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> In the blog post, Tesla reiterates that customers are required to agree that the system is in a "public beta phase" before they can use it

I absolutely disagree with this, and it should not be used as a 'get out' clause from Tesla. If you work with non-technical people on technical issues on a day to day basis you'll understand why - non-technical people literally don't understand what stuff like this means. They'll read it, then say 'Oh but they installed it in my car anyway so it must be safe', and use it anyway.
Should we be calling the technology Autopilot? I feel like the name implies more autonomy than it provides inadvertently misleading people.
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It wasn't a podcast, it was the collective expression of disbelief when the story of how someone was convicted with such shaky evidence and sub-par representation. "If it happened to that guy, it can happen to me."

Stuff White People Like is a bit offensive to some people. Probably not great to link to it.
Probably looking down at phone or the like. I don't buy that any sky would prevent an attentive driver from seeing a big rig perpendicular to them.

I've had doubts about autopilot after it was hastily released and I've seen some unnerving anecdotes on Tesla groups about it. I think Tesla needs to keep Elon in check a bit more...
Volvo agrees with you:

http://jalopnik.com/volvo-engineer-calls-out-tesla-for-dange...
From what I understand, the autopilot can only be used on highways. I would suspect that highway travel is much safer per mile in the first place. Are we comparing highway driving with autopilot to regular mixed city/highway driving?
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Such a document exists. It's commonly called a driver's license.
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My understanding of the Asiana crash was that the autopilot would have landed the plane fine, and that it was the humans turning it off that caused the problem.

Your point is still valid, but perhaps we approach a time when over-reliance is better than all but the best human pilots (Sully, perhaps).
Responses pouring in. "The analysis is making mistakes that even one of my junior undergrads would not make" [1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/...
Good question
Tesla itself refers to it as Autosteer in the in-car UI (but Autopilot in its marketing materials).
Both Mercedes and Volvo have publicly stated they are taking full responsibility for any accidents which occur during use of their semi-autonomous systems. Tesla needs to step up, or it will hurt their public image.
I know this is off topic to the direct question at hand but his case, assuming the talking points found on this page I found[1] are true, is scary. No evidence whatsoever, including fingernail DNA that excluded him? What the actual fuck.

>> Mr. Jennings voluntarily submitted to hours of police interviews and interrogations and a polygraph test without objection or legal representation.

>> The evidence presented against Jennings at trial... statements and snippets of statements taken from the hours of police interrogation of Jennings which prosecutors said pointed to his guilt

It bears reminding, voluntarily speaking to police is NEVER, EVER... EVER!!! the right thing to do. You try to help, but all it does is set you up as a scapegoat. I'll do some more searching to find the answer, but all I can think of now is what kind of judge or jury could have possibly convicted this... unless he accepted a plea.

>> prosecutors called forensic behavioral consultant, Mark Safarik, who testified that it was his opinion that the crime was a sexually motivated encounter which went bad; this, based on the fact that when found, O’Keefe’s tube top was partially pulled down.

A "partially pulled down" tube top means sexual assault?! It couldn't be that the attacker simply was grabbing at the victim?

>> because a security guard was on duty, it was highly unlikely that any other offender would commit such a crime

How does one know whether a particular area is patrolled by security? Does this forensic moron, and the judge listening to this testimony, really think this is relevant?

These kinds of horror stories come up again, and again, and again in the US. Just another reason I haven't crossed the border to that country in over a decade.

[1] http://justiceforray.webs.com/
I think you didn't see the rest of the comment chain. The issue that we're discussing is the suggested U.S. government's involvement.
imo he probably did it, but the evidence is spotty enough that I'm not sure if he should be convicted.
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That's still a transfer from productive people to unproductive people. It just takes the specific form of hyperinflation.

There is no difference between taxing everyone 20% of their holdings, and printing yourself 25% of everyone else's holdings. Either way you end up with a fifth of the wealth, and everyone's purchasing power goes down so yours can go up.
Are users running Autopilot during hazardous conditions such as heavy rain and snow?

If not, comparing auto pilot deaths with average deaths per mile is disingenuous.
While I agree there is a huge danger with semi-autonomous systems as drivers become disengaged, Volvo has already publicly announced they will take full legal responsibility for any crashes when their cars are in autonomous mode.
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I'd love to learn more about this.
#WhiteWashThis
Which manufacturers use eye-height radar-based systems?
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TurboBench didn't compile straigth after git clone. lzbench did:

I get a test file by: wget https://web.archive.org/web/20151222062543/http://www.micros...

The test file is 267253 bytes.

