Self-Driving Cars

[beefytee]

Without an oven that gets to at least 700 degrees, homemade pizza is very mediocre. If you have the right oven though homemade pizza is so much better than most pizza restaurants and every pizza chain.


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Would love to have your insights in this thread: http://www.cougarstadium.com/showthr...new-pizza-oven

Do you have an oven?

[Jeff Lebowski]

Some vindication for Walter and me. Hat tip to SU for the link.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/b...q4kuhnVH4l8wjY

Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Future’
Ford and other companies say the industry overestimated the arrival of autonomous vehicles, which still struggle to anticipate what other drivers and pedestrians will do.

A year ago, Detroit and Silicon Valley had visions of putting thousands of self-driving taxis on the road in 2019, ushering in an age of driverless cars.

Most of those cars have yet to arrive — and it is likely to be years before they do. Several carmakers and technology companies have concluded that making autonomous vehicles is going to be harder, slower and costlier than they thought.

“We overestimated the arrival of autonomous vehicles,” Ford’s chief executive, Jim Hackett, said at the Detroit Economic Club in April.

Swish.

[Omaha 680]

Some vindication for Walter and me. Hat tip to SU for the link.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/b...q4kuhnVH4l8wjY



Swish.

Maybe I can make it to retirement without changing careers after all!

[beefytee]

Some vindication for Walter and me. Hat tip to SU for the link.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/b...q4kuhnVH4l8wjY



Swish.

Does Walter still claim that self driving cars will absolutely never happen? That's what I've been arguing against. I think there will be a quick tipping point sometime in the future where there will be relatively quick adoption. But, several of us on here have been saying that self driving cars are decades away, not years.

[Uncle Ted]

Meet your new Uber driver... a rat:

Scientists have trained rats to drive tiny cars to collect food

Rats have mastered the art of driving a tiny car, suggesting that their brains are more flexible than we thought. The finding could be used to understand how learning new skills relieves stress and how neurological and psychiatric conditions affect mental capabilities.

We know that rodents can learn to recognise objects, press bars and find their way around mazes. These tests are often used to study how brain conditions affect cognitive function, but they only capture a narrow window of animal cognition, says Kelly Lambert at the University of Richmond in Virginia.

Lambert and her colleagues wondered if rats could learn the more sophisticated task of operating a moving vehicle.

They constructed a tiny car out of a clear plastic food container on wheels, with an aluminium floor and three copper bars functioning as a steering wheel. When a rat stood on the aluminium floor and gripped the copper bars with their paws, they completed an electrical circuit that propelled the car forward. Touching the left, centre or right bar steered the car in different directions.
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https://www.newscientist.com/article...-collect-food/

[Pelado]

Meet your new Uber driver... a rat:


https://www.newscientist.com/article...-collect-food/

That's how I collect food, too.

[beefytee]

That's how I collect food, too.

You drive a tiny car?

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[Pelado]

You drive a tiny car?

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If it will get me more food, absolutely.

[myboynoah]

Self-driving car company Nuro wins federal safety approval for grocery delivery robot

[Northwestcoug]

Just drove a Tesla X. Pretty sweet. It’s the fastest car I’ve driven. I didn’t get a chance to try the auto drive feature, but the owner loves it driving in and around Seattle. She says it takes a bit to get used to the feature, but it is customizable depending on your comfort level. She just keeps her hand on the wheel and it does it’s thing. I am now officially interested.

Carry on with the broader discussion about fully autonomous vehicles.

[Uncle Ted]

Just drove a Tesla X. Pretty sweet. It’s the fastest car I’ve driven. I didn’t get a chance to try the auto drive feature, but the owner loves it driving in and around Seattle. She says it takes a bit to get used to the feature, but it is customizable depending on your comfort level. She just keeps her hand on the wheel and it does it’s thing. I am now officially interested.

Carry on with the broader discussion about fully autonomous vehicles.

I hear you can just wedge an orange into the steering wheel and you no longer have to keep your hand on the wheel:

Then you can just jump into the back seat and take a nap!

[Northwestcoug]

I hear you can just wedge an orange into the steering wheel and you no longer have to keep your hand on the wheel:

Then you can just jump into the back seat and take a nap!

Nice!

[beefytee]

Pretty good article on the current state of self driving cars:

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2...mo-cruise-uber

[Walter Sobchak]

Pretty good article on the current state of self driving cars:

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2...mo-cruise-uber

Yep.

March 18, 2018, was the first time a self-driving car ran down a pedestrian. An Uber car with a safety driver behind the wheel hit and killed Elaine Herzberg, a 49-year-old woman walking her bicycle across the street in Tempe, Arizona.

The incident was a reminder that self-driving car technology still had a long way to go. Some people were quick to point out that humans frequently kill other humans while driving, and that even if self-driving cars are much safer than humans, there will be some fatal incidents with self-driving cars. That’s true as far as it goes. But it misses a key point. Human driving produces one fatal accident in every 100 million miles driven. Waymo, the leader in miles driven, just reached 20 million miles driven. It hasn’t had a fatal accident yet, but given the number of miles its cars have driven, it’s simply far too soon to prove that they’re as safe as or safer than a human driver.

Uber hasn’t driven nearly as many miles and has had a fatal incident.

[Tim]

I wish Tesla's software were smart enough to move the car over to the right lane where it belongs.