Computer simulations have indicated that a rare crystalline form of boron nitride would resist indentation even better than diamond
"The existence of the site was denied even when directly asked of employees during previous inspections, according to a US Department of agriculture (USDA) report finalised on 7 december, 2012.
"But they re only going to do that for the sites we re told are there.
but stated by e-mail that"all animals maintained at the ranch are reported annually to the  USDA,
Sally Rockey, the NIH s deputy director for extramural research, wrote on her Rock Talk blog that the rate for research project grants was the same as that in the 2011 fiscal year,
Gene families, cell-signalling networks and patterns of gene expression in comb jellies support ancient origins as well.
By analysing data from 270 monitoring sites around the country, Zhang and his colleagues found that the amount of nitrogen deposition,
an online software package for building species'family trees that members of the group had helped to develop in the course of the project.
And on 28 Â January, a worker died during a hydrofluoric acid leak at a Samsung Electronics computer-chip plant in Hwaseong.
Neither NASA s Landsat programme, which has captured images of Earth since 1972 (see Nature 494,13-14;
Allen and her colleagues applied a method called network-based diffusion analysis to observations of humpback behaviour collected by the Whale Center of New england in Gloucester, Massachusetts, between 1980 and 2007.
To download map file to view in Google earth, click here.)The first known cases of human infection with H7n9 were reported in China on 31 march, with two cases in Shanghai on the eastern seaboard and one in the neighbouring province of Anhui.
and so may take several seconds to display in Google earth. To download map file to view in Google earth click here.
To stem the current surge of human cases, scientists must identify the sources of the virus,
Conducted by an agency within the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural affairs (DEFRA), it exposed 20 Â bumblebee colonies at three sites to crops grown from untreated,
whether to build a pipeline for the CO2 or to maintain a road for the large trucks that would deliver the gas.
Xu reported that ice cores from across The himalayas and Tibetan plateau are rife with those toxic compounds.
and to Chongming Island near Shanghai, a renowned site for watching migratory birds.""It s likely wild ducks and geese that are carrying it,
and posting them on the GISAID flu database. If human-to-human transmission does start to occur,
includes measures such as shutting down illegal construction sites, setting up water-recycling plants and establishing an emergency headquarters to deal with extreme air-quality problems.
Researchers hurriedly removed from public databases their recently published genome of the world s most famous cell line, Hela,
and published them on the GISAID flu sequence database on 31 march. Researchers around the world have
Most of the genetic analyses are still being carried out confidentially within THE WHO's global flu-research networks.
suggesting that DEET can deter mosquitoes not just via its smell but also via direct contact.
10 16 may 2013radiation warnings Lawmakers in San francisco, California, agreed on 7 Â May to strike down an ordinance that required retailers to warn consumers about allegedly dangerous radiation from mobile phones.
More than 150 Â scientists from such fields as neuroscience, engineering and computer science attended the conference in Arlington, Virginia,
Campus upset University college London (UCL) announced on 7  May that it has abandoned plans to build a £1-billion (US$1. 54-billion) campus on a site in east London that is currently a residential estate.
or be maintained on site, say medical-school officials. Inspections by the US Department of agriculture found that the centre had violated the Animal Welfare Act several times,
one of the best-preserved Iron age sites in France, located about 125 kilometres west of Marseilles.
an archaeologist at the University of Chicago in Illinois. Dietler has worked at the Lattara site and studied winemaking during this period."
His Turing machine concept is considered to underlie modern computer science. Pharma probe The Chinese government is investigating four senior executives of Glaxosmithkline (GSK) in China for allegedly bribing officials
The shrinking of mudflats also threatens the hundreds of thousands of migratory shorebirds that rely on the reserve as a stopover site.
which is modified to produce a protein called Bt that is harmful to insect pests, is one of only two GM CROPS approved for cultivation in the EU. The other is a high-starch GM potato called Amflora that is intended for industrial applications such as paper production.
"It s by far the largest, most comprehensive information database on the distribution of wild relatives around the world, says Colin Khoury of Wageningen University in The netherlands,
"We were having a first go with our network simulations; these didn t incorporate any dynamic relationships because that s hard to do,
meaner version of the Curiosity rover, with one major upgrade: the ability to store rock
Theft plea A former researcher at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, pleaded guilty last week to accessing a protected computer without authorization and taking information worth in excess of US$5, 000.
