I agree that LIDAR or radar are better solutions than image recognition. I mean, that's literally what those technologies are for.

But even then, that's not enough. LIDAR/radar can't help it identify its lane in inclement weather, drive well on gravel, and so on. These are the kinds of problems where automakers severely downplay the difficulty of the problem and just how much a human driver does.

You are making it far simpler than it actually is. Recognizing what a thing is is the essential first problem. Is that a child, a ball, a goose, a pothole, or a shadow that the cameras see? It would be absurd and an absolute show stopper if the car stopped for dark shadows.

We take for granted the vast amount that the human brain does in this problem space. The system has to identify and categorize what it's seeing, otherwise it's useless.

That leads to my actual opinion on the technology, which is that it's going to be nearly impossible to have fully autonomous cars on roads as we know them. It's fine if everything is normal, which is most of the time. But software can't recognize and correctly react to the thousands of novel situations that can happen.

They should be automating trains instead. (Oh wait, we pretty much did that already.)

Even talking about it this way is misleading. An LLM doesn't "guess" or "catch" anything, because it is not capable of comprehending the meaning of words. It's a statistical sentence generator; no more, no less.

Nobody going to mention a Cask of Amontillado? Maybe not the most mind-bending example, but the tale of leading a supposed friend to their own horrific murder was not a thing I expected to be reading in school.

He can give himself whatever titles he likes, that doesn't mean he makes any positive technical contribution.

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It was not a nuclear explosion, that would be insane. Pure hydrogen is highly explosive, which is why it's suitable for a combustion vehicle like the Mirai.

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The issue with "Human jobs will be replaced" is that society still requires humans to have a paying job to survive.

I would love a world where nobody had to do dumb labour anymore, and everyone's needs are still met.

Yes, with two hoses they are measuring count, speed, and vehicle weight. Not enforceable, as many others have said - nobody will be getting a speeding ticket from this. It's just data collection.

Note: force measured on the hoses is a function of vehicle weight and speed. If you only have one hose, you can't tell the difference between a light vehicle moving fast and a heavy vehicle moving slow. With 2 hoses you can now measure speed, which you can then use along with the pneumatic force to figure out weight.

No, close the lid because that's how you avoid coating everything in the room with a film of urine and feces. Open toilets are disgusting.

It's broken now? I'd say that's a bold assumption that it ever worked in the first place.

Edit: to be clear, I mean that it is and always has been an impossible problem. The only reason it ever worked is because some broker company wanted it as a feature, not because anything compelled them to give original artists a cut. And that's before you consider the question, "but how do you know the NFT was made by the original artist?"