@Mokubai it's a threshold based on your speed. obviously if you are intentionally changing lanes at a slow pace the thing will beep at you, but the threshold is empirically derived based on the average time it takes to lane change
it doesn't do anything to the actual vehicle's movement like take over the steering wheel and prevent you from merging, but it does beep at you
@Mokubai it's pretty tolerant, even of slow merges, because it's more likely to go off if you are hanging over your lane's lines and you aren't getting more and more into the lane you're moving into
in other words if you're straddling two lanes for an extended time and you aren't clearly moving from one to another, it'll go off, but if you're moving moving moving at a steady pace from one lane to the other without leveling off, it won't really go off.
people who are distracted by spiders on their face, hot coffee spills, passenger assaulting driver, text messaging their kid that "I'll pick you up at 6pm", etc. also tend to straddle two lanes while engaged in said activities
the electronic warning systems are designed to increase the likelihood that a reasonably alert driver (or a driver who is, at least, not wholly unconscious) will be alarmed by the warning sound, quickly figure out what the incorrect action is, and level out in their lane / slow down as appropriate
without the systems, the problem could go uncorrected in a situation where a simple beep could have alerted the driver enough to prevent an accident
obviously the system won't prevent unconscious drivers (heart attack, stroke, knockout punch, etc.) from crashing. the system also won't (can't!) prevent stupid people who are tired or covered in spiders from driving.
but it can attempt to prevent some scenarios where a crash might occur
it's a mitigation system.
when you have a big and hard to solve problem like "stupid people driving while they're asleep", or "spiders like to walk on peoples' faces and freak them out", you can attack it from various angles: prevention, avoidance, mitigation, etc.
people need to be aware that they are in control of several tonnes of metal powered by exploding fossils that are held together by things made by people not much smarter than they are.
@Mokubai right, so a hacker or a software bug or a loose cable can crash your car while you happily slumber behind the wheel of several tonnes of metal that, in 99.9999% of cases, drives itself reliably, but for some reason stemming from the fact that humans and their physical constructions are inherently imperfect, it decides to go wacko and crash and kill people.
I'm not saying that automated driving wouldn't reduce accidents -- I think it would, once they work the initial bugs out
but it's still gonna happen
and don't tell me that, even if you provide full manual controls in an automated vehicle, that 99% of drivers wouldn't literally sleep behind the wheel while the car drives itself, if the car does a good enough job most of the time that manual intervention is unnecessary
even if you require by law that drivers remain awake and provide immediate intervention methods like grabbing the steering wheel or hitting the brakes disables the autopilot, people are still gonna sleep once they're reasonably confident (which would take about a year of hazard-free driving for most people to become confident)
and then the software bugs creep out and people start dying
Aye, that it would still happen, but there would be so many more failsafes and controls in place to make it work smoothly. As it stands we are trusting stupid water-filled meat sacks to not be too stupid at each other
And that's ignoring the ones who are actively, hostile-ly, stupid at each other
the ones who want to cash in on an insurance claim and such
...and, in new vehicles with advanced safety packages, we're trusting those stupid water-filled meat sacks to listen to and respond appropriately to automated systems which are trying to tell them that they are potentially doing something hazardous with their car
it's just another small step in the evolution of car safety. seatbelts, air bags, warning systems, and then eventually, full automation with manual backup
each time we advance the state of the art, we reduce the likelihood of accidents
I think a really hard problem to solve with full automation, at least in my area, will be to teach the car how to avoid road hazards, like enormous potholes, construction sites, vehicles pulled over on the side of the road (with or without functional hazard lights), pedestrians, animals, etc.
and to avoid these hazards without crashing into something else, like a guard rail or bridge or oncoming traffic
I just watched my girlfriend sort photos on her Windows 8 machine. Every once in awhile all Explorer windows simply close and the whole system acts as if nothing happens. wtf
@OliverSalzburg at least he didn't post it as an answer. from what I can tell, he only posts answers on bounty questions, and puts an enormous amount of effort into said answers, whether or not they're correct
@somequixotic For various degrees of "enormous amount of effort"
"This is a common problem" Translation: lots of hits on Google "One way to fix it is [insert text from first hit on Google] another way is [insert text from second hit on Google]. If that doesn't help, sfc /scannow. Also be sure to uninstall all applications you don't need with Revo"
@somequixotic I would answer that with "Who the fuck drinks coffee in a car? Are they insane. You stop after a few hours, get out, drink something, strech your legs etc etc). And you temporarily part the car to read a text message. As to passengers attacking the driver.....uhm, not even sure what to say to that?
