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Unexpected or not, it should do its best to stop or avoid the obstacle, not drive into it.

An autonomous vehicle shouldn't ever be able to actively drive forward into anything. It's basic collision detection that ought to brake the car here. If something is in the position the car wants to drive to, it simply shouldn't drive there. There's no reason to blame the obstacle for being towed incorrectly..

I don't think this is going to (or should) stop people applying for AI invented parents.

However.. I do think that the cost of applying for a patent should be a lot more to avoid spamming.

It's like the guy who wanted to use a computer to compose all possible combinations of notes in music with the purpose of copyrighting all music. I'm like.. didn't you also just break the copyright for all existing music?

Anyway, I don't mind people using computers or AI, but patent trolling and spamming shouldn't be financially feasible. Make the product first or fuck off.

Sorry, I didn't answer your question. Consider the following instead:

Your self driving car has crashed into a god damn tow truck with a backwards facing truck.

Do you:

• A: Program your car to deal differently with fucking backwards facing trucks on tow trucks
• B: Go back to question one and make your self driving car pass a simple theory test.

According to the article the company has chosen A, which is wrong.

You drive a car and can't quite figure out what is happening in front of you.

Do you:

• A: Turn up the music and plow right through.
• B: Slow down (potentially to a full stop) and assess the situation.
• C : Slow down, close your eyes and continue driving slowly into the obstacle
• D: Sound the horn and flash the lights

From the description offered in the article the car chose C, which is wrong.

It makes sense. I don't think it's possible to detect if the contents in two files are identical before downloading it, so all it can do is to compare the file name.

Anyway, the dialogue could be more helpful in this regard, but I guess that would also annoy or confuse some users.

The company says the truck was being towed improperly

Shit happens on the road. It's still not a great idea to drive into it.

The company developed and validated a fix for its software to prevent similar incidents

So their plan is to fix one accident at a time..

Click the name. It doesn't look like an option, because there are buttons for download or cancel, but the file name is also a link to the file.

Some local knowledge is beneficial. For instance if the caller is trying to describe their exact location from descriptions. Like "I'm stuck under the benches at the statue at the madras store".

It would be horrible if all 911 calls went through an Indian call center.

Name the cell "myPi" and use that instead of the Pi function.

Can't you just type in the digits of the Pi that you want to use in some cell and then refer to that cell instead of using the default Pi?

5 is mathematically a "round-up" number. If you want your numbers to behave differently I think you'd be better off using a different function.

I don't think money is the missing thing here..

My kids have been using these Chromebooks. I find it hard to believe that this data has any value for Google, unless they're really want to collect all the wrong answers to the math curriculum for a 6-10 year olds and the essays about favourite names for pet animals. The location data is also useless. The kids are at school at school time.

They should just have offered laptops that don't exchange data outside the school, because it's frankly worthless to do in the first place.