Comment Re:10 and 2 no longer (Score 1) 157
Right. You talking out of your ass is bound to be more reliable than actually testing the scenarios out.
Idiot.
Right. You talking out of your ass is bound to be more reliable than actually testing the scenarios out.
Idiot.
That's an American solution, not a British one.
Your libertarian beliefs are at the full on insane level. They have long since parted with any resemblance to reality.
Good governance on dangerous new technology is precautionary. You don't wait till people are killed to create regulations. You regulate first, then ease off the regulations as safety is demonstrated.
but with a bomb now built into the steering column, people are picking up on that being a good way to have both of your arms broken or worse.
I think mythbusters busted that one. The expanding bag pushes your hands/arms harmlessly to the side, no matter what position on the wheel they are.
It's just the usual fear of the new. Future generations will have no fear of airbags.
doesn't this pretty much defeat the whole idea of having a self driving car?
These are rules for test-drivers whilst autonomous cars are under development. They are not rules for drivers of production cars.
My grandfather was killed by a a drunken driver, that presumably liked to drive.. As soon as autonomous cars can fulfil the role, and are safer than human drivers, bring them on. Make manual driving a thing of the past. Leave it as a thing to be done on track days.
One can hope that it follows the same trend as the red flag laws - as the technology is validated the restrictions will drop one by one.
Exactly. The red flag was a perfectly reasonable precaution when cars were entirely experimental and unpredictable, and the public were unaware of them. When they were not needed the restriction was removed.
These rules are for test-drivers. They are not rules intended for use of production autonomous vehicles.
They are perfectly sensible regulations.
but don't require that driver to pretend to be driving.
The regulations don't say that. They say precisely this:
"Test drivers and operators should be conscious of their appearance to other road users, for example continuing to maintain gaze directions appropriate for normal driving."
It's a perfectly reasonable requirement. A "driver" not looking where the car is going, or doing some other bizarre action would distract and alarm other road users. And such distraction could cause an accident.
Note also that these are not rules for production autonomous vehicles, when the public might be more aware of what's going on. They are for test-drivers, at a time when many people won't be aware of the tests.
As usual the real stupidity is in the Slashdot summary and the knee-jerk reaction of some posters.
In the car safety too, Europe has generally been ahead of America. Things like mandating seat belts, air bags, crash tests. Regulation is vital for road going vehicles.
We never had an Edsel.
When an industry manages to escape this yoke (e.g. mobile), the pace of innovation is dizzying expressly because the future is unscripted and the path there is allowed to be messy.
Bad example. During the GSM era, Europe was way ahead for the USA in mobile telephony. Because governments were involved in standardising GSM in the European market, but in the USA the free market introduced many incompatible standards. It wasn't until Europe picked up on the free market fever, and governments stopped taking the lead, that Europe mobile telephony slowed down and the USA caught up.
You can't introduce the "revolutionary" new product and not have the killer use-case for it.
Of course you can. VisiCalc didn't come along until 2 years after the Apple II debuted. PageMaker didn't come along until a year after the Apple Mac. And those were the killer apps for those computers.
I'm not sure what would count as the killer app for the PC. Maybe Microsoft Word? That was probably the most used app before the internet came along. Well the first version of Microsoft Word came along 2 years after the first IBM PC.
The smartwatch has always felt like a gimmick with little utility for most people.
I think that's fair. The question is: is the minority that does one big enough to make it a worthwhile product. And failing that, will there be a killer app that comes along later that does make the majority want one.
We'll know the answer to the first question tomorrow. Might take a couple of years for the second.
He created an iOS game with terrible graphics and gameplay!
It's a game for girls. As you don't appear to be a girl, what the fuck would you know?
You are so insecure, you find it a threat that some games are not written with you in mind.
And you're a bigot about transexuals too. What a pathetic excuse for a human being you are. If you are older than 12, you should be ashamed at your immaturity.
Contribute to society? She's created a game for girls. What have you done? Besides bully people online.
What are you, 12 years old?
Better than being an cunt like you.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
