Likely the biggest consideration for any vehicle one of us may purchase is first whether it's so tasteless Donald Trump would buy it and second whether it's any good at detecting cows. You know how it goes when you have prepared for so long for that big trip but you get stopped almost as soon as you start because there's a cow in the way and your car did not spot it. (Science Daily: In-car cow avoidance)
In India, if you kill a cow then they will kill you back. That's not true everywhere but it does happen so you need that cow detector. It's not even that far back as in a few days since the last time some Sikhs were killed for killing cows.
Sachin Sharma and Dharmesh Shah of the Department of Electronics & Communication, at Gujarat Technological University, in Ahmedabad, India, point out that an increased incidence of road crashes in their country correlates with increasing wealth and the surge in vehicle numbers this development has wrought. They add that road infrastructure is not keeping pace with traffic demands especially in roads connecting villages and towns. Moreover, on busy, imperfect roads, the Indian cow represents a significant obstacle that must also be taken into account.
- SD
This is one rolling political metaphor.
Safety, security and comfort are generally considered important to vehicle design with performance, fuel economy and other factors also considered in terms of how marketable a given vehicle will be. However, road traffic collisions are the leading cause of death of people between the ages of 15 and 29 years old, according to the World Health Organization, is road traffic collisions. Technology to reduce this grave incidence should be a high priority of vehicle design. India has the second largest road network in the world and 1 in 20,000 people die there in a road traffic accident, 12 in 70,000 are seriously injured in such accidents.
- SD
There you see credible evidence to substantiate the fact Indians are the worst drivers in the world and this may go some distance toward helping understand why they're so much in demand as New York City cab drivers.
Ed: who better for a self-driving taxi cab than someone who cannot drive?
Welcome to Uber, my boy.
Sharma and Shah's collision alert system uses a dashboard camera and an algorithm that can determine whether an object near the vehicle is an on-road cow and whether or not its movements represent a risk to the vehicle. A timely audio or visual indicator can then be triggered to nudge the driver to apply the brakes whether or not they have seen the animal. The algorithm requires optimization and the issue of night-time driving is yet to be addressed, the team says.
- SD
There you have it: don't drive a car which is not equipped with a CDA (i.e. Cow-Detection Algorithm). Look for that CDA label
Ed: how much do they pay those jokers to do this?
Probably a whole lot less than your wicked mind likes to think. Scientists almost invariably do it because they love it and these ones seem to have a particular predilection for cows.
In India, if you kill a cow then they will kill you back. That's not true everywhere but it does happen so you need that cow detector. It's not even that far back as in a few days since the last time some Sikhs were killed for killing cows.
Sachin Sharma and Dharmesh Shah of the Department of Electronics & Communication, at Gujarat Technological University, in Ahmedabad, India, point out that an increased incidence of road crashes in their country correlates with increasing wealth and the surge in vehicle numbers this development has wrought. They add that road infrastructure is not keeping pace with traffic demands especially in roads connecting villages and towns. Moreover, on busy, imperfect roads, the Indian cow represents a significant obstacle that must also be taken into account.
- SD
This is one rolling political metaphor.
Safety, security and comfort are generally considered important to vehicle design with performance, fuel economy and other factors also considered in terms of how marketable a given vehicle will be. However, road traffic collisions are the leading cause of death of people between the ages of 15 and 29 years old, according to the World Health Organization, is road traffic collisions. Technology to reduce this grave incidence should be a high priority of vehicle design. India has the second largest road network in the world and 1 in 20,000 people die there in a road traffic accident, 12 in 70,000 are seriously injured in such accidents.
- SD
There you see credible evidence to substantiate the fact Indians are the worst drivers in the world and this may go some distance toward helping understand why they're so much in demand as New York City cab drivers.
Ed: who better for a self-driving taxi cab than someone who cannot drive?
Welcome to Uber, my boy.
Sharma and Shah's collision alert system uses a dashboard camera and an algorithm that can determine whether an object near the vehicle is an on-road cow and whether or not its movements represent a risk to the vehicle. A timely audio or visual indicator can then be triggered to nudge the driver to apply the brakes whether or not they have seen the animal. The algorithm requires optimization and the issue of night-time driving is yet to be addressed, the team says.
- SD
There you have it: don't drive a car which is not equipped with a CDA (i.e. Cow-Detection Algorithm). Look for that CDA label
Ed: how much do they pay those jokers to do this?
Probably a whole lot less than your wicked mind likes to think. Scientists almost invariably do it because they love it and these ones seem to have a particular predilection for cows.
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