30mph across the entire fleet, 24x7? I don't live in a city with them but that sounds optimistic. 30mph seems like a decent average in a big city when you're on the move. Add stops to recharge, pick and drop fares, maintenance, and down time between fares, I'd not be surprised if it was half that or less.
> The problem with sensor fusion is what do you do when the sensors disagree?
Like one sensor says you have a bus stopped in front of you and the other says it's all clear? And your choices are full steam ahead or prepare to not ram the apparent bus?
Not the worst parallel to draw, I reckon, especially in the wake of Copilot, GPT-3, etc.
And I'm sure that circuit designers who'd invested the majority of their career in that async paradigm, only to see it facing obsolescence due to 'inexorable' tooling (digital EDA being that era's Copilot/GPT) advances, would've also downvoted an analogous comment :D
> If you want to beat obesity start by buying just the ingredients and then cooking meals at home. It's not that hard. Then start walking to places instead of taking the car. Taking public transportation is also good because it frequently forces you to walk a non-negligible amount. Also stop eating while watching TV. You can go one step further and throw out the TV altogether.
This all seems pretty strange and won't make you lose weight. What will is just eating fewer calories. That's it. You don't have to change anything at all if you don't want to. You can drive to the store, you can eat in front the TV, you can eat your hamburgers and drink coke. Just eat less of it, and you'll lose weight.
The idea that people have to be "educated" to know this is ludicrous, such a typical "government" / "expert" notion. Eat too much = get fat has been known and understood for centuries. People knew this when they were illiterate peasants. School children tease each other about this. The obesity problem is not caused by lack of education, it's caused by lack of self-control (exacerbated by the refinement of food composition, improved cost and convenience, and marketing).
> Isn’t tobacco use trending down anyways? How could you possibly tease out the drop in tobacco use from one change to packaging?
Anything in the real world has many many factors affecting its consumption. What would it matter if it was trending down specifically? Or are you asking what models and statistical tools they use to make analyses like this when there are a complex set of factors at play?
Well that's a bad criteria. A lot of people get hooked on "snake oil", and will even try to seek it out. Astrology, alternative medicines, crystals, vibes, etc., cults and other such religious beliefs, various social, economic, political and other beliefs that aren't supported by evidence. Lots of them aren't "zealots", they're pushed by fear, misconception, misinformation, desperation, FOMO, hype, etc.
Also, even if some people in some usages get benefit out of it, does not mean that fuels hype and snake oil to try to sell it to uninformed people to use in inappropriate places. Baking soda is good for making bread, lots of people use it for that with great success. It is snake oil for curing cancer, however.
> Married heterosexual motherhood in America, especially in the past two years, is a game no one wins,” wrote Amy Shearn in one of many New York Times op-eds
I think anyone could have grievances with the system and reasonably feel it's not fair.
My issue are these outlandish made-up assertions and generalizations, calling peoples' lives "games", etc. Clowns like this are the crypto-bro of social commentary.
I'm the first to call journalists out of touch, but in this case it's you.
There's a reason that cars and private-public transport like taxis and uber are so popular all around the world, even in cities with much better public transport than SF. A reason why quite poor people will often spend a lot of money to own cars.
Look at London or cities in the Netherlands or Japan. Car ownership rates around 50% per household, and use of taxi services from time to time would be far higher.
It's because even very good busses and trains don't offer the freedom and convenience of a car. And it doesn't require an outlandish value of a person's time for that $18 to $21 to look at lot more cost competitive with the public transport option.