@Hennes I don't know about where you live, but here, almost everyone drinks beverages in the car, almost everyone texts in the car, and nobody stops the car to do anything because that would be inconvenient
@Mokubai wait, is that a Google search, or a Bing search? or a Bing search that asks Google?
texting while driving is illegal here, too, but rather than pulling over on the side of the road, which would be inconvenient, I simply don't read texts in the car :P
yeah but you could still get an advertisement (illegally or not) on your private phone, and pull over to read "SIGN UP NOW AT WWW.WEHAVEYOURINFO.CC TO WIN A MILLION EUROS!"
@somequixotic As long as you do not pay attention to the system reading the SMS to you... Just using your hands for a phone is but one part. The real danger is being distracted by the message or the conversation.
Adds on a mobile seem very rare.
And the dutch system is not nice to 'SMS spammers'
Though the fines are still lower than their profits.
"You have a message on your mailbox. Retrieve it now by calling 1122. Did you already know that you can get the latest Justin Bieber song as a ringtone by calling 333444?"
we have an emergency alert system built into all smartphones and dumbphones of recent manufacture, which sets off an alarm that most people associate with nuclear attack (due to the specific tone / volume / wave pattern used)... it really freaks people out
they use that system, and the same tone, for things like child kidnapping, missing elderly person, or severe thunderstorm
same tone for apocalyptic nuclear attack and missing elderly person
in New York a few weeks ago that tone set off and woke up the entire city (millions and millions of people) due to one missing elderly person
it's the same tone that would appear on television in the 1970s and 1980s in the U.S. during the Cold War when they would tell us that if you hear this sound you should listen up because the President of the United States is about to tell you that you're going to die
An Emergency Action Notification (SAME code: EAN) is the national activation of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and can only be activated by the President or his/her representative (i.e. the Vice President). The Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) also carried the Emergency Action Notification. It has never been used by any President since its creation.
Unlike other messages, the EAN is not the alert itself, but rather a notice that the activation is beginning. After the End of Message (EOM) tones are sent, normal programming does not resume. Instead, most stations will broadcast emergen...
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@Boris_yo I used to write all my tech diatribes in all lower case. At that time i was a hunt and peck typist.
@Boris_yo In this situation though, he claims lack of keyboard control, but the way it is written looks more like it is designed by a person with the capability, and instead chooses to writ up dat ting de way he wanted it to look. Of course i woudst hafta Axe him to be shore.
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@CanadianLuke Cheap booze and cheap hookers? That's blue pill. Choose it and you will wake up in your bed believing whatever you want to believe, drinking whatever you want to drink and smoking whatever you want to smoke.
Tell me, why can I not control the machines with my mind? Why do I still need these damn hands typing away on keyboards all the time? Where are my Matrix-y powers?
@OliverSalzburg You're probably taking about Matrix Market? Yes you can download whatever you want into your mind. You can learn new skills in under 1 minute too.
@Boris_yo No, I'm talking about the government implanting ideas in your head to make you a dumb consumer so you don't see what's really happening around you. Except they aren't doing it with a USB port, they're doing it with nanobots and microwaves and chemicals in our drinking water, you know?
@OliverSalzburg I believe that whole-heartedly! You heard about the Smart Meters? For automatic reporting back to your electrical company? That's our biggest conspiracy now, at least in Canada
@OliverSalzburg Check out my last message in TL, if you can give an answer, that would be awesome :)
@CanadianLuke Man how funny! And I saw it some years ago. Cypher said he had no idea how amateurs got in the closet lol! And how Trinity connected VGA to Neo's head haha!
@OliverSalzburg Because when they did it the first time , they only removed the space between all the quantum particles, and the micro bots only worked on peoples feet. Unless they to were really dence.
I asked in this forum if I could disable anti-adblock script with website like Wakanim
I was advised to write my own extension in chrome but i'm a beginner in javascript and coding so I ask for the best and fastet way to creat a chrome extension
I have tried to tell a web creator before, if you want to make sure the Adds are seen, sell them yourself, host them yourself, collect the money yourself. They said that was hard, welcome to life.
Eventually as the web site grew to have thousands of people daily, they did just that, charge them a monthly fee, force thier submissions to be specific size and not flash, and the advertisers sit proudly in a simple banner at the top. They are not noxious, and i stupidly even click on them at times.
@Boris_yo I do not know, but compared to how much they would hand out when the web first started , before the adds were controlled by huge corporate interests, it is WAY more noise than money.
@Boris_yo Well no I cannot see the adds on youTube, and i did little to nothing to specificly stop them. it is probably part of a whole List of stuff (list from the web) blocking i have applied.
I asked in this forum if I could disable anti-adblock script with website like Wakanim
I was advised to write my own extension in chrome but i'm a beginner in javascript and coding so I ask for the best and fastet way to creat a chrome extension
