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So the army saw how Uber’s driverless cars handle pedestrians crossing a road and said “shut up and take my money”?
>Uber and the Army's research lab expect to spend a combined total of $1 million in funding for this research; this funding will be divided equally between each party. That's about 8 person-years in salary. Given Uber's scale that doesn't make any sense.
Could it be a front for some other kind of deal? It sounds a bit paranoid but if it's classified they wouldn't tell us anyway.
Interesting, military only gave ~$1M for such an ambitious project while Uber is burning billions a year and could easily afford this. My speculation is that this partnership is first and foremost an attempt to provide Uber with a patina of respectability for this attempt and access to military technical expertise. Uber just crashed and burned on self driving, something it desperately needs to quench its towering mon…
>Uber and the Army's research lab expect to spend a combined total of $1 million in funding for this research; this funding will be divided equally between each party. That's about 8 person-years in salary. Given Uber's scale that doesn't make any sense.
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5.6% of staff signed a petition and 1.6% resigned. In comparison, the largest petition in the US was 4.6 million signatures, a mere 1.8% of the working age population.
>> ~12 Google employees resigned. Out of ~4,000 signers to the petition. Out of ~74,000 total employees. > 5.6% of staff signed a petition and 1.6% resigned. 1.6% would be almost 12,000, not 12. I'm not familiar with this case but a quick search corroborated that it was a dozen employees that walked out.
Isn't it ironic whilst Google's engineers are mass protesting against military contracts, Uber already signed a whole bunch without any moral dilemma whatsover. Tells a lot about the company ethics there. On a separate note, could someone enlighten how stacked co-rotoring (moving towards the same direction) may make the aircraft silent and not noisier?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamov_Ka-50
What am I missing?
>To date, stacked co-rotating rotors have not been deployed in existing flying craft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamov_Ka-50 What am I missing?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
5.6% of staff signed a petition and 1.6% resigned. In comparison, the largest petition in the US was 4.6 million signatures, a mere 1.8% of the working age population.
>> ~12 Google employees resigned. Out of ~4,000 signers to the petition. Out of ~74,000 total employees. > 5.6% of staff signed a petition and 1.6% resigned. 1.6% would be almost 12,000, not 12. I'm not familiar with this case but a quick search corroborated that it was a dozen employees that walked out.
Interesting, military only gave ~$1M for such an ambitious project while Uber is burning billions a year and could easily afford this. My speculation is that this partnership is first and foremost an attempt to provide Uber with a patina of respectability for this attempt and access to military technical expertise. Uber just crashed and burned on self driving, something it desperately needs to quench its towering mon…