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To be honest, I think the noise generated by electric cars (or lack thereof) is largely exaggerated. Given how most of the noise your hear of passing cars is tyre noise. Naturally this is very much speed dependant and an electric car going 5mph is a lot quieter than one with a combustion engine. But an electric car vs a regular one at 20-30mph, I think I'd struggle to tell the difference unless I was looking for it.

I’ll come clean, actually happened to me on Jermyn Street early one Saturday morning about three years ago, street was deserted and I had my mind on other things, car was probably doing about 15mph. Lesson learned the hard way.

Footage, upsetting:

https://twitter.com/bikehugger/status/976597055928877056

My immediate thought, beyond how grim it is, was that it looks entirely avoidable. I'm going to assume the footage is the real deal.

The video looks horribly over-exposed. If, with headlights, you can only see that far ahead then that speed is absolutely irresponsible.

I would guess that a human would be able to see much further ahead and that the car simply didn't spot the pedestrian at all.

The human in the car didn't, because they simply were not looking.

Uber's self driving cars are screwed because of this. Corporate manslaughter charge please.

“The driver said it was like a flash, the person walked out in front of them,”

I thought they had night vision cameras as part of the sensor array?

I thought they had night vision cameras as part of the sensor array?

I thought they used LIDAR (which is laser based and therefore works regardless of day/night/shadows/glare/etc).

I think the video provided is just from a bog standard camera in the vehicle. I don't think that video is what is used to help navigate the car (if it is then it's woefully inadequate), so judging the car on just that video is pointless.

The sensors on the Uber should have seen the pedestrian, has Radar and Lidar and all sorts. nuts!
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/19/heres-how-ubers-self-driving-cars-are-supposed-to-detect-pedestrians/

Man convicted after training his dog to make nazi salutes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-43478925

I think the "gas the Jews" bit had more to do with his conviction than his sieg heiling dog.

Fuck that guy. Dick.

Someone should warn the guy teaching geese to walk.

Lol

Someone should warn the guy teaching geese to walk.

ha!

Good article on Novichoks and the madness of chemical weapons.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/22/andrei-zheleznyakov-soviet-scientist-poisoned-novichok

The video looks horribly over-exposed. If, with headlights, you can only see that far ahead then that speed is absolutely irresponsible.

The footage does make it hard to really tell. From what I can see there's only 2-3 seconds from seeing the person to the driver hitting them. Internet says car was travelling ~40mph, which means even if paying attention the driver would have had no chance of stopping, just a possibility of avoiding.

But based on the distance of the street lights I don't believe the visibility could be as bad as indicated.

In terms of speed, given the type of road I don't think it seems reasonable to expect pedestrians to be crossing there. You wouldn't expect people walking across the multi-lane sections of the A3.

Honestly my biggest takeaways from this are; 1) issues around smartphone use in cars; 2) humans are clearly not a fail-safe or back-up.

Apparently the road is well lit

The footage does make it hard to really tell.

See the discussion going on in the other thread:-

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/234810/?offset=900#14152513

Dick.

Sure, but a conviction of a hate crime?

It's not exactly what I envisaged when the legislation was amended.

^^ & ^ cheers - probs no need for more discussion here then!

I guess the question is did he pick that phrase because he's a bit of a dick teaching a dog to do something stupid and thought it was offensive or did he want to pick that phrase as it forms part of his views.

He's very adamant he's not right-wing but his twitter timeline has a load of Tommy Robinson and the ilk retweeted on there and complaints about white men being victimised and the rest so it's tough to give him the benefit of the doubt.

I'm sure the police and court had more information than I do to go on, but you're filming a funny looking dog reacting to a command.

If it was a German Sheppard or Rottweiler attacking a stereotypical looking Jewish doll to similar commands I'd understand it more.

Quite interesting on Facebook data

https://twitter.com/dylanmckaynz/status/976368845635035138

I've requested mine. I don't use messenger or the mobile app, so it'll be interesting to see what's there in comparison.

Has none of that stuff for me. Which I guess isn't surprising. Nothing nefarious or worrying at all, really. But it does give insights into some of the categorizations it does. I think, based on my friends, it's come to the conclusion that I have an "Established Adult Life". I'VE MADE IT!

It tells you what ads you've clicked, which is kind of neat. As well as what ad topics you're being targeted for.