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Well, that counterfactual implies a world where the carriers don't have a stranglehold on the market and the ability to cripple or deny service to hardware and software they don't like. In that world Android would be better off as well; phones wouldn't have unremovable bloatware or disabled functionality, and they'd get updates in a timely manner.
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I'm a pilot and that seems insane.
The thing is, taxis _don't_ wear out as fast as you'd think.

I remember talking to an old-school cab driver a while back, when I noticed his odo had ~650,000km (~400k miles) on it. We chatted a bit about it, and when I asked "So how long do cabs last" he said "3 good crashes." It doesn't which of the locally popular cab models you buy and it doesn't matter how far you drive them - you might need to fit a reconditioned diff or gearbox or even motor, but all of that is "routine maintenance" from his point of view. Its after the third time you've crunched it hard into something that it's time to get rid of it...
"It doesn't seem like this is a case where they could expand it—that would involve overturning precedent."

Which precedent would that be?
I think you're spot on.

But I think the removable trunk will be combined with a passenger-less unit that carries the trunk back to your house and drops it off. Sort of a tiny version of container shipping.
No wonder it looks smoother. The pixels are half the size!
That is a possibility. But I imagine that when driverless cars become ubiquitous, most people won't own them.

If you did want to pay for a car to swing by your house to pick you up, it probably wouldn't be a car, but something more like a small bus with sleeping compartments that could pick up and drop off people along the way.

If you could fit 10 people along most of the route (and you could assuming it was between 2 moderately populated areas and road trips were as common as they probably would be), your passenger miles per gallon would be incredibly high.
Not sure what more to say beyond a good old quote; Those who don't understand history are destined to repeat it.
According to the article, the pitots did, in fact, de-ice and return to normal functioning. However, apparently the alternate law needs to be manually reset, since the plane remained in direct input mode, and thus the pilots managed to stall the plane even though its instruments had all recovered.
Another unintended (or maybe intended) effect: cheap cabs.

Without cab drivers, there's no reason for the antiquated medallion system. That would lead to more cabs. Without medallion costs, drivers, tips, presumably cheaper insurance, and more efficient route-finding -- it should also be much cheaper.

With cab-bots, you could also do some awesome things like model the areas and times of greatest demand and make sure they are there immediately. Or, similar to UPS, route to avoid left turns to increase fuel performance.
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I can't stand it when sites try to be cute like this with their 404 pages. I guess it's a good thing for getting buzz, but what about a user who is actually trying to use the site and gets that page? It's awful. You were trying to complete a task, the site isn't working how you wanted, and to top it all off, now they're trying to be funny and lighthearted. It just seems like a site failure isn't the right time to be making jokes.
Good point about efficiency gains becoming a more direct incentive; I look forward to it. However, I doubt that optimization would trend solely toward high capacity vehicles - think of taxis airport taxis as two classes of hireable fare, divided into single user single destination and multiple user single destination. What we need is a multiple user multiple destination system.

Taxis are for in-city travel and occasionally nearby inter-city travel, and the regular car has ended up being fine. They do have a few larger vehicles for big groups, but those are special case vehicles. On average, they tend to get 1-2 people at a time wanting to go places.

Airport taxis tend to be closer to a commute-oriented vehicle. Several people are going from here to somewhere else, so they tend toward 5-6 person vehicles which operate through the night on >1hour long trips.

Corporate transit systems like Microsoft's Connect system are essentially multi-user multi-destination. Those make buses make sense, but there are a relatively small number of buses making set route transfers while a hive of taxis provides last-mile service.

The "Future of Transportation" article from a few days ago [1] suggests that the average vehicle has 1.2 people in it, and that apparently takes commuters into account. Now we must consider: will behaviour change to increase carpooling?

Specifically, what is presently preventing people more people from taking buses to work? (lots do take buses and trains already, but many people drive 10 to 100 minutes)

It could be that a bus doesn't get you /right/ to work. It could be that you would never think to contact everyone in your neighbourhood and figure out that you could buy a bus and run it just for you guys. It could be that the cost of owning and using a car is just low enough that it doesn't really save you anything. It could be an aesthetic sense of independence.

