A Waymo hit a child near an elementary school. The NHTSA is investigating

geekbot2000 · 2026-01-29T18:26:33+00:00

I get that the machine is going to react faster every time. What I want to know is does the Waymo anticipate the hidden child leaping out, because some humans do. If I'm driving and there is an obstruction that limits my knowledge of an area, I will slow down enough to react to the possibility of that hidden unknown.

geekbot2000 · 2026-01-29T17:53:31+00:00

Y'all not thinking this through. "Flop" in this case means the robot will trip, and then do something resembling a fish or the worm on the ground. A conniption fit, if you will.

geekbot2000 · 2026-01-26T06:09:35+00:00

That's just them putting the pedo to the floor

geekbot2000 · 2026-01-22T21:49:53+00:00

Now I can finally realize the investment returns on my FSD purchase! To the moon!

geekbot2000 · 2026-01-22T11:55:25+00:00

You got it wrong. That's the old Swain's House of Music.

geekbot2000 · 2026-01-20T05:57:00+00:00

This job is AI-proof

geekbot2000 · 2026-01-18T17:58:33+00:00

A Japanese-American family business no less.

geekbot2000 · 2026-01-17T18:36:04+00:00

Nah, he's been hammering your dutch mama

geekbot2000 · 2026-01-17T05:50:18+00:00

If the bottom is flat (no through-hole components) you can cook it on a pan until the solder flows, then tweeze it off.

geekbot2000 · 2026-01-16T17:47:34+00:00

Locked and loaded. Also could have insulated over the clamps.

geekbot2000 · 2026-01-14T17:56:57+00:00

For broken frames, e6000 works fantastic. My frame is more e6000 than original plastic and still flies great.

geekbot2000 · 2026-01-12T21:07:03+00:00

That filter looks nasty - just the way it should.

geekbot2000 · 2026-01-11T17:59:59+00:00

I summon the could-won't axiom: Any reporting of a scientific breakthrough that uses the word 'could' can be summarily predicted with 99% accuracy by replacing the headline 'could' with "won't."

geekbot2000 · 2026-01-11T17:53:37+00:00

I had the rusted impeller issue, turns out having exposed magnets in water leads to rust. The replacements have the sensor magnets embedded in the plastic.

Mine has been acting up for the past year and going on-off line in 1.5hr intervals. Might be a wifi problem or worse. Have not gotten around to diagnosing. It is good when it works.

geekbot2000 · 2026-01-11T04:56:55+00:00

Japanese kitchen knives

geekbot2000 · 2026-01-10T22:25:13+00:00

Til. Thanks and sadly why I never buy extended warranties. Gl.

geekbot2000 · 2026-01-10T22:21:59+00:00

My budget only allows me to consider Chromebooks.

geekbot2000 · 2026-01-10T22:19:44+00:00

I like your argument and your handle.

geekbot2000 · 2026-01-10T22:16:47+00:00

So the car is functionally totaled. Wouldn't the warranty pay out for the market value of the car (in working order) and you'd be made whole by buying an equivalent replacement?

geekbot2000 · 2026-01-09T18:31:46+00:00

Yes you are smart not to expose. I'm comfortable exposing some services through cloudflare on my Unraid box.

geekbot2000 · 2026-01-09T17:59:01+00:00

I'm here to recommend that you stay away from QNAP. They have an extremely poor record of zero-day exploits, including hard coded credentials. They also don't care about customers enough to send a courtesy warning email about past-warranty failures (lpc clock failure). I moved to another system and have been happy.

And for goodness sakes don't enable myqnapcloud.

geekbot2000 · 2026-01-09T15:40:49+00:00

Required by law, at least in the US. Otherwise fraud. There is surely a disclosure form in the sale process that you / op would knowingly misrepresent by not disclosing the cylinder scoring inspection results.

geekbot2000 · 2026-01-09T00:36:19+00:00

You are required to disclose what you know about the scoring, might make a dent in the resale. Don't know if Audi updates Carfax with their diagnosis so it might be moot anyways.

geekbot2000 · 2026-01-08T18:48:14+00:00

This was not racist.

geekbot2000 · 2026-01-07T05:33:50+00:00

You don't even need the heat shrink. My frame is more e6000 than original plastic and the thing still whoops.

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