The cheap drones currently in use require human control. The next generation will be autonomous with automatic targeting, so no human input and impervious to jamming. This requires a lot of processing power. The world is about to become a very scary place…
Helmets save lives and can prevent head injuries. There’s no real debate here.
The real-world data says otherwise. Every single place that mandated helmets (or heavily promoted) saw absolutely no reduction in death/injury. The classic example is Australia – it had almost no helmet usage prior to passing a nationwide law. The law was strictly enforced with extremely high fines, and yet there was no real change comparing before/after the law. Similarly, all those cities which put in place bikeshare – it was predicted by the helmet lobby that bikeshare would cause a spike in death/injury, but this also didn’t happen. In fact, bikeshare cities perversely have lower overall death/injury.
So this is the fundamental problem with something like the VA Tech star ranking. It is just a laboratory model that does not reflect reality, and as such is completely useless.
The push for helmets in Netherlands is mainly from the “Safe” Traffic Association (the road lobby). It is also related to the boom in souped-up Fat bikes, which come with all kinds of issues besides helmets.
Yes, the video is a few years old – but the research is solid and nothing has changed since then. MIPS is still snake-oil.
Bike helmets don’t protect against concussions. In order to do that, the styrofoam would need to be a lot thicker.
https://www.ted.com/talks/david_camarillo_why_helmets_don_t_prevent_concussions_and_what_might
Military wants to build AI drones – that can’t be done with legacy nodes.
The VA Tech testing methodology is meaningless anyway as a predictor. 99% of fatalities are due to car collisions, which involve crash energies way beyond what is modeled in their test.
It is spite coding though.
He probably has a bunch of gotos too.
Biden’s “green” Infrastructure Plan is increasing carbon emissions though.
Latest USB-C standard allows for 48V 5A. However many eBike batteries are higher than 48V.
The easiest and cheapest way for large corporations to deal with the issue is by giving Trump kick-backs, in exchange for special tariff exemptions. This is why tariffs are a gold-mine for corrupt practices.
And note that the Atlanta Fed model has been widely misinterpreted. Imports have surged in anticipation of tariffs, which skews the model (i.e. the exports-imports factor in GDP).
Painting 1,700 curbs would take many years and cost well over $1 million. As it is, they rarely ticket the existing red curbs nor any of the Uber-eats drivers double parked in the bike lane.
2022 4th quarter was the big drop, 2023 was small decline. The reason was higher than expected inflation, with expectation of interest rate hikes by the Fed.
This bombing campaign won’t prevent missile attacks on shipping. If anything, it will further motivate ships to avoid the area.
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
– George Carlin over 30 years ago
"The best argument against Democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
– (source unknown, but sometimes mis-attributed to Churchill)
Yoo is also a longtime and enthusiastic supporter of Trump. He does not get to plead ignorance on Trump’s deportation policies (“who could have known Trump would do exactly what I encouraged him to do!”).
This is the inevitable result of Democrats always running geriatric candidates.
Wow, that headline is extremely misleading. The homeowner got fined by her HOA not for the door, but because she modified plumbing going into other units without approval or inspections.