TenderfootGungi

TenderfootGungi t1_j97bg88 wrote

They were caught turning it off a split second before most crashes, and then stating something like "the auto pilot was not engaged". In many cases it was, less than a second before the crash, though. They has now started asking if it was engaged so many seconds before a crash (e.g. 10 seconds, but cannot find the exact time).

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TenderfootGungi t1_j97ac0b wrote

>In the conditions you have driving, you have to throw out any measurement of something not moving, such as that parked firetruck and mark it as invalid.

That should depend on where it is. Is it on the side of the road? Not an issue. In my lane? Real issue.

It is telling that no other self driving tech is having trouble with this. Everyone else has this figured out.

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TenderfootGungi t1_j8sffq4 wrote

City managers are in charge of backups. Most cities have power loops that allow them to feed area from more than one way. If a transformer is blown or a storm takes our power lines, they can feed most areas from alternate paths. Obviously a small neighborhood will go down, you cannot add redundancy everywhere, but most areas stay up. Apparently this is not common in many Texas cities like it is in most of US.

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TenderfootGungi t1_j0j9xk4 wrote

If that is true, then it would be possible to cool in other ways. A massive air cooler would work, but probably so big it would not be practical. Power plants build a lake. They then pump water from the lake, cool, then return the warm water to the lake. At least her in KS, the fish and the fishermen love it.

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