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and one won't said Amy Mcgovern a computer scientist at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. Mcgovern and her colleagues are among the researchers trying to improve tornado predictions.
The team has done similar work to predict airplane turbulence with great success so once the database of simulated storms is built using them to predict real-world weather should be said successful she.
We believe our computer weather prediction models might be getting good enough that we might be able to give people somewhat more warning maybe an hour
Colorado State university engineer V. Chandrasekar and his team are working to deploy small networks of radar in urban areas.
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#Cold war Nuclear Radiation Creates Anti-Poaching Tool (ISNS)--Radioactive carbon atoms created during 20th-century nuclear bomb tests could help save elephants
Lastly it could be used to test the legality of ivory sold over the Internet and in shops around the world and shut down vendors selling illegal ivory.
The lotus leaf on the other hand maintains its squeaky clean reputation with a waxy surface structure that repels water a property called superhydrophobicity.
Combined with low adhesion this is known as the lotus effect. The September 2012 study published in the journal Soft Matter by Dr. Bhushan
and butterfly wings combine the low drag of shark skin with the superhydrophobicity of the lotus leaf putting these surfaces at the top of the list of nature-made self-cleaners.
and lotus leaves rice leaves and butterfly wings have special properties that make them particularly resistant to fouling.
They exhibited lotus-like properties including superhydrophobicity and low adhesion. This effect was magnified in coated samples
and lotus effects and was published online in the journal Soft Matter on September 11 2012. DOI:
Eventually the technology could replace the displays now used on smartphones tablets and computer screens with strikingly high definition.
All the different colors can fit into a corner of a pixel in your iphone said Jay Guo professor of engineering
and computer science and lead author of the paper in Scientific Reports. Although researchers are currently only able to produce static photos on a glass surface they hope eventually to produce dynamic pictures on other surfaces.
On a television screen smartphone or the result of an inkjet printer pixels are arranged that absorb red green and blue from white light in combinations that produce a color image.
They etched nanoscale grooves on a piece of glass with the same technology used to etch computer chips.
Most displays on electronic devices such as tablet computers or laptops use backlights which require power from either a battery
Trafficking is carried out in part by large criminal networks and is a multibillion-dollar industry. It's driven largely by demand in China for ivory and rhino horns
and markets in importing countries he said in an email interview. This causes the problem and is the disease that must be treated.
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#Human-Powered Vehicles Can Drive Meaningful Change (Op-Ed) Mark Archibald professor of mechanical engineering at Grove City College in Pennsylvania
In short students learn the skills to excel in their chosen field of engineering. Â Women are underrepresented in engineering especially in mechanical engineering.
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#Optical Technique Sorts Grapes for Wine Quality (ISNS) A team of German scientists has developed an automated process that sorts grapes into different levels of quality for winemaking.
After the scan the system's software takes over. Based on its analysis of the colors of individual items on the belt it controls air jets that blow bad grapes and detritus off the belt and sorts the remaining berries into grades for production of various qualities
In effect the software takes over the role of categorizing individual grapes from human experts. It does so more cheaply and consistently.
Fraunhofer IOSB developed the imaging technology image processing and software. Two German companies Armbruster Kelterie-Technologie based in GÃ glingen-Frauenzimmern
while we are experts in imaging real-time data processing and developing sorting systems we lacked knowledge of grapes Vieth said.
#Precision farming Gains Global Foothold (Op-Ed) Lloyd Treinish leads the environmental science team in the Industry Solutions Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research center.
A co-developer of IBM's Deep Thunder precision agriculture system he contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:
At IBM we developed a precision agriculture weather-modeling service using Deep Thunder our Big data analytics technology for local customized high-resolution and rapid weather predictions.
That information is combined with multi-spectral images of fields taken by advanced camera systems from satellites and airplanes.
The system then combines the field data with a diversity of public data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration the National aeronautics and space administration and the U s. Geological Survey and private data from companies like Earth Networks.
and predicting of weather effects on transportation networks can help farmers make better decisions about
Printing food seems more like an idea based in Star trek rather than in the average home.
Researchers at Cornell pioneered some of this work adapting an open source extrusion printer called the Fab@Home Lab to work with food in 2007.
and cheese cookies cubes of pureed turkey and celery paste and even tiny spaceships made of deep fried scallops.
