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What's not to like? Come on Fanbois, I'm waiting for your downvotes.
Can you go to the pub and get shitfaced?
Otherwise, these things serve no purpose, other than to line the pockets of techno companies and shareholders & I for one won't be following the sheep.
Re: Can you go to the pub and get shitfaced?
Well I for one have been using some self-driving car tech (not Tesla) and it is making longer journeys a lot less tiring. Especially those 50 limit motorway roadworks that go on for ever. It's a godsend.
A work friend of mine had a pony and trap and she and her husband frequently woke up in their stable having been taken 5 miles home from an absolutely cracking pub by the pony.
Which nicely demonstrates that the AI in a Tesla, or similar, is dumber than a pony.
Many so-called human drivers are dumber than a good Welsh pony.
I had a job for six years that involved looking at incident (Hillsborough, King's Cross etc.) and so many like that happened because of "It's OK", "Too expensive", "Takes too long" etc.
Even now the self serving "£%$"£$^^$& that cause this kind of thing make me angry.
If this could have been controlled over the cellular network (3G is mentioned in the article) then it could have been a completely remote attack. Send the mark a crafted email to follow a malicious link, they click on it whilst in the car and it then exploits the infotainment system to talk to the ECU and provide a con...
It would be interesting to hear about a botnet that targeted cars to do Coin mining. Something like that could rob enough processing power to slow down a nav system but not so much that the infotainment system wouldn't function when Nav isn't in operation.
Tesla seems to attract the same blind devotion as Apple. I see so many people on Twitter praising them like they're a quantum leap in people-moving technology, when they're unaffordable by most and, from what I have heard, the least reliable cars on the road (which is bizarre considering how few moving parts they have ...
Tesla's role is to show other car companies "see? It can be done." Once other car companies bring in their superior ability to scale production, and higher quality control standards, Tesla will either have to transform back into a small-volume boutique make (a la Ferrari) or go under.
The Chevy Bolt is a good example; it's got similar range to a Tesla, costs less than all but the cheapest, most unobtainable version of the Model 3, and comes with a dealer service network and door handles that still work when it's cold out.
No one doubted it could be done. Electric cars are over a century old, after all. The question was whether it could be at a profit, which is what car companies care about. Tesla has yet to turn a consistent profit, and would need to be very profitable for a very long time to become profitable during the whole time they...
The reason traditional car companies waited to do electrics wasn't because they needed stoner Musk to show them it could be done. They were waiting until they felt they could make money. Now that Tesla has filled all the orders for the higher priced model 3s and has to start filling the $35K orders, they may have to ke...
The Tesla fanbois surely have vision. But I think the optics are flawed. I think that in a few decades, there will be a billion or three electric vehicles on the world's roads. But the nameplates on most won't say Tesla (or Ford or Toyota). And they mostly won't be expensive electric sports cars or electrified versions...
We already have those -- they're called Neighborhood Electric Vehicles. They aren't very popular, except as maintenance vehicles on college campuses and the like.
"The reason traditional car companies waited to do electrics wasn't because they needed stoner Musk to show them it could be done. They were waiting until they felt they could make money."
"You can't railroad until it's time to railroad" ~Can't remember which author penned that.
DIY EVs have been around for quite some time, but loading the bed of a pickup with lead acid batteries to get 40 miles of range wasn't a good solution. Things starting heating up with Li and NiMh cell prices started dropping to the point where it was just mad and not totally insane to put them in an electric car. The p...
Tesla has been a good company to break trail for the other manufacturers. Lots of questions are being answered about charging, optimum ranges, pricing, etc. Munro is analyzing Tesla offerings down to the last bolt and selling the data to anybody with a stack of cash to hand. What they are doing right and what they are ...
The flood gates are opening on EVs. I just test drove a Hyundai Kona EV and it's very nice. There is very little about it that marks it from it's petrol brother in looks and operation. I just belted up, switched into drive and drove it like any other car. I didn't need a driving course, just a couple of tips from the s...
"swerving across lanes into oncoming traffic"
Newsflash: In the fine print, Tesla themselves say that one should not use the autopilot on a road with oncoming traffic. It is designed, and rated, for interstate (or here in Germany, Autobahn) where you have multiple lanes in one direction, and a big physical divider to the lanes with oncoming traffic.
The problem – and that might be a big problem – is that Tesla does not say it too loud, and that people successfully (i.e., without incident, collision, and be able to walk away from alive) use it in situations that Tesla does not recommend, and that regulatory bodies do not allow, but Tesla nevertheless let them be he...
And there are many, many major highways in the US that aren't divided, or that switch back and forth between divided and undivided. This is very, very common on old "US routes" like US-2 and US-101, many of which were never completely converted to freeway outside of urban areas. Not coincidentally these are also often ...
They're weighting lane markers more than anything else, not finding road edges, etc.