The FAO and the OIE hope to eventually reduce the number of sites holding live wild viruses to a handful of officially designated labs
The finding may give some vaccine developers pause. Much of the work to develop a universal flu vaccine has targeted the stems of haemagglutinin proteins
Big horns clash with longevity in sheepalpha Red 78 a ram with horns like elephant tusks sired 95 Â lambs before he died at the ripe (for a ram) old age of nine.
Ample horns are a ram s ticket to reproductive success. During the breeding season, males fight for access to females,
rams with two copies of Hop had an edge, she says, with a 75%chance per year of surviving the harsh Hirta winter,
The scientists found that rams with one version of each allele (heterozygotes) had the best of everything:
And this explains why short-horned rams persist.""I m just impressed by the simple elegance of this story,
The ram probably wasn t winning on his looks.""He was quite an ugly sheep, she says
and in a manner more likely to damage other sites in the genome yet this remains the unregulated method."
the US Air force Space Command announced on 12 Â August that it will shut down a key component of a network that monitors orbital debris and space objects.
The Air force Space Surveillance system dubbed the space fence, will close by 1 Â October. Two of the system s nine radar stations were deactivated in April.
Landsat woes The future of Landsat the world s longest-running series of Earth-observing satellites, is in jeopardy,
NASA launched the US$855-million Landsat  8 probe in February (see Nature 494,13-14;
Landsat satellites have monitored Earth s surface continuously since 1972. H7n9 virus persists China reported on 11 august its first new case of the H7n9 avian influenza virus in three weeks:
With that in mind, researchers are proposing a heavily supervised form of assisted migration using a network of more than 3
Researchers compared detailed aerial measurements of atmospheric CO2 levels taken in 2009-11 with data from an aerial survey conducted in 1958-61 and observations from Mauna loa and a second long-term monitoring site
A computer calendar glitch probably caused the craft to fail (see go. nature. com/yupxju.
Karp and his colleagues covered coffee bushes on two Costa rican plantations with mesh fine enough to keep out birds.
They found that beetle-eating birds were most common at sites with lots of stretches of forest nearby,
And his own team's core finding still stands: birds reduce the beetles dirty Work on one farm,
And in Scotland, old industrial waste heaps known as shale bings are now home to rare and protected plants and animals.
who is leading the data analysis for the project.""If these countries know how to monitor their forests quantitatively,
The biomass estimates are used then to calibrate imagery from NASA s Landsat spacecraft and radar data from Japan s Advanced Land Observing Satellite,
Scientists with the country s National Institute for Space Research in S £o Josã dos Campos are now helping the DRC to set up a similar system, based on freely available Landsat data,
a core obtained by drilling half a kilometre into rock more than 200 Â million years old.
Geoscientists hope to use the decay of radioactive uranium in layers of volcanic ash in the core to precisely date events between about 205 Â million and 235 Â million years ago
which a Triassic core was drilled from New jersey s Newark sediment basin between 1990 and 1993 (ref. 1). That project aimed to tease out changes in the amount of sediment that was deposited as Earth went through cyclical shifts in the shape of its orbital path
Because of surface erosion, for example, the core will not capture the very end of the Triassic around 200 Â million years ago,
The core will instead start in rocks dating to around 205 Â million years ago,
"A core eliminates all of that problem, when you get one single section all the way down. Drilling in US national parks is allowed at the discretion of the park superintendent.
The team already has its eye on other cores that it could drill
Study linking GM maize to rat tumours is retractedbowing to scientists'near-universal scorn, the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology today fulfilled its threat to retract a controversial paper claiming that a genetically modified (GM) maize causes serious disease in rats,
It has spent also more than $1 Â billion establishing databases of invasive species, monitoring their spread,
and designing the kind of low-energy network that would be needed where there is limited availability of power,
Of course the market for ivory is the real core of the problem. The little person in Africa is
California, is only the second drug to be approved under the FDA s Breakthrough Therapy Designation programme a pipeline launched last year to fast-track regulatory approval of particularly promising treatments.
Then I got an e-mail from headhunters working on behalf of Rothamsted. Of the various things that one would do in life
nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons rose collectively by 2. 6 Â p. p m. to an equivalent CO2 concentration of 475.6 Â p. p m..The observations come from the WMO s global monitoring network,
) Biology preprints Life scientists have a new website for sharing research papers before journal publication. The site, called biorã¡
iv, was started by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press in New york, and went live on 11 november. Unlike the arxiv. org preprint server popular among physicists, the site will allow readers to comment on articles,
and will include sections devoted to different subdisciplines of biology. See page 180 for more.
e-mails and other documents. During the gubernatorial campaign, Cuccinelli s opponent, Democrat Terry Mcauliffe, called him a climate-change denier and accused him of running a witch-hunt against Mann.
