Volvo has presented a remarkable demonstration of an autonomously-operated truck. It sees with some type of laser sensors and the driving decisions are internal. See for yourself the example but keep in mind it's a product demo and the music will be correspondingly over-dramatic. (RT: Volvo exec plays chicken with world’s first self-driving truck in underground mine)
Over-driving drama is not an exclusively-American characteristic anymore and you may derive some measure of comedy, satisfaction, or annoyance as you wish.
The interest in the article is in the context of America's failure to keep up with high-tech behavior in this highly-dynamic environment. Corporate types started calling that a 'space' but that's most likely because an environment is too large for them to conceive of it and most corporate types don't believe one exists anyway. Simple little beasties, they are.
As we saw yesterday Amtrak has committed to buying twenty-eight high-speed trains and the acquisition is all the more remarkable since America does not have track on which to run them. Apparently the talking bed sores in the Civil War Congress as exemplified by Paul Ryan are expected to fund track which is from a time more advanced than the Nineteenth Century. Tracks for the French trains will take them up to the Twentieth Century and it's probably not realistic to expect an American GOP Congress to ever get within a century of current.
The same thing happens with autonomous vehicles since America is only using them for a simplistic goal in end-user services for individual automobiles but that only exacerbates the existing problem by putting more cars on the road. There's little to no evidence of America engaging in the high-end delivery market such as is being explored by Volvo and this isn't the first of such experiments, it is the first to go to production, however.
Insert Andy Rooney screaming, in his Andy Rooney way, WAKE UP AMERICA. This sort of thing is exactly what America did best: invent it as you go. No-one can steal your technology because it doesn't even exist yet. Why so little of that happens now is your problem to solve.
Of course you can continue to ignore it and watch more things turn into that stinking dud of an AppleEvent yesterday in which there was nothing but a crumby iPhone, an iWatch which plays Pokemon, and the easiest to lose headphones which have ever been designed.
As Facebook and social networks increase, lethargy and malaise increase and innovation goes right out the window ... and straight to where innovators get off their asses and make things happen. You can be a corporate pigdog like Zuckerberg who never contributes anything of any real value but licks up the gravy like the Hooker Queen or you can be a Spaceman like Elon Musk who brings fundamental change to America and the world with the advance of private space travel.
It's your choice Junior Muskrats but first you have to push away from that fucking social network since it will never take you anywhere except back to where you already were. How long will you stay there? One year? Ten years? Your entire wastrel life? Does the term 'becalmed in Hell' mean anything to you.
Over-driving drama is not an exclusively-American characteristic anymore and you may derive some measure of comedy, satisfaction, or annoyance as you wish.
The interest in the article is in the context of America's failure to keep up with high-tech behavior in this highly-dynamic environment. Corporate types started calling that a 'space' but that's most likely because an environment is too large for them to conceive of it and most corporate types don't believe one exists anyway. Simple little beasties, they are.
As we saw yesterday Amtrak has committed to buying twenty-eight high-speed trains and the acquisition is all the more remarkable since America does not have track on which to run them. Apparently the talking bed sores in the Civil War Congress as exemplified by Paul Ryan are expected to fund track which is from a time more advanced than the Nineteenth Century. Tracks for the French trains will take them up to the Twentieth Century and it's probably not realistic to expect an American GOP Congress to ever get within a century of current.
The same thing happens with autonomous vehicles since America is only using them for a simplistic goal in end-user services for individual automobiles but that only exacerbates the existing problem by putting more cars on the road. There's little to no evidence of America engaging in the high-end delivery market such as is being explored by Volvo and this isn't the first of such experiments, it is the first to go to production, however.
Insert Andy Rooney screaming, in his Andy Rooney way, WAKE UP AMERICA. This sort of thing is exactly what America did best: invent it as you go. No-one can steal your technology because it doesn't even exist yet. Why so little of that happens now is your problem to solve.
Of course you can continue to ignore it and watch more things turn into that stinking dud of an AppleEvent yesterday in which there was nothing but a crumby iPhone, an iWatch which plays Pokemon, and the easiest to lose headphones which have ever been designed.
As Facebook and social networks increase, lethargy and malaise increase and innovation goes right out the window ... and straight to where innovators get off their asses and make things happen. You can be a corporate pigdog like Zuckerberg who never contributes anything of any real value but licks up the gravy like the Hooker Queen or you can be a Spaceman like Elon Musk who brings fundamental change to America and the world with the advance of private space travel.
It's your choice Junior Muskrats but first you have to push away from that fucking social network since it will never take you anywhere except back to where you already were. How long will you stay there? One year? Ten years? Your entire wastrel life? Does the term 'becalmed in Hell' mean anything to you.
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