The book How Not to be Wrong has the most wonderful quote about Abraham Wald and the bullet-ridden airplanes. He starts his story by saying, “This story, like many WWII stories, starts with the Nazis hounding a Jew out of Europe and ends with the Nazis regretting it.”
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Where is the air intake on that thing? It seems like pretty much every part of it other than the handlebars was submerged at one point or another, so I don’t understand how he didn’t kill the engine?
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Here’s a link to the video at the timestamp to show the issue, so people don’t have to search seven minutes of video for the five seconds that show this issue:
As others have said, it’s much better to either save for a Concept 2 or buy one used. Here are several reasons why:
As others have said, it’s much better to either save for a Concept 2 or buy one used. Here are several reasons why:
In Los Angeles, it’s pretty standard for intersections to have no left turn arrow. So the standard is that, assuming oncoming traffic prevents you from completing your left turn while the light is green, you pull into the intersection, pretty much as described above, *however* only two cars are allowed to make the…
The AP says, “Where the audio recording of the interview is unclear...” I’m no Trump fan, but that’s an important distinction. Is there evidence that the recording itself wasn’t to blame?
Here’s a working link courtesy of the Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20150302033128/http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/anti-tales.html
The drivers ahead of the Tesla had a different task. They were already actively guiding their cars, so the challenge for them is just a somewhat greater adjustment than they were *already* continuously making. They knew they needed to do something different the moment they saw the lane shift ahead of them.
The burden is different, as I’ve said repeatedly but several people either don’t understand or refuse to acknowledge. There is a difference between these two things:
Yeah, saying it isn’t his fault is a poor way of expressing my real point, which is that this happened too fast for a human to react and avoid it. My reaction was to the first lines of the article, implying that the driver wasn’t paying attention.
I think your analogy would be better if you were talking about pitchers when the batter sends a line drive right back at them. They have a fraction of a second to react, and sometimes they make brilliant catches, and sometimes they get beaned.
I never said the driver “let” the car run into the barrier. I’m saying that being caught off guard, there wasn’t enough time to react. In the gif above, it looks to me like the driver has less than half a second to notice and react. That’s nowhere near enough time.
Sure, the truck driver is driving. Every instant, he/she is expecting to have to take action. The Tesla driver’s default action is to do nothing and let the autopilot drive. As I replied to someone else, this is like the difference between playing catch with someone, and someone throwing a ball at your head and…
Sure — I don’t own a Tesla, and I don’t know what their agreement states. I’m simply saying that if the article’s title is going to be “Don’t Use Tesla’s Autopilot Like This,” then the first line of the article should be, “Tesla’s user agreement says not to use autopilot in a construction zone, and this is why.” A…
The whole point of autopilot is that, even if your hands are on the wheel and you are alertly watching the road, 99.99% of the time, you let the car do what it does, without interference. An alert human without autopilot is driving the car.
This isn’t the driver’s fault, and autopilot is clearly an issue here. Look closely at the gif, and note that the lane doesn’t go away. It just jogs to the right. No merging was required, just attention to the (very poor) lane markers to know to move to the right.
I would take Schwarzenegger as president a hundred times before I’d consider Trump. No, a million times. Hmm — infinity.
Not to go full geek but I don’t even have a DVD player anymore. If this were digital I’d buy it in a heartbeat.
Not to go full geek but I don’t even have a DVD player anymore. If this were digital I’d buy it in a heartbeat.
No way I’m standing there trusting that person’s ability to control a slide...