Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
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@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Such as whether an helicopter (generating its own noise) would be able to detect by flying above a congested highway which proportion of cars have their engine stopped. And that's probably the saner of those tangents.
Directional microphones are a thing. For this purpose, I suspect a 3-dimensional array of microphones and some signal analysis logic should be able to solve the problem.
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On paper, certainly. Whether it'd actually work in real life, taking into account annoying little details like the helicopter itself being a massive noise generator, is another question.
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@Zerosquare exactly. I got into that specific line of thinking because I remembered one former coworker who, worked before in a company building helicopters and in particular in predictive maintenance. Basically record (with various sensors, including microphones) all sort of noise and vibrations etc., feed that into a big heap of machine learning, stir the heap and hope that the output tells you when a chopper is going to go boom, preferably long-enough before it does that you can send it to the repair shop in time.
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@PleegWat said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Such as whether an helicopter (generating its own noise) would be able to detect by flying above a congested highway which proportion of cars have their engine stopped. And that's probably the saner of those tangents.
Directional microphones are a thing. For this purpose, I suspect a 3-dimensional array of microphones and some signal analysis logic should be able to solve the problem.
Considering that the firearm detection systems are utter shit, I think an IR camera would do a better job, just check which cars are pumping hot exhaust out.
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@Carnage and then fire a water cannon in that direction
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
just check which cars are pumping hot exhaust out.
The bad thing is that the exhaust gases are gaseous - they are almost invisible with infrared. When you want to see the hot gases, they have to be dirty. Exhaust from large ships on the ocean: that worx. I doubt that even VW has some much particulate matter in it.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
just check which cars are pumping hot exhaust out.
The bad thing is that the exhaust gases are gaseous - they are almost invisible ti infrared. When you want to see the hot gases, they have to be dirty. Exhaust from large ships on the ocean: that worx. I doubt that even VW has some much particulate matter in it.
Doubly so once it detects the monitoring camera on it and engages standards mode.
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cut. Poorly cut loop is poorly cut. Poorly
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@Zerosquare Does a horse shit on the road?
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@Zerosquare perfect intro for this piece of news (from yesterday and without even looking I'm sure it's been already posted in at least two other threads )!
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@remi Someone should tell the English to stop horsing around.
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@Carnage Yeah! Our runaway horses causes deaths, not just maiming!
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@remi Someone should tell the English to stop horsing around.
HOof.
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@Carnage I'm sure someone will tell me to get off my high horses but I'm just chomping at the bit to tell you that too many people are given free rein to repeat the same puns again and again, and saying they're not funny isn't just being a naysayer. But it's too late, that horse has already bolted.
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@Zecc said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@remi Someone should tell the English to stop horsing around.
HOof.
Was your pun better than his? Neigh.
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@Zerosquare PSA: The obligation to clean up after your dog is not, in fact, limited to dogs.
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@remi Why would you saddle us with these?
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@TwelveBaud that was a spur of the moment decision, taken on the hoof.
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Whoooooaaaa
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@boomzilla Mine used to complain that I drove too defensively.
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She didn't approve of adding a turret to your car?
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@blek
would have been funnier xhe had used a Peugeot steer on a Peugeot bikebut nevermind that ... turns out they still sell bikes ... so look at those bikes ... look at those specs ...
Peugeot ... is your marketing departement too lazy to match a bike picture with the specs?
Filled under: useless_red_circles
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@Luhmann said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Peugeot ... is your marketing departement too lazy to match a bike picture with the specs?
You think anyone in marketing knows anything
about their products?
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Posting this here instead of the electric car thread because there's nothing particularly -worthy about it.
Renting a car from Hertz is an anti-pattern (could also go in the Bad Ideas thread).
Gotta Love Hertz! – 11:30
— Steve LehtoTL;DW: Guy rented a Tesla Model 3. When he returned it, Hertz charged him $277 for gas. Not charging the battery; for putting gas in the non-existent tank. Even if it was a gas-powered car and he'd returned it with the tank empty, he shouldn't have been charged for gas, because he'd pre-paid for the "skip the pump" option. (Why'd he do that for an electric car? ) Also, he returned it with the battery 96% charged, so there's no way charging it to 100% would have cost $277, even at a rental agency's inflated prices.
Hertz, in their inimitable the customer tradition, refuses to back down and remove the charge, even though they are obviously wrong.
But on the bright side, at least he didn't get arrested for driving a car Hertz had incorrectly reported stolen.
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
refuses to back down and remove the charge
You mean the gas?
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@Zerosquare said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
refuses to back down and remove the charge
You mean the gas?
Maybe the N2O gas the Hertz employees are huffing.
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Hertz, in their inimitable the customer tradition, refuses to back down and remove the charge, even though they are obviously wrong.
They refunded him after it went through the news cycle:
They shouldn't have needed the extra pressure, though.
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@Parody said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Hertz, in their inimitable the customer tradition, refuses to back down and remove the charge, even though they are obviously wrong.
They refunded him after it went through the news cycle:
They shouldn't have needed the extra pressure, though.
It's hertz, of course it was needed. They are complete assholes and should never be used.
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
They are complete assholes and should never be used.
They will abuse yours.
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@boomzilla
I spotted this recently.(blurry shot from Google Maps)
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@loopback0 said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@boomzilla
I spotted this recently.(blurry shot from Google Maps)
That's an annoying way to write 14 km/h.
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Rock thrown in Morganton hits, kills driver – 02:28
— WCNCNot sure where this is. Somebody threw a rock through a young woman's windshield, hitting her in the head. Crashed and died. (It's not entirely clear whether the rock killed her or the crash.) Somebody in Colorado was just sentenced to 70 years in prison for the same thing.
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@dcon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
At least 50% of the youtube crash videos have to be this.
Around here, you're allowed to pull up to the median and stop there for traffic from the other direction. There will be road markings (so-called shark's teeth) on the far side of the median to indicate this.
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@boomzilla What was the BAC of the people involved in that activity?
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@boomzilla What was the BAC of the people involved in that activity?
Yes.
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Good thing this plate isn't on a BMW or I wouldn't believe it...
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Yeah...it's been a minute since I've driven a manual transmission, but...