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Comment Re: They've been doing this in an even better way (Score 4, Insightful) 157

We are letting uneducated drivers to the streets every day to learn how to drive, nobody requires humans to be fully trained pros. Why do you feel that a properly trained AI couldnâ(TM)t drive much better than an average human driver? The events happening out there are not that strange, see an obstacle, avoid an obstacle. More complex cases are also extremely complex for most humans who react in unoptimal ways to the events as well.

Comment Re:Same issue going the other direction (Score 1) 75

To be honest I have only rarely upgrade my CPU while keeping the old motherboard, so the use case for this is not as common as you might think. It's valid approach to give choice between cheap and non-upgradeable and more expensive and upgradeable motherboards. If you know you want to upgrade the CPU, why not go for X570? Cheap is cheap for a reason, adding capacity and capability costs money and I wouldn't want us non-upgraders to pay premium for a feature we will never use.

Comment Re: The road to hell... (Score 1) 156

The food is put on display by someone. Whoever does this makes you consume the products based on their agenda. Google just tries to present the products with health in mind.

You realize the selection is already a forced choice upon you? If M&Mâ(TM)s are on bottom shelf that is reduction on their appeal. There is no way to make any display without skewing your subconsious mind towards something. Maybe you saw Snickers ad during superbowl and now you have increased chance of consuming that chocolate bar regardless of the presentation. You cannot be immune to influence so better make best out of it and make the influence at least healthier.

Comment Re: Future Business Case Study (Score 1) 502

As the summary said, there will be special use cases for ICE cars all the until 2050 (and possibly longer), but that does not make the concept false. If you go for 800 miles off the grid then you will be one of those people needing an ICE for the forseeable future. For me and my 5000 miles a year usage an EV with around 150 miles of range will be perfect. Our mileages may vary, pun intended.

Comment Re: Well... was the driver lying? (Score 1) 345

It does try to stop as soon as obstacle is detected. The detection distance is most likely less than the stopping distance. In any case in sudden cases braking happens faster with brake assist than without one, so end result is better. Anticipation and seeing past the detection distance is left to the driver.

One comparison: https://youtu.be/UK7JqCR7w-g

Comment Re:Physical will be around for a while. (Score 1) 244

I'm on the opposite end of consumer habits, I have sold all of my optical discs. If I want to watch/listen something and it's not on Netflix/Spotify, then I just don't. I don't bother with the entertainment that much. Same for PS4, if the game is not available on PSN then I don't play. Changing the mindset from feeling entitled to play/watch/listen something to consuming (or not consuming) things that are on limited number of services helped a lot.

This saves a lot of space near my TV, I just have a simple rack to keep my PS4 there. No shelf or anything else to keep stuff there, also I don't need any big data storage to save my media collections in digital format. I also don't need to spend time to setup my entertainment options, it's either there or not. I recommend this style for everyone.

Comment Re:Is there such a thing? (Score 1) 189

I got mine too, this is my third windows phone in a row. I feel that the OS itself is a bit rough still and needs several rounds of updates. I don't have confidence that the phone is keeping me informed about messages and emails, as I have noticed several times the tile counters to be out of sync with the actual contents of the folder. I also got few spectacular crashes so far and attaching the phone on the Continuum dock was a painful experience, only few apps work and whole system functioned poorly.

Anyway I had similar feeling with the Lumia 800, but it got fixed into nicely working phone. I'm expecting this to start working as well.

Comment Re: About $1400 + import duty + paperwork (Score 1) 347

You do realize that the same procedure and costs apply to new cars as well? I have moved my car from US to Finland and the process sounds similar, most of the paperwork was managed by the company I hired to do the move. Over all I saved $10000 when I did the transfer. Car value in US drops much faster than in developing countries as well, it's because in US people can afford letting go of used cars and get new instead. Taxes on cheap cars are less than taxes on new cars because the tax is percentage of the value.

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