adamjcook

@adamjcook@mastodon.social

Engineer focused on #Robotics, #ControlSystems, #SystemsSafety, #Manufacturing and #Simulation. #ManufacturingOpen Contributor. #Purdue Engineering alum. Living in #Detroit. He/Him.
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majorlinux, to random
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Happy anniversary to the most amazing person that I have ever met.

10 years married (13 years together) and you have put up with my immaturity and my hardships because you know we would always make it through to the other side.

I thank you so much for pushing me to be a better person in life!

I love you!

adamjcook,

@majorlinux Congrats! 🎉

adamjcook, (edited ) to chicago

An interesting and depressing, look at the construction of the Eisenhower Expressway in my hometown of - what was lost and how, naturally, it was explicitly designed to negatively impact and destroy minority and communities.

Faux-progress of the 1950s that we desperately need to unwind in all US cities.

https://interactive.wbez.org/curiouscity/eisenhower/

mattblaze, (edited ) to photography
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Las Vegas Strip, Paradise, NV, 2023.

The Strip is best viewed, and experienced, from a distance.

Preliminary version; see down thread for final image.

Note: Not a 16:9 image, so you may need to click the preview to see the whole thing.

adamjcook,

@mattblaze Their so-called “transit system” (’s Vegas Loop) sure is unimaginative (and has significant public safety questions to boot).

adamjcook, (edited ) to threads

does not seemingly support on images at launch (h/t to @mmasnick's post on Threads pointing that out).

And that is pretty damn unacceptable.

adamjcook,

@Beeks @mmasnick Not sure, to be honest.

Good question.

I have not had a Facebook account for many years.

And I have never posted anything to Instagram.

The other thing about this is even more egregious is that is seems that the character count is so low that cannot even be practically made as a comment to the image or video. 🥴

AbandonedAmerica, (edited ) to random
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Look, there's a lot of anger and dissent in the Fediverse about the launch of Threads, but can we all at least agree that it is going to be utterly hilarious to watch Musk pretending he's not not crying as the last shreds of the platform he paid billions of dollars for go swirling down the toilet?

Screenshot from @noturtlesoup17

adamjcook,

@zed @AbandonedAmerica Yeah. That is a good take.

If I had to guess... I would say that had this baking in the oven on-and-off for a while (perhaps when Musk first made his bid in April 2022), but really hit the gas on it around December when the first big Fediverse Migration occurred (when Musk panic-banned Substack and Mastodon links?).

Given the current state of ... I would say 6 months of serious work sounds about right at Meta's scale.

CrackedWindscreen, to random
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*Mutes "Threads"

adamjcook,

@CrackedWindscreen I have been checking it out today.

I think... maybe it is too "pop culture" for me.

That is my hot take.

adamjcook,

@kentindell @CrackedWindscreen Haha. Yeah.

He is stewing over there. Hard. 😅

Get ready for an unhinged Musk weekend.

igb, to random
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Keynote, Google Slides, and PowerPoint all need an "export to animated GIF" feature.

Seriously, product managers, this shit shouldn’t be that hard.

adamjcook,

@igb 💯

adamjcook, to Michigan

Former Governor Rick Snyder should be in the clink for the Water Crisis coverup - instead, we are continually treated with these thought pieces while he walks free amongst his victims.

Nothing, in recent memory, has damaged the attractiveness of Michigan like that episode.

https://www.crainsdetroit.com/commentary/opinion-michigan-needs-house-republican-majority

adamjcook,

Oh?

Bring back "common-sense" leadership to , huh?

Here is former Senator Mike Shirkey's common sense on display...

https://michiganadvance.com/2022/12/13/susan-j-demas-mike-shirkeys-long-crazy-goodbye/

adamjcook,

@rowdypixel The article basically calls on to reinstate "Right To Work" in and to reinstate the system that assessed public schools on a A-through-F grading scale.

That is more or less it.

Naturally, this pair of dipshits avoid discussing their "other" priorities - punching holes in abortion access and eliminating free school breakfast/lunch programs in Michigan.