My bet is that this will work out like Microsoft's system. Major transit routes can scale passenger levels up and move efficiently between well placed bus-station/pickup hubs, and armies of taxis will shuttle you to your final destination. Google's bikes are nice, but last-mile service will have to deal with a broader sprawl. Most of them will be focused on getting from hub to delivery and vice versa during morning and evening, but then, what happens during the day? Even weirder: what happens at night?

1. http://swiftprt.com/blog/2011/12/the-future-of-ground-based-...
Ah, I was not aware they already could. My next question is why not make themselves de-ice better?

This maybe seems trollish or silly, but in all seriousness, if your sensors aren't good enough, first rule out improving the sensors before you try to compensate with the system.
There is just something wrong about this and I can't articulate it.
I like both of those songs, but they came out 15 years after daft punk and I am sure count them as a major influence.
I can't comment on the market for podcast apps in the Android Market since I don't own an Android phone but I do know that there are a number of podcast apps available for the iPhone. I've personally purchased two within the past couple of months, SimpleCasts and Instacast. I'm not really in the market to buy a third one when I've got two already.

I don't know when ShiftyJelly released their podcast app initially but this might be another reason that their podcast app doesn't sell as well on iOS.
How much more efficient do you think automated cars would be?

Potentially a lot. In a 100% automated environment you don't need stop lights and traffic jams are substantially reduced. But yeah, I agree that the increased use resulting from greater convenience would outweigh that.
While this concept sounds amazing to me, lets not forget that we are not the majority. I just got off the phone with a relative who hates taking a plane, they would rather drive 24 hours to their destination. I consider this concept to be pure insanity, but i don't think this is limited to a small portion of the populous. There is much more at play in the mind of the 'average American(in this case)' than efficiency and 'the car will drive for me'. The lack of a feeling of person control is not among the lesser of these issues.
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You might be surprised at the number of people who thing Android looks better.

Things like live wallpaper make a great, great first impression. Many people have seen an iPhone, then the see the Samsung "beach" live wallpaper and say "wow".
In fact, many transit systems do combine delivery and passenger vehicles -- greyhound has a package delivery service.

To your other point: I think that assuming we'll go off the wall and design wacky new vehicles is too optimistic, akin to the "cities of the future" envisioned during the past hundred years. People's sensibilities of "what makes a car look nice" and "what is a metal box I'd like to sit in" seem to be pretty set, and we don't have a very different experience in a train or on a bus today than in a car. Face forward or backward in a seat with big windows and high visibility.

Part of that is for your senses to not freak out, part of it is just that it's cheap and easy, and part of it is that experiments in the form-factor don't need to be done, so they aren't done. I expect the same trend will continue unless flukes occur.
I wonder what sort of population density and usage pattern you'd need before that worked in your favour?

If my apartment complex had a few dozen cars shared between a few hundred apartments, perhaps the car I take to go shopping could pick up the next door kid from soccer on the way back, then a different car might pick me up at the shops when I'm done, after dropping some other neighbour at the movies...

(I guess I'm now describing taxis. I wonder what the difference between this, and a taxi network of driverless cars is?)
I don't think the average person realizes that for aircraft pilots ice is a constant worry even in tropical areas of the world.

The temperature drops 1.98C for every 1,000 feet you go up so you can see quite quickly how fast you can enter an area below the freezing point of water.

Icing of the pitot tube and carburetor are a constant worry at least for prop driven aircraft. Right from day one you're taught what to look for signs of carburetor icing and how to correct it. Water in the fuel is probably #3 on the list.

I never got far enough along to learn about wing icing I ran out of money for lessons but really everyday it's ice, ice, ice!
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"Reddit is also heavily anti-corporation, anti-advertising, anti-mainstream. It's just the culture on HN and Reddit."

HN is not "heavily anti-corporation".