$ ./lzbench -ebrotli,0,1,2,5,7,9,11/zstd,1,22 testfile

brotli 0.4.0 -0 compresses 783 MB/s and decompresses 809 MB/s

zstd 0.7.1 -1 compresses 586 MB/s and decompresses 1691 MB/s

brotli 0.4.0 -7 compresses 57 MB/s, decompresses 873 MB/s to 28185 bytes

brotli 0.4.0 -11 compresses to 25413 bytes

zstd 0.7.1 -22 compresses in 4.01 MB/s to 28363 bytes

Of course it is an unfair example because of the static dictionary that brotli uses, but it is not a pathological example: Thai is not part of the static dictionary. The numbers are on a i7-4790K@4.00 GHz.

Brotli's fastest compression is faster than that of zstd, at least as shown with lzbench and this file. Also brotli wins in compression density. In this file the win is 10.5 % less bytes for brotli -11 than for zstd -22.
As someone who used to be a younger person that played loud music in bands, thanks for being the civil-conversation-first type. Participating in music can be a powerfully positive force in a kid's life, and often kids don't have a consciousness of their surroundings at the front of their mind.

(Unless it's 1 in the morning which is a terrible time for a backyard show.)
Its worth pointing out that Prof. Missy Cummings, who authored the paper, is a former F/A-18 pilot who specializes in human-machine interaction research.

One option is the Tesla autopilot should have an indication when it approaches "low confidence" areas without disengaging, so the driver is not startled if they have to take back manual control.
"Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied."

Now that's blaming the user for a design flaw. There is no excuse for failing to detect the side of a semitrailer. Tesla has a radar. Did it fail, was its data misprocessed, or is the field of view badly chosen? The single radar sensor is mounted low on the front of the vehicle, and if it lacks sufficient vertical range, might be looking under a semitrailer. That's no excuse; semitrailers are not exactly an uncommon sight on roads.

I used an Eaton VORAD radar in the 2005 Grand Challenge, and it would have seen this. That's a radar from the 1990s.

I want to see the NTSB report. The NTSB hasn't posted anything yet.
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> Self driving tech is poised to save many many lives.

The computer would have to be 99.99999% reliable to do that.

The accident rate is around 74 per 100 million miles (and fatalities is 1.13).

It's unclear exactly how to turn that into a percentage, but no matter how you do it it's quite high.

Say an accident takes 5 minutes, and people drive 30 miles/hour. Then that works out to 99.999% for humans. If you use the numbers for fatalities then it's 99.99999%.

I.e. 99.99999% of the time, as whole across all [US] humans, people drive in a way that does not cause a fatality.

That's the bar computers have to cross in order to save any lives at all.
Also, those averages are over the entire car population, with a median age of around ten years and an average crash safety rating relatively far below that of a Model S.
You may want to reach out to the Medill Justice Project at Northwestern University (http://www.medilljusticeproject.org/). What you and your dad did is what they do all the time, so they may have some resources that can help out.
Tesla reiterates that customers are required to agree that the system is in a "public beta phase" before they can use it

I'm happy to let you all beta test this one for me.
I'm pretty annoyed too. It's outrageous - and they way they wrote the letter too. The attitude was along the lines of "We've decided your investment in EyeFi products is void. The products will stop working on the 16th September. Bye."

If they can think I'll buy another EyeFi (or for that matter Ricoh) product again - wow. I did recommend it to a few friends, I'm going to have to apologise to them now.

The last time I recall something like this happening was when Logitech bought Squeezebox and rendered that ecosystem dead. At least they kept mysqueezebox.com alive for all the legacy customers, but only after the shit storm it created as people had invested thousands in the platform.
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Source:

fatalities:
http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalit...

educational attainment:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_educati...
And if the part of the tractor trailer in the path is elevated... sensors sweeping forward see just road.

It could be even worse. If there was a "road surface mirage" then it's possible that both the truck and the road underneath it were not visible at all. Since the forward radar doesn't have the range or coverage to see a truck at a distance, the only sensor that could have detected the problem was the camera. Because of the phenomena I've mentioned above and the parent post has mentioned, we know this can't possibly work.

Even worse, the circumstances in which the car's sensor could fail are precisely the ones in which the Mark 1 Eyeball would also fail.
Unlike many other fatal crashes, however, they presumably now have data from the corner case they can use to regression test every future release of the system.
First you say they want jobs, now you say they want 'protectionism.' I think you are very confused, arguing from this vague stereotype.

