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Comment Re:Human drivers (Score 1) 38

Who knows? It's not the issue in this case however.

Practically speaking; it's going to happen. Self driving cars are going to kill people. Even if a million times better then human drivers; it will happen. Lots of debate about how dangerous they are at the moment - some say safer; some not so sure. More data is definitely needed. In the long run it's almost certainly going to be better.

The car in this case detected it had hit something (good). Then it decided to to drive to the side of the road (in this case bad). Throw some more compute at the problem and we can probably make it handle that case correctly (hit a box -> drive to the side of the road; hit a person -> stay still; hit a deer -> ???)

Cruise screwed up by hiding the later bit.

Comment Re:Human drivers (Score 3, Informative) 38

The problem Cruise had was they hid the details of the accident. Not the accident itself. A coverup to the regulator is inexcusable.

The vehicle hit a person... bad. But then it drove to the side of the road dragging the person under the vehicle. Cruise "neglected" to pass that footage to regulator. The ONLY reason it was discovered was that a passer by filmed it and passed it on..

Comment Re:It's at least half Google's fault (Score 1) 219

The thing is... it's not just messaging. Apple Pay is pretty good. GPay is terrible after google rewrote it and broke half the features. As a bonus the new app is terrible UI (try to find out how to see your cards). However there are 1 and a half tabs dedicated to advertising and special offers.

Google makes it really hard to like their products some times.

Enlightenment

Submission + - GNU/Linux and Enlightenment running on a Fridge (enlightenment.org)

k-s writes: Linux, the GNU userland and Enlightenment and its foundation libraries (EFL) are known due their resource efficiency and flexibility, key components for embedded products. Today it was announced that such features led them to be used in a Fridge that runs Linux and X11 with EFL.

The Freescale i.MX25 based fridge by Electrolux (Frigidaire) provides the expected bits such as temperature controls and pre-set modes (vacation, party) as well as a special purpose drawer that cools your drinks and food with a beautiful UI. It also ships with handful applications for contacts, calendar, reminder, digital picture frame and even illustrated recipe book with a famous Brazilian magazine.

Enlightenment

Enlightenment Returns To Bring Ubuntu To ARM 198

mu22le writes "Enlightenment, the daring window manager that disappeared from our collective radar years ago, is back to bring Ubuntu to ARM. The bet that E developers made years ago to neglect 3D, compositing, and make a fast and versatile 2.5d engine may have finally paid off. The current popularity of ARM-based devices could be a niche that the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries can fill comfortably."
Cellphones

E17, Slimmed Down For Cell Phones 166

twitter writes "Want to run Enlightenment on your cell phone? The Rasterman's recent efforts bring E17 to Open Moko FreeRunner and Treo 650: 'According to the Rasterman, when used with his updated illume stack and new Elementary widget set, E17 can now run in just 32MB of RAM, on an ARM9 processor clocked at 317MHz. To prove it, he is distributing a Linux kernel and E17/Illume/Elementary stack for Palm's Treo650. The stack can be launched from PalmOS without touching the device's flash storage, he says.' While Microsoft fumbles with limited 'instant on,' GNU/Linux rules the embedded world and that's the only thing going in the IT market right now."

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