Yep, some incidents may be caused by human drivers being extra aggressive around the waymo. I work in this industry and this definitely happens. That said, weird / unexpected braking is a frequent problem for self driving cars too.
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Kicks are normally blocked with the lower leg in Muai Thai. This often results in shin-on-shin contact which can be very painful for both fighters. So the point isn't so much to prevent full bone breaks (which are very rare) as to toughen the bone enough to handle this abuse... and make sure it hurts more for the other guy than it does for you.
'End to end' is also a bit misleading, as this usually indicates that perception and planning are fused into one network. They aren't doing this (which is probably a good idea), it's only 'end to end' from the planning and possibly controls side.
Picking the lock, in the other hand, is pretty fast and won’t attract much attention. Thief just needs to be sophisticated enough to have the correct picking tool and practice with it a bit.
Key word here being “supposed to”, of course problems occur all the time. Also once a car gets stuck, pulling over is hard because… it’s stuck.
Since there’s no driver present and the controls are presumably locked, you cant push the car to the side of the road which is what would normally happen with a stalled car.
- Cars operate very close to obstacles, at any given time, you are only seconds from hitting something. This means you need extremely high reliability and low latency. Planes have a lot more time to recover from communication loss before hitting the ground.
- Planes can circle in the air safely if they lose communications. Cars have to stop and then block traffic.
- In the air there are no buildings, mountains, tunnels, etc to block signal.
- The military has resources to set up and fully control its own communications system. Rolling out such a system on all public roads would be a huge undertaking. Existing networks (LTE) are not designed for remote vehicle operation.
So basically, while you CAN drive a car over LTE, there are a ton of edge cases that make it pretty unsafe. As mentioned above, these companies do have remote operators to unstuck cars, but they don’t drive them directly.
AFAIK they can’t drive the cars directly, but the they can give override commands, reset software, or make the car follow a manually set path. They probably can’t make it reverse at full tilt though ;)
Directly driving cars is considered very sketchy as you could have network latency spikes or dropouts at any time.
That said, it’s possible the cone still prevents the car from moving at all because either:
a. It creates a large enough sensor blockage to be deemed ‘unsafe’ for any movement
Or b. The car thinks its been in a collision, or thinks it can’t move without ‘colliding’ with the cone further.
Another advantage of bronze weapons is they could be cast in a mold instead of forged.
Iron was much more plentiful than copper and tin however (especially as they were mined out), which was the main reason bronze fell out of use.
Good steel was superior to both, but much harder to make.
Interestingly the latest Mars rover also includes a small helicopter, another technology which requires spinning something on a bearing and does not commonly exist in nature.
However, this requires a culture where impromptu calls are expected and normalized. The more friction there is from scheduling, waiting for people to respond, etc the less likely these kind of fast information transfer sessions are to happen.
Tldr, I think people can learn very effectively in a remote environment, it just requires that people put the same kind of time into communicating that they would in an office.