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Bike Messenger Riding Fast and Fluid Through NYC Traffic

Runaway Mail Truck

PlayhousePals says...

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"

Not a word about a rogue truck so in THAT case ... S.O.L.

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Honda Riding Assist - CES 2017

wraith jokingly says...

Wow, I never even heard a more "American" idea! ;-)
How about the store having ONE car/bike that delivers ordered goods to all of its customers or a special service (let's call it a courier service) that will pick up goods from multiple stores and delivers them to all customers?

WKB said:

Actually... that's a great idea. Why not?

I've never considered this angle, but it is kind of genius. If self driving cars are safe enough to carry a person, why not solo? Go the to grocery store website, order your milk. There are three options. Pickup, Delivery, or Auto-Pickup. If you registered your self driving car with the service, you can click a button to confirm, "Send car for pickup."

Wow... I might live to see that.

Tesla Model S driver sleeping at the wheel on Autopilot

ChaosEngine says...

Actually, I would say I have a pretty good understanding of machine learning. I'm a software developer and while I don't work on machine learning day-to-day, I've certainly read a good deal about it.

As I've already said, Tesla's solution is not autonomous driving, completely agree on that (which is why I said the video is probably fake or the driver was just messing with people).

A stock market simulator is a different problem. It's trying to predict trends in an inherently chaotic system.

A self-driving car doesn't have to have perfect prediction, it can be reactive as well as predictive. Again, the point is not whether self-driving cars can be perfect. They don't have to be, they just have to be as good or better than the average human driver and frankly, that's a pretty low bar.

That said, I don't believe the first wave of self-driving vehicles will be passenger cars. It's far more likely to be freight (specifically small freight, i.e. courier vans).

I guess we'll see what happens.

RedSky said:

@ChaosEngine

I'm not sure you understand what machine learning is. As I said, the trigger for your child.runsInFront() is based on numerical inputs from sensors that is fed into a formula with certain parameters and coefficients. This has been optimized from many hours of driving data but ultimately it's not able to predict novel events as it can only optimize off existing data. There is a base level of error from bias-variance tradeoff to any model that you cannot avoid. It's not simply a matter of logging enough hours of driving. If that base error level is not low enough, then autonomous cars may never be deemed reliable to be unsupervised.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias-variance_tradeoff
Or specifically: http://scott.fortmann-roe.com/docs/docs/BiasVariance/biasvariance.png

It's the same reason that a stock market simulator using the same method (but different inputs) is not accurate. The difference would be that while 55% correct for the stock market may be sufficiently accurate and useful to be profitable, a driving algorithm needs to be near perfect. It's true that a sensor reaction time to someone braking unexpectedly may be much better than a human's and prevent a crash, so yes in certain cases autonomous driving will be safer but because of exceptional cases, but it may never be truly hands-off and you may always need to be ready to intervene, just like how Tesla works today (and why on a regulatory level it passed muster).

The combination of Google hyping its project and poor understanding of math or machine learning is why news reports just parrot Google's reliability numbers. Tesla also, has managed to convince many people that it already offers autonomous driving, but the auto-steer / cruise and changing lanes tech has existed for around a decade. Volvo, Mercedes and Audi all have similar features. There is a tendency to treat this technology as magical or inevitable when there are some unavoidable limitations behind it that may never be surmounted.

Package Thief Gets A Taste of His Own Medicine

Payback says...

Even here in Canada both UPS and Purolator have "No signature needed" levels of service where it just gets left at your door.

If you look at your next Purolator "sorry we missed you" stickynote, you'll see where to pick it up, whether they'll try again, and if you like, they'll just leave it if you call them up.

I've personally run off someone trying to grab a package off my neighbour's doorstep. Turns out it was a laptop sent to my neighbour fraudulently. Fraudulently in that the guy trying to grab it used someone elses's credit card to buy it, had it shipped to my neighbour's address, then waited around for the courier. It just so happened I was coming home at exactly that time.

nanrod said:

When I'm not home for a package delivery whether it's Canada Post, UPS, or Purolator I get a notice of attempted delivery and an address to go to to pick it up myself.

Motorcycle Paramedic Speeding Through Warsaw

Riding the White Line

Fallout vs Skyrim - Vault Dweller vs Dovahkiin

gorillaman says...

Alright, after two days this is still bugging me and I have to say it, but ignore this comment and stop reading here.

This is not Vault Boy. Vault Boy, also sometimes known as Fallout Boy before a terrible band ruined that for everyone, is the cute cartoon character in Vault-Tec promotional material. This is, presumably, the Lone Wanderer. It goes:

Fallout 1: The Vault Dweller
Fallout 2: The Chosen One
Fallout so-called-3: The Lone Wanderer
Fallout actually-3-slash-new-vegas: The Courier

USPS carrier drives onto customer's lawn to deliver package

SFOGuy says...

So, the lack of a full uniform leads me to believe that she may be a contractor (in small towns, USPS uses mail contractors; I think the most famous examples of its contractors are 1) the private pilots who FLY mail to the secluded farms and towns of central and northern Idaho and 2) the speed boat couriers hired every summer to deliver to the summer residences and islands of the St. Lawrence seaway....)

Girl saved of Fifth Floor Fall

Girl saved of Fifth Floor Fall

siftbot says...

Invocations (dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Couriers-catch-girl-falling-from-4th-floor-with-their-hands) cannot be called by digitalpimp because digitalpimp is not privileged - sorry.

55. Delete Facebook

charlatantric says...

This video makes some fair points to consider, but it's drowning in baseless assertions (i.e., actors on reality TV shows acting out in psychopathic ways that transform into social norms).

It's stuck up its own ass, failing to take a step back to view consumerism as merely a proxy by which those in power can hold on to it (much like religion, patriotism, etc.). We're not all sheeple, but we are all human and are prey to the natural tendencies that underly tribalism.

Facebook is just a courier (and the video makes mention of that fact, relating it to the argument "guns don't kill people; people kill people"). Which is quite ironic, given that the thesis misses the forest from the trees (sic).

UK Threatening to Raid Ecuador Embassy to Get Julian Assange

radx says...

It would be interesting to see if the authorities dared to arrest Assange if he was declared a diplomatic courier under Article 27 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. Of if they dared to search a vehicle with diplomatic plates under the assumption that Assange is transported within.

We haven't had any decent cloak and dagger entertainment since the Iron Curtain went down. Better get some popcorn. >> ^Hybrid:

He still has to physically get out of the UK >> ^radx:
Small country, big cojones -- asylum granted.




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