn't act "nice"...
As you adequately put, the problem is choice. But we already know what you're going to do, don't we? Already I can see the chain reaction, the chemical precursors that signal the onset of emotion, designed specifically to overwhelm logic, and reason. An emotion that is already blinding you from the simple, and obvious truth...
--The Architect
The real problem is that it was passed by voters, which means fixing it will either take a long petition/proposition/vote process, or require a large majority in the legislature. Making adjustments in this case is not easy.
The Dems have a supermajority in California legislature which matches the voter demographics. The problem is a majority of people (voters and/or legislators) are still pro-label and anti-change, not that this is difficult to fix, but labelling still appears to represent the majority view...
That's the probably a symptom of democracy. We are collectively subject to the will of the majority..
"Just think, with VLSI we can have 100 ENIACS on a chip!" -- Alan Perlis
