19 Replies to “I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords”

  2. According to AI:

    #4 Birdshot is the goldilocks load for shooting drones.
    #6 Birdshot will give you more pellets and a better chance of a hit.
    Larger and heavier pellets will travel further.
    #4 Buckshot will smash the shit out of it, but your aim has to be better.

    I’m guessing you save the slugs for the operators?

  3. The owner of the drones blamed the issue on “radio interference”. I call BS on that. Where did the radio interfering signal come from? This is the old dog ate my homework claim. What caused the failure?

    1. rain in the electronics?
    2. software failure of the “master” controller?
    3. human error?

    But not radio interference…

      1. It’s ok. One day we’ll be sitting in a pilotless plane making the same joke.

  4. Well, we let them do away with throttle cables with nary a peep. It’s unnecessary technology.
    It’s not safe for anyone. But like vaccines, many likely unnecessary, it’s just a game of numbers sampled over a very short time interval.
    What you just witnessed was a 90% success or 90% effectivity. Bravo

    1. I agree 90% effective is great?) Most would not consider 90% effective a great outcome even for weed killer. Airlines are pushing for one crew member in the cockpit. Still absurd! Don’t even want that for cargo aircraft, because there are still innocents on the ground.
      Used to watch a YT channel called Mentour Pilot. He reviews commercial aircraft mishaps. There were a few absurdly scary ones where everyone lived only because there were two pilots wrestling with an aircraft seemingly with a mind of it’s own for over an hour.

      1. Indeed, the compounding of problems, exemplified by the New Zealand Navy vessel sinking. They didn’t comprehend they were fighting the auto pilot. When “self driving” finds an emergency the human coefficient, while usually experientially superior, takes time to engage. Had automation not been employed many disasters would not have occurred. The statistics have to be there. But that’s an inconvenient study never to be funded.

    1. He’ll have a devil of a time outdoing that display Jeff Bezos put on in Florida.

    1. Yeah but Adele is well past it …
      Perhaps Katy Perry can have a go at it … perhaps even a duet with the Castro kid?

  7. gone haywire, into the drink.
    was that head first? all loopy until ‘splashdown’?
    oh look. a scenario where kritter is in overall charge of navigation software, here’s a subroutine tucked into the firmware, if for any reason even esp unknown causes, the navigational system fails, be it wireless or autonomous, some sort of possibly hardware interrupt hands control over to the ‘last ditch routine.
    as best in can, assumes nothing about grid location or altitude, certainly anything superfluous like destination or trajectory ie ‘flight plan’. the sole objective is to land. the subroutine is given parameters specific to that model as to weight and max altitude. it gauges power reserve and IMMEDIATELY focusses on landing. if the altimeter is functioning all the better, but maybe almost everything but prop speed is questionable. calculate quickest safe descent velocity and aim for a landing.
    get down. sole objective is soft landing. halt sideways motion etc and get onto the ground then switch on the locator beacon.

    but instead, oh dear. an electronic swarm of flies. (psst, did the Waymo folks plan the evening?
    https://artvoice.com/waymo-cars-invaded-an-atlanta-neighborhood-and-residents-fought-back)

  8. I must say, I find Vivid Sydney on Darling Harbour to be a bit too screamingly gay for high-tech displays. Perhaps my stereotypes have become outmoded. Hey, it happened to Bang and Olufsen.

      1. Let’s glue feathers on a crocodile and have it give lectures on “healthy chickenness”.

  9. Good thing they interviewed the blonde bimbo talking about what her “partner” saw, it added so much to our undersdtanding of the technical issues.

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