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by asteli 9y ago
People don't generally give up and stay home, they find ways to go about their lives. Driving to downtown San Francisco is awful and congested, so people simply take the train (because it exists in a useful capacity). Widening that bri
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by asteli 9y ago
This is true! Nice username, btw! I think some of this comes down to how closely you have to mimic a human rider. Does the robot have to weigh as much as a plausible GP rider? If not, then the robot plainly has a mass advantage. Would that
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by asteli 9y ago
They both do, and neither make any pretense around hiding them. In fact, the stock R1M has gyros without a rider of any sort, as part of its traction control system.
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by asteli 9y ago
Putting the actuators on the motorcycle is the easy part. From a control perspective, it doesn't much matter whether the actuators are packaged into a humanoid form or not.
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by asteli 9y ago
> “Why a motorbike?” ponders Hiroshi Saijou. “Because it is very difficult to do, and it had never been done before.” I feel compelled to point out that it has in fact been done before. There was an autonomous motorcycle -- Ghostrider
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by asteli 9y ago
The humanoid form is just for show. You need a handful of actuators to work the control and a way to power them. Throttle is already servo-actuated on the stock bike. The robot will have the advantage in mass and mass distribution. What I d
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by asteli 9y ago
making something stay on the ground is far less challenging than making something go to space i think they've got this
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by asteli 9y ago
you are correct. at least based on the dozen or so people i know that left chauffeur
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by asteli 9y ago
your visual system is finely tuned to be able to judge things like "how far away is that child in the crosswalk?" you possess an internal IMU that provides instant and accurate feedback on acceleration and rotation. you lose out o
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by asteli 9y ago
While we're dreaming, how bout the following? * Strict maximum limits on campaign spending * Ban paid TV advertisements * Campaigning is limits to 3 months before the general election
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by asteli 9y ago
What about a $20 tax credit for voting? Would that also be a violation?
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by asteli 9y ago
Reference for you: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/taking-time-off-voti...
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by asteli 9y ago
In the US, it depends on which state you're in. Many states (including mine) have a law entitling employees to time off to vote. Some states mandate that time off be paid up to a certain limit, commonly ~2 hours. IMO voting day should
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by asteli 9y ago
This is the future of cities. Doing this would open the door for massive efficiency gains. Within these controlled "back-alleys," you could lay down metallic guides for the cars to glide down (dramatically reduced rolling friction
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by asteli 9y ago
Believe you missed American Graffiti. (1973) THX1138 is pretty special. I'm still trying to find a version without the typical Lucas retroactive CGI spliced in. Fun fact: there's a scene in the movie (no spoilers) that was filmed,
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by asteli 9y ago
The tone of your post encouraged me to challenge your assertion, but it does actually appear from numerous anecdotes that LSD is very poorly absorbed transdermally, even when dissolved in solvents used for that purpose. Neat.
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by asteli 9y ago
I wish them well, but they're doing hobby robotics. They claim to be at the level of Waymo/Tesla/Uber/Cruise, etc, but a quick glance at their github shows sub-DARPA Grand Challenge levels of technical development.
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by asteli 9y ago
Half Orange by Fruitvale BART notably comes to mind.
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by asteli 9y ago
the inferred reference you're missing is the 'all asians are good at math' stereotype.
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by asteli 9y ago
as a motorcyclist, i have another idea get more people to ride motorcycles. an oft-cited study [1] shows that a 10% increase in motorcycle ridership would cut time lost to traffic by 63% 1: http://www.acem.eu/images/sto
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The Woman Engineering Uber’s Driverless Trucks(technologyreview.com)
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by asteli 9y ago
Speaking from my experience in Alaska, it's impressive how people have adapted the use of aircraft to accommodate the nonexistent or often unusable road infrastructure. I remember traveling by rail and passing a long row of houses with
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by asteli 9y ago
Every big website you use performs psychological experiments on millions of users without explicit consent. That's basic A/B testing. The difference here is that instead of A/B testing to see whether they can get you to click
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by asteli 9y ago
Facebook didn't have to write this paper. They could have done the research and held onto it. They could have not bothered to do research at all. To me, this says that they're willing to do sociological research regarding the impl
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by asteli 9y ago
There was a time when you could look at your whole friend list and sort people into sublists via dropdowns. The feature disappeared roughly a couple years ago IIRC. I wonder if they removed it because people started using the site in a way
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by asteli 9y ago
What a load of nonsense. Aluminum is a great conductor of electricity. Not as good as copper, but good enough that it gets used as the conductor for high tension power transmission lines. Additionally, you’d need a far more powerful radio t
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by asteli 9y ago
I remember this being an issue with the Google cars on the highway. The cars, if software limited to the posted speed limit, were dangerously slow compared to the surrounding traffic. Some limited law breaking had to be introduced in order
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by asteli 9y ago
I nuked my Facebook entirely. I don't miss it. Took about 2 weeks to stop reflexively typing in "fa" in the address bar when bored. Everyone worries about event discovery and getting invited to things. Turns out, the people t
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by asteli 9y ago
Completely unethical headline. It's not even borderline wrong, it's flat out wrong in order to drive clicks. That's just scummy.
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by asteli 9y ago
staying on the road isn't the hard part. all that can be mapped, even in areas with poor road markings. dealing with other road users and abusers is far harder

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