Let's talk about #Mercedes vehicles equipped with #DrivePilot 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 #SystemsSafety realities at work here and the many foot-guns that are associated with that.
Put simply, per the #SAE#J3016 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.
Now, you, as the human driver are also effectively at the mercy of #Mercedes!
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 #NTSB, 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 #NHTSA, simply ignored it.
Q1: It will be a bit of an unexpected challenge (from when the site broke ground) for sure. But, thankfully, the tower was built with a highly mixed-purpose mindset from the start. It should be OK. We need hotel space in this town like yesterday.
Q2: The People Mover is great! Although, in my view, it needs to be expanded west into Corktown and north into Midtown/New Center. Then we would really be in business.
Sometime this month, I intend to start live-streaming myself designing various machinery in CAD - some machinery and industrial robots, from start-to-finish.
Kinda just doing final testing out the platforms now.
A colleague and mine will soon launch a non-profit effort for open-source (systems) engineering and manufacturing education. So, that might be something for him to check out soon.
I will announce everything on Mastodon, of course. 😀
I had to look it up, but apparently, the Intermodal Capital Investment Grants are used to support investments in rail, marine, intercity, and local transit infrastructure that have the potential to leverage federal funding opportunities.
When is the City of #Detroit going to sue local slumlord, Dennis Kefallinos, and his dipshit son for the way that The Michigan Theatre Building is being left to rot?
Are they getting hit with blight violations at least?
It’s fucking absurd that this building is not being put to work.
Yet I wonder how many are Pet Projects of Politicians? I say that because If You or I left Property to Rot the City would Fine and ticket and take over that Properties in a heart beat.
@mrbunnylamakins I can tell you this much… the blight violation fines that #Detroit issues on these properties are currently far too small and far too infrequent.
So, if it was not the case before, now that #Twitter seems to be walled off for good...
How can the #NWS and, say, The White House (as a two random examples) continue to remain solely on social media platforms that are inaccessible to millions of unregistered users?
Those exclusively on the #Fediverse, an open platform, are being actively denied public services, official policy announcements and timely emergency alerts.
@adamjcook That's one of the worst things about modern Twitter, isn't it? You never know if it's broke, or an intentional change. It's such an unstable platform now.
@adamjcook I assume that this is intentional. In recent months, access has become more and more restrictive anyway. Most recently, the search function or clicking on hashtags was made impossible for visitors without an account.
So this is just the next logical step, as I suspect that they want to force people with all their might to create an account.
Strongly suspect that the numbers are now collapsing and the advertisers urgently demand better account statistics.
You see the natural tension that inevitably exists when one does not allow the validation process to determine the vehicle hardware?
You just end up "chasing your tail" - frantically trying to come up with some "passable" hardware configuration while not quantifiably advancing progress.
Ross Gerber, a prominent #Tesla investor and advocate that was featured in my previous thread is clearly angry that his #FSDBeta-active vehicle was observed in displaying some highly-compromising behaviors.
This conversation is telling because we have really reached the "next stage" of this vast Tesla wrongdoing - organized collusion outside of Tesla.
I should end this by saying that, at no time, have I had any known financial interest in, for or against any automaker or any #Tesla competitor (perceived competitor or otherwise).
I do not trade stocks or purchase options.
As I am acting in my capacity as an engineer on Mastodon, I believe that it is my responsibility to disclose that.