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What learned from this is that having a "human backup" is useless if that person is on their phone. He should be prosecuted.
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Infrared imaging?
Good idea.
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IR cams would be a good idea (and some luxury cars have had them for the last few years); but just LIDAR should've been enough to detect her.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Some Mercs had them, they will probably become standard on all cars soon.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Some Mercs had them, they will probably become standard on all cars soon.
On the loaded packages from more mainstream makes perhaps, but barring govt mandates I wouldn't expect to see them working their way down to base models for a while. Things like blind spot sensors and adaptive cruise/lane following that're currently only on mid/upper levels for most cars'd be a lot more generally useful IMO.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Mercs were the first with antilock brakes I think. And airbags?
They have pretty much lead the way. I wouldnt be surprised if we had IR screens in the dash in 10 or 20 years.
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15+ out I'd have no problem with a prediction of it as a standard feature (unless self driving cars conquer the world first); but even 10y is beyond what I'd consider "soon".
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Yeah, I can see alot of automation coming in.
Take cars on motorways, doing say 150 mph, bumper to bumper, in a train, all controlled automatically. You can switch off, sleep, read. When you want to exit you go through some kind of exiting procedure an leave the train.
And Mercs have also introduced on some cars proximity sensors that activate the brakes. With this Uber accident, that would have worked.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Take cars on motorways, doing say 150 mph, bumper to bumper, in a train, all controlled automatically. You can switch off, sleep, read. When you want to exit you go through some kind of exiting procedure an leave the train.
Trains more than a few cars long are going to need dedicated lanes because they become obstacles to anyone trying to change lanes. Driving at 150 MPH is going to be a lot more limited. Outside of the Autobahns very few roads are designed for traffic that fast. Locally even if the turns were banked steeply enough to keep cars from flying off into the guard rails the g-forces on passengers would suck. Short of completely new construction that continuously sliced through hills and bridged valleys I don't think anything above 90 MPH or so would be viable from a passenger comfort standard on most of the divided highways in western PA.
Munchies_Matt wrote: And Mercs have also introduced on some cars proximity sensors that activate the brakes. With this Uber accident, that would have worked.
Collision alerts and emergency braking are well on their way to being standard features. My guess'd be that they'll be among the next set of safety features to be mandated by various govts. Although I hope the software gets better about false alerts first. (My '17 Accord doesn't combine the collision warning radar with the camera feed from lane following and generates a lot of false positives from oncoming traffic on curved highways.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Of course, I am talking way into the future. The energy source will need to be in the tarmac, perhaps inductors.
Dan Neely wrote: Although I hope the software gets better
Dont we all, in all things! 
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I've looked at this across multiple links and sources, and I file it under "don't play in the road." The only reason this is in the news is that the vehicle is autonomous - sort of. That's it. And I'm not sure that fact is even relevant.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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DDD Wales[^] is on in Swansea this weekend and may have a few tickets left (late returns)
Includes talk by my (not very) good self on "Event Sourcing".
Anyway - you may now return to your normal scheduled programming....
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Algodoo[^]
Found when watching a video that synchronized music with a simulation by this program.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Proper Tasty[^]
Best thing on Facebook.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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Never been on pinterest. Until now. And once was enough.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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Oy vey! I need eye-bleach... 
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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Harrr, harrrrr, gotya 
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Cant stand the site. Too much crap, unorganised, useless.
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Proper tasty?
Wouldnt be from the west country would they?
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Eat the cake!
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Well, if it's actual cake, I might.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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