Comment Re:Mechanical engineers (Score 1) 228
A modern engineer would've written it in Matlab.
A modern engineer would've written it in Matlab.
Depending on the country I think. At least in the NL, the insurance is assigned to the car and you can have anyone drive it. Although no-risk is personal again.
CAD & Simulation are two examples I can come up I do a lot.
Wouldn't it be bad if other researcher exactly copies your setup, but use your hypothesis to design their own experiment and test it. If the results don't match then more research would be needed to validate either study.
This would (hopefully) rule out results due to environmental interactions in your particular setup. If two different experiments come to the same conclusion, that is better than two identical experimental setups coming to the same conclusion (and more useful as well).
At the moment high speed rail is faster then a plane for shorter ( 4 hours I guess) flights, and goes from center to center of the city, saving even more time. Car cannot compete, as it takes at least 3-4 times longer to drive the same distance.
Idling the car to melt the ice on the windshield is bad for more than one reason (toxic fumes, kills your engine). You have to manually remove the ice and then start the car.
Because not everybody speaks English (except the UK (still switching) and Australia) and has different figures of speech...
(insert something making fun of English-centric worldview)
Agree, you should leave enough distance that you can react+stop (about 2 seconds * speed) if the object in front of you comes to a sudden halt (aka hits something hard and heavy).
GM hopes the humanoid can one day work on the assembly line (mostly manual labour now). Because it is an humanoid, it can use existing infrastructure for humans and a human can step in if the robot fails, without downtime.
I switched to after my right arm became really painfull to use. Didn't switch the keys and getting pretty good it atm.
Might as well disable all potentially distracting activities that drivers do:
doing anything with your eyes besides looking straight ahead while driving
If you only look straight they should take away your driving license. You have to look into your mirrors really often and over your shoulder when you make a turn (to make sure you don't kill pedestrians/cyclist/etc)
I just spent some months in the south and people drive slow here. I don't mean top speed, but they accelerate like grandma's from the traffic light and take ages to hit normal speeds. When I'm in front and accelerate in a normal way, I'm 400m in front of everyone. Yet everyone drives 6.0L trucks and 3L sedans (also, automatics suck because they shift down and use loads of petrol when you accelerate normal instead of grandma mode)
Won't a finite number of monkeys working for infinite time or a infinite number of monkeys working for a finite time also recreate the works of Shakespeare?
Like building a lander while both canceling the payload (robot) and the heavy lift vehicle?
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