Various chocolate printers are on the market and for Valentine s day in Japan this year you could order chocolate made from a 3d scan of your face.
Further examples include a Burritobot on Kickstarter last year and Google serving 3d printed pasta. Other 3d printing technologies have been investigated for use with food.
In 2007 Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories introduced the Candyfab 4000 a DIY printer based on a modified selective laser sintering technique.
The Sugar Lab had adapted 3d Systems'Color Jet Printing (CJP) technology to print flavoured edible binders on a sugar bed to fabricate solid structures.
The netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific research (TNO) announced they ll build printers to reassemble pureed food to look like the original think 3d printed broccoli florets from pureed broccoli.
TNO has targeted printers for nursing homes in order to help elderly people who have chewing and swallowing problems.
Beyond medical conditions TNO has proposed printing customised meals with varied levels of the basic food components like carbs protein and fat for everyone from seniors to athletes to expectant mothers.
In this area one of the most interesting and perhaps controversial areas is the debate about printing meat.
Industrial scale printing of meat could additionally use cells grown in an algae-based cell culture
Whether the technology can truly move from the novelty sector will most likely depend on the ability to process a wider range of foods requiring influence from both the kitchen and from printer developers.
NASA satellites that studied the parched land determined that the drought depleted the region's aquifers to low levels that had rarely been seen
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What if unmanned arial vehicle (UAV) developers could imagine their inventions through the eyes of conservation field staff?
But what if UAV developers could imagine their inventions through the eyes of conservation field staff?
UAV developers might even conceive of a squadron of drones with heat-sensing cameras flying across the vast plains of Central asia's Ustyurt Plateau searching for signs of saiga-antelope poachers.
First unlike hardware or electronics food is a consumable which means that the settlers will need a continuous supply.
9700 kg) cylindrical satellite that orbited Earth for nearly six years in the 1980s. Still the effects that these factors will have on plant growth specifically in a Mars environment are still largely in the theoretical stages of research.
Powered by two solar panels pointed toward the sun the lab would rotate at two revolutions per minute (rpm) simulating Mars's gravity.
Every satellite must maintain altitude and rotation control which is managed by the satellite's attitude
and orbit control system part of its onboard systems bus. Engineers could configure this system to emulate Mars'gravity.
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He developed a computer programme to simulate tree growth and the result was a fantastic reduction in stress concentration allowing for more slender components.
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#Google Goes Wild: How Off-road Tech Aids Conservation Google earth and Google street view have made it possible for anyone with an Internet connection to explore some of the world's most spectacular destinations right from their computer tablet or smartphone.
Now homebodies and wannabe globetrotters can dive into the Great Barrier reef uncover the history of the Roman Colosseum and even climb Mount everest for free and without the airport hassles.
Wildlife conservation is also getting a boost thanks to several groups'efforts to use some of these Google tools to track invasive species map populations of endangered species
One such effort has taken Google street view into the Amazon. Working with conservation organization Amazonas Sustainable Foundation (FAS) Google street view and Google earth teams have collected ground-and river-level images of the Rio Negro Sustainable Development Reserve a protected
area in the Brazilian Amazon. Google usually uses camera-equipped cars to take images for its Street view
but because the Rio Negro region is inaccessible by car the researchers had to come up with an alternative method.
To capture the images the teams strapped a camera onto a bicycle and pedaled it down dirt paths through the forests
and they even mounted it onto a boat to collect images of a section of the Rio Negro the Amazon's largest tributary Google explained on one of its Outreach pages.
The teams then amalgamated more than 2000 still images to create 360-degree panoramas of the Amazon jungle.
Stunning Photos of the Amazon For the project FAS uses Open Data Kit (ODK) a set of tools designed to help organizations collect
and analyze data gathered via mobile devices. By using ODK FAS can collect and transfer data photos
and analyzed using Google Fusion Tables Ribenboimsaid referring to Google's Web application for gathering visualizing and sharing data tables.
Both Google and FAS hope the project will raise awareness of conservation issues help protect Amazonian communities and even influence policymakers.