More importantly, UBI doesn't prevent people who want jobs from getting jobs, so that seems a completely irrelevant thing to bring up anyway.
This is my experience in startup offices as well - a small clique of people (or one person) controlling "office music", which everyone is forced to listen to. It's so hard for me to get work done. I really don't get why companies do this, it's basically throwing away productivity ($$$) for an image of "team-ness".
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Maintenance costs are low four digits each year? Yeah, until you need to haul a 60' boat out of the water and scrape + re-paint its hull, which will need to happen on a regular schedule for the life of the vessel.
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I see so not only do you have to play exclusively AAA titles now you have to play at 4K in order for you to be called a "gamer" according to dogma1138

Talk about moving the goal posts

For the Record, Most windows systems struggle to play games at 4K unless you have 2 980TI's in SLI or the new 1080, my system could not play Shadow of Mordor @4K if I installed windows, linux has nothing to do with it

Further I am not selling out the money for a 4K display, I have 4 1080p monitors, and 1 1920x1600 hooked to my system, I play games on the 1920x1600

It runs just fine at that resolution on a couple generation old card.
More information here: https://www.levyjournalonline.com/police-beat.html

Relevant section:
In a separate crash on May 7 at 3:40 p.m. on U.S. 27 near the BP Station west of Williston, a 45-year-old Ohio man was killed when he drove under the trailer of an 18-wheel semi.
The top of Joshua Brown’s 2015 Tesla Model S vehicle was torn off by the force of the collision. The truck driver, Frank Baressi, 62, Tampa was not injured in the crash.
The FHP said the tractor-trailer was traveling west on US 27A in the left turn lane toward 140th Court. Brown’s car was headed east in the outside lane of U.S. 27A.
When the truck made a left turn onto NE 140th Court in front of the car, the car’s roof struck the underside of the trailer as it passed under the trailer. The car continued to travel east on U.S. 27A until it left the roadway on the south shoulder and struck a fence. The car smashed through two fences and struck a power pole. The car rotated counter-clockwise while sliding to its final resting place about 100 feet south of the highway. Brown died at the scene.
Charges are pending.

Here is a google maps view of the accident location:
https://goo.gl/maps/SSKyoxhoaxp
Exactly. And on top of that, how much of the time was it the human who actually prevented the fatality, and not autopilot?

I would like to see how many accidents would have happened under Autopilot, but were only prevented because of the human.
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I think parent probably means, why do they write their own instead of using one of the several off-the-shelf solutions available.
>>This is one of the primary design considerations behind the Google self driving car having absolutely no steering wheel or brake.

Didn't know about this. If they are truly testing their software in a car without break and steering wheel I have a whole new level of respect for them.

When you start to design a self-driving car the question of a human fallback shouldn't even exist. The car either drives itself, or humans do. Mixing responsibilities in situations of life and death doesn't end well.
Highways are the most dangerous environment. High speed combined with cross traffic. City streets don't have enough speed usually for crashes be lethal.
I can see why Volvo criticized Tesla for rolling out a system that's not fully autonomous. If drivers are willfully distracted because they think the car will handle any situation, that's a very dangerous place to be in. Though it's not clear what the driver was doing in this situation, so it's possible that this would have been a fatal crash in any other car without autopilot as well.
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This is on the road to being off topic, but still relevant given some of the commentary in this thread:

It makes me a bit sad that the political zeitgeist in the tech community is leaning towards "acceptable losses" when it comes to accidents in automated cars, to the point of pre-emptively expressing disdain at ordinary people reacting negatively to such news. I sense it's going to become harder and harder for us to talk about our worries and skepticism regarding automated driving, since the louder voices claim it will all be worth it in the end. Surely — surely — you're on the side of less death? But personally, I find the utilitarian perspective distasteful. We're perfectly happy to let technology (literally) throw anonymous individuals under the bus as long as less people die overall, but what if it's you that gets hit by an auto? What if it's someone you care about, not Anonymous Driver On TV? The point is that humanity is not a herd to be taken as a whole; every life has rights, including the right not to be trampled by algorithmic decisions or software bugs for the betterment of all. (Sure, you could argue just as well that we have the right not to be run over by drunk and otherwise negligent drivers, but at least this kind of death is not methodical and has some legal recourse.) I feel this perspective needs a strong voice in the tech community too, to counter the blind push forward at the expense of human lives.

Now, this isn't necessarily what happened in this case, but I find Tesla's behavior in these kinds of situations to be creepy and self-serving, at best. Is every death going to come with a blog post describing how much safer automated features are compared to human drivers? Every auto-related casualty is, and should be, a massive event, not a minus-one-point on some ledger in Elon Musk's office.
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I was wondering about that. Trump inherited his money and built it up with plenty bankruptcies in the process. He's also terrible to employees. With that, I could see two positions for a hacker to take: opposing him as a fake in business and elite snob; respecting him as a fellow troll that hacks the business and legal systems for his own benefit. Not the claim he made, though.
What would be an ingenuous comparison?
The only situation I can imagine a driver not noticing a huge truck perpendicular to them on the highway, regardless of what color it is, is that they're not paying any attention at all.

