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January 28, 2010 at 6:46 PM in reply to: Do I need a permit to put up a yurt in my backyard? #507304January 28, 2010 at 6:46 PM in reply to: Do I need a permit to put up a yurt in my backyard? #507398
XBoxBoy
ParticipantAhh yes, yurts.
For those of you who might be interested in staying in a yurt I highly recommend Treebones Resort in Big Sur. A yurt with an ocean view. Really nice place, a great romantic getaway.
January 28, 2010 at 6:46 PM in reply to: Do I need a permit to put up a yurt in my backyard? #507652ParticipantAhh yes, yurts.
For those of you who might be interested in staying in a yurt I highly recommend Treebones Resort in Big Sur. A yurt with an ocean view. Really nice place, a great romantic getaway.
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3) The number of people who die annually on our roads is something like 50k, and the number injured is significantly higher. Self driven cars should have no collisions.
You are an optimist.. think blue screen of death. How about ‘runaway Toyota’s too. Its not supposed to happen, but still does. It needs to be realized that following distances will be decreased and speeds increased for cars that are ‘auto-piloted’ because the perception of increased safety.[/quote]
I don’t really think I’m that much of an optimist to be honest. Yes, you might still have occasional deaths, (so, okay, maybe I was wrong to say “no deaths”) but the number of deaths due to mechanical failure will be significantly less than deaths due to drinking, talking on the phone, speeding, and plain stupidity.
Yes, following distances would decrease, and speeds would probably increase, but the reaction time of a computer is faster than human reaction time by many orders of magnitude. And to take out the “human decision making” element of driving would be enormous. (How often do you find yourself mumbling, “IDIOT” when driving?)
Btw. How many people have died in the runaway toyotas? A quick web search gives me the number 18 deaths since 1999, so maybe 2 per year. Let’s say those numbers are low, with some deaths due to this being falsly attributed to something else. Even at double, 4 deaths per year, it’s a teeny tiny fraction of the number of deaths cause each day by stupid drivers. (Hey, you thought I wouldn’t drag out some statistics? This is Piggington’s “In God we trust all other’s bring data”)
Bottom line to all this is that self driven cars is something that would bring huge benefits to each and everyone of us. But unfortunately, the vision for these things just isn’t there. Instead we are trapped looking at “traditional” solutions such as mass transit trains and buses.
XBoxBoy
Participant[quote=ucodegen]
3) The number of people who die annually on our roads is something like 50k, and the number injured is significantly higher. Self driven cars should have no collisions.
You are an optimist.. think blue screen of death. How about ‘runaway Toyota’s too. Its not supposed to happen, but still does. It needs to be realized that following distances will be decreased and speeds increased for cars that are ‘auto-piloted’ because the perception of increased safety.[/quote]
I don’t really think I’m that much of an optimist to be honest. Yes, you might still have occasional deaths, (so, okay, maybe I was wrong to say “no deaths”) but the number of deaths due to mechanical failure will be significantly less than deaths due to drinking, talking on the phone, speeding, and plain stupidity.
Yes, following distances would decrease, and speeds would probably increase, but the reaction time of a computer is faster than human reaction time by many orders of magnitude. And to take out the “human decision making” element of driving would be enormous. (How often do you find yourself mumbling, “IDIOT” when driving?)
Btw. How many people have died in the runaway toyotas? A quick web search gives me the number 18 deaths since 1999, so maybe 2 per year. Let’s say those numbers are low, with some deaths due to this being falsly attributed to something else. Even at double, 4 deaths per year, it’s a teeny tiny fraction of the number of deaths cause each day by stupid drivers. (Hey, you thought I wouldn’t drag out some statistics? This is Piggington’s “In God we trust all other’s bring data”)
Bottom line to all this is that self driven cars is something that would bring huge benefits to each and everyone of us. But unfortunately, the vision for these things just isn’t there. Instead we are trapped looking at “traditional” solutions such as mass transit trains and buses.
XBoxBoy
Participant[quote=ucodegen]
3) The number of people who die annually on our roads is something like 50k, and the number injured is significantly higher. Self driven cars should have no collisions.
You are an optimist.. think blue screen of death. How about ‘runaway Toyota’s too. Its not supposed to happen, but still does. It needs to be realized that following distances will be decreased and speeds increased for cars that are ‘auto-piloted’ because the perception of increased safety.[/quote]
I don’t really think I’m that much of an optimist to be honest. Yes, you might still have occasional deaths, (so, okay, maybe I was wrong to say “no deaths”) but the number of deaths due to mechanical failure will be significantly less than deaths due to drinking, talking on the phone, speeding, and plain stupidity.
