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Gum posted:I like how the article just casually drops the facts that the car was speeding and "made no attempt to break" You know you can go approximately 10mph above the posted speed limit and not be considered speeding, right? It's "conditions permitting", sure, but 3mph over the posted limit is nothing.
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Mar 21, 2018 05:42
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A computer has no excuse to speed. It knows precisely how fast it is going at all times. It was an empty road so it can’t even be argued that “it was going with the flow of traffic, as is safer”.
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Mar 21, 2018 05:55
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Platystemon posted:A computer has no excuse to speed. It knows precisely how fast it is going at all times. Exactly. And if they’re allowed to speed and are no safer than a normal car and can still kill a surprise pedestrian, we’re left to ask “what the gently caress is the point other than to make more money for the tech sector?”
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Mar 21, 2018 05:58
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Dewgy posted:Exactly. And if they’re allowed to speed and are no safer than a normal car and can still kill a surprise pedestrian, we’re left to ask “what the gently caress is the point other than to make more money for the tech sector?” They'll kill fewer people than human drivers
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Pakled posted:They'll kill fewer people than human drivers Pretty sure their record so far is worse though.
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Mar 21, 2018 06:14
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They really should have stopped making airplanes after Thomas Selfridge
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Mar 21, 2018 06:21
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I've never heard of this game, might be good if campers automatically lose, get rekt Justin
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Mar 21, 2018 07:25
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Phlegmish posted:I've never heard of this game, might be good if campers automatically lose, get rekt Justin It's a 100 man free for all shooter on a giant map that slowly shrinks. It's last man standing so you can actually just hide most of the game and do well.
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Mar 21, 2018 07:50
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You know, that premise seems very familiar.
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Mar 21, 2018 07:56
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Yeah it came out a bit after playerunknown's battleground, but has now overtaken it. Partly because it's free to play. It's gimmick is that you can also build fortifications on the fly.
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Mar 21, 2018 08:47
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Dewgy posted:Pretty sure their record so far is worse though. "Pedestrian hit by car after jaywalking at night" doesn't normally make international news.
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Mar 21, 2018 08:59
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Fathis Munk posted:Yeah it came out a bit after playerunknown's battleground, but has now overtaken it. Partly because it's free to play. It's gimmick is that you can also build fortifications on the fly. Fortnite has also been in development for a while as base defense player vs AI game. The battle royale mode was added after PUBG became popular, and ended up being even more popular than its original mode. It’s probably Epic’s biggest success since Unreal Tournament 2004.
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Mar 21, 2018 09:25
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It's also cross platform https://twitter.com/TheBigO915/status/971946362865704960
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Mar 21, 2018 10:01
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Jaywalking to trigger the capitalist pigs
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Mar 21, 2018 11:07
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Platystemon posted:Lol no. Yes, because everyone who owns a car is a loving billionaire, not the overworked and underpaid temps or teachers, who has to run between several work sites and jobs, or drive daily to work for 1+ hour commutes. If you are one of the rear end in a top hat bikers or shithead jaywalkers who think they own the road, get hosed.
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Mar 21, 2018 11:31
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Aramoro posted:Jaywalking shouldn't be punishable, its a dumb loving law and confuses me everytime I hear about it. GWBBQ has a new favorite as of 11:37 on Mar 21, 2018 |
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Mar 21, 2018 11:34
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Robocar intersection:
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Der Kyhe posted:Yes, because everyone who owns a car is a loving billionaire, not the overworked and underpaid temps or teachers, who has to run between several work sites and jobs, or drive daily to work for 1+ hour commutes. If you have a time machine, you are well-off. Hope that helps.
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Mar 21, 2018 12:15
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bitterandtwisted posted:Robocar intersection: Beautiful, but tell me you wouldn't be puckering the whole time.
