What should really happen is Mr. Rossi should patent his device, and then anyone who wants to can read the patent and build their own replica, if they wish to do so. (Of course to sell their replica they would need to license the design from Mr. Rossi, since it would be patented)
Until the technology has actually matured there's no safe solution.
Even if SnapChat worked 100% as advertised, it wouldn't be a safe solution, since your recipient could always take a photo of the image using another camera or phone. It's the DRM problem all over again, except now the "publisher" is some teenager rather than the movie industry.
Seems legit
And the head of the CDC is like any other elected official.
Except for, you know, not being elected.
I don't think you understand what this generator is doing. It extends the range of the car. The exact opposite of your complaint.
Sorry, I wasn't clear. Of course it extends the range when you're running the generator. The rest of the time, however, it reduces the range, because you're pulling additional weight and adding additional drag.
So yes, overall the range is extended, just not by as much as you might think -- and not, in most automaker's opinions, enough to make it worth the hassle.
3D isn't hard.
3D that doesn't make people nauseous is hard.
Give us model E, the 40 K sedan. The rich people have paid enough money and you have built the credibility. Continuing to make play things too expensive for the masses is not how you are going to have long term impact or create disruptive technologies.
The Model 3 (nee model E) will only only be cheap if Tesla can get cheap batteries to power it. Tesla's plan for getting cheap batteries is to produce them at huge scale in their GigaFactory (tm). Therefore, don't hold your breath for cheap Teslas until after the GigaFactory (tm) is complete and functioning.
So there has to be something more to this idea because it hasn't happened yet. What am I missing here?
It's not a bad idea, and the TZero had a trailer like that as an option.
I think it's not done more often because it's not that practical: in particular, dragging a heavy trailer around is awkward and reduces your car's range, and a generator powerful enough to recharge your car sufficiently while it drives is going to be fairly large/heavy. Factor in the additional cost, and most manufacturers figure the cheaper and simpler approach is just to keep the car light and maximize its range that way.
I see how this is a good deal for Amazon, not so much how it's fair for the competitors or good for the human race.
Dunno about whether it's fair to the competitors or not, but having robots do pick-and-place is good for the human race -- pick-and-place is a terrible job for a human to have to do. 8+ hours of RSI-inducing mindless tedium every day? No thanks. Let the robots do it and have the humans do something meaningful.
Being able to sleep soundly at night knowing that your car is really pre-owned is well worth the money you pay for it being Certified!
Well at least you know you won't end up like this guy...
I am fairly certain I would be in jail if I committed the same crime.
Because you are little people.
Its just a matter of sheer amount of robots that need to be built.
No worries, once we've built the first few robot-building robots, robot population growth will be limited only by the availability of electricity and raw materials. By 2030 we should be somewhere between the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" and "Gray Goo" stages.
And while all 13 boats are busy flashing lights and playing Metallica at the decoy boat, the other boat does whatever it was planning to do.
Or... perhaps the software designers have considered that possibility and programmed the boats so that some will remain on patrol, and/or some will break off to handle the second attacker?
They aren't complete idiots, you know. If they were, the drones wouldn't be able to steer.
For the price of 13 robotic boats they've raised the cost of an attack to... stealing two boats instead of one?
You've raised the cost of an attack to stealing N boats (where N is the number of boats required to overrun the drones' defense) plus (more importantly) N crews. My guess is that finding people who are both willing to go on a suicide mission AND proficient at piloting a boat and setting off explosives is the bottleneck, not the theft/purchase of a boat.
Plus even if/when someone does get past the drones, it's likely that bypassing the drones will have bought the ship enough time to bring up its internal defenses to deal with them. (come to think of it, perhaps they should convert a few dozen of these to land duty and place them on the White House lawn...)
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