Yes, following distances would decrease, and speeds would probably increase, but the reaction time of a computer is faster than human reaction time by many orders of magnitude. And to take out the “human decision making” element of driving would be enormous. (How often do you find yourself mumbling, “IDIOT” when driving?)
Btw. How many people have died in the runaway toyotas? A quick web search gives me the number 18 deaths since 1999, so maybe 2 per year. Let’s say those numbers are low, with some deaths due to this being falsly attributed to something else. Even at double, 4 deaths per year, it’s a teeny tiny fraction of the number of deaths cause each day by stupid drivers. (Hey, you thought I wouldn’t drag out some statistics? This is Piggington’s “In God we trust all other’s bring data”)
Bottom line to all this is that self driven cars is something that would bring huge benefits to each and everyone of us. But unfortunately, the vision for these things just isn’t there. Instead we are trapped looking at “traditional” solutions such as mass transit trains and buses.
XBoxBoy
Participant[quote=ucodegen]
3) The number of people who die annually on our roads is something like 50k, and the number injured is significantly higher. Self driven cars should have no collisions.
You are an optimist.. think blue screen of death. How about ‘runaway Toyota’s too. Its not supposed to happen, but still does. It needs to be realized that following distances will be decreased and speeds increased for cars that are ‘auto-piloted’ because the perception of increased safety.[/quote]
I don’t really think I’m that much of an optimist to be honest. Yes, you might still have occasional deaths, (so, okay, maybe I was wrong to say “no deaths”) but the number of deaths due to mechanical failure will be significantly less than deaths due to drinking, talking on the phone, speeding, and plain stupidity.
Yes, following distances would decrease, and speeds would probably increase, but the reaction time of a computer is faster than human reaction time by many orders of magnitude. And to take out the “human decision making” element of driving would be enormous. (How often do you find yourself mumbling, “IDIOT” when driving?)
Btw. How many people have died in the runaway toyotas? A quick web search gives me the number 18 deaths since 1999, so maybe 2 per year. Let’s say those numbers are low, with some deaths due to this being falsly attributed to something else. Even at double, 4 deaths per year, it’s a teeny tiny fraction of the number of deaths cause each day by stupid drivers. (Hey, you thought I wouldn’t drag out some statistics? This is Piggington’s “In God we trust all other’s bring data”)
Bottom line to all this is that self driven cars is something that would bring huge benefits to each and everyone of us. But unfortunately, the vision for these things just isn’t there. Instead we are trapped looking at “traditional” solutions such as mass transit trains and buses.
XBoxBoy
Participant[quote=ucodegen]
3) The number of people who die annually on our roads is something like 50k, and the number injured is significantly higher. Self driven cars should have no collisions.
You are an optimist.. think blue screen of death. How about ‘runaway Toyota’s too. Its not supposed to happen, but still does. It needs to be realized that following distances will be decreased and speeds increased for cars that are ‘auto-piloted’ because the perception of increased safety.[/quote]
I don’t really think I’m that much of an optimist to be honest. Yes, you might still have occasional deaths, (so, okay, maybe I was wrong to say “no deaths”) but the number of deaths due to mechanical failure will be significantly less than deaths due to drinking, talking on the phone, speeding, and plain stupidity.
Yes, following distances would decrease, and speeds would probably increase, but the reaction time of a computer is faster than human reaction time by many orders of magnitude. And to take out the “human decision making” element of driving would be enormous. (How often do you find yourself mumbling, “IDIOT” when driving?)
Btw. How many people have died in the runaway toyotas? A quick web search gives me the number 18 deaths since 1999, so maybe 2 per year. Let’s say those numbers are low, with some deaths due to this being falsly attributed to something else. Even at double, 4 deaths per year, it’s a teeny tiny fraction of the number of deaths cause each day by stupid drivers. (Hey, you thought I wouldn’t drag out some statistics? This is Piggington’s “In God we trust all other’s bring data”)
Bottom line to all this is that self driven cars is something that would bring huge benefits to each and everyone of us. But unfortunately, the vision for these things just isn’t there. Instead we are trapped looking at “traditional” solutions such as mass transit trains and buses.
XBoxBoy
ParticipantSeems to me, a better and more universal solution would be for the money to be spent developing self driving cars. The benefits of such a system would be huge.
