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767-300ER for example - United Airlines 80 which I use all the time to cross the Atlantic https://www.seatguru.com/airlines/United_Airlines/United_Air...
Ah, that makes sense. The 767s are on their way out (I guess United still uses them, though), so the days of 2-3-2 are nearing an end. 787s are all 3-3-3, I believe.
Just after refurbishing them for their new business class in priority over other aircraft?
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CNN is just wrong, though. These are being marketed as premium economy seats. https://thepointsguy.com/news/the-future-of-premium-economy/ https://runwaygirlnetwork.com/2019/12/10/wings-out-interspac... CNN got this wrong, and the rest of the major press is citing CNN as the source. But if you look, you can see that these seats are clearly not economy seats -- they're too wide, and they have all the premium economy t…
Don't blame me ;) Perhaps the user I replied to should have provided citations. I suspect you're not wrong, but neither of those two sources I'd recognise as "notable".
Anyway, those two blogs the parent posted are pretty well known and respected in the avgeek community.
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CNN is just wrong, though. These are being marketed as premium economy seats. https://thepointsguy.com/news/the-future-of-premium-economy/ https://runwaygirlnetwork.com/2019/12/10/wings-out-interspac... CNN got this wrong, and the rest of the major press is citing CNN as the source. But if you look, you can see that these seats are clearly not economy seats -- they're too wide, and they have all the premium economy t…
Don't blame me ;) Perhaps the user I replied to should have provided citations. I suspect you're not wrong, but neither of those two sources I'd recognise as "notable".
Unsurprisingly, knowledge is lost when moving to the mass media
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Same. Almost 30 years ago, I took an overnight slowboat in Asia with my parents where each passenger had a thin mat (half-inch thick, 2' wide). People sat up, lay down to read or sleep. It was great. I've been on sleeper buses in China and triple-bunk sleeper trains in India and would vastly prefer those to the airline experience. Challenges with capsule-style beds could be accommodating families and handling meals?
I've taken a sleeper bus in Asia before but with my 6'5 the short beds are highly uncomfortable. I'm a big fan of sleeper trains though.
> The designers are considering adding facial recognition technology to the design. Um, what > In fitting with the trend towards more personalized, data-driven flying experiences, New Territory is keen to add facial recognition technology to the mix too. > The idea is that as the seat wing recognizes that you've fallen asleep, it'll automatically turn off the movie playing on your IFE. This could be the worst idea ev…
> Have cameras pointed at every flyer for the duration of the flight, for the incredibly minor benefit of stopping your movie Besides, all these electronic devices have a high environmental impact, for virtually no benefits. It makes you wonder how we're going to decrease our CO2 emissions...
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… using Deep Learning and NoSQL …
my new favorite MBA tech word is "serverless"
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Don't buy Alexa? I agree with you with regards to facial recognition, but expanding your views to optional smart home tech seems fairly vindictive.
Or have any friends that want to buy one. I have one friend who's pretty in to home automation. Fortunately he doesn't host get togethers very often, but I've seriously considered declining invitations before because I don't want to be in a house with all that crap in it.
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Don’t forget safety, were often told it’s to monitor bad guys or people breaking the law. Australia is great at this, see the new “Phone use while driving cameras”, insane.
After nearly 5 decades of declining traffic fatalities, the number has been increasing (at least in NL) for the past 3, with mobile use being one of the main drivers. I don't like surveillance everywhere, but I like people playing with their phones while driving even less, so I personally can't wait for those camera's to be anywhere. Also, my Tesla is filming constantly while I drive, so that's a much bigger deal.
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I'm not really sure how to answer that. I guess it amounts to peer pressure. If you're up against a group that has already decided that these kinds of devices aren't a problem, it's hard to articulate an argument against subjecting yourself to it that they find convincing.
And doesn't this perfectly demonstrate the issue with the "just don't buy one" argument? It's still _possible_ to make choices about your privacy (ex. don't get a smart phone, don't buy a smart speaker, etc.) but it requires progressively more conviction as acceptance of this kind of tech becomes mainstream.
It's not a foregone conclusion that will happen.
Recent weeks has shown increased mainstream media covering privacy aspects - often through the lens of creepy Facebook/Google/Amazon.
So it's definitely possible there will be sufficient push back to stop this crap becoming too ubiquitous.