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Comment Eye contact (Score 1) 293

While I really like this development, there's one thing I'd like to see resolved: eye contact with the driver. When passing in front of a car I always try to make eye contact with the driver. For me this is the best way judge if the driver has spotted me and if I can cross safely. A robot driver should have some really simple visual way of saying: Hey, I've spotted you and I will break for you.

Comment Re:How are upgrades handled? (Score 3, Informative) 176

I'm curious. Having never used a BSD-based system, how are upgrades managed? I understand that instead of installing packages, one uses ports. My impression of that is that you run a file in a ports directory and it compiles the software and installs it. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Ports are meant for building packages. Users should only use packages normally. You can update your packages after you upgraded your base system with "pkg_add -ui -D update -D updatedepends"

But how does one upgrade from, say, OpenBSD 4.7 to 4.8?

OpenBSD has excellent docs and FAQ's: http://openbsd.org/faq/upgrade48.html

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