Comment Re:Fear is a good thing for business (Score 1) 332
*Most* likely violent death is an automobile accident.
*Most* likely violent death is an automobile accident.
How many millionaires do you know that made their fortune by working 40+ hours a week and saving every penny? Probably none.
Read "The Millionaire Next Door". You just described most millionaires. And you know them; you just don't know that they are millionaires.
So you want the government to invest in a technology that will *both* save huge numbers of lives *and* massively increase convenience? That seems antithetical to what government does.
This is awesome. I have immediate use for this idea in SQL.
Kinda dumb doing all that work before looking at the license, don't you think?
I think you will find that the two kids are mandatory for humanity to survive for millennia.
Technically, it's an unregulated limousine service.
I know a woman who calls them Plus and Minus. I think we should convert everyone to that.
In my opinion, what has made it SD cards niche is Android's crappy storage model which makes using your external card more complicated than it ought to be.
How can a computer-generated animation of a tire concept possibly be "more practical" than a working prototype?
The reaction mass comes out of the bottom end.
You're doing it wrong. Pip and VirtualEnv go together.
No... a god!
Hilarious.
I lived in Boulder about 20 years ago and remember Denver drivers as being the least courteous with which I have ever dealt. I learned not to signal lane changes until I was already drifting part-way into the lane because otherwise my signal seemed to be the cue for everyone to close up on my target gap.
Nice to see there is a way to get them to behave, even if it takes an act of God.
No lines, not easy for the car to tell what exactly the trajectory should be. Whereas humans can more or less guess based on the surrounding and know where the "virtual lane" should go (and TFA's idea is that this guess-work will force drivers to be more prudent and slow down.
I saw a documentary on the development of self-driving cars some 10 or more years ago and they were already using other visual cues besides lane markers. For example the subtle difference in shade between the track of the tires and the lane center.
When it is incorrect, it is, at least *authoritatively* incorrect. -- Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy