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Comment on These guys just drove an E63 AMG across America in a record twenty-seven hours, twenty-five minutes in ~sports.motorsports
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Comment on Self-driving Uber vehicle that killed woman in March 2018 could not detect jaywalking pedestrians in ~transport
puffin (edited )LinkSeems like the autonomous program plays its role much too aggressively. As this kind of technology is still in it's infancy, it's absolutely acceptable for it to err on the side of caution. Aside...Although the ADS sensed the pedestrian nearly 6 seconds before the impact, the system never classified her as a pedestrian—or predicted correctly her goal as a jaywalking pedestrian or a cyclist—because she was crossing the N. Mill Avenue at a location without a crosswalk; the system design did not include a consideration for jaywalking pedestrians. Instead, the system had initially classified her as an other object which are not assigned goals. As the ADS changed the classification of the pedestrian several times—alternating between vehicle, bicycle, and an other—the system was unable to correctly predict the path of the detected object.
Only when the ADS determined that the object’s currently detected location was on the path of the ATG vehicle—1.2 seconds before impact—the system recognized an emergency situation, an imminent collision. At that time, because preventing the collision would have required extreme braking or steering actions—beyond the design specifications—the ADS initiated suppression of its motion plan. One second later, the vehicle was still on the collision path with the pedestrian, and preventing the collision still required an extreme avoidance maneuverer; per design, the system did not engage emergency brakes, but rather provided an auditory alert to thevehicle operator as it initiated a plan for the vehicle slowdown.
Seems like the autonomous program plays its role much too aggressively. As this kind of technology is still in it's infancy, it's absolutely acceptable for it to err on the side of caution.
Aside from the odd choice to only identify pedestrians at pre-positioned crosswalks, there is no reason for the SUV not to at least slow down (or hand over control) for unidentified objects just a few seconds from its path. Sure, 95% of the time it may be a misidentified stopped car or rock, but there should be little doubt before the computer hurls its 4,000 pounds of steel and aluminum next to a smaller moving object. At this point in time, experimental autonomous vehicle development should focus on safety and not making the ride less interruption- or intervention-prone. Hopefully this report helps with future autonomous vehicle development. Definitely would like to see the day where this technology makes the road safer for all drivers.
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Comment on Australia wants to use face recognition for porn age verification in ~tech
puffin Link ParentYou are right. If it is a DNS-level block, changing the DNS server used should allow you to circumvent the block. It would be hard to say how well the actual face verification system would work....You are right. If it is a DNS-level block, changing the DNS server used should allow you to circumvent the block.
It would be hard to say how well the actual face verification system would work. If left to the porn sites themselves (through an API or something similar), whether to ask for verification would probably be determined through the geographical location corresponding with your IP. This may not be the best approach in terms of privacy - assuming anything in this process is private - your personal ID / face would be passing through a potentially sketchy porn site.
There are many factors affecting whether this system would work. I believe the biggest flaw with the system is lack of any respect to personal privacy.
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Comment on Australia wants to use face recognition for porn age verification in ~tech
puffin Link ParentI'm assuming that this will somehow implemented as a DNS-level verification (if the original system of asking porn sites themselves to verify age falls through), redirecting a user to an external...I'm assuming that this will somehow implemented as a DNS-level verification (if the original system of asking porn sites themselves to verify age falls through), redirecting a user to an external site for verification upon attempt to connect to a porn site. Like you said, it would be plain impractical to implement otherwise.
However, this brings the question of sites like Reddit, with porn in specific parts only. It would be a unprecedented invasion of privacy to snoop on every content request going through the ISP, not to mention the complexity of filtering every site known to teens to contain porn.
It's interesting that one of their most useful tools, after the spotters, is just Waze, even when you're doing an extreme 100+MPH run across the US. I've driven halfway across the US on the interstates and it definitely seems like 80% of the police on the side of the highway are tagged by drivers. Though that frequency drops at night and in empty stretches of road. Now that the same feature has come to Google Maps it seems that tagging speed traps is going to become widespread. Will be interesting to see if that affects the actual number of traffic stops.