Presumably the car will prang into the nearest such post when finding one of these in its travels.
but the white line down the middle of the road carried straight on about 2' further on than it should have. It was only the fact that the house on the other side of the turn had 3' thick stone walls meant it won battles even with large lorries and other vehicles that felt the white line was more to be believed than sev...
Stickers on road to incite a crash?
Was Dr. W. E. Coyote one of the primary researchers on this one?
Why does the reg seemingly delight in reports of things that in some cases were fixed well over a year ago?
Because you don't get single bugs. You get classes of bugs, entire categories of them.
And the bugs that you're vulnerable to reveal your underlying design.
Microsoft have fixed "buffer overflows that can give you full system access" any number of times, and for decades. They still appear. Because the design of the OS allows that to happen.
As such, Tesla have shown that these systems are linked - everything from the web browser to the steering - and any bug, any bug at all, that can be found can punch a hole through from one system to the other because the design allows it to do so.
You don't ever "fix" bugs. You fix A bug. The next bug will be waiting for you, if not in the same damn line of code then the one next to it.
The class of bugs exposed - simple overflows giving access to the core functions of the Autopilot - is the worry. And that doesn't matter that they patched ONE such bug.
I often see spilt paint on the road, what would the system do in this instance?
This is quite interesting but not unexpected considering the number of previously published studies about fooling neural nets with visual artefacts. However, judged as a piece of research, this paper is appalling. It provides nothing other than broad anecdotal mention of the techniques used for the real world tests, th...
Altogether not a very sound piece of science. On top of which, El Reg has hyped the findings into a click bait shock horror story, but if you read the original carefully, its findings are actually quite tentative.
Yes we should be a little bit scared, because the EU is mandating lane keeping technology in every car, this means people will get complacent, they won't react and there will be crashes.
"Neural networks might be flashy and cool, but they're terribly >insecure<"
You spelled 'stupid' incorrectly where indicated above.
A more interesting study might be how the Tesla interprets the squished bodies of people hit by trucks while dicking about on the highway with fistfuls of stickers.
The festival starts tonight at the Douglass Theatre with a 6:30 p.m. set by Dos Blues Guys, a duo who won the Atlanta Blues Challenge and will be going to the International Blues Challenge in Memphis in January, Potter said.
This will be followed by Robert Lee Coleman and the Night Owls. The night finishes off with the Marcus King Band, whose lead singer cites Warren Hayes and Derek Trucks as big influences.
Saturday’s events start in the afternoon with a GABBA members jam at the Big House, the Vineville Avenue home where members of the Allman Brothers Band lived from 1970-1973.
The locally-based Southern funk band Royal Johnson will be hosting the jam. They will play a few songs and then members will swap in and out to play, Potter said.
This session will run from 1-4 p.m and is free with a GABBAfest pass or Big House museum admission.
On Saturday evening, there are more concerts at the Douglass with blues band Otis starting things off at 7 p.m. The evening ends with Samantha Fish — an up-and-coming, award-winning blues singer, guitarist and songwriter.
“She’s not been in Macon before,” Potter said.
Jimmy Hall, who is best known as the lead singer and harmonica player for Wet Willie, will be playing as a special guest both nights.
“He will be sitting in as an artist at large,” Potter said.
During the intermission Saturday, GABBA will announce the recipient of its tree dedication, which will happen at 1 p.m. Sunday at Rose Hill Cemetery. The group also will announce its GABBY award winner.
“That’s an award we present each year to somebody who has contributed to the preservation of the Allman Brothers legacy,” Potter said.
The weekend caps off with the Big House’s backyard concert series, which takes place the last Sunday of each month. This concert will feature Beau + Luci — Georgia sisters with a folk rock sound — and Japanese guitarist Kunio Kishida.
▪ 7 p.m. Sept. 23, Douglass Theatre, 355 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Doors open at 6 p.m. Featuring Dos Blues Guys, Robert Lee Coleman and the Night Owls and the Marcus King Band. $25 for Friday shows only.
▪ 1-4 p.m. Sept. 24, the Allman Brothers Band Museum at the Big House, 2321 Vineville Ave. GABBA members jam session. Free with weekend pass ($50) or museum admission.
▪ 7 p.m. Sept. 24, Douglass Theatre. Doors open at 6 p.m. Featuring Otis and Samantha Fish. $30 for Saturday shows only.
▪ 1 p.m. Sept. 25, Rose Hill Cemetery, 1091 Riverside Drive. Tree dedication. Free.
Samantha Fish will perform Saturday night at GABBAfest.
Jimmy Hall will perform as a special guest at GABBAfest.
The Japanese company enters the computer display market in the United States and adds to its business PC line.
Toshiba has entered the computer display market in the United States and added to its business PC line with a Pentium II system, as the No. 1 notebook manufacturer continues to expand its presence in the desktop market.
