radiorental

> This is one of thousands of edge-cases that are going to be extremely challenging to automate.

On the contrary, this is very easy to automate, it's a simple shared route planning communication between the cars.

The challenge remains interpretation and reaction to irregular environmental objects and structures.

I stand corrected. That said, I do remember that while the OG PS4 shipped with the Blu-Ray hardware, the PS4 would not play the Blu-Ray format. I guess at some point they started shipping a software update to support the format.

Forgive me, you are right, it does now. When it shipped it did not support Blu-Ray for the reasons mentioned above.

Sony is well known for avoiding cannibalization of other divisions to the point of shooting itself in the foot. E.g. the PS4 doesn't have a Blu-Ray drive because Sony also sells Blu-Ray players at roughly the same cost at the PS4 (keep in mind the business model for the PS4 is to sell at a loss and claw back profits on the games)

The XBox pays royalties for it's blu-ray drive - and a significant sum goes to Sony who it part of the Blu-Ray consortium, go figure!

I suspect they could do this but it turned out they couldn't get the cost of the design down.

So, they have a working product, but once they had a better idea of the numbers they killed it, hence the late stage cancelation.

There has to be something else going on here. It strikes me as relatively simple to have the device talk to the mat and optimise on which coil was providing the most current draw.

I suspect that engineering does have a design that meets regulations but they couldn't get the cost down. I.e. the extra circuitry in both the met and possibly the devices to precisely sense which coil(S) are providing optimal charging is cost prohibitive.

I believe you mean that separation of hate speech from freedom of speech rights isn't easy.

Them be Centimeters Matey!

The market value and construction cost are two very different things.

Validation of autogenerated code is a well established field. E.g.

https://www.mathworks.com/products/transitioned/simverificat...

I don't have access to JPL's models obviously, but here's a simple student project 'reverse engineering' the rovers in some of the same tools JPL uses. Note the control diagrams towards the end. These are the very same languages that are used to design & program in all but a handful of cars, are used by every plane manufacturer, to name a few applications

http://www.multibody.net/teaching/msms/students-projects-201...

E.g. cruise control

http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~murray/amwiki/index.php/Cruise_c...

> I still haven't seen any case for visual programming.

Aerodef, automotive, etc all use some form of visual programming. Controls engineers rarely write code, the systems are way too complex. E.g. I highly recommend watching this video from JPL to give you an understanding of where such tools excel. It's about simulating, iterating and then having scientists and engineers autogenerate the code they couldn't possibly write or test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s

Re-read my comment. It has sold more units that any other electric car.

Updated my parent comment. I took my numbers from wikipedia. My understanding is that Leaf sales have declined as better cars have come on the market.

That said, I was providing a counterpoint to the OP's statement that Japanese manufacturers weren't doing anything, when the facts clearly indicate otherwise.

> Leaf didn't change anything.

Citation needed.

Nissan has sold 400,000 of them to date.

I believe that once the initial backorder is addressed and Model 3's get some miles under their belts we will see the various subpar engineering & manufacturing issues highlighted in the teardowns come back to bite.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-model-3-teardown-decon...

The model 3 excels where the SV talent was brought to bear but it's long term durability is clearly suspect; too many parts, too many fasteners on too heavy a frame. And that will have serious consequences for the brand over time.

You are aware there a whole bunch of other parts of the planet?

Total worldwide sales of the leaf are north of 400,000 units.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Leaf

"Global sales totaled over 380,000 Leafs by December 2018, making the Leaf the world's all-time best-selling highway-capable electric car."

The most popular selling electric car is a Nissan leaf, has been on the market for 8 years, and it costs half of a model 3 (ignoring specs)

I expect us to die.

I think you may have misread the intent of my comment.

We're going away.

I view our success as a product of evolution. It is the driving factor that got us down out of the trees, cultivating our food and to where we are today.

Would we be putting a little less pressure on the environment without people like Edward Bernays, possibly. However, I think our collective consciousness can put itself a little at ease. As we enter the 6 mass extinction event, it's a natural cycle and if it wasn't us, some other species would dominate the planet.

It's never a bad time to listen to George Carlin's "saving the planet"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c

Your wife could do all of that on a video conference call, and actually see the person's real face + nunaces.

Not sure how VR solves the problem you describe. Your wife needs to be there in person if a skype call wouldn't suffice.

Are you talking about the iPhone?? That's not a virtual keyboard. Your finger knows when it's touching the screen. Also, tapping on designate target and freeform drawing are two very different things

There's no possible such affordance in virtual space. You're literally writing in air.

Yes, but who are these people and what are they doing when they travel?

VR is just a video conference call on steroids. Business travel is 'common' but relative to the rest of productive output at an average business it's peanuts. Also what portion of those business travelers absolutely need to be there. Would you buy from (a) a salesperson who took the time to travel to your workplace or (b) some telepresence pitch?

Two thoughts, based on evaluating remote collaboration tech.

1) Writing on virtual whiteboard in VR just doesn't feel right, there's no tactile feedback. It's doable but doesn't beat a real whiteboard (nothing beats a real whiteboard)

2) Observe people working at a whiteboard. It's predominantly an asynchronous one to many form of communication. Multiple people writing on the same board at the same time isn't how we communicate with each other.

The best in class tool I've found to date is Microsoft's Whiteboard app running on their 84" Surface Hub. Anyone who has the budget I highly recommend taking a look at it.

The app itself is free on windows 10.

What real-world use case does putting all the [insert job function] in a single virtual room solve? This is a case of tech looking for a solution.

I pick up the phone or email people in the same building. I'm not sure jumping into a virtual room with people in different physical locations is a need.

I love my VR headset for gaming, I have a really hard time seeing it implemented in our workplace: software company with development offices in US/UK/India.

Being able to see each other's face is not how a lot of work is done imho. Collaborating using tools like MS Whiteboard on a surface hub to express and ideate on a design is where work gets done in my experience.

There's recent reporting that Glyphosate affects insect gut bacteria.

https://cen.acs.org/environment/pesticides/Glyphosate-disrup...

I think the larger point being, the more chemicals we insert into the environment without a holistic understanding of their interactions and impact on various ecosystems, the more we run the risk of collateral damage.

The case is that you know what is your food.

Too often we'd order Indian and realise they had added extra salt to preserve some 'overstock'

Also, invariably the content in takeaway food is the lowest cost produce.

If you care about where your food comes from and what goes into it you cut out the middleman.

'decommissioned' means different things to different people

https://www.businessinsider.com/air-force-f117-nighthawk-ste...

I never charge at home if I can avoid paying for it.

Not everyone lives in a house with dedicated electrical outlets.

Plugshare.com is your friend.

> Plus, what about the Bolt, Volt, i3, Soul EV, or any number of other EVs?

Only teslas can charge on the supercharger network afaik. And, Nissan dealers will let other manufacturers car's charge if you pay, ymmv but it happens.

Listen, I'm not defending Nissan's setup, I'm just countering the point that there's only the supercharger network.