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So is this like https://comma.ai/ but for bigger vehicles?


This is kind offtopic (although it's a text to speed model so it might not be so offtopic :)), but the eleven word reminds me of the comedy sketch with the voice recognition technology on an elevator in Scotland, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbDnxzrbxn4.


There is a nice standup sketch from an Australian comedy group, the Axis of Evil, that most of the pop songs are using only four chords, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I



All those GPS art pieces reminded me of Nazca lines in Peru, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_lines. Are the GPS art pieces a modern version of Nazca lines?


Presumably the peoples who made that art couldn’t see it from above. Unless it was aliens


This is a very interesting article. I suppose something similar can be made for vehicles entering a tunnel, where eventually will lose the GNSS signal.

I have noticed that a year ago or so, Google Maps app would lose the GNSS signal and stop updating the position while there was no signal. But now I have noticed that the position is updated, although is not accurate. I wonder if something similar has been implemented...


15 years ago, sat nav systems built into cars would sometimes be fitted with a rate gyro and get a wheel speed signal from the car - to make them work better in tunnels and other areas with poor GPS signals.

(Of course, that one area of superior performance couldn't make up for the awful GUIs, the awful resistive touchscreens, the $100 map updates, and suchlike)


I can't see inside Maps, but it does look like they use accellerometer data or just assumptions to continue animating your position on the map. Assumption being for example that you will follow the route through the tunnel at your current average speed. Close and good enough for most tunnels I suppose.


Apple maps does this.


On the right bottom corner says that it's part of Useless Web Project, https://theuselessweb.com/, which has more interesting "useless" games...


The footage of the camera looks like an IR cut filter of a daylight camera rather than a thermal camera...


We have both visual (already in service) and thermal (just announced) cameras - video of the latter is here: https://youtube.com/shorts/PlmG9HdzltU?feature=share (Francisco, Bounce CEO)


This brought back memories when I was reading reversing tutorials from searchlores.org and fravia.com...

It's in web archive now, https://web.archive.org/web/20191201105759/http://search.lor...


Some explanation about Fourier transform can be found in the Feynman lectures here, https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_50.html


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