Toshiba's entry into the desktop monitor business allows it to offer a branded product in a high-profile PC market, as well as complement its desktop computer offerings.
The Japanese company will compete with top display makers such as NEC, Sony, Mag Innovision, and Viewsonic. Compaq Computer, IBM, and other companies also ship large numbers of branded displays with their systems.
Toshiba will launch its display line with a 17-inch model. The TekBright 700PM monitor uses Toshiba's Microfilter technology, which the company claims increases brightness by 30 percent and improves color purity by 10 percent over traditional monitors.
The monitor also has built-in stereo speakers, headphone jacks, and speakers. Available immediately, the TekBright 700PM is priced at $749.
Toshiba has also filled out its line of business desktops, with new systems targeting large corporate customers. The Equium 6260M computer line is based on technology that makes it easier for information system personnel to remotely manage desktop PCs linked together in large networks.
Housed in a minitower case, the 6260M supports the Desktop Management Interface 2.0 and comes with Intel's LANDesk Client Manager v3.0. The Windows NT 4.0 operating system is included.
Both the Desktop Management Interface and LANDesk Client Manager provide technology that allows administrators to better manage PCs from a central location. The LANDesk client manager allows a network administrator in a central location to monitor computer systems and to use the corporate network for such operations as...
The systems come with a 266-MHz Pentium II processor, one of Intel's fastest. They also feature 32MB of memory, a 4GB hard drive, and a 16X CD-ROM drive. The 6260M is priced at $2,799 and is available now.
Toshiba is also setting the stage to enter server computer market in 1998.
"We've been doing servers in Japan for seven years. What we're doing here is ramping up that support infrastructure. Our relationship with the enterprise is strong because of our notebook products, and that'll build our reputation," says Mike Wagner, director of desktop marketing for Toshiba.
But the company doesn't expect to be an overnight sensation in PC servers, understanding that information system managers don't switch to new products quickly. "It will be a while before people will trust us. That's why we're sensitive to issues around the products," Wagner says.
NEW YORK (WCBS 880) – Robert Samuel was depressed, out of work, and waiting in line for an iPhone 5 when people started asking, “Will you wait in line for me?” And the business was born.
Samuel founded Same Ole Line Dudes, a service that saves you the hassle of standing in line.
He takes pride in knowing about the products, too.
“I think as a consumer, you want to put your trust in a company or in a person who knows what they’re talking about, who has some experience,” he says.
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal (R) has declared a state of emergency for 28 counties in the southeastern part of the state after a Winter Storm Warning was issued from Florida to North Carolina.
The state of emergency covers “much of Southeast Georgia” and took effect immediately and extends through to midnight January 5.
Ahead of a forecasted winter storm, I’ve issued a state of emergency for 28 counties in the coastal region.
In total, certain parts of the states are expected to receive up to three inches of snow and ice accumulations up to half an inch. The heaviest snowfalls are expected to occur from 7:00am to 1:00pm Wednesday.
Today's high temperatures are where our lows should be this time of year. The average low for the first week of January is 34°.
On Tuesday, the Jackson Electric Membership Corporation, which provides power to the residents of Atlanta and surrounding areas, said the freezing temperatures have already caused “scattered outages” for up to 1,600 customers.
Joe Dorough, the Vice President of Engineering and Operations at Jackson EMC said the power failures were caused by overloaded equipment breaking down. “We expect electrical demand to be very high during these extremely cold temperatures, which will stress our system and could cause some of our equipment to go out unde...
Jackson EMC has implemented a “load management program” to control peak power demand by cycling water heaters off for short periods of time.
Winter Storm Grayson is expected to blanket much of the east coast with sleet, snow and heavy winds through Thursday.
Oxygen Media has named Benny Reuven as its vice president of development.
Reuven will work to develop real lifestyle programming in line with the “Bad Girls Club” network’s young multicultural female audience.
Oxygen is a program service of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment.
Today’s Texplainer question was inspired by reader Tiffany Adair.
Hey, Texplainer: How do employment benefits for Texas educators compare to those in other states?
This question has been a point of contention between lawmakers and educators for many years. Texas teachers say they’re frustrated due to a lack of state funding for public education. But lawmakers say the uncertainty surrounding the budget makes it hard to allocate better benefits for educators.
If you look at the raw numbers, Texas ranked 27th in the nation for teacher pay in 2016, according to the National Education Association. On average, Texas teachers earned $51,890 — roughly $6,500 below the national average.
However, teachers have long argued that inadequate funding for public schools cuts into their salaries. During the 2008 fiscal year, the state covered roughly 48.5 percent of the cost of public education, according to the Legislative Budget Board. By the 2019 fiscal year, that figure will be closer to 38 percent. Over ...
But salaries aren’t the only component to consider when looking at how Texas teachers fare compared to their peers in other states, said Ed Allen with the American Federation of Teachers.

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