In an eight-year survey, at six sites in southern China, Sun and his colleagues found that tree infestation was higher in the presence of a previously unknown species of tree fungus,
they applied an algorithm based on farming preferences such as soil quality to decide which sites were most likely to have been cultivated in any given year.
They validated their maps using remote-sensing data and images from Google earth.""The Soviet union strived for complete agricultural self-sufficiency,
Many sites once used to produce feed could today support wheat varieties and other cereals,
Today, there are signs that abandoned sites in Russia are being replanted: areas sown for crops and cattle fodder have increased slightly in recent years.
Organizers of the ORCID database hope to link researchers identities across publications grant applications, patents and other activities (see Nature 485,564;
Google thinks deep Google has purchased the London-based artificial-intelligence company Deepmind, which uses human neuroscience to inspire computer algorithms.
Google, of Mountain view, California, confirmed the deal this week; in the past few years it has hired several big names in artificial intelligence,
including futurist Ray Kurzweil and computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton (see Nature 505,146-148; 2014). ) The company may use artificial intelligence to improve picture tagging, voice recognition and search engines.
Source: NOAATHE average global temperature in 2013 was 0. 62 °C above the twentieth-century average,
Granbio and Fulcrum Bioenergy are all hoping to start producing cellulosic ethanol in commercial amounts in the United states
and graffiti around the neighbourhoods where the scientists live, giving their names, photographs, addresses and telephone numbers.
and exhorted readers to harass the scientists by phone. NASA/ESA/J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer & the HFF Team (STSCI) Super-distant galaxies glimpsed Astronomers unveiled pictures of the deepest galaxy cluster ever imaged at the annual meeting
Novartis s Japan unit has acknowledged the complaint on its website. Cloud computing IBM has invested US$1 Â billion in the IBM Watson Group,
a business unit to commercialize artificial-intelligence applications that can be accessed by customers remotely. Located in New york city,
the computer that famously won against human competitors in a quiz show in 2011 (see go. nature. com/u783dz).
so that relevant mental-health records can be submitted to the national databases used to screen potential gun buyers.
and his concept of a universal Turing machine, a programmable system that stores and processes information, is considered a cornerstone of computer science (see Nature 482,441;
Many eyes on Earthimagine using Google earth or other online mapping tools to zoom in on high-resolution satellite images of the planet taken just hours or days ago.
In the coming days, a 32-centimetre-aperture video camera will be bolted to the side of one of its modules and pointed not into space,
will then begin streaming high-definition colour videos of Earth on the Web in near-real time.
Cosmonauts carried out a spacewalk on 27 december to mount Urethecast's video camera on the hull of the Russian Zvezda module,
Urthecast will also make its streams free to the public on its website, and hopes to capitalize on the large number of hits it expects its website to attract.
For example, one can imagine the global interest there would have been had regular space video footage of the Fukushima nuclear disaster been available
Urthecast will help to do just that through an agreement reached with the United nations Operational Satellite Applications programme (UNOSAT),
Potential scientific applications of space video include observing volcanic eruptions, forest fires, hurricanes and the movement of wildlife,
And drones may not be located near a site of interest when, for example, a natural disaster hits.
smartphone and other consumer industries including low-cost electronics, and sensors from high-end digital cameras. Using the latest technologies from these fast-paced industries also allows the rapid
Landsat, NASA s Earth-observation workhorse, for example, has a resolution of 15-100 Â metres depending on the spectral frequency, with 30 Â metres in the visible-light range.
He points to a study published in November that found that the use of moderate-resolution Landsat imagery greatly underestimated forest loss in the Democratic republic of the congo (A.  Tyukavina et  al.
says Mike Wulder, a researcher at the Canadian Forest Service in Victoria and a member of the Landsat science team.
