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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