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fishmech posted:Worth remembering that the average car on the road right now is 12 years old. Even if every car that was sold from tomorrow onward was fully autonomous, it would be likely to take at least 12 years for normal processes of car buying and junking to get us to a majority of cars on the road having the functionality. What is the average age of a passenger railcar?
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Spazzle posted:What is the average age of a passenger railcar? What is the average age of a passenger railcar rider? Disclaimer: I love rail travel even after an Amtrak trip that was 18 hours late when we fled the train in Sacramento, 3 hours by car from home.
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Remember when this thread was about unicorns?
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:I have a hard time believing that the tens of thousands of people spending billions of dollars to make automated cars a reality haven't considered it, or would implement a solution with such a predictable flaw. Said the poster in the tech bubble thread.
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Tokamak posted:Said the poster in the tech bubble thread.
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fishmech posted:Yeah, self-driving cars were prominently featured at General Motors' Futurama exhibit of a future city, in the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair. At that time GM was saying the cars would be widespread in just 20 years' time, 1960 or so. It's weird how people (sometimes the same people) use both the argument that automatic cars can't be real or in our lifetime because they are so new it will take forever to get them and also that they can't happen in our life time because people have been working on them for 100 years and that means they are fake. If car companies have been working on them for literal lifetimes, imagine all the legal and practical issues they must have already solved!
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Guys, please go to the other thread for the car stuff.Weatherman posted:Remember when this thread was about unicorns?
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JawnV6 posted:The Tesla accident/mile comparisons always bug me because it seems like they're cherrypicking sunny highway miles against the national average that includes situations the system wouldn't even attempt like "light rain." They are, and also they ignore China, where the accidents were so numerous they had to turn the feature off.
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dex_sda posted:They are, and also they ignore China, where the accidents were so numerous they had to turn the feature off. You are just making things up. There was two accidents in china, one fatal and in that one autopilot was very likely not even on since the guy reduced the amount demanded to 1000 something dollars and refused to share the part of the tesla that holds the data log.
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I don't understand why posters who don't like the way the auto car thread went think it will go any better in this one. Or why posting about auto cars in the thread that specifically said "hey, this is a bit of a derail, would you kindly post about it in this new thread over here so we can post more about the fall of Marissa Mayer and Peter Thiel in this one" isn't incredibly obnoxious.
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Yeah, cars do need to go back to the cars thread. D&D needs to be better in general about technology threads, there isn't enough of them so every single one grows into being a catch all.
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At the very least, we'll have this thread as a fun record when Governerd Thiel raids the state's pension in a few years and leaves us a bloody mess. I mean, SV will be a glass-dome fortress by then so no one up north will care.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Yeah, cars do need to go back to the cars thread. D&D needs to be better in general about technology threads, there isn't enough of them so every single one grows into being a catch all. This is a business thread, not a technology thread!
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FilthyImp posted:At the very least, we'll have this thread as a fun record when Governerd Thiel raids the state's pension in a few years and leaves us a bloody mess. No way Peter Thiel lets all that blood go to waste 
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Subjunctive posted:This is a business thread, not a technology thread! It's on the internet, therefore it's a technology thread
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Spazzle posted:What is the average age of a passenger railcar? That's not readily available, but there's a bunch of 40-50 year old stock inherited from private operators in the process of converting the nation's passenger rail from private ownership to near total public ownership, not much in the way of 30 year old cars as the 80s were mainly spent trying to keep the existing fleets going while repairs to systems and integrating formerly separate lines went on, and then since about the mid-90s a steadily increasing growth in straight up new fleet. Both from finally getting rid of even older equipment inherited from predecessors, and completely new systems springing up, some of which took the oldest cars from existing systems, and some of which just bought new. It'd probably work out something along the lines of the average age being like 20 years, but that's with a huge chunk of 70s stock on the one side of that, and another huge chunk of post-2007 or so stock on the other because a lot of agencies did mass-modernization programs in the past 10 years. You also have things like how there's a few passenger cars up here in Boston that are from the 1930s on certain lines, or how the NYC Subway still runs about 200 cars that were built and delivered in 1964-1965, though they'll finally be removed from service in like 2020. Of course in these cases, and in the cases of all the 70s cars on various agencies, they've all been rebuilt at least once over, sometimes twice or three times, so really only the outer shells are that old. You don't tend to get that with a regular person's auto unless they're some sort of serious enthusiast. Owlofcreamcheese posted:
Not as much as you seem to think, frankly. The legal side is still a huge loving mess, especially as far as liability and insurance goes. And there's still lots of problems with sensors and deciding how to handle it when critical sensors are disabled/blinded. fishmech fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Jan 20, 2017 |
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fishmech posted:Not as much as you seem to think, frankly. The legal side is still a huge loving mess, especially as far as liability and insurance goes. And there's still lots of problems with sensors and deciding how to handle it when critical sensors are disabled/blinded. Wanna take this up in the automatic car thread?
