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I hadn't followed any link, so I didn't realize Israel was part of the discussion.
I live out in the country in Canada, on a (if I recall) 125'x325' lot. It's not exactly huge, especially compared to some of my neighbors. The lot used to be part of a larger farm land area (my grandfather's), which was measured in kilometers.
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10,000 sq ft is a modest sized home for a celebrity. Need many more 0s to include the lot.
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It's fairly typical for cities in Florida platted in the 60's to 70's. A lot of the lots were bought site unseen by 'northerners'. In contrast, coming to SWFL from front range Colorado prairie, our 12k lot here can turn into a mini-jungle in 6 months
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Hmmm, I just want a Hal-9000 avatar for AI. Very clever but... A friend did suggest Elon Musk used an AI to generate money on the stock market before it was banned..
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Wordle 934 6/6*
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I hate ones like this, even if I did manage to get it!
modified 9-Jan-24 10:13am.
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“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I only just made it in 5
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I won't tell if you don't.
Jeremy Falcon
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Happens to all of us
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Quote: Wordle 934 3/6
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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How long before self driving cars claims stop?
I am talking about the claim of replacing all cars and not about autonomous vehicles driving around a warehouse.
Consider this as a scenario in 2021 42,000+ people died in automobile accidents in the US. About 1,000 were children. Notice that injuries are a lot higher.
So lets say self driving cars worked and so deaths dropped by two orders of magnitude. So 420 people and 10 children.
Now in any modern accident in the vast majority of cases a driver is found to be at fault. Drunk, texting, distracted, reckless, etc.
So in the above with a self driving care no person can be at fault. Because they were not driving.
Now in some of those cases, especially with children, someone is going to blame the car. Not the specific car, but the manufacturer of the car.
And then they will sue them for 10 million. Or 100 million.
Consider that just in past week a door (sort of) blew off an airplane and all planes of that type were grounded.
Is the government going ground a couple million cars? Might even be possible with self driving, just send a signal.
One of self driving car companies is likely going out of business because their car drove to the side of the road with a pedestrian underneath.
Now if a person had been driving the driver presumably would have been at fault - if anyone could have determined the correct behavior in that bizarre case. Seems like slamming on the brakes, in the middle of a highway, might not be the best action. So what is right? Who gets to decide that?
And even if the action was exactly right, is a lawsuit against the company still going to happen?
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I think most programmers would never get in a self driving car. We all know how buggy our own code is.
Heh, just thought buggy Buggy code.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: most programmers would never get in a self driving car.
20 CEOs of avionics companies were all on a plane, just before taxiing away from the terminal. The purser came down the aisle, and whispered to each CEO that their company's avionics are controlling the plane. 19 out of 20 CEOs got off the plane immediately, while the 20th stayed in place.
The purser said that he/she/it must be very confident in the company's avionics, to which the answer was "with the programmers we employ, the plane won't even take off!"
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I was expecting a punchline that takes a shot at CEO's. I wasn't expecting a dig at programmers.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Buggy2
Software Zen: delete this;
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I agree that automatic driving has the potential to drastically reduce the number of car accidents. However, given the litigious climate in the U.S. (and increasingly - in the rest of the world), I doubt whether any car manufacturer will actually advertise "automatic driving" as a feature.
The only way that I see this happening is that car manufacturers be required to submit their cars for rigorous external tests, in return for receiving legal indemnity from lawsuits. Something similar exists for vaccines.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: The only way that I see this happening is that car manufacturers be required to submit their cars for rigorous external tests
I'm pretty sure the NHTSA is already responsible for that. For testing the self-driving features? Probably not so much. I don't really see a government agency keeping up.
Daniel Pfeffer wrote: , in return for receiving legal indemnity from lawsuits. Something similar exists for vaccines.
Reagan indemnified pharmaceuticals back in the 80s. Sure, there's plenty of testing going on, but holding Big Pharma accountable should be a thing.
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Worse, it's actually called the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. Can't sue for harming your kids with a bad vaccine. That sounds so wrong...
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