That's nuts, but I love it!
Caterpillar creates 2,700 square metre Pac-Man gameboard
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#22"These trials are designed to surprise and delight our customers"
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#23It'd been cool if they had hacked the equipment to be able to drive autonomously instead of remote driven. Oh, right, you don't have a right to repair, so you can't modify the rig you just bought. Doh!
Where is the line between your right to repair and Caterpillar's rights to the intellectual property embedded in the various controllers on board the equipment? When does this become an issue when you and Caterpillar have regulatory obligations for the operations of that equipment with regard to emissions, OSHA, MSHA, etc... ? I am sincerely interested in understanding the reasonable expectations between anything we…
> When does this become an issue when you and Caterpillar have regulatory obligations for the operations of that equipment with regard to emissions, OSHA, MSHA, etc... ?
why would this be an issue for software, but not for the car-modding business ? if you can "trivially" find the materials and guides to add a turbo to your car engine (https://www.torquecars.com/tuning/adding-turbo.php), it's very hypocritical to mandate different rules for software running inside of it.
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#24This is awesome, would be so cool to make these in cities around the country and make various garden competitions to see who could make the most beautiful setup.
In the north, the bottom could be flooded for ice skating in a maze :)
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
It looks like they did it in the middle of some farmer's field. I don't think any trees were uprooted for this.
It's hard to tell the precise location, but this area seems to be where it was actually done: https://goo.gl/maps/njSa71qU6w8CrP9BA . It's already a giant dirt field on the satellite imagery; there wasn't even any fields plowed up for it.
Yep, that's one of our demonstration center: https://www.cat.com/en_US/support/operations/operator-traini...
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#26I'm not sure if I love or hate the prospect of future archaeologists finding this and trying to figure out what role it played in our society. "We're referring to it as the 'ball court', though it could also have had ceremonial or political significance. Notice the symmetry and the way it is aligned to true north." (I know the dirt walls won't last a decade, don't ruin my fun.)
Exactly. It turns out that the pyramids were just a cross-promotional publicity stunt between the Egyptian Wheel Company and an ancient board game.
With big painted billboards advertising Khalem-tet's building force (an early Mechanical Turk) on all 4 sides!
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#27Fun. I couldn’t quite parse the title, it made me click though to the article.