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is this the future of self driving cars?
I think you are right. I think the unknowns are, how tiny will the script be that commands all the cars into a lake and will it be a cloud hack or a local broadcast hack?
Back in the day (1960s?) two relatives of mine had a prank battle going on. One of them posted an add in the local newspaper offering to buy old Christmas trees, at the address of their adversary. Half the city showed up, were told trees were not in fact being bought, and everybody dumped the trees at their door.
This is a great way to get free firewood
Ya its free but also burns quick and doesn't put out enough heat.
Is there any way of confirming this? Without knowledge of Russian or context this could just be taxis on some sort of protest rally.
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Pine is really smokey and burns fast
It's worse than that. The sap in it will collect in the chimney and then cause a chimney fire. You really don't want to burn that stuff in a fireplace.
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Yep, I've had Google Maps direct me to drive into a wall or an empty field more than a couple times over the years. It's not uncommon for people to get stranded or even killed by blindly following bad GPS directions. The maps are often quite bad in less traveled areas. And these are the non-malicious cases!
Sorry, this bugged me enough to try and find some data: > It's not uncommon for people to get stranded or even killed by blindly following bad GPS directions. Google took me to Wikipedia[0], which took me to a conference paper[1]: In a corpus of about 400 news articles from 2010 onwards (via Lexus Nexus search), they found 52 deaths related to navigation technologies, which accounted for about 25% of the incidents th…
The much more common case is getting stuck and needing a rescue. Google maps is absolutely terrible at dirt roads. It will confidently give you directions that make absolutley no sense once you get away from pavement. It never got me stuck anywhere, but easily could have many times if I had been less cautious. Nowadays I know to ignore those directions in less developed areas.
I think the broader point is that driving navigation tech is getting fairly good at happy path cases but is woefully underdeveloped outside of that.
If I were a taxi driver, I think it would take me some time to get to the point of admiring the ingenuity.
One night Modest Mouse played downtown Phoenix and went past the time light rail stopped running on weeknights. Same thing happened, basically everyone who took the train called for a cab. Once I realized what was happening I just grabbed the first group who flagged me down and got the hell’s out of there.
What I especially like about the video is it is completely obvious something isn’t right and they’re all still trying to get to the pickup point.
This is what happens when optimists win and the realists are cut out of the conversation. As a taxi service, I believe I would want to know if I'm about to have a shortage of taxis in any one area of town, and I'd better only have a concentration in one area of town for an event the entire world is talking about, like a reunion tour or a championship game. Even with the hack, the moment all of the taxis started conve…
Who is cutting anyone out of the conversation? You sell your product and if I care for 100% uptime, I'll pay for it. I actually don't. I can route through lots of stuff for appropriate savings and most people can. No one wants this single pair of instances in a Tier 4 datacenter that host a single key-pair authenticated process with dual manual approval and an air-gap that dispatches one taxi (and precisely one taxi)…
Faster faster faster always wins because that’s what the management wants to hear. As long as their options best before the consequences stack up, they have no - and accept no - responsibility for the longevity of the company.
If you haven’t worked with any defectors than you’ve managed better than many of us, or you’re very lucky.
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Who is cutting anyone out of the conversation? You sell your product and if I care for 100% uptime, I'll pay for it. I actually don't. I can route through lots of stuff for appropriate savings and most people can. No one wants this single pair of instances in a Tier 4 datacenter that host a single key-pair authenticated process with dual manual approval and an air-gap that dispatches one taxi (and precisely one taxi)…
I guarantee you there are two ex employees saying “I told you” right now. Faster faster faster always wins because that’s what the management wants to hear. As long as their options best before the consequences stack up, they have no - and accept no - responsibility for the longevity of the company. If you haven’t worked with any defectors than you’ve managed better than many of us, or you’re very lucky.