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Wanna take this up in the automatic car thread? Bless you.
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Hmm - seems like an app to remind people to take it to the automotive thread would be pretty disruptive... I wonder if I can get any VC investment for this.
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fishmech posted:That's not readily available, but there's a bunch of 40-50 year old stock inherited from private operators in the process of converting the nation's passenger rail from private ownership to near total public ownership, not much in the way of 30 year old cars as the 80s were mainly spent trying to keep the existing fleets going while repairs to systems and integrating formerly separate lines went on, and then since about the mid-90s a steadily increasing growth in straight up new fleet. Both from finally getting rid of even older equipment inherited from predecessors, and completely new systems springing up, some of which took the oldest cars from existing systems, and some of which just bought new. Essentially, guided missile on rails become ticking time bombs with age. Is there anything you lack an educated opinion on, Prof. Braniac MD? I wonder how someone can be so smart without being a device like a car, or meter, or terminator cyborg. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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This article isn't about a unicorn, but the app company it talks about seems full of that unicorn spirit. “We’re not trying to gamify or make fun of this experience. The adoption industry at large is a little bit underserved by the tech industry. We saw this unique opportunity to disrupt it, particularly when you’re talking about online adoption." "Once you’ve created a parenting profile, simply set your search criteria and Adoptly will instantly filter through our database bringing the broadest range of adoptable kids straight to your fingertips. Just swipe right if you’re interested, or left to keep looking. And if a kid, through their agency or foster care, like you back it’s a match.”
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RandomPauI posted:“We’re not trying to gamify or make fun of this experience" if that's the case, maybe you shouldn't have named your software "Adoptly" and put it on Kickstarter. edit: jesus christ you can swipe left or right on pictures of children there is literally no way this isn't a parody
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nachos posted:Why does adoption need disruption NEVER ASK THAT QUESTION
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RandomPauI posted:This article isn't about a unicorn, but the app company it talks about seems full of that unicorn spirit. Just imagining children always swiping right like the jokes about tinder is kinda 
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nachos posted:Why does adoption need disruption You know how hard it is to obtain a child without people asking questions?
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My friends are telling me that adoptly thing is probably just an "edgy white liberal" "parodical stunt", I prefer it being real though
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...m_medium=socialquote:Four years ago, Sheryl Sandberg started a national conversation about women in the workplace with her wildly popular manifesto, Lean In. In it, she urged women to "lean in" to their work lives in ways that don't come naturally: Speak up in meetings and ask for raises, for example. For many, this advice was refreshing, even radical. lean in is officially dead. 
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namaste faggots posted:lean in is officially dead. good. lean in was victim blaming bullshit if companies want better diversity they need to put diverse people in positions of power and actually let them exercise that power. a token minority/woman in your c-suite isn't going to do poo poo if they only serve at the pleasure of the usual suspects
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2017, where your chic 40-person luxury furniture startup includes two people who might be expected by title to know something about furniture. And, of course, no one to actually make the stuff, since obviously we still have to do that somewhere else or a $3000 couch isn't profitable. https://joybird.com/team/ What kind of title is "Swatch Experience"
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Tim Raines IRL posted:What kind of title is "Swatch Experience" I know they mean "that binder of fabrics is now a hamburger menu" but it's fun to think of an executive level position that chides folks for using "minutes" or "hours" and forces everyone onto a calendar system using .beats to measure meetings.
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"Not a job, but a joy!"
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Is it really custom furniture if the only thing that isn't mass produced is the fabric exterior but you only have a small list of choices for that?
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RandomPauI posted:Is it really custom furniture if the only thing that isn't mass produced is the fabric exterior but you only have a small list of choices for that? Yeah, that's how the furniture industry rolls. It also has to take 8-12 weeks to arrive.
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