Plenty of HN users own their own corporations and defend/praise them constantly. The majority of HN users be against working for most big corporations, because so many HN users are involved in the startup scene, which is dominated by small corporations. But that doesn't mean they're against big corporations per se, and I'm sure plenty HN users are dreaming of being bought out by big corporations, or even working for the likes of Microsoft or Google, which are not exactly small. Most HN users are willing, eager participants in the corporate economy. Many are even libertarians, who staunchly defend capitalism every chance they get.

Also, I don't think HN is "anti-advertising", just against viewing ads on their own machines. I would bet if I ran another poll asking how many HN users are against advertising as such, only a small minority would come forward.

Finally, I've seen no indication that HN is "anti-mainstream". HN is not a meeting place for some kind of underground subculture. With a few exceptions, the people here seem to be relatively mainstream, conforming, well off individuals.
Our bodies are horrible when it comes to spatial awareness.

Pilots are trained to ignore sensory input like the feel of gravity, the feel of being in a dive/climb/bank and use the instruments to make determinations about what the aircraft is doing. Usually those feelings are dead wrong.

It's amazing how flying into a cloud bank, even though you've been flying straight and level, suddenly your body screams at you that you're in a descending bank or something. You just learn to disregard those senses and trust the instruments.

As far as looking out the window, it was cloudy, at night, and at high altitude. At high altitude in straight and level flight your nose is pointed at blue sky, not the visual horizon.
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In the dark, in a storm, you have no reference points. In a moving plane, your reference frame is further confusing. There are stories of pilots making a nice, 1-g bank turning the craft upside down and not noticing until it was too late due to white-out conditions. Gravity is only one of the forces acting on the pilots' bodies.
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Responding to my own comment here...

Anybody got both Travis Kalanick and Elon Musk's numbers in their speed dial?

What if a "disrupt the cab industry" company got together with a "low moving part, high reliability electric car maker" to do an end-run around the expected auto industry opposition...

A fleet of driverless electric taxis, all routed by smartphone apps and behavioural prediction...
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The article is certainly biased. That's fine, it reads as an editorial and readers here can digest it accordingly.

Your feelings on SCofUS seem a bit ideal to me. My opinion is that possibly every case the supreme court hears is an act of judicial activism, as they only hear the cases they want and there is plenty of detail available to the court by both parties prior to deciding whether to hear a case or not. In many cases, we can predict how the vote will turn out. These are political appointments. They are lifetime ones, but a justice has to serve a career towing the party line in order to make the short list.
Ah, that bit about being trained to ignore their body is interesting. I was not aware of that, and it answers my question pretty well.
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That was one of the tensest things I've read in a while. My heart was pumping up until the end. The level of stress, confusion, and terror those pilots, not to mention the passengers, must have experienced must have been truly terrible.
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A car, left sitting in the driveway for 30 years, unused and unmaintained, is unlikely to work very well or for very long. Rubber components like hoses, wire insulation, weather stripping etc become brittle and break.

As some other posters mention, cabs with 650,000 miles are not unheard of. I had a Toyota Landcruiser with 450,000km on the second engine, over 900,000km on the body.

A car that got 20x use would not wear out 20x as fast because a large part of a car wearing out is just age, not miles.
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The nose was "only" pitched 15 degrees up. The descent was at 40 degrees. With considerable turbulence, and a storm raging outside even the rapid descent may not have been apparent (body-wise).
You suggest that one problem might be that Bonin didn't know his angle of attack. Alternately, I remember a similarity here with an Egypt Air flight that went down when some instruments went dead: when one of the instruments experienced malfunction, the pilots suddenly found it hard to believe anything the computer was saying. So maybe, on some level, Bonin dismissed the stall warning because the speed sensor had failed. One sensor is faulty, he might have reasoned, how can I know the computer isn't just over-reacting to that?
In many cases people do not mention the obvious. If there is a stall alarm blaring, I do not think any pilot would actually say "the stall alarm is on".

So I do not think it too surprising that nobody mentioned stall in conversation. Now about why they did not put the nose down, it seems either that (i) they were both under the impression that the electronic controls would not let them stall; or (ii) from their experience with smaller planes they thought they would be more pronounced shaking and other physical clues when the plane did stall.

