Prejudice is an unfavorable opinion formed without knowledge, thought, or reason. The worsening air quality as a result of vehicular emissions in Delhi is very well documented and will have serious consequences if it is not dealt with seriously. It's not a matter of opinion.
Not having windows seems like an important part of the test! It looks like there might be a small porthole on one of the sides, but I doubt a real Martian habitat would have much more than that, and the psychological impacts would be interesting to know.
Truckers are paid per mile and have a driving limit of 11 hours per day and 70 hours per week. Having an autopilot take over for part of the trip could substantially increase the ground they can cover in a day.
Would it though? If the truck can drive hundreds of miles on the highway then initially maybe you're right because they'll just sit in the cab but, eventually, they won't be in the cabs anymore. If they're being paid by the mile then that's a significant cut of the miles and therefore pay.
Not to ask a silly question, but how does an auto-pilot truck (w/ no driver) get fuel? If there will be a service that provides fuel to driverless trucks, how will the business (who owns the truck) verify the PPG and gallons loaded?
That's an easy problem to solve. Either using fully automated pumps, or truck stops with employees. Truck presents billing info/company credit card to pump/employee, they verify card, fill up truck with N gallons, truck also measures gallons loaded, pump bills truck with specification of gallons loaded. If the pump and truck numbers disagree, handle it like any other billing discrepancy.
If you are a large fleet with many trucks, it would probably be cheaper to hire employees at the truck stops (or manage your own fuel depots) to just pump fuel all day for the automated trucks on the automated routes.
Then you could have a small number of vehicles, or small companies could pop up to serve this role, that refuel automated trucks that run out and stop driving outside those automated routes (if this is even a concern).
If you are eliminating 80%+ of trucker salaries, you have a lot of money to work with.
Then that is a matter of technical progress. But Otto can still offer the drivers some value in the meantime. Who knows how many yrs it will be until it is fully automated?
Or do you think they will benefit from resisting all forms of automation? I doubt it will slow down the eventual outcome, which is pretty much set in stone already. But maybe I'm wrong.
I did some work on a similar app a few years ago so I have some insight on the subject.
The magnetic strip varies by state but the PDF417 barcode is supposed to follow DL/ID Card Design Standard (CDS) as defined by the AAMVA.
Unfortunately, there isn't a national system for encoding the data as described in the specification and some states still maintain different fields than others. As a result, it's a real pain to try and use the standard without accounting for each state's unique set of quirks which tend to change from year to year.
I assume they've built a system to handle all of these unique cases and use some type of OCR to verify everything matches up with both the encoded barcode data as well as the Driver's License number which is partially derived from the demographic data. The facial image comparison is nice but it's not the most reliable test (especially when it depends on the phone's camera and a 2cm x 2cm photo.
Combining that process with a background check of some type will guarantee that the person actually exists but the whole system system can still be duped by a good enough fake ID if the data checks out.
I'm a bit surprised at the graphics they have shown so far. I originally saw a screenshot and assumed it was a mobile game rather than a full-fledged AAA title for the PC.
99% of my time in Civ 5 is spent in strategic view. Keep that mode and fix that I can't tell if a tile has a coast line and you can base the graphics on the My Little Pony for all I care.
I have to admit I'm not a fan of the graphics. I had high hopes for Beyond Earth but haven't played more than 100 hours of it, as opposed to 1500+ with Civ 5. I hope Civ 6 doesn't disappoint like Beyond Earth did.
It depends on the municipality but the code usually requires an outlet every 18" to 24" on or above the countertop for small appliances so no, such a modification would not bring the installation up to code.
Unless the countertop near the corner has a depth of 18" or less, it would be very difficult to fulfill all requirements.
I don't understand this mentality. If Obama comes out as against Net Neutrality, it's him being evil. If he comes out in favor of it, he's lying.
I understand politicians often have ulterior motives but from the information provided, this is exactly what the majority of citizens were asking him (and the FCC) to do.
Sometimes people lie so often that you will never be able to trust them again.
I'd never trust a guy who signs secret kill lists, even targeting US citizens without having a trial. He even publicly joked about this, which is sign of insanity to me.
And then there's the case of a jailed journalist from Jemen (who reported about a drone bombardment in Jemen), where he personally called the president of Jemen to prevent him from releasing the journalist.
In your own way, you're doing the exact same thing that you're accusing your grandparent poster of doing. You're implying/assuming that he has no foundation for his argument.
When you have no trust in an authority, it's perfectly reasonable to question good news and be paranoid about true intentions.
It's an Obamacare architect admitting that they lied to obscure the tax/redistribution ramifications of the law. His direct message is that a lack of transparency is a weapon to get legislation passed.
And we should trust these people? Take them at their word? Why?
"often"? Try only. The problem is a cognitive dissonance, in that hired/owned men only do what their masters pay them to do. So following the money, who told him to propose this and make his speech?
So its a story either way, either he has new owners paying him to say this kind of stuff (who is paying for this point of view?), or the guys who do pay him are going to be really angry that he's being a loose cannon. Either way the reaction will be interesting to watch.
That might be the opposition position, but from his own side, I think the prevailing mood is generally disappointment. Look at the context. Nominating a former telecom lobbyist to run the FCC in the first place is not a sign of sincerity about reform.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3664745/