beagleman · HackerTrans

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If these are the same drones I've seen previously, the germinated seed is inside a hard(ish) molded nutrient pod with a pointy end, and the drone fires it into the ground with a compressed air cannon. Which makes me very dubious about the '1 per second' rate of fire - even if it's possible, the weight of the gear + seed pods + gas is going to severely limit how many can be planted before needing to reload and recharge.

beagleman

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Yep. a good friend is a doctor who does triage in an ER (amongst other things) - he said 'We start at 1500mg doses'.

beagleman

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Are those normally run off of the prime mover's engine? I'd never even thought about that.

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I've been using Qbserve for maybe 6 months. It has saved me, I don't know, 4-6 hours a month ret-conning and tuning timesheets. It's also meant I've gotten paid for those trivial jobs that I always forget to enter into even the simplest manual tracker. The productivity boost (which I have absolutely noticed) is a nice bonus. I don't know what you charge for your time, but Qbserve paid for it for me several times over in the first month.

beagleman

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As others have said, the scope of 'Anything that can happen on a road', while large, is a lot smaller than 'Anything that can happen or be imagined to happen'. Moreover, if a pilot AI finds itself in a situation it can't deal with, the failsafe of "hazards on, slow the car and pull over" is nearly always available. There's not really an equivalent for a general AI.

beagleman

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You're right, and we're already benefitting and have been for years: basic electronic cruise control saves a ton of fuel just by taking the job of maintaining highway speeds away from the human.

We'll continue to benefit at each level: speed match, safe-distance maintenance, emergency brake, lane follow - there are already people alive who would be dead without them - you can find them in 5 seconds on youtube. The fact that articles have to keep trotting out same sad story of the bloke who drove into a truck while watching movies when he should have been driving tells you a lot about how safe these systems actually are - if there were dozens of counter examples, we wouldn't be hearing from the head of Toyota's RI, we'd be drowning in dashcam snuff films.

All that said, yes, I agree it's obvious that level 5 is a different beast to all of the 'easy stuff' that we have now: classic case of where the edge cases cover more area than the core of the domain does.

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