Also it seems that they were much more scared of the storm than stalling so they just wanted to escape it.
I think the lesson is if you are breaking backwards compatibility better compress all the deprecation cycles you need to go over the years in one release.

Perl 6 is doing that. Its is going to be one major incompatible release. But that like compressing two decades of deprecation cycles in one release.
Maybe - I wonder just how elastic the miles-traveled vs convenience curve is.

There is surely an upper bound to how much traveling any person wants to do. If it were 5% more convenient for me to travel by car, I _might_ travel 5% more, but I couldn't see myself traveling 50% or 100% more no matter _how_ convenient you could make that travel.
Unfortunately, no. They could not look out the window because it was dark and they were in the middle of a storm. I doubt the sky looked much different IN the clouds as opposed to 10 ft above the ocean. Presumably, it would also be too dark and stormy to see the ocean even if they were right above it.

To understand why the answer to the rest of your questions is also "no", you have to understand the psychology of vertigo in situations like this (http://www.studentpilot.com/articles/medical_articles/articl...).
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>In fact, many transit systems do combine delivery and passenger vehicles -- greyhound has a package delivery service.

I didn't know that about greyhound. I'm aware that airliners routinely carry packages. I was thinking more, you've got a car coming to your house every morning, let's throw your Amazon.com orders on it.

>design wacky new vehicles

I'm not thinking wacky designs. A car is usually designed to be sat in for a certain length of time. They aren't really designed for very long trips without stopping frequently, since driverless cars make long trips much more appealing, they'll have to be redesigned to an extent.

A fleet of rental cars would be much more efficient if each car held say 10 people instead of 4, so another natural redesign.

> "what makes a car look nice"

To many people, a car becomes part of their identity, not so much with a temporary rental, so I think function starts to trump form

>don't have a very different experience in a train or on a bus today than in a car

I think the experience in a long distance train is very different than in a car.

The main difference is compartments, and that's what I envision for cars. I'm not talking anything radical, just what I think would be natural progressions when you remove the need for a driver.
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When I was young and naive I used to dream about how a Personal Rapid Transit system that would whisk people around in private little pods along elevated monorail tracks could work. Clearly the answer is "it couldn't", not so much technically but economically and politically.

But it turns out we already have a really comprehensive network of ground-level "tracks" that lead up to nearly every residence and business on the planet. The missing ingredient thus far has been the ability for a vehicle to stay on this "track" without a driver, but it looks like Google and friends might have cracked that nut.

A second impediment might be powering these cars in an efficient manner, but batteries have vastly improved over the last decade, and as they are standardized, battery swapping and even third-rail-type power (at least on limited-access roads) become possible.

The land use implications alone are going to be huge, but I'm not entirely sure which way they'll flip.

On the one hand, we will no longer need vast parking lots adjacent to activity centers like malls, stadiums, office complexes, big-box stores, and airports. That means that stuff could be built in those parking lots, which could potentially greatly increase the density of current cities and suburbs.

On the other hand (h/t Karl Smith at Modeled Behavior) driverless cars would dramatically lower the cost of living in exurban areas, so people interested in peace and quiet would no longer have to compromise as much as they do now.
Correct me if I'm wrong since I'm no longer .NET regular (but was in the past around 2005-2007 ish).

Lately the development in .NET revolves mostly around Sharepoint (customizing), cloud deployment, and probably Dynamics AX/GP/CRM.

The era of Microsoft shops building independent products seem to slowly/gradually being phased out by the web-app shops (the SaaS type). Lately the trend for MS shops are largely around "toolkits" companies such as Telerik, DevForce, and Infragistics or the "webparts" (SharePoint) companies like Bamboo Solutions. That's pretty much it...

There might be a bunch of "worried" .NET developers that don't want to work on Sharepoint customizations. But I'm pretty sure there are plenty consultants that won't mind doing that kind of works.

But again, this is just my personal point of view.
Driver-less cars will be much bigger than you think.
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not to mention i very much doubt the retailer informed them of these facts.
Almost all of this is in the article, and what isn't, takes some parsing to sort out. I would have found those bits of color more helpful if the additional info was related alone.
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