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Mar 21, 2018 12:19
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GWBBQ posted:This should probably go to the Traffic Engineer thread in A/T if there's much more discussion, but here's my 2 cents. This is pretty much true. Folks who say "one death is two many" are missing the point. Sure, in an ideal world, there wouldn't be anyone dying on the road. To get that to happen, you'd have to lock everyone in their homes. Many safety improvements are well worth the cost, among them pedestrian safety improvements, and designing roads for the speed you want traffic to go is critical to safety. However, the most people you're ever going to save in the US is <40k/year, which would be much more than outweighed by the delay and health cost of the measures you'd need to take to do so. Self-driving cars won't be common for at least another decade; there is a lot of time to work out the kinks. Don't expect them to have the massive all-around positive impact on society that tech bros say, though. Traffic engineering is a soul-crushing field. I don't post in the thread anymore since I hate everything about my job and find it intensely depressing. If you speak French, read this to learn more about the detriments of blanket speed reduction in overall economic value: https://www.ecologique-solidaire.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/Th%C3%A9ma%20-%20R%C3%A9duction%20des%20vitesses%20sur%20les%20routes.pdf But none of this is remotely on-topic and I have no idea why we're discussing it. In a combination headline-Schadenfreude post, we've had four nor'easters in the last three weeks. A local news station, WFSB, has been naming storms against NOAA's recommendations for decades, and this year they decided to name one Elsa. And they didn't get a single good headline out of it. They had so many opportunities, but in the end, decided to go with... Winter Storm Elsa is done, over --- byeeeee! http://www.wfsb.com/story/37672834/winter-storm-elsa-is-done-over-byeeeee
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Gun-Toting Russian Who Charged Onto a Soccer Field Just Became a Billionairebitterandtwisted posted:Robocar intersection: This only works if all of the cars are driven by robots.
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Mar 21, 2018 17:25
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SpacePig posted:You know you can go approximately 10mph above the posted speed limit and not be considered speeding, right? It's "conditions permitting", sure, but 3mph over the posted limit is nothing. Find a black person who agrees with this.
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Mar 21, 2018 17:29
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Ten miles over a speed limit of twenty is reckless endangerment--a felony here.
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Mar 21, 2018 20:28
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evobatman posted:Find a black person who agrees with this. I assumed the post was a joke in order to see how many goons fall for it and get speeding tickets.
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Mar 21, 2018 22:06
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It really varies by the area. I got a warning for six over here in Idaho, but where I grew up in the Chicago suburbs no cop would waste their time or yours for less than eleven over unless you were doing something else on top of speeding. (My late grandpa was a cop in Elmhurst and my dad tells me his cutoff was seven over.) PERMACAV 50 has a new favorite as of 05:28 on Mar 22, 2018 |
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Dewgy posted:Exactly. And if they’re allowed to speed and are no safer than a normal car and can still kill a surprise pedestrian, we’re left to ask “what the gently caress is the point other than to make more money for the tech sector?” so i can go to sleep in the backseat and awaken only when it is time to stride imperiously from the burning wreckage of my gore-spattered murdermobile after it impacts my destination
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Mar 22, 2018 05:08
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That sounds pretty sweet actually.
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ultrafilter posted:This only works if all of the cars are driven by robots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlwnOMB2oWA
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Shows how out of touch they are. Everyone knows the donut means 'shut up black people, I speak for you'.
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Mar 22, 2018 10:23
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They've released the footage of the Uber crash now, car doesn't even slow down and the operator isn't looking. But apparently not at a cross walk means Uber is basically in the clear.
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Mar 22, 2018 11:48
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Florida: Where a criminal can seem like a better person than their victim https://twitter.com/BSO/status/976170288743354368?s=19
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Mar 22, 2018 12:51
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baby would probably be better off it he kept it lol
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Mar 22, 2018 13:04
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MizPiz posted:Florida: Where a criminal can seem like a better person than their victim Baby looks white, so would have been worth like 3x or 4x as much as the car if it's eyes stayed blue. This guy is a bad business man.
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Mar 22, 2018 13:09
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Mar 22, 2018 13:43
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"Hey, I know we've been getting alerts for literally the past week about a noreaster that will basically cut off any and all travel in the state, but I should really still wait until the last possible second to file the paperwork that I definitely have done."
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SpacePig posted:"Hey, I know we've been getting alerts for literally the past week about a noreaster that will basically cut off any and all travel in the state, but I should really still wait until the last possible second to file the paperwork that I definitely have done." It's this kind of seat-of-the-pants, throwing-caution-to-the-wind attitude that we need in Congress!
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