HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

ahigherugliness

7 karma · joined February 17, 2012

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/kristofvl; my proof: https://keybase.io/kristofvl/sigs/V5vAHVQu-FoF7Wn0UBgm3NNTON6SwGwoTUxIg9AIjyM ]
submissionscomments
ahigherugliness··on French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data
19 millions de Français! Et moi, et moi, et moi.
ahigherugliness··on Autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare
Sorry to depress you. You're right, I don't know anything of the business.
ahigherugliness··on Autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare
Interesting, but does every unit have a driver? I was thinking, it could be interesting that they all have their drivers, because finally they won't all go to the same destination.

So it would be great that as a truck driver, you could attach yourself to one of these trains, sleep for a couple of hundred miles, put the alarm clock, wake up, then detach at the right time and go to your final individual destination. Maybe even take another "road train" for another couple of hundred miles...

ahigherugliness··on Autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare
I wonder why we don't lower the ambitions: chain five trucks together, so that for long stretches of highway (hundreds of miles) one driver can drive the "train of trucks" while the other truck drivers sleep. The trucks could be really close together so no cars can come between them.

What problems am I overlooking that are not easily solvable?

ahigherugliness··on Embodied energy of digital technology
Is measuring in kilograms a good way to think about this? How many kilograms of chips does my phone have?