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by blensor 8y ago
While naming a product should usually be up to the company who creates said product, my opinion on this is that Tesla should no longer be allowed to call this "autopilot", for public safety reasons. Autopilot is a well known word
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by blensor 9y ago
That blind spot or more like blind area would be immediately around the car where other sensors have coverage as well. Not 20 meters in front of the car. Just take a look at our simulation of this scene [1]. The person would have been clear
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by blensor 9y ago
Why do you think the LIDAR did not work? The LIDAR might have worked just fine but what the system taking the output of the sensor did with the data is the question. If you want to know what we would expect the LIDAR to have seen in such a
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by blensor 9y ago
Or reflex. We act on an input on a lower cognitive level first before a higher level function even has the chance to intervene. If someone is throwing a ball at my face, my body hopefully reacts before my higher level functions had the chan
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by blensor 9y ago
The closest I can give you is a simulation of a scene modeled after the video using a very simple reconstruction of the site of the accident (based on google maps and street view) http://www.blensor.org/lidar_accident.html
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by blensor 9y ago
If the technology were as undeterministic as this post makes it seem to be, there should not be any self driving car allowed even under the best conditions. I fully agree that an AI can be fooled, but that is high level logic (path planing)
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by blensor 9y ago
They do have noise, but we are talking about milimeter to centimeter scale (accuracy is < 2cm). So a grown up person is roughly 2 orders of magnitude bigger than the accuracy of the scanner. To give an example how big (or small) this noi
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by blensor 9y ago
If it were "only" a human then the radar would have a hard time seeing the person. But the bicycle is a substantial chunk of metal which should give much stronger echo. And a 10 kg. metal object placed in the path of an autonomous
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by blensor 9y ago
thanks for pointing that out. I fixed it, and have absolutely no idea how I made the mistake in the first place.
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by blensor 9y ago
I don't understand why everyone is focusing so heavily on LIDAR being at fault or not at fault. The car does have a RADAR as well, which would not help detecting the pedestrian but most certainly the bike she was moving along. I don&#x
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by blensor 9y ago
That would not have mattered im this case. The Veldoyne LIDAR they seem to be using (from the photo of one of their Volvos) is the HDL-64E (don't know which revision but the key specs are the same). This sensor can operate between 5 an
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by blensor 9y ago
I don't know how the system is integrated into the self driving logic as a whole. But a few years ago when we were working on a self driving train, LIDAR was used as a system that reports back a list of obstacles (position, size, maybe
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by blensor 9y ago
They even allow installing of python modules via pip. And they already include opencv import cv2 print(cv2.__version__) '3.4.0' So I guess this is an incredibly awesome gift for many more than just ML devs After playin
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by blensor 9y ago
Why? There is no reason to assume that two integers which have the same value should be the same object? On the other hand if you want to check if two integers are different, why would you check if they are different objects, after all they
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by blensor 9y ago
Can you please elaborate where you got your data points from. I am a diesel car owner (have been for about 15 years) and I have yet to experience those issues you mention. Currently it has -12°C outside and my car starts just fine.
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by blensor 9y ago
Here is a short presentation on security of automated border checks http://btn.frontex.europa.eu/system/files/private/events/ple...
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by blensor 9y ago
I think the problem is not as big because you don't need to have those people do monumentally stupid things all the time. It's sufficient if they do it every so often. And unless someone is an incredibly paranoid person which has
468.
by blensor 9y ago
That's somehow funny. I was involved in a project for standardizing automated border control in Europe. We developed a document simulator [1] that could mimic most security features of physical passports, but faking the electronic part
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by blensor 9y ago
I strongly hope that paper money is not completely replaced by electronic payments because it may be convenient as long as it works but I would like to still be able to buy food even when the service stops working. We had this in Austria a
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by blensor 9y ago
Why can't we just estimate the "real" value of BTC with the amount of work that goes into operating it. We know the hashrate, we basically know what the hardware is that does the "mining", we know the cost of the ha
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by blensor 9y ago
A separate list of corrections would definitely be a good counterbalance, but it would probably only matter to those who are already trying to verify the correctness of the story in the first place and not to those who took it at face value
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by blensor 9y ago
Does a "Gegendarstellung" not require a court order? I would very much love if the media outlets agree on self imposed "best practices for corrections". Which in the end should be a benefit for those complying because th
473.
by blensor 9y ago
I am usually not one who favors government regulation of journalistic outlets, however I do have a proposal. Media outlets should be required to publish a correction of a story at least as visible and for at least as long as the initial inc
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by blensor 9y ago
Don't you think the response from Apple (lowering battery replacement costs, modifying the OS to show the user what is happening) is a clear indicator that they really fid feel a backlash rather than the usual Apple bashing by non Appl
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by blensor 9y ago
And with that comment we are back at the root of the problem. Apple is the one to evaluate what is and what is not important to the user. And many people who are currently upset think they had their priorities wrong. We can argue all day lo
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by blensor 9y ago
No. Because it is still about battery life. If it were only about the spurious shutdown then the throttling would happen once in a while, but the reports are about long lasting performance reductions, sometimes down to 50%. If the battery i
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by blensor 9y ago
So you think a Popup "Hey you're battery is going bad. Do you want to [keep the performance] or [save the battery life]?" Would be too much??
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by blensor 9y ago
I could not care less about which company did this, it could have just as easily been Samsung, LG, <put your favorite brand here> BUT, what I do very much care about is that the company who did this does not get away with it without l
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by blensor 9y ago
I guess that depends where the button is located. If you are sitting down on your couch and forgot to turn off the light it definitely beats standing up and walkin back to the door. If the switch is within reach anyway then I totally agree
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by blensor 9y ago
If you create a custom skill you can do almost anything. Here is our fun little project for Halloween https://youtu.be/BdbjoniAP0s

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