Space is about 100 km up, on a sphere that has a radius of 6000 km, so some 2% is air.
A pool ball has a radius of 30 mm roughly, so 2% of that is 0.6mm. Seems like a very thin coat of paint to me, but roughly correct.
Space is about 100 km up, on a sphere that has a radius of 6000 km, so some 2% is air.
A pool ball has a radius of 30 mm roughly, so 2% of that is 0.6mm. Seems like a very thin coat of paint to me, but roughly correct.
What’s the point of espionage if you can’t even gossip
The ID.4 doesn’t just have capacitive buttons, it has swipe controls on the steering wheel.
And of the most frustrating cars I have ever driven.
but self driving cars are immensely dangerous, and there’s no evidence that self driving cars will make roads safer.
This is a horrible take, and absolutely not true. Maybe for the current state of technology, but not as an always-true statement.
Humans are horrible at driving. It’s not hard to be better at driving than the average human. Perfect doesn’t exist, and computer-driven cars will always make some mistakes, but so do humans (and media will report on self-driving cars much more than on the thousands of vehicle deaths caused by human error). AEB and other technologies have already made cars much safer over the previous decades.
On top of this, I have no confidence that the odds of an error in the system (eg: a dirty sensor, software getting confused) is not higher than the odds of a system correctly braking when it needs to.
Tell me you’ve never used or tested AEB without telling me.
Dirty sensors trigger a “dirty sensor warning”, not a full emergency brake. There’s more than one sensor, and it doesn’t emergency brake on one bad sensor reading. Again, perfect doesn’t exist, but it isn’t close to the 50/50 you’re trying to portray here.
- Car brakes hard (even at 90mph), perhaps losing traction depending on road conditions
Any car with AEB will also have ABS and traction control, so losing traction is unlikely. Being rear-ended is never on the liability of the front car.
Yes, cars are dangerous, yes we need to make them safer, but we should use better policies like slower speeds, safer roads, and transitioning to smaller lighter weight cars,
Absolutely agree on all of this. Slower speeds and safer roads make accidents less likely and less lethal, for human and computer drivers both.
As such, legislation should be pushing very hard to stop self driving cars.
Legislation should push hard for setting clear boundaries on when self-driving is good enough to be allowed on the road, and where the legal responsibilities are in case of problems. Just completely stopping it would be wasted potential for safer roads for everyone in the long run.
The BMW i8 has exactly this, a large subwoofer in the rear to make it sound like a heavy engine, even though it’s electric.
Backing up “word is” by an article that says “word is” is kinda meager though. There are many things widely believed to be true that are not, or only mildly so our in specific circumstances.
Rightfully so. Always DST makes the countries that are already off their natural time even more off.
If you really believe Google is about to go out of business, you’re out of your mind
That’s how it started, but then they sometimes grew to their own level of features too.
I don’t believe that Age of Empires II needed shooting convertibles for debugging.
Scandinavia is their zone of specialty
Taking out the high-pitch whine will make them much more bearable. It’s a student project, they did well. This isn’t groundbreaking Noble-prize stuff, but it doesn’t deserve all the hate it’s getting here either.
If round(x/2) != x/2
That’s how my Samsung works too
Can confirm that into the breach is similarly lowpower. It’s absolutely great for deck. It isn’t time-based like FTL is, which makes it even better suited. (FTL makes me miss a mouse sometimes)
The guy in the car was not hit, but mentally fucked up, according to a better news article I just found on Reddit a few minutes ago.
That sucks. It sounds like you have wet feet 24/7 now too, so you are fucked either way. The only advice I have for you is to switch socks often, and shoes as well (have at least 2 pairs, and alternate every day) so at least they can dry in the meantime
Ditch waterproof, get shoes that breath a lot. Waterproof shoes get wet on the inside anyway, through sweat if not anything else. Breathable shoes dry up again a lot faster, making it harder for bacteria to make smelly stuff.
Waterproof shoes like to claim they are breathing, like goretex and stuff. It doesn’t, not nearly as well as some mesh or holes do.
Yeah, that’s kinda the problem
You would have to find a good definition of “all browsers”, and I think that would be nearly impossible.
I absolutely agree that governments should support Firefox, that’s a reasonable claim. But do they need to support the earliest version of netscape? Or the browser I made as a hobby project last week and published as open source? There’s a limit to what’s reasonable and workable.
For weather prediction it usually isn’t that accurate anyway, and varies over time and location a lot.
For the thermostat it does matter, but usually you can set these in steps of 0.5°C. Mine reports back in 0.1°C steps.