juliesulti

There are anecdotes of Google Maps causing traffic, routing people to dead ends, etc. There was the incident where Google Maps routed a lot of interstate drivers down a dirt road serving a prison. Last week in Oakland, Google routed drivers away from traffic on I-880, onto Embarcadero where the bridge is closed for construction. Last week, Google refused to route me over the open, clear Sonora Pass between Modesto and Bridgeport, giving me instead a 2.5-hour detour via US-50 to South Lake Tahoe.

I'm sure this Waymo project does not take the perfection of Google Maps data as a given.

Nobody has an expectation of privacy while driving. There is decades of jurisprudence establishing quite the opposite. That's why there is a giant mandatory number plate on your car, why there is implied consent for search as a condition of your driving license, etc.

The video shows the vehicle operating at 25 MPH in residential blocks, approaching speed bumps at 10 MPH, respecting a temporary 15 MPH school zone, and coming to a full and complete stop at stop signs and red lights.

That is how you are supposed to drive a car.

Well, this is a cute bit of nostalgia, but it used to take 6.5 seconds to redraw the terminal screen at my local library, which was connected to some distant system at 2400bps.

You laugh, but a pouch cell as mentioned in this article is in fact a cell that is permitted to swell and shrink. That's probably why these researchers started there.

As regards the article, Lithium-Silicon batteries have the potential to add much more than 50% to the charge density of Lithium-ion batteries. More like 400% in theory. But nobody has demonstrated a cheap, production-ready process for such a thing, because a charged silicon anode occupies much more space than a discharged one, and the associated mechanical stress is a severe problem. There has been an endless parade of press releases from universities and national laboratories over the past 10 years on this topic.