October 2010
12 posts
This isn’t working for me. I’m going back to one blog.
More on self-driving cars
From the Official Google Blog:
Our cars are never unmanned. We always have a trained safety driver behind the wheel who can take over as easily as one disengages cruise control. And we also have a trained software operator in the passenger seat to monitor the software. Any test begins by sending out a driver in a conventionally driven car to map the route and road conditions. By mapping...
The Cultural Significance of Down Time →
Sam Ladner calls for designers to understand and respect “down time”.
Death of the Uncool →
This seems important.
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How about no, Eric?
Techcrunch reported last week that Eric Schmidt, Google’s Creepy Executive Officer said “It’s a bug that cars were invented before computers”.
Schmidt noted that it’s ridiculous that humans and not computers drive cars. “Your car should drive itself. It just makes sense.”
Schmidt has previously said1 that computers should do what computers are good at and people...
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The Bad Plus - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
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“Two things struck me about this album. The first was that it contained not a...”
– Are the best pictures on Facebook or Flickr? (via iamdanw)
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Bruce Schneier is a Ren Faire Geek →
Too, too perfect. You really should click through. There’s a photo.
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