"It will almost be like updating Google earth each day, he says
Anti-tobacco efforts have saved millions of lives around the globehalf a century after the US government sounded an influential alarm about the health dangers of smoking,
and to monitor emissions using site inspections and aerial surveys. The regulations were announced first in November 2013
from the site. Energy-department officials say radiation levels have dropped now and they expect plant staff to be able to re-enter the WIPP within two weeks.
including Google. Source: Moneytree report/Pwc/NVCAUS venture-capital investment rose to US$29. 4 Â billion in 2013, a 7%increase on the year before.
According to a report by Pricewaterhousecoopers and the US National Venture capital Association based on Thomson Reuters data, the jump was aided by a 27%rise in money ploughed into software firms compared with 2012.
Tests of the network s first four satellites showed that the system could accurately determine positions across the planet.
Over the coming year, six more spacecraft will join the network, which will eventually consist of 30 Â satellites.
The Kicksat mission was funded by the crowdsourcing website Kickstarter. go. nature. com/gzd6ni
Study revives bird origin for 1918 flu pandemicthe virus that caused the 1918 influenza pandemic probably sprang from North american domestic and wild birds, not from the mixing of human and swine viruses.
Array revival The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration (NOAA) has decided to restore an ailing Pacific ocean monitoring network used to observe
Using satellite data, the World Resources Institute (WRI) in WASHINGTON DC detected 3, 101 Â fires on the island.
He says that timing is critical for getting seeds distributed to sites where they can take root
in square bales, at the 1. 6-square-kilometre site. By June, the plant will begin processing the stover into ethanol,
Both plants are currently idle, pending upgrades. Haq thinks that longer-lived catalysts will further reduce the costs of thermo  chemically produced cellulosic hydrocarbons in coming years.
The US$933-million Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory pictured) will map precipitation across 90%of the globe every three hours.
but traces of plutonium and americium were detected as far as 1 Â kilometre from the site.
Gibberish papers The publisher Springer will remove 16 computer-generated nonsense papers that it had published in its subscription database,
The papers, created by a computer program called SCIGEN, were spotted by computer scientist Cyril Labbã of Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France.
Last week, Nature revealed that Labbã had informed privately Springer of the problem. He had contacted also the US Â Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE),
and must do so on the Internet, for example in public data repositories. Some exceptions are allowed, for instance in cases in
Thatã¢Â#Â#s a tough but possible task with a dead animal in the lab even tougher to pull off in the 30-45 minutes an animal would be under anesthesia at a trap site.
and not a magazine's website unless for some reason Popsci really wants to hear them then by all means continue but
which judging from your computer skills memory and agression you are not. Pick a state like Montana
it would be more appropriate for you to report these occurrences to the proper authorities and not a magazine's website...
I too have background in wildlife biology yet find it extremely hard not to scream at my computer
and straight away was bringing home at least $73 per/hr. try this website xd5. net/4799@Abbeyleopold
I didn't know that a single mom can make $4482 in a few weeks on the internet. did you read this web page...
and that mass killing them via pesticides isn't good. Sharks are considered ugly by many people yet many are against finning them.
The 2008 earthquake is a good example of this as it risked killing off multiple pandas by destroying bamboo forests denning sites killing the pandas directly etc.
Last comment for stoprequiredlogin (wish this site had edit comment or comment deletion options--)I wasn't trying to refute the article in truth.
Simply google searching Elephants are ugly/why are elephants so ugly? brings up some not so nice results etc.
From the project site: The Open source Beehives project is a collaborative response to the threat faced by bee populations in industrialised nations around the world.
and you can find the source code for the hives at the project site. Boing Boing o
Although we get the sense there are computers hidden from view monitoring and measuring everything is operated
The tour app will be available on itunes November 2013 l
#Spain Considers Release Of Genetically Modified Olive Fruit Fliesa company involved in creating genetically modified mosquitos has another project nearing outdoor testing.
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Would it be cool if my pre-teen posts a link to her blog website & twitter?
and behavior at the University of Minnesota wrote me in an email. Unlike humans animals can't tell us they're having orgasms
me via email In the lab by artificial stimulation it is possible to trigger female orgasm in virtually any primate species. At the Institute for Primate Studies in Norman Okla. psychologist William Lemmon
As Birkhead described to me via email the bird shudders its wings and clenches its feet as it ejaculates--who knows
or not because there is no study to measure brain response during sexual activity in dolphins he told me via email.
North street Labs programmer Steve Shaffer reacted with apprehension. âÂ#Âoeuh-ohã¢Â# he thought âÂ#Âoei m deaf
and wrote software to turn sensor output into sound often dancing around the room to test his work.
