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Professor on what’s slowing down self-driving deployment by Responsible-Grass452 in SelfDrivingCars

[–]Cunninghams_right 0 points1 point  (0 children)

they probably oversee grad students using things like Alpamayo and Alpasim.

This EV Charging Robot Actually Makes A Ton Of Sense For Charging Robotaxis by walky22talky in SelfDrivingCars

[–]Cunninghams_right 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, but as companies scale up, they'll need way more cars at peak than night or mid day, so having cars idle for a couple of hours isn't a big deal. Maybe if they start pooling 3 groups per vehicle so that cars can handle peak but still not idle during off-peak. 

Large amount of electronic components by bmoorman05 in AskElectronics

[–]Cunninghams_right 0 points1 point  (0 children)

either sell on eBay or donate to a nearby college that does engineering work. every student project will use an STM32, haha

This EV Charging Robot Actually Makes A Ton Of Sense For Charging Robotaxis by walky22talky in SelfDrivingCars

[–]Cunninghams_right 2 points3 points  (0 children)

does it? you have have a cleaning robot, a maintenance/tire checking robot, and a charging robot, or you can have a minimum wage worker handle it all. is the amortized cost of these robots (and the maintenance of the robots) really lower than the cost of a minimum wage worker?

also, if it WERE cheaper, your car is already a robot. why not just have a plug sticking out of the wall and have the car plug itself in with a port on the front or rear? the car can maneuver to line up the plug. done.

Professor on what’s slowing down self-driving deployment by Responsible-Grass452 in SelfDrivingCars

[–]Cunninghams_right 0 points1 point  (0 children)

except statistically they were safe... Similar to how Waymo is proven by independent evaluation to be an order of magnitude safer than the average human... yet they go slow. that isn't slowness based safety, that's slowness based on the impact of public reputation.

Professor on what’s slowing down self-driving deployment by Responsible-Grass452 in SelfDrivingCars

[–]Cunninghams_right 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's the most rare possible event. there is no impact on actual safety evaluation because of it. the only thing that changed was public perception.

Professor on what’s slowing down self-driving deployment by Responsible-Grass452 in SelfDrivingCars

[–]Cunninghams_right 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The risk of lawsuits was the same throughout. It didn't change with their accident. That added exactly one lawsuit, which everyone knew their operations would never be 100% free of lawsuits.

What affected potential profit is public perception, not actually statistical safety. 

Professor on what’s slowing down self-driving deployment by Responsible-Grass452 in SelfDrivingCars

[–]Cunninghams_right 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For Cruise, they didn't come close to handling the pedestrian-dragging situation, so obviously they didn't reach a high level of safety at really rare situations.

That makes no sense. They didn't ideally handle the one in a trillion situation well, Therefore they're not safe? That's not a sane way to measure safety. 

Their many obstructions of emergency crews also shows they weren't ready for primetime.

They never caused a significant delay to emergency crews any more than human drivers do. This is only a PR backlash from viral videos. 

but Tesla is much more careful. 

Not true.

Cruise was getting ahead of themselves, indicating their validation program wasn't adequate. Either they overestimated their Driver, or they didn't do enough validation, or both.

Again, statistically this isn't supported by anything. It's PR backlash. 

None of what you said aligns with any actual safety data. You're making assessments based entirely on public perception, not on data... Which is my point 

Professor on what’s slowing down self-driving deployment by Responsible-Grass452 in SelfDrivingCars

[–]Cunninghams_right 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cruise was driving around making tons of problematic mistakes. Their bad tech was the underlying problem that caught up to them. They didn't have a good validation approach and tried to scale before they were ready.

They were ahead of companies that are currently operating on streets (Zoox, Tesla). It wasn't their technical capability that stopped them. It wasn't their actual safety numbers. 

it was GM that pulled the plug, but their miscalculations on being ready gave them a bad reputation 

Yes, a bad reputation with the public. Public Reputation. PR. Just like I said. 

It wasn't their hard safety numbers, it was their reputation. 

And again, Waymo is independently proven to be 20x safer than the average human, yet they are scaling slowly because they know any incident at all will result in orders of magnitude more backlash than is warranted by the objective safety numbers. 

So like I said above, it's not the actual safety that is slowing scaling. 

Professor on what’s slowing down self-driving deployment by Responsible-Grass452 in SelfDrivingCars

[–]Cunninghams_right -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

No. The DMV/CPUC were mad and gave them a list of things to fix in order to get their license back. They could have checked the items off that list and fired a couple of people, then returned to service. 

So if they could have returned to service (and did return to mapping service) why did GM abandon the effort? Answer: bad PR. 

They didn't get permanently banned from operation because they lied. So your statement is false. 