The optical distortions that cause road surface mirages could well entirely hide another vehicle. In this case, since the trailer was painted white, only the wheels and lower chassis would need to be hidden for the image to become unrecognizable. Not saying that's what happened in this case, but there are situations when your forward vision could be compromised. (There is a theory that the colder ocean may have caused a similar optical phenomenon and hidden the iceberg that sunk the Titanic.)
The timelapse is pretty cool!
http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1613a/
I would limit that to atomic commits across multiple records... IIRC, you can do an atomic commit to a single record, and the consistency and durability are tunable.

Overall, it's pretty nifty, hoping to find a chance to actually use it. Early on the lack of geo-indexing and automagic failover were features I'd find important for a lot of setups (now has these), but lack of atomic commits across multiple tables/collections not so much.
Of course not, but it will work a lot better than autopilot, with significantly lower accident rates. No system will ever be perfect, but there is a huge difference between privately testing something to the best of your abilities before releasing it, and turning on a beta feature easily capable of killing drivers via a software update protected by a disclaimer screen.
Beware clickbait and intentional inflammatory posturing. I noticed The Verge selectively quoted Tesla without directly linking to the source (although it was part of Elon's tweet):

https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tragic-loss

The full context of the agreement:

"It is important to note that Tesla disables Autopilot by default and requires explicit acknowledgement that the system is new technology and still in a public beta phase before it can be enabled. When drivers activate Autopilot, the acknowledgment box explains, among other things, that Autopilot “is an assist feature that requires you to keep your hands on the steering wheel at all times," and that "you need to maintain control and responsibility for your vehicle” while using it. Additionally, every time that Autopilot is engaged, the car reminds the driver to “Always keep your hands on the wheel. Be prepared to take over at any time.” The system also makes frequent checks to ensure that the driver's hands remain on the wheel and provides visual and audible alerts if hands-on is not detected. It then gradually slows down the car until hands-on is detected again."

So the key here is that Tesla autopilot is a driver assist but is positioned such that the driver needs to remain alert and able to assume control of the vehicle at any moment. So when it is said, "Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed..." it is critical to note that ultimately the driver failed to control their vehicle. Personally, I find this reasonable.
Having the same fatality statistic was not enough for Google to bring autonomous driving into production. Many people think that it should be at least an order of magnitude safer than manual driving
Yeah, I get that. It still has economic impact. But you don't have to explicitly account for the payouts with receipts, which the post I replied to seemed to think was necessary.
That's the same as blaming your car company for getting speeding tickets when you used cruise control. How many of those letters have you sent out?
Thanks for the link. Since the case was dropped, I guess we can't know for certain. It looks like all pages on the parody website have been removed, though there are screenshots in the motion to dismiss. It seems like just the pages that look like fake press releases.

I generally agree with the EFF, but not in this case. Just my personal opinion, but I can see how the text of the fake press releases are parody, but not the website. The quality of the site obscures the parody. I think the Hillary Clinton article on The Onion linked above is funny. I wouldn't find it funny if it were hosted on h-clinton2016.com

The main claims were basically that the chamber of commerce parody is not a substitute for the real thing, and the parody is non-commercial. This isn't entirely the same case. This is an entire landing page made to look like a new initiative. Having a "Store coming soon" advertisements and sign up form also make this different.
>I'm a bit at a loss as to why general entertainment pop culture news is interesting to hackers.

Because hackers are people, and by definition a significant proportion of people are interested in pop culture.

But that does bring up a good point that "anything that good hackers would find interesting" is perhaps not the best guidance for what's "on-topic" on HN.
There are no transactions - updates to an individual document are atomic but you are on your own if you need all-or-nothing updates again multiple documents.
A company's "public beta phase" system named "Autopilot" just drove a customer head-first into a trailer and killed them, at least in part due to inadequate sensor hardware that seems unlikely a software update can remedy. Tesla really ought to take a step back and consider the damage they may do to their brand if they start killing customers and blaming the dead person for having trusted a Tesla product.
> The state won't retry.

You say that like it's a fact. What's your evidence?
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There are two big festivals somewhere near us: Untold and Electric Castle. I'm a metalhead too, but Armin van Buuren, Tiesto or Faithless really sound good! Regarding the number of IT specialists, just read the reports. It's a fact that they have lower salary expectations, but they're hard workers who eventually end up in the US. This is why the author of the website is calling for entrepreneurs. Have a read: http://teamfound.com/blog/romania-it-industry-report/