A new study shows that race car drivers blink their eyes in the exact same “safe” places to maintain control and avoid crashes around high-risk maneuvers.
We studied three top-level racing drivers. Their eyeblinks and driving behavior were acquired during practice sessions. The results revealed that the drivers blinked at surprisingly similar positions on the courses. We identified three factors underlying the eyeblink patterns: the driver’s individual blink count, lap pace associated with how strictly they followed their pattern on each lap, and car acceleration associated with when/where to blink at a moment. These findings suggest that the eyeblink pattern reflected cognitive states during in-the-wild driving and experts appear to change such cognitive states continuously and dynamically.
Three drivers is a start. Would like to see this study done with hundreds of thousands of drivers using ADAS in Los Angeles.
Investigators from the UN human rights office concluded that there are strong indications that more than 500 people were killed – the majority in extrajudicial killings – by Malian troops and foreign military personnel believed to be from Wagner, a mercenary outfit run by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close ally of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, which was linked to the massacre by internal messages obtained by the Guardian last year. […] “These are extremely disturbing findings,” said Volker Türk, the UN high commissioner for human rights. “Summary executions, rape and torture during armed conflict amount to war crimes and could, depending on the circumstances, amount to crimes against humanity.” […] Witnesses reported seeing “armed white men” who spoke an unknown language operating alongside the Malian forces and at times appearing to supervise operations, the report found. It cites witnesses who claimed Malian troops were rotated in and out of Moura daily, but the foreign personnel remained.
Today’s news is that yet another Tesla ignored a red light, and hit a very large and obvious bus.
The Sheriff’s Office bus was traveling northbound on Fifth Street when it was struck by a vehicle that had apparently run a red light while heading westbound on I Street, Gandhi said, based on preliminary investigation.
The Tesla ran a red light and crashed into the MIDDLE of a giant white bus in a giant empty intersection. Crashes of Tesla in 2023 reveal worse technology than in 2016, showing a dangerous safety decline from known bad engineering. Calling Tesla’s latest software blind would be unfair to the blind. Source: Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office.
All signs, pun not intended, so far point to Tesla software being at fault.
This comes days after Tesla owners openly boasted that they were excited because the latest software release was now flagrantly ignoring urban traffic rules.
No, It’s Not Amazing That A Tesla Using FSD Blew Through A Crosswalk: Self-driving cars need to follow the law, not break it for convenience.
How convenient for them that they make everyone else pay for a privilege of making dumb mistakes without care or caution, even fatal ones.
The situation only is going to get worse with so many Tesla owners, in a nod to criminal intent, buying the vehicle in an attempt to spend their way above the law — expecting industrialized corruption of Tesla to mean they get to drive drunk, run stop signs and red lights.
Every time Tesla says they are “learning from mistakes” I want you to imagine a known violent offender saying that. Are they just wicked robots learning how to commit more and worse crimes?
Musk is often happy to follow foreign governments’ requests to crack down on users they oppose (which is absolutely not “par for the course for all internet companies,” no matter what he may claim).
The mogul’s treatment of union organizers and whistleblowers suggested that “free-speech absolutism” was mostly code for a high tolerance for bigotry toward particular groups, a smoke screen that obscured an obvious hostility toward any speech that threatened his ability to make money.
Absolutely horrible, Twitter is now nothing more than a tinpot African dictator platform. Reading tweets is increasingly like going backwards in time to tune into racist 1990s apartheid news on the radio.
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