BorgHunter

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by BorgHunter 13y ago
I don't believe the report[1] actually said that the risk of a malfunction is higher than the risk of human error. In fact, it's quite optimistic about the ability of automated systems to save lives, for precisely the reasons you described.
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by BorgHunter 13y ago
There's essentially no need to own a fully autonomous car for solely personal use. Big fleets of dispatched vehicles that you can order to show up at your door (with, this is key, low response times for on-demand service plus reliable sched
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by BorgHunter 13y ago
There will be two big, competing points regarding automated vehicles in the public eye: * Automated vehicles can save a lot of people a lot of money, save lives, and completely transform the way transportation operates (and perhaps even how
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by BorgHunter 13y ago
Even this definition can get hairy, though. What is a character? Is 'á' one character or two? Most human beings would say one, but in actuality I formed it with an 'a' (U+0061) and a combining acute accent (U+0301): Two separate code points
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by BorgHunter 14y ago
EA still does make great games, sometimes. Their problems tend to be more toward customer-hostile actions (see: SimCity, the myriad Origin customer service horror stories, the letter that spawned this thread) and their tendency to eat small
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by BorgHunter 14y ago
Capital D does have a "with stroke" character, Ð. Code point U+00D0. In actuality, it's a capital eth (ð), which is a bona fide letter by itself rather than an existing letter with an extra mark in it.
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by BorgHunter 14y ago
"When we become overwhelmed by trivial information, we start to hate substantial/meaningful information, and both what we hate and what we love conspire to bring our ruin." Is it hatred, or simply a desire to get the "cheaper" information
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by BorgHunter 15y ago
It's rare, but possible, even in devices which should have nothing to do with wireless signals at all: http://dansdata.com/gz128.htm