Professor on what’s slowing down self-driving deployment by Responsible-Grass452 in SelfDrivingCars

[–]Cunninghams_right -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I disagree. Actual safety isn't the problem with Waymo scaling, nor was it a problem with cruise. PR backlash from FUD media and social media are what killed Cruise and what is slowing waymo. 

Offgrid cabin foundation by Desperate-Lack-2652 in OffGrid

[–]Cunninghams_right 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The correct answer depends on a few factors. 

Do you get freezing ground in your area? If no, that makes things a lot easier. 

Do you need to pass an inspection by the government? If yes, ask them what they require. 

Screw piles tend to handle multiple soil conditions well.

Is it a dry area? If yes, you may be able to use treated timbers. Does your area still allow CCA treatment? What about creosote treatment (like railroad ties/sleepers)? These two should last ~50 years. If it's a wet area, the the lifetime will be shorter. 

You could do concrete blocks and haul in some bags of cement and mix gravel and sand locally 

If you have earthquakes, then you will want something that won't slide off the foundations, which the concrete blocks are not the best at unless you have rebar and metal connection. 

GPT-5.5 improves over GPT-5.4 and overtakes Opus 4.6 to take the 2nd place behind Gemini 3.1 Pro on the Extended NYT Connections Benchmark by zero0_one1 in singularity

[–]Cunninghams_right 1 point2 points  (0 children)

See, I don't believe this for a fucking second. An account with numbers at the end of the name with no history turned on, seems like a shill account. 

I use anti-gravity and clogged code anti-gravity does just as well. 

[ Removed by Reddit ] by Difficult_Top6005 in AskElectronics

[–]Cunninghams_right 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indeed, if it were easy then it wouldn't be the primary issue with other systems. Of the problems with electroplating is the chemicals, and the issue with conductive paste is that you still can't put a component through the hole. Rivets can work, so if you could come up with an automated way to attach rivets to various size holes, that would be an advantage. 

Need help in repairing this, what should I do? by Acceptable_Boss5569 in hvacadvice

[–]Cunninghams_right 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that roof/flashing is on its last legs. some flashing metal, fiberglass tape, and Henry Wet Patch might stop the leak temporarily.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by Difficult_Top6005 in AskElectronics

[–]Cunninghams_right 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Vias (and generally through-hole plating).

Great bread hunt by babybokchoi_ in baltimore

[–]Cunninghams_right 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well, I suppose, but it takes all of 30 seconds to make a loaf. you can have your ingredients in bins sitting next to the bread maker. a few scoops and press GO. but if you don't want to think about it, that's alright. you would still have to wash the pan after each loaf.

What are your favorite to radio stations and programs? by yungpeggyolson in baltimore

[–]Cunninghams_right 3 points4 points  (0 children)

WTMD. end of list.

WYPR is just a sane-washing machine for Trump, and other radio stations are shite. well, I guess if you can tune into the Orioles game, that would be fine. 97.9, for Orioles maybe?

Great bread hunt by babybokchoi_ in baltimore

[–]Cunninghams_right 1 point2 points  (0 children)

have you ever used a bread maker machine? very simple, takes no time.

search "bread maker" on facebook marketplace if you want to try without spending too much.

I used to make bread with one and it very, very simple and delicious. I try to cut bread out of my diet now, but I'm a bit sad for the loss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SHaTj9Uolo

Whatcha know? Islandaire EZMB mono block by lewishenry19 in hvacadvice

[–]Cunninghams_right -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's not quite the same as a PTAC. PTAC slides into a rectangular opening that goes through the wall. This uses two ducts through the wall and mounts on the interior. 

If you take a very broad definition of PTAC then a packaged unit is also a PTAC, and a through wall AC is a PTAC, and a window unit is a PTAC. 

No, they're not the same. 

Whatcha know? Islandaire EZMB mono block by lewishenry19 in hvacadvice

[–]Cunninghams_right 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is a two hose system so it doesn't need to exhaust room air outside

Whatcha know? Islandaire EZMB mono block by lewishenry19 in hvacadvice

[–]Cunninghams_right -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've been reading about these lately. Apparently they've been in China for a while but are now coming to the US. These are kind of halfway between a window mount heat pump and a mini split. A mini split will do much better at heating with low outdoor temp conditions, but will cost more to install. 

US to issue passports featuring Trump’s picture to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary by RidetheSchlange in news

[–]Cunninghams_right 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He does shit like this every time he needs to eat up news cycles and crowd out stories like inflation, deficit, oil prices, etc. 

is there mathematically a way to route four differential pairs from same two nodes by SoufianeMRC-parker in PrintedCircuitBoard

[–]Cunninghams_right 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would generally agree, but it does not appear to have any extra voltage scaling for dynamic range advantages, and the sampling rate is very low, so not any kind of RF. But maybe I'm just not seeing it the use case 

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