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Comment · 2 years ago
Yep, some incidents may be caused by human drivers being extra aggressive around the waymo. I work in this industry and this definitely happens. That said, weird / unexpected braking is a frequent problem for self driving cars too.
Comment · 2 years ago
I was hit by this exact scam this weekend. Hilariously, they didn't even get the photo right, and sent me a picture of some neighborhood I had never seen.
Comment · 2 years ago
This is all correct. Stats lie. Crime is an extremely localized issue, so it's easy for people to handwave away if they are in an area that doesn't experience it.
Comment · 2 years ago
Agree, this thing would get shredded by small arms. If it's going into combat zones, it will probably be in a drone configuration.
Comment · 2 years ago
Probably two reasons for this: 1. Mitigate traffic increases 2. Make anti car zealots happy
Comment · 2 years ago
It is common for practitioners of Muai Thai and other kickboxing styles to harden their shins by whacking them with hard objects, or rolling something hard like a bottle across the bone. Sparring and hitting the heavy bag also harden your bones over time.

Kicks are normally blocked with the lower leg in Muai Thai. This often results in shin-on-shin contact which can be very painful for both fighters. So the point isn't so much to prevent full bone breaks (which are very rare) as to toughen the bone enough to handle this abuse... and make sure it hurts more for the other guy than it does for you.

Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah, it would be a small advantage at best. Leg kicks very rarely break bones, usually they rely on causing pain and damage to tissue. And surgery will result in lost training time, plus the risk of something going wrong long term...
Comment · 2 years ago
Some background here: in the autonomous vehicles world, it's common to split things up into 'perception' (detecting things around the car and creating a world model), 'planning' (deciding what to do), and 'controls' (giving gas, brake, steering etc so the car smoothly follows the plan). Saying telsa is using AI 'controls' here is probably a misnomer, Musk's statement indicates they are moving the entire planning stack to a NN.

'End to end' is also a bit misleading, as this usually indicates that perception and planning are fused into one network. They aren't doing this (which is probably a good idea), it's only 'end to end' from the planning and possibly controls side.

Comment · 2 years ago
Well, this took place in canada. That said, amazon warehouse employees have no leverage and are easy to fire, which I suspect leads to a culture of 'follow the rules or else'.
Comment · 3 years ago
I think you are ignoring CO2 emissions. Off road vehicles produce a large amount of pollution (particulate , etc) but are a smaller contributor when it comes to greenhouse gas.
Comment · 3 years ago
Maybe those players hve stopped spending money in the cash shop though ?
Comment · 3 years ago
True but, angle grinders make a lot if noise and very conspicuous sparks. Of course thieves will still do it if they can get away with it, but it’s not a very quick or stealthy method.

Picking the lock, in the other hand, is pretty fast and won’t attract much attention. Thief just needs to be sophisticated enough to have the correct picking tool and practice with it a bit.

Comment · 3 years ago
Every case is different , but Parkinson’s is often associated with severe dementia that can manifest fairly quickly. I saw this happen to a close family member unfortunately.
Comment · 3 years ago
What no-code tools are you using?
Comment · 3 years ago
The idea is that remote operators help get the car unstuck, but the car should always be able to avoid collisions on its own. I think these cars are supposed to pull over as well instead of blocking traffic.

Key word here being “supposed to”, of course problems occur all the time. Also once a car gets stuck, pulling over is hard because… it’s stuck.

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