Meanwhile his teammates built a birdhouse to contain a speaker microprocessor power supply and music interface.
Shaffer coded the sensor to alter a digital drumbeat based on a dancer s pace. 3. Computinginside the birdhouse an Arduino microprocessor gathers data from all four sensors
and a 100-watt speaker harvested from a PA SYSTEM. Red LEDS that illuminate the birdhouse meanwhile get energy from a 250-watt computer power supply.
Time: 72 hourscost: About $2500 Autoloopmb Labs a team from Chicago built a giant electronic drum sequencer during Creation s 72-hour build-off.
and earned the team a Cubex 3-D printer as a prize. Time: 72 hourscost:
Thanks to evolving technology including better satellite data and faster computers as well as an increasing knowledge of
Hurricane prediction involves a number of different computer-generated models. Each is a little bit different and has different strengths.
I'm amazed we can shove a whole world's worth of weather data into a computer Mock says.
That's why hurricane forecasting still relies not just on a computer crunching numbers but on human intervention--an actual forecaster who looks at the details of the storm
The Lunar Registry (Earth's leading lunar real-estate agency) sells such deeds on its website for about $20 an acre.
Send an email to fyi@popsci. comthis article originally appeared on Popularscience. com September 1 2011. yeah agreed...
This is the future of space crafthttp://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Nautilus-XNOW compare that with the pod that was sent not to the moon.
http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Solar windand I have a final plea. Don't post about what you know little to nothing about.
And with that Levandowski has handed off control of his vehicle to software named Google Chauffeur. He takes his feet off the pedals and puts his hands in his lap.
The car's computer is now driving him to work. Self-driving cars have been around in one form
It's not just Google that's developing the technology but also most of the major car manufacturers:
Following Google policy Levandowski drives through residential roads and surface streets himself while Chauffeur drives the freeways.
Levandowski works at Google's headquarters in Mountain view California. He's the business lead of Google's self-driving-car project an initiative that the company has been developing for the better part of a decade.
Google has a small fleet of driverless cars now plying public roads. They are test vehicles
but they are also simply doing their job: ferrying Google employees back and forth from work. Commuters in Silicon valley report seeing one of the cars easily identifiable by a spinning turret mounted on the roof an average of once an hour.
Google itself reports that collectively the cars have driven more than 500000 miles without crashing. At a ceremony at Google headquarters last year where Governor Jerry brown signed California's self-driving-car bill into law Google cofounder Sergey Brin said you can count on one hand
the number of years until ordinary people can experience this. In other words a self-driving car will be parked on a street near you by 2018.
Yet releasing a car will require more than a website and a click here to download button.
For Chauffeur to make it to your driveway it will have to run a gauntlet: Chauffeur must navigate a path through a skeptical Detroit a litigious society
In the language particular to Google the researchers are dogfooding the car driving to work each morning in the same way that Levandowski does.
Google needs to put the car in the hands of ordinary drivers in order to test the user experience.
We have a saying here at Google says Levandowski. In God we trust all others must bring data.
The software also performs hundreds of diagnostic checks a second. Glitches occur about every 300 miles.
This spring Chris Urmson the director of Google's self-driving-car project told a government audience in Washington D c. that the vast majority of those are nothing to worry about.
For the errors worrisome enough to require human hands back on the wheel Google's crew of young testers have been trained in extreme driving techniques including emergency braking high-speed lane changes
There has been reported only one accident that can conceivably be blamed on Google. A self-driving car near Google's headquarters rear-ended another Prius with enough force to push it forward
and impact another two cars falling-dominoes style. The incident took place two years ago the Stone age in the foreshortened timelines of software development
and according to Google spokespeople the car was not in self-driving mode at the time so the accident wasn't Chauffeur's fault.
It was due to ordinary human error. Human drivers get into an accident of one sort or another an average of once every 500000 miles in the U s. Accidents that cause injuries are even rarer occurring about once every 1. 3 million miles.
Considering that the Google self-driving program has clocked already half a million miles the argument could be made that Google Chauffeur is already as safe as the average human driver.
It's not an argument Google makes to the public because Levandowski says the system hasn't encountered enough challenging situations in its real-world commutes.
Google has been uncommonly secretive about its self-driving-car program. Though it began in 2009 the company first announced the project in a blog post a year later.
Detroit was amused not. The attack came from Chrysler the smallest of Detroit's Big Three automakers in the form of a television commercial for the new Dodge Charger.