After the implementation of the community forest ODK monitoring program and the Street view for the Amazon FAS launched a new Web-based platform called Bolsa Floresta Platform to serve as an interactive tool where Bolsa Floresta
Program's beneficiaries the general public donors and government agencies are able to explore all kinds of informational map layers Ribenboim told Livescience.
the Amazon forest and the culture of its local population Salviati told Livescience. Smartphones tablets and chimps On the other side of the world the Jane Goodall Institute an ape-conservation organization founded by renowned chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall is leading a similar effort.
The organization equips local residents in Tanzania with smartphones tablets and cloud technology to help monitor African forests said Lilian Pintea JGI's vice president of conservation science.
Video Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees The monitors look for signs of human activity that could endanger wildlife
or its tracks they take photos with their smartphones he said. The Jane Goodall Institute uses ODK to manage all of the information
and photos collected from the mobile devices and stores the data in Google Cloud Pintea told Livescience.
Then through Google earth Engine and Google maps Engine the institute's researchers can visualize the multiple layers of data to model the suitability of chimpanzee habitat
and to predict the potential distribution of chimpanzees. Whereas traditional maps are limited to two dimensions Google earth's 3d high-resolution imagery makes it easier for the villagers to recognize the topography
so they can monitor forests and habitats Pintea said. Through this data-collection process the JGI has identified previously unknown threats to chimpanzees.
Even in the first few weeks of a forest villager getting his smartphone he reported this trap designed to capture a live primate we think either a baboon
Concerned about the potential destruction of this tiger habitat WWF used Google earth to illustrate the effects of deforestation on the Bukit Tigapuluh region a critical tiger habitat.
along with a coalition of nongovernmental organizations called Eyes on the Forest worked with Google to build a catalog of maps detailing the changes in the region over time including shifts in the forest cover;
In addition the Google mapping project has helped WWF build public support to stop irresponsible logging companies that contribute to Sumatra's deforestation said Craig Kirkpatrick WWF's managing director for Borneo and Sumatra.
Although the long time between satellite images makes it difficult to actively search for threats to tigers he said Google technology has been helpful in illustrating the pace of deforestation in the region and its effects on tiger and elephant habitat.
Google maps Engine allows us to share the massive amounts of information we've collected over the years
and research is using Google technologies to help protect elephants from some of these dangers.
Save the Elephants then uses Google earth to visualize all of the data: By leveraging the application's satellite imagery researchers can zoom in on certain regions to follow the elephants in real time.
We've been using Google earth as a very easy way to find out what our elephants are up to
and where they are going Save the Elephants founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton said in a video hosted on Google's Outreach page.
and Android apps to researchers in the field or via Google earth to be viewed in more detail on a computer.
if a threat is detected Douglas-Hamilton said. 12 Strangest Sights on Google earth When an elephant stops moving we can then send a Google earth file indicating the place where the elephant is stopped he said.
Then the Kenyan Wildlife Service can send out a patrol to go out and investigate. We're at a crucial stage now where we can act
and displayed by Google earth. Several other organizations are also using Google technology for conservation purposes.
For instance Defenders of Wildlife is utilizing Google maps API to help demonstrate the impacts of the BP Deepwater horizon oil spill
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in order to take advantage of the sun s energy or grow indoors with the help of artificial lights.
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#Tomorrow's Wearable Tech Is Straight Out of'Star trek'A hearing aid that wirelessly streams audio from an MP3 PLAYER.
Wearables will perform many of the functions of today's personal computers. Systems such as Google glass have been experimenting with projecting a screen in front of the eye
which eliminates the need for a screen. For example new software and apps will allow users to look at the name of a restaurant or bar and instantly view reviews.
Communications technology will shift more toward wearable devices Shaddock predicts. Reminiscent of the VISOR worn by the character Geordi La Forge in Star trek:
The next Generation which restored his damaged vision by detecting electromagnetic signals and transmitting them to an implant in his brain wearables are being created to assist people who are disabled.
and unable to speak use computers to communicate. Of course some wearable-tech applications could be considered novelties.
So-called smile bracelets allow friends to send each other vibrations or smiles remotely. The applications of wearable technology are limited only by people's imaginations Shaddock said.
With more and more devices measuring personal data and uploading it to computer networks security is definitely a concern experts say.
but as the cost of computing goes down it gets easier to add more encryption.
