The problem with that argument is that I can point to countless examples were the rest of the world have or are busy adopting superior systems in also sorts of areas that the USA has refused to adopt is busy resisting to the last on what amounts to nothing more than it's foreign so commy.

To keep it on road transport theme, I would mention road signs, roundabouts and emergency sirens as just three examples of the rest of the world using science to improve our lived experience and the USA resisting because it was not invented here.

An interference model for detecting numberplates could easily be run on a low price TPU. However even more traditional image processing using hidden Markov models would still be AI. Remember boys and girls not all AI is neural networks.

The problem with those sorts of studies is that they can make a computer system less productive *if* you have some experience in using the system. The problem them becomes very quickly *most* users have *some* experience of using the system and it becomes less productive.

For example most sensible people consider that using LaTeX to enter mathematical formulas is wildly more productive than using Word *provided* you have put in the effort required to learn how to use it.

Consequently there is no one best system. The problem is UI studies have a tendency to focus on making systems easy to use for beginners not more productive for those with some experience.

My read was less that on in a million plates are read incorrectly. Perfectly believable, the Flock cameras are probably reading hundreds of millions of plates a day. The ~â..." error rate is that the number of plates flagged that are wrong, which is partly because a small number of plates are repeatedly being flagged incorrectly.

Two things can simultaneously be correct.

Yes but you have to remember that the idea that any other country could have come up with a better standard for number plates goes against the American exceptionalism that the USA is the greatest and best and everything and it's consequential near total refusal to adopt any standard that was "not invented here" even if it is demonstratively superior in every way.

The UK have also removed certain characters from [A-Z] [0-9] from our numberplates as they can be too easily confused. So for example you cannot confuse a 1 and I if your numberplates simply don't have I's in them. Same for 8 and B. O and 0 etc. It does reduce the number of possible plates you can produce but with six digits in the plates there are hundreds of millions of possibilities.

IMHO I would also be an idea to include a check character, that would virtually eliminate mistakes in a stroke going forward.

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Because previously it was theoretically possible to exploit the problem, there was been a working exploit with 99% reliability published in the last few says.

Yeah that is a load of rubbish. Both the UK and the Soviet Union invaded Persia in WWII, to secure supply routes essential to defeating the Nazi's. Want to blame anyone for that then blame the Germans. After WWII, the Soviets in typically Russian fashion spent a lot of time interfering in Persia to install a communist regime (they did the same thing in Afghanistan). The USA intervened to prevent that happening. If you think the Shahs regime was remotely as bad as the current one you are an imbecile. The total number of people killed or disappeared during the 38 years of the Shahs rule is less than 3000. Contrast that to just the recent protests this year where more than double that are known to have been killed and it is likely more than ten times by the current regime.

If you think ISIS have the same agenda as radical Christians in the USA then you are a idiot. For starters they are not into slavery, which ISIS very much were/are.

Except I can buy a Dell workstation that is *WAY* more expensive than the most expensive Mac. Need more than 192GB of RAM and with Apple you are stuffed with current gen models. Even ignoring the current bubble in RAM prices you can easily spec a PC workstation with 512GB of RAM, making it way more expensive than any Mac.

Noting that 12 hours a day for six days a week is against Federal law. However, if your drop off points have charging points, the shorter range truck is probably practical.

12+ hours driving in a day is flat out dangerous for other road users and against federal law, which requires a mandatory 30 minute break after 8 hours of driving.

Basically, adding fast charging at your mandatory rest break and a 500-mile range is exceedingly difficult to break legally.

From a European perspective, the US working time limits for truckers are downright dangerous. Don't give me the USA is big, Europe is too. It's ~2500 miles from my house to Athens. I see HGVs on the road in Scotland that have come from all over Europe all the time.

Except trucker forums have posts about EV big rigs not having the range for what they do. Noting that a 500 mile range is more than you can legally drive in a day.

First thing I would note is that American trucks are decades behind European ones. That is what 40 years of protectionism will do to an industry. Check out Bruce Wilson's YouTube channel to get the idea.

The second thing is that an EV big rig does not have to be suitable for 100% of use cases to be succesful. A great example would be from distribution warehouses to stores. The range is more than adequate, especially if you use rapid charging at the store so you can charge while unloading. That is a significant fraction of freight gone EV.

Final thing from a safety perspective: with a network of rapid chargers, EV big rigs will enforce taking breaks, making the roads safer for other users.