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andrewducker) wrote2022-03-31 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 31-03-2022
- 1. Jamie Wallis: Conservative politician comes out as UK's first openly trans MP
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- 2. How cables get so tangled
- (tags:video cables funny Technology )
- 3. A Woman's Story
- (tags:racism computers women history usa )
- 4. "I no longer grade my students' work - and I wish I had stopped sooner"
- (tags:academia learning school )
- 5. When the school day starts later, teens get better sleep and feel more motivated
- (tags:sleep school )
- 6. Automated taxis coming to San Francisco
- (tags:sanfrancisco automation driving cars )
- 7. MPs Vote To Make At-Home Early Abortion Services Permanent
- (tags:UK abortion GoodNews )
- 8. The vast majority of British voters support a close deal with the EU (Norway-like)
- (tags:UK Europe polls identity )
- 9. Scottish under 18s will no longer be sent to young offenders institutions
- Although, why can changing approach from "one of punishment to one of love and support" be applied to adults too?
(tags:scotland prison children ) - 10. "Procedural Justice" reduces crime by 14% and arrests by 60%
- (tags:crime police transparency )
- 11. Mobile phone users do not have increased risk of brain tumours
- (tags:mobile_phones Technology cancer GoodNews )
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If it's "one city every 6 months" then it'll be a very long time until it's even in Edinburgh. If the time between city rollouts halves every time they roll out to a new one, then it'll be here in 10 years with ease.
(Lots of factors limiting speed of rollout, of course, including how many people they need to monitor the taxis in the background, how easy they are to recruit and train, legislation, etc.)
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It's been tested a bit. It's been tested in two USian cities. I think both of the cities it's been tested in are not prone to very cold weather (for example). It's not been tested in a city where jaywalking is considered a constitutional obligation on the citizenry. I think there is still lots of work to do.
Then, once Waymo think it is ready to go they need to persuade a bunch of regulators to allow it.
Then, those regulators need to deal with the political campaign against it from taxi drivers and truck drivers (who must know they are next).
Then it needs to deal with the impact of it not working properly and some people being killed.
So I think there is still someway to go before it's ready to be rolled out.
My guess is an exponential roll out but I'm not sure whether the system has a centralised core or not. If it's just a distributed vehicle control then that should be easy to roll out quickly. I'd expect roll out speeds to increase very quickly. Particuarly when Waymo are not the only people who can do this and there is a race to sign up places for autonomous taxis.