I'm sure they would have been falling over themselves to mention it if it did. The fact audio quality wasn't even mentioned is a red flag.

But it has a 15 hour battery so it doesn't need charging!

[spoiler]Because it'll be back in the box and listed on ebay in 4[/spoiler]

/cynic

Wait, they have a candy drawer??!

That one dawdling at the back has a poster that says "What if you're right and they're wrong?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_social_network

An interleaving intersection with 1:1 non stop traffic would be scary, exciting and fun to be a part of. Especially at high speed!

Taken to it's logical conclusion (where all road vehicles are automated) things like processing visuals becomes a lot simpler.

Most of the information will be preprocessed data - the road infrastructure, and knowledge of every other vehicle in the system. That's what it becomes - one homogeneous and optimisable system; not a single robot car making it's own decisions. Processing is done by servers in advance, not individual vehicles.

Real time visual processing then only has to be on the look out for things that are out of the ordinary, such as a deer running onto the road, and take caution. Something that is much easier to do when done with well coordinated cooperation with every other vehicle around you. The car behind isn't going to hit you; nor is the oncoming car in the opposite lane.

Even if every car in the situation doesn't have the stopping distance, they will all turn (where possible) in a coordinated manner to avoid or reduce collisions. The situation may be avoided in the first place, because the system knows about dangers specific to this stretch of road and will have limited speed and increase distance between vehicles appropriately.

If there is one thing that humans absolutely suck at, it's unspoken mass cooperation in an emergent system; our roads being the prime example.

People can't even keep the appropriate distance from the car in front to prevent collisions in an emergency stop; let alone leave enough distance to prevent traffic jams. Imagine a red light (real or virtual) turns green, and every car for a mile back accelerates at the same time. There's no queuing (the cause of jams).

Emergency services get a clear, safe and direct path to their destination.

Who knows, maybe the system even knows you have a flight reservation or a business meeting, or if you're just going to the mall or visiting friends and can prioritise intersections accordingly (though that is getting a little Orwell meets Skynet).

The hard part is going to be getting from our current fully manual and emergent system to a fully automated and coordinated system; but I'm really excited by the prospect it might happen in my lifetime.

Why do I bother.

*blocked

How appropriate!

Hah, I considered adding it to Howto but didn't want to surprise anyone

Poor bug thought it was walking somewhere.

Oddly, Travis Bickle did the sound for this video.

Glad to see he got back on his feet.

Followed the link after http://videosift.com/video/Light-Speed-From-Minecraft-to-Reality. If somone can relate, much appreciated.

@ant If we have to go to youtube.com to check the deal on every video we watch on the sift, then we may as well stay on youtube.

Your downvote was harsh.