Unless you assume that self-driving software is perfect, no, it really isn't. That's the whole problem - the drivers would get complacent, so when there's an issue, they'd be caught by surprise and wouldn't be able to react.
Isn't the point to pay _no_ attention? The difference is when an accident occurs, was the person in the car at fault for not vigilantly watching everything.
You want the curve of total attention to be always above a baseline human in an unassisted car. The car can do some attention and the human can do some. But if the sum of the two falls below the threshold, you’re in trouble.
You can already do that by just closing your eyes and letting Jesus take the wheel. No, the point is doing so while maintaining safety.
It is materially less safe to operate a ADAS while distracted than driving manually. Humans are exceptionally good drivers on average, only encountering minor crashes on timeframes measured in years to decades. As such, if safety critical ADAS errors occur more frequently than every ~100,000 miles and you are attentive in less than 100% of all such occurrences, you are operating your vehicle multiple times more dangerously than the average driver (which is a number that includes drunks and distracted drivers).
That is why it is critical to deliberately downplay the capabilities, to avoid wishful over-reliance, and enforce strict driver awareness (through techniques such as driver monitoring) to avoid operating multi-ton killing machines in ways that are multiple times more dangerous to the occupants, other drivers, and pedestrians. Without that, people are prone to over-generalization of safety capabilities, extrapolating that a single success means robust, continued success thousands to tens of thousands of times in a row.
On March 11, 2024, NextNav announced it signed an agreement to acquire spectrum licenses covering an additional 4 MHz in the lower 900 MHz band (902-928) from Telesaurus Holdings GB LLC, and Skybridge Spectrum Foundation. NextNav acquired the additional spectrum licenses for a total purchase price of up to $50 million, paid for through a combination of cash and NextNav common stock. The acquired licenses are in the same lower 900 MHz band as NextNav's current licensed spectrum. On April 16, 2024, NextNav filed a rulemaking petition with the Federal Communications Commission to deliver a spectrum solution in the Lower 900 MHz band to facilitate a terrestrial positioning, navigation, and timing network (as a complement and backup to GPS) and broadband.
I think this is much simpler than what you're suggesting. Careful microphone level management can handle this. No need for audio sync. I know they use the word "sync" but that's a very broad term.
If the distance from the microphone to an "unwanted source" is three times the distance asthat from the microphone to the source phasing likely wont be an issue.
There's always caveats with engineering but it's a decent rule of thumb assuming equal volume sources... I can imagine it's not too hard to detect that anyway, weve been able to do realtime fft for a very long time.
No, probably not there are no phase issues if you just don't transmit the signal. The hard part would be to determine who's in the room, and then who's talking and then mixing appropriately to eliminate feedback and optimize speaker sound quality. None of which requires signal phase accurate synchronicity.
If they're actually able to "sync" (again a poorly defined term) given the problems associated with network latency and different hardware it would border on magic.
I have the 10 pro and although the camera is definitely an improvement over the 5 I used to own, the overall performance is about the same. I still have my 5, and use it a lot for POS stuff and it's great still. I even have a OnePlus 1 around and it still works decently although it struggles a little with some apps. That's a TEN year old phone.
I feel like it's a worse UI and worse experience. By leaps and bounds. Less reliable, harder to operate, over reliant on terrible software and underpowered hardware. Some of the android auto and apple car play stuff is acceptable, but not great.
The Tesla integrated climate/vehicle control/entertainment system is absolutely fine by Silicon Valley standards, far better than CarPlay and Android, and leaps and bounds better than other manufacturers' poor implementations of these features (integrated or not.)
You could make the argument that "physical buttons are safer," but that doesn't mean the UI that accompanied these buttons was that great.
Most vehicles pre-touchscreen had vehicle control functions on shitty jog wheels or arrow buttons on the steering wheel (maybe with a 7 segment display, maybe an LCD.)
I only have experience with citrus, but as far as I know you can graft forever. Some variants don't have seeds, this is the only way to propagate them.
