AI your home on street view
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Things like these could be useful in helping to push decision makers and the public to see new opportunities. Right now when something is being built, it's always a optimistic 3d render on a sunny day with people laughing being shown to sway the public in favor of the project. Letting us "normal people" fight back against certain projects or suggest our own without needing to have professional architects draw a concept could be nice.
Lets you compare bicycle lane designs, and how safe both cyclists and motorists feel.
Beautiful. But I see that picture-perfect pathway, and wonder the cost and time to maintain the vegetation.
Bicycling through California suburbia, I see mostly dead lawns, ever since the droughts began. Few people (or cities) have time/money/motivation to create beautiful gardens. So I'm imagining a dusty gravel pathway instead.
In the longer term, the emergent benefit is that bicycle friendly infrastructure incentivizes density which saves on money and maintenance.
That's basically what the front of our house is, with very minor drip irrigation (that I wish we would get rid of.)
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But in serious, this will be amazing once Civil Engineers, Urban Planners, Landscape architects etc - can use this, but have it also calc "cost of options" for each - and have it do Environmental Impact analysis based on the plan, AND Title 24 implications... which are always fun to deal with especially in cities such as San Francisco.
(Title 24 are the codes for efficiency, safety etc for new builds basically - but they can be a pain in the ass to navigate when planning in urban areas in California.. Environmental Impact studies cost a boatload and are usually lamented about for things like "Protect the Frogs of Marin" (which affected a lot of building aspirations especially in wealthy areas, such as Marin - but ARE very important when determining if a new development on top of some natural habit is going to F-up the surrounding ecosystem over the next N years)
Manpower wise, the bushes along the path probably take as much average labor as the road.
Maybe material/gas to resurface the road every 10 years would make the road cost more per year.
Not sure what the comparative costs are, and a road would have similar maintenance if it was that close to trees (a bike path is just a narrow road).
Maintenance is hard.
Like, if nature itself needs upkeep, something other than lack of upkeep is the issue.
See, for example: Kudzu. We introduced it intentionally, and nature's own mechanisms have it literally growing beyond control -- blanketing (and typically killing) anything in its path in the US South, including mature trees.
AI use in the real world is still early on, and so it is expensive.
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Whoa, slashdot (I guess I'm old, perhaps reddit) effect and we can not afford the bandwidth, quick turn it off!
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Same as above but with CPU costs.
I am curious to know the limiting factor.
CPU's are way cheaper when compared to GPUs, and image bandwidth is at most "mneh!" in Slashdot or in The Register terms. tips hat
Reported from a data center warmed by GPUs.
Great concept though!
Btw the code is open source and available here: https://github.com/vidalmaxime/streetview-diffusion
The site you posted is mentioned in the article but only as a related project.
Just flatten the land everywhere to make it as easy to implement as it was in the Netherlands, and hey presto!
Besides, now we have electric bikes and e-scooters so hills shouldn't really be a barrier.
Of course it's not the full story! I'm not claiming that zero cycling happens here in Britain.
> Besides, now we have electric bikes and e-scooters so hills shouldn't really be a barrier.
Now, yes. But cultural development takes a while, and those options are just much more expensive anyway. The Netherlands has about the ideal case for cycling, and - awesomely - they took advantage of that 50 years ago, so if it works anywhere it should work there today, after 50 years of planning and development and culture. Suddenly introducing e-bikes in 2024 isn't going to do much compared to flat country and 50 years of development.
Just too many ads in the OP
Sad but it's true, most people like a certain amount of people density / space, and more people than that is uncomfortable.
A big empty road with cars and no people doesn’t seem very inviting to me.
Out here in suburbia? Empty streets have a very dead feeling. This is especially true in office parks that are completely empty outside work hours.
people != cars
These days humans blame their environment too much, and themselves too little.
Maybe a lot of americans have forgotten what it means to be a community and being neighbours.
Its pretty fun and bustling to live in a place full of life and people, provided all members respect each other, do not make too much noise, are polite, etc.
Its not high density that is the problem, its the norm in China, India, South East Asia, etc, they live perfectly happy lives, rank higher in community bonding, socialising, etc.
It used to be true in America too (level of socialisation), maybe that needs to brought back again, instead of complaining about high density housing.
Because right now I often get lost when going from point to point.
"AI" is now a verb?