Because they are cowards.

adamjcook, to transit

The US will really do anything to avoid building walkable cities and .

https://youtu.be/Yo5vqE35QgU

adamjcook, to cars

Let's talk about vehicles equipped with a bit - a Level 3-capable vehicle that has been recently "approved" in a handful of US states.

This article almost entirely focuses on the legal dynamics of consumer liability should this vehicle create a direct (or, presumably, an indirect) incident.

But, as always, I want to talk about what I feel are the realities at work here and the many foot-guns that are associated with that.

https://www.autonews.com/mobility-report/mercedes-drive-pilot-automated-system-poses-legal-questions

🧵👇

adamjcook, (edited )

What is a Level 3-capable vehicle?

Put simply, per the standard (which is not safety standard), this is a vehicle that is capable (by definition, not necessarily in practice) of detecting a certain amount of failures to the Dynamic Driving Task (DDT) within a certain Operational Design Domain (ODD).

With some exceptions, the human driver can (theoretically) remain inattentive to the performance of the DDT until the automated system demands that they regain operational control.

adamjcook,

Distilled from that verbose definition, the image below is how describes the capabilities of their vehicle.

On paper, a strict "vehicle control responsibility" separation seemingly exists.

The Mercedes vehicle drives until "it can't" and then, after a sufficient warning time provided by the vehicle, the human driver regains situational awareness and operational control of the vehicle.

Simple enough, right? 🤔

adamjcook,

Well...

Humans are not machines and human drivers are not homogeneous and it is entirely unclear how long of the duration of this "warning time" needs to be in an infinite number of conditions.

That is what is called considerations, in part.

But let us put the "human element" out-of-mind here.

I submit it is not necessary here.

Let's get back to the article - and, in particular, a statement by one of the legal experts cited within it:

adamjcook, (edited )

The legal expert cited, Professor William Widen, and Professor Phil Koopman have offered their thoughts on attributing liability (between the vehicle and the human driver), as linked to in the article.

That work is here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4444854

It is a sensible proposal and Professor Koopman is one of the foremost experts in systems, and systems.

Still, I submit that no proposal can quantifiably protect consumers with this type of system.

Why?

adamjcook, (edited )

The core issue, again put simply, is that law enforcement is structurally ill-equipped to take full, immediate control of the vehicle and secure a (physical and digital) chain-of-custody when an incident occurs with these vehicles.

That is it.

What will instead happen is that law enforcement, courts, regulators and insurance companies will be at the complete mercy of (in this case) in terms of vehicle data and, most probably, an interpretation of the events.

adamjcook,

Now, you, as the human driver are also effectively at the mercy of !

The laws on the books do not matter.

And the considerable "friction" of pursuing an open-ended legal claim against Mercedes' data advantages will always work against you.

The , the US's independent transportation safety investigator, foresaw this asymmetric data relationship as far back as 2016 - and, naturally, the US's hapless auto safety regulator, the , simply ignored it.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a19785733/teslantsb-feud-shows-complications-of-crash-investigations-involving-autonomous-systems/

adamjcook,

All of this means that the "warning time", no matter what anyone or any law says, is actually 0 seconds.

And consumers should recognize this because consumers are (and will increasingly be) being covertly and dangerously misled.

Level 3-capable vehicles cannot have a clear delineation of human driver liability if governments cannot commit to maintaining a chain-of-custody and an independent, forensic investigation of all incidents.

And, spoiler, governments will not commit to that.

adamjcook, to Twitch

Just curious from any out there...

What is the opinion on these days versus ?

If you were a Twitch streamer, did you move over to Kick? If so, how has it been going? Thinking about moving over?

Getting ready to launch an and -related educational stream (not games, no one wants to see me flop around on games 😅).

Planning on multi-streaming to YouTube, TikTok and either Twitch or Kick.

adamjcook,

@cromern Cool! Thanks!

adamjcook,

@cromern Wow. Thanks!

Yeah, I was struggling with understanding that. I was confused who it applied to.

Oh well. Kick it is then. 🤪

adamjcook,

@cromern Sure thing. Why not? 😀

I can take a referral.

ChrisPirillo, to vegan
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five years ago, this was the "it shrunk" shirt i wore on the that had me re-thinking my health ~ i started to flip and that quickly became a permanent lifestyle

adamjcook,

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