Google is still not saying much to reporters (including this one) about its plans but since it was accused of being the bad guy in a real-life Matrix the company has made a concerted effort to reach out to potential partners.
Google lobbyists have made the rounds with legislators in Washington. Its engineers have made pilgrimages to Detroit and abroad.
Google wants to make available to the rest of the auto industry all of the building blocks that we ourselves use he said
and then ticked off the goodies the Android operating system search voice social maps navigation even Chauffeur.
Instead of rebuilding a whole operating system from scratch he said automakers should focus on making the user experience their own.
if Google is proposing to give away the software. For the car companies the real cost of implementing the technology would be specialized in the peripheral that Chauffeur needs to run:
but represents a point in space instead of on a two-dimensional screen.)Group a million or so voxels together
But at $75000 to $85000 each Google's lidar costs more than every other component in the self-driving car combined including the car itself.
A grizzled maverick of an engineer named David Hall designed the lidar that Google uses.
Industry scuttlebutt has it that Ford is giving Google the most serious consideration. Hall confirms that a major automaker recently summoned him to its headquarters to ask
Google to its credit shows no signs that it's allowing Detroit to slow it down.
Google is not a car manufacturer. Nor does it intend to be one Levandowski says. So what's the plan?
In other words Google thinks a new generation of bot-rodders may kick things off. Google won't say anything more
but since there's really only one place to turn for the all-important lidar I ask David Hall
and the super-high-resolution Google maps that go with it Hall doesn't see the point. He imagines talking to potential customers.
âÂ#ÂALMOST as good as Google's?''âÂ# The other fight is the legal one.
The Google car doesn't work without one as Chauffeur needs to be able to hand back the reins with 10 20 or maybe even 30 seconds'notice.
Computers don't have hands. That is a problem. Some states prodded by Google lobbyists and looking to get ahead of the curve have made the cars explicitly legal.
The doctrine assigns driver-hood to the person either in the driver's seat or the one who activates the self-driving function.
What's going to happen no matter what the law says is people are going to get sued Urmson the director of Google's self-driving-car project allows.
Computer control enables cars to drive behind one another so they travel as a virtual unit.
It uses technology that's already built into every high-end Volvo sold today plus a communications system.
dynamic lane reversals micro-tolling to reduce congestion autonomous-software agents negotiating the travel route with other agents on a moment-to-moment basis
in order to optimize the entire network. In our self-driving future not only would traffic jams become a thing of the past every stoplight would also be green.
Wayne Gerdes the father of hypermiling can nearly double the rated efficiency of cars using fuel-sipping techniques that could be incorporated into auto-driving software.
Both use a combination of radar and computer vision to center the vehicle in the lane
All kinds of problems crop up in real-world testing says auto-drive consultant Brad Templeton who worked with Google on its self-driving-car project for two years.
Google is betting that established car manufacturers working with low-cost radar and camera components will never adequately bridge that gap.
NHTSA's former deputy director Ron Medford has signed just on as Google's director of safety for the self-driving-car project.
Google's main focus and vision says Medford is for a level-four vehicle. Watching the video it reminded me of the old Test Driving video game on the PC a long time ago. lol---In space no one can hear a tree fall in the forest.
I'm not sure it will be that much fun to drive behind a self-driving car that just dropped off the human driver
www. facebook. com/dance2022digital Auto Networks for Crash Elimination (DANCE) by 2022assuming one day this technology in the future will be'perfect and wonderful'WHO ultimately will take responsibility should an accident occurs?
or 4 of the Microsoft Kinect devices put in various parts of the car to determine a 3d area?
Google would buy it right now.:Do not try and bend the spoon. That is impossible. Only try and realize the truth-there is no spoon.
To that end Google needs to do what it did for 1g fiber. Take it to some place where it can control the environment.
@jabailo...Google is way ahead of you...http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Google driverless car...they have logged a multitude of fully autonomous miles much more difficult than above
and with a legally blind driver as the article at the link explains cheers.>>we need 99.99999
and lots of experience to know the smoothest path and program that into a computer. Please don't make us all car sick with jerky steering.
when the AI core of one of these vehicles craters in the middle of the rush-hour commute
Perhaps the company that wrote the self-drive software? You certainly can't hold the owner responsible...
but changing the infrastructure to make a mesh of high speed trains should ease transition from 1-ton-metal-can (2
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