Re: #1 (The Post Office), #6 (Music)
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Posted on 04/22/2018 6:13:57 AM PDT by sodpoodle
The thing is, everything you listed there requires a separate code module to be programmed into the car’s computer. As a human, you can see a situation that you have never seen before and extrapolate how you should respond based on similarities to other situations you have encountered. How is a car going to do that? It may have hundreds or thousands of algorithms programmed in, but it is impossible to predict every situation that can arise, meaning that it is impossible to write an algorithm for every situation. We have all seen bizarre behavior in computers—do you want those bizarre glitches manifesting when you are riding along in your self-driving car and you don’t have the skill to take over because you have only been taught rudimentary driving skills?
I know that those who are enamoured of technology love the idea of self-driving cars, but I honestly don’t see them happening.
Besides, the prospect of sitting in a car, doing nothing while waiting to arrive, is not at all appealing. I’d rather drive, and be busy at something.
Rush- Red Barchetta - Lyrics
My uncle has a country place, that no one knows about
He says it used to be a farm, before the Motor Law
And on Sundays I elude the ‘Eyes’, and hop the Turbine freight
To far outside the Wire, where my white-haired uncle waits
Jump to the ground
As the Turbo slows to cross the borderline
Run like the wind
As excitement shivers up and down my spine
Down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me an old machine -
For fifty-odd years
To keep it as new has been his dearest dream
I strip away the old debris, that hides a shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta, from a better, vanished time
Fire up the willing engine, responding with a roar!
Tires spitting gravel, I commit my weekly crime...
Wind in my hair -
Shifting and drifting -
Mechanical music -
Adrenaline surge -
Well-weathered leather
Hot metal and oil
The scented country air
Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware
Suddenly, ahead of me, across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air-car, shoots towards me, two lanes wide
I spin around with shrieking tires, to run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley as another joins the chase
Run like the wind
Straining the limits of machine and man
Laughing out loud
With fear and hope, I’ve got a desperate plan
At the one-lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded
At the riverside
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle
At the fireside
Lol. I do appreciate your cordially non agressive tone.
At the core is knowledge, what is knowledge, how is it composed. There are Masters Degrees on this subject.
Highlight readers are superior to non highlight readers.
So I am not demeaning highlighters. Just ask a person to summarize a book they recently read, someone who does NOT mark on books.
The non marking reader retains less, AND most important is that for them to go back and review, they must reread the book again.
Readers are smarter than non readers.
Highlighters retain much more than readers.
Then Trade Secrets, a publishing editor may have some.
All books are the original outline, covered with fluff. Reading is recovering the original outline.
By understanding that principle, one can 4.0 GPA any college course.
Roger that, FRiend.
I went to Outer Mongolia in 2016. The Gobi looks a *lot* like the desert of Wyoming, Colorado, etc. The Mongolian nomads typically have a little solar panel, which provides just enough electricity to run an electric light, a TV, and charge the cell phones. No roads, no electricity, no utilities, but they have cell phones. It’s funny, in a way.
“I know that those who are enamoured of technology love the idea of self-driving cars, but I honestly don’t see them happening.”
They ARE happening.
No 'probably' about it .. most folks in the T wear the PAlabama nickname with pride and gratitude.
An uncommon amount of common sense still dwells in these parts too.
I hope to be an urn dweller before that ever changes.
Can’t we just light off a few emps and go back to the horse?
They are being tested on a limited basis, in a handful of areas. That is not the same as putting them out on the roads to replace actual cars, with the myriad of uses that people use them for.
They may be better as a means of controlling people than anything else.
“They are being tested on a limited basis, in a handful of areas. “
Even regular cars are getting close. Self-braking, adaptive cruise control, lane-following. It is coming.
Check out the latest on Tesla.
I love our landline. We have cells, too, but rely on the “home phone” — plugged in to the wall — not wifi, VOIP, or similar. We lose power here in TN more than we did in Alaska on the ‘70s. It’s nice to have stable communications in emergencies. Now, when I go to thrift shops I scan the aisles for “regular” phones.
BASIC TALK
Most of the time I don’t pick it up at all between 0900 and 2000 as I said.
“Most of the time I don’t pick it up at all between 0900 and 2000 as I said.”
What you said was that you don’t run from one end of the house to the other or interrupt things to pick up.
Same thing, different words. Don’t be picky.
“Same thing, different words. Don’t be picky.”
Depends. You could be sitting on the couch with your phone ...
So true.
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We had the cell network go down when an earthquake knocked out the poser for the whole island. Landline still worked.
I refuse to walk around with a cell, do not expect to need it. Does sit in my car for emergenciy calls.
Of course, I do not "do" iPhag smartphones or need whatever all those cute little icons are for. Everyone else seems totally zombified by the damn things, so I stay out of the loop.
Your GPS issues are not the fault of the system, but of the programming by whoever made yours.
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