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#Soil-Free Farming Grows Vegetables in the Desert With average summer precipitation of about 1 inch (2. 5 centimeters) temperatures higher than 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees
a network of experts worldwide and a 20-year track record of handling these types of chemicals.
which bind to specific sites in a genome and then cut nearby strands of DNA.
Many zinc-finger nucleases also cut other sites with similar sequences, he says. This is still a big problem in all organisms.
In a 24 october policy plan, the coalition also agreed to immediately lift a moratorium on evaluating the merits of the Gorleben salt dome, a controversial storage site for nuclear waste.
potential areas include clean technology and information technology. Research Scientific espionage: A former Los alamos nuclear-weapons physicist says that he is under investigation for espionage.
says that last year he gave unclassified information widely available on the Internet to a man claiming to be from the Venezuelan government who asked for information about starting a nuclear-weapons programme.
and Ocean Salinity satellite. go. nature. com/shq161 2 â oe6 November Nairobi, Kenya, hosts the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria's fifth Pan-African Malaria Conference. www. mimalaria. org/pamc 2 â oe6 November The United nations Framework
In one, a single country unilaterally pumps aerosols into the stratosphere to block the Sun's rays
Developers then used genetic control elements derived from pathogenic plant viruses such as the cauliflower mosaic virus to switch on the genes.
By revealing similar elements in plants'DNA, genome sequencing has liberated developers from having to borrow the viral sequences.
Other techniques under development insert foreign genes into designated sites in the genome, unlike the near-random scattering generated by Agrobacterium.
and Sangamo Biosciences in Richmond, California, announced that they had used enzymes called zinc-finger nucleases to insert a gene for herbicide resistance at a specific site in the maize genome (V. K. Shukla et al.
and has been designated a World Heritage Site by the United nations educational scientific and cultural organization.""This is the epitome of a healthy ecosystem,
vice-president of the Amazon Conservation Association, based in WASHINGTON DC.""It s the capital of biodiversity.
, high speed rail, smart grid, and information technology. Of these funds, we made a $90 billion investment in clean energy that will produce as much as $150 billion in clean energy projects.
Charter school networks such as the KIPP Academies, Uncommon Schools and Aspire Public schools are producing remarkable results with students in some of our nation s most disadvantaged communities.
These practices are developed best by growers, handlers, processors, and others in the supply chain with specific knowledge of the risks, diversity of operations in the industry,
The Internet plays a central role in both our economy and our society. What role,
if any, should the federal government play in managing the Internet to ensure its robust social,
Thanks to the nongovernmental multi-stakeholder model, the Internet is and always has been open to all ideas and lawful commerce as well as bountiful private investment.
His policies interfere with the basic operation of the Internet, create uncertainty, and undermine investors and job creators.
The government has interjected now itself in how networks will be constructed and managed picked winners and losers in the marketplace,
In addition to these domestic intrusions, there are also calls for increased international regulation of the Internet through the United nations
. I will oppose any effort to subject the Internet to an unaccountable, innovation-stifling international regulatory regime.
and innovation and curtail needless regulation of the digital economy. Scientists estimate that 75 percent of the world s fisheries are in serious decline
less-productive sites, and average yields plummeted from 115 tonnes per hectare in 2008 to 69 tonnes this year.
Reicher, an attorney by training, previously headed Google s $1-billion initiative for investing in energy and climate, where he guided investments into solar technologies and electric transport.
Other rules could target the oil and gas industry by limiting emissions from refineries and drilling sites.
and in a manner more likely to damage other sites in the genome yet this remains the unregulated method."
Granbio and Fulcrum Bioenergy are all hoping to start producing cellulosic ethanol in commercial amounts in the United states
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...
I have also read that in the early days of the earth being formed it had smaller companion in orbit around the sun
The take a very advance satellite and find a gigantic pool of water deep in the moon.
Not just the Van allen belts the Van allen belts protects us from the sun . As soon as you leave the belts
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.
But you have to realize that the heliosphere of our sun is gigantic. And in order for a solar wind to be deadly it requires whats called a coronal mass ejection
and while these happen quite frequently on the sun's surface the biggest ones that have the ability to do damage to us here as far away as we are On earth do not happen all the time.
if it was more of our satellites would have been raped on their way out of our magnetosphere.
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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