jvolkman

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by jvolkman 9y ago
What do you find strange about this?
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by jvolkman 9y ago
Letter from NTSB to Tesla regarding its removal: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Documents/HWY18FH011-Tes...
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by jvolkman 9y ago
> Of course our streets are ever-changing, so our cars need to be able to recognize new conditions and make adjustments in real-time. For example, we can detect signs of construction (orange cones, workmen in vests, etc.) and understand
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by jvolkman 9y ago
What if a client blackholes all traffic to some network due to some privacy-related reason? If cloudflare tells that provider (via name resolution) who's resolving names, some of that client's PII is possibly shared before the bla
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by jvolkman 9y ago
A big knock against Waymo so far has been that it won't be able to scale its service by retrofitting Pacificas, and that it needs to find OEM partners to help build vehicles (i.e., install the hardware at the factory). So that's w
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by jvolkman 9y ago
What about a baby monitor app? Is the app considered backgrounded when the screen is off?
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by jvolkman 9y ago
If you watch closely, the periodic "pulsing" on the view screens shows the actual lidar data. The rendered obstacles (cars/peds) are based on the vehicle's model of the world after processing that data. The buildings pre
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by jvolkman 9y ago
What area? I hear a hum many nights in Ballard which I'm pretty sure is the Ballard Terminal Railroad.
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by jvolkman 9y ago
Pole replacement is interesting and full of bureaucracy. At least here in Seattle, the power company doesn't have authority to move communications wires and equipment attached to poles that are being replaced. So often times they'
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by jvolkman 9y ago
At Amazon it was called the "old fart tool".
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by jvolkman 9y ago
Yesterday I said "hey google, turn on the kitchen lights" because my hands were full and the switch was across the room. I wouldn't say it had a meaningful effect on my lifestyle, but it was useful at that moment.
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by jvolkman 9y ago
Recent article that talks about this: https://www.wired.com/story/meltdown-spectre-bug-collision-i...
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by jvolkman 9y ago
Presumably they'd pull up the plastic sheets covering the carpet prior to the next party.
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by jvolkman 9y ago
I would stop for the dog...
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by jvolkman 9y ago
Don't think so. You can read the descriptions on page 17 of the report: https://storage.googleapis.com/sdc-prod/v1/safety-report/way... For example: The steering system features a redundant drive motor s
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by jvolkman 9y ago
I think there's more than that. The safety report they released recently indicates the vehicles also have redundant power systems, redundant braking systems, redundant steering systems, etc. I doubt that the stock configurations requir
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Waymo makes history testing on public roads with no one at the wheel(arstechnica.com)
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by jvolkman 9y ago
Waymo recently released a large "safety report" in which it discusses the sensor suite. https://storage.googleapis.com/sdc-prod/v1/safety-report/way...
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by jvolkman 9y ago
From the Deepmind blog post: https://deepmind.com/documents/119/agz_unformatted_nature.pd...
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by jvolkman 9y ago
A bit more than $20, but YouTube TV does this today.
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by jvolkman 9y ago
The Tesla data recording sounds great on paper, but despite all that hypothetical data Autopilot still can't stay in its lane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=ALEMd9WZJtE
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by jvolkman 9y ago
> The few times other parties have stepped in and spoken up, there's been some less rosy truths in there. What are you referring to?
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by jvolkman 9y ago
Pedestrians often do. For example, I'd want to make eye contact with a driver of a car attempting to make an unprotected left turn (and not looking in my direction) prior to crossing in front of it.
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by jvolkman 9y ago
Did the town ever consider just adding numbers?
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by jvolkman 9y ago
But actually shipping a product that can operate autonomously in a subset of areas and conditions is more satisfying than not shipping a product at all.
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by jvolkman 9y ago
I don't know whether I'm legit, but I use my Google Home all the time (and my Echo on rare occasions).
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by jvolkman 9y ago
The Waymo article focused on testing, both physical and virtual. This article just describes the visualization tool that Uber uses to replay SDC logs. They might use the same tool to control and view simulations, but the article doesn'
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by jvolkman 9y ago
From the title I was expecting something criminal.
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by jvolkman 9y ago
More specifically, the article indicates that the car that doesn't stop is what the software - after changes to fix the original problem - would do now if it encountered the same situation.
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by jvolkman 9y ago
And Waymo has already said that its cars will safely pull over when the weather gets too rough.

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