1) The number of cars (and thus people) that could travel on the same road would probably double or triple, since self driven cars wouldn’t cut each other off, or drive slow while talking on the cell phone.
2) Time spent in the car could become productive. Rather than “driving” you could safely do a whole variety of things.
3) The number of people who die annually on our roads is something like 50k, and the number injured is significantly higher. Self driven cars should have no collisions. The savings from this would be huge. (Not only lives saved, but think of the money not spent on auto insurance, and ambulance chasers)
To me it’s a shame that when the govt talks about stimulus, they don’t have the vision or leadership to propose something like self driven cars. Hey, if we can put a man on the moon, we can design a system of self driven cars.
XBoxBoy
ParticipantSeems to me, a better and more universal solution would be for the money to be spent developing self driving cars. The benefits of such a system would be huge.
1) The number of cars (and thus people) that could travel on the same road would probably double or triple, since self driven cars wouldn’t cut each other off, or drive slow while talking on the cell phone.
2) Time spent in the car could become productive. Rather than “driving” you could safely do a whole variety of things.
3) The number of people who die annually on our roads is something like 50k, and the number injured is significantly higher. Self driven cars should have no collisions. The savings from this would be huge. (Not only lives saved, but think of the money not spent on auto insurance, and ambulance chasers)
To me it’s a shame that when the govt talks about stimulus, they don’t have the vision or leadership to propose something like self driven cars. Hey, if we can put a man on the moon, we can design a system of self driven cars.
XBoxBoy
ParticipantSeems to me, a better and more universal solution would be for the money to be spent developing self driving cars. The benefits of such a system would be huge.
1) The number of cars (and thus people) that could travel on the same road would probably double or triple, since self driven cars wouldn’t cut each other off, or drive slow while talking on the cell phone.
2) Time spent in the car could become productive. Rather than “driving” you could safely do a whole variety of things.
3) The number of people who die annually on our roads is something like 50k, and the number injured is significantly higher. Self driven cars should have no collisions. The savings from this would be huge. (Not only lives saved, but think of the money not spent on auto insurance, and ambulance chasers)
To me it’s a shame that when the govt talks about stimulus, they don’t have the vision or leadership to propose something like self driven cars. Hey, if we can put a man on the moon, we can design a system of self driven cars.
XBoxBoy
ParticipantSeems to me, a better and more universal solution would be for the money to be spent developing self driving cars. The benefits of such a system would be huge.
1) The number of cars (and thus people) that could travel on the same road would probably double or triple, since self driven cars wouldn’t cut each other off, or drive slow while talking on the cell phone.
2) Time spent in the car could become productive. Rather than “driving” you could safely do a whole variety of things.
3) The number of people who die annually on our roads is something like 50k, and the number injured is significantly higher. Self driven cars should have no collisions. The savings from this would be huge. (Not only lives saved, but think of the money not spent on auto insurance, and ambulance chasers)
To me it’s a shame that when the govt talks about stimulus, they don’t have the vision or leadership to propose something like self driven cars. Hey, if we can put a man on the moon, we can design a system of self driven cars.
XBoxBoy
ParticipantSeems to me, a better and more universal solution would be for the money to be spent developing self driving cars. The benefits of such a system would be huge.
1) The number of cars (and thus people) that could travel on the same road would probably double or triple, since self driven cars wouldn’t cut each other off, or drive slow while talking on the cell phone.
2) Time spent in the car could become productive. Rather than “driving” you could safely do a whole variety of things.
3) The number of people who die annually on our roads is something like 50k, and the number injured is significantly higher. Self driven cars should have no collisions. The savings from this would be huge. (Not only lives saved, but think of the money not spent on auto insurance, and ambulance chasers)
To me it’s a shame that when the govt talks about stimulus, they don’t have the vision or leadership to propose something like self driven cars. Hey, if we can put a man on the moon, we can design a system of self driven cars.
XBoxBoy
ParticipantI would suggest getting a assesor’s parcel map which is available from the county recorder’s website for $2.
http://arcc.co.san-diego.ca.us/services/parcelmap/search.aspx
The plot map should have dimensions on it. Using the dimensions, you should be able to calculate the lot sq footage for yourself. (Hopefully it won’t be too irregular of a shape.)
XBoxBoy
ParticipantI would suggest getting a assesor’s parcel map which is available from the county recorder’s website for $2.
http://arcc.co.san-diego.ca.us/services/parcelmap/search.aspx
The plot map should have dimensions on it. Using the dimensions, you should be able to calculate the lot sq footage for yourself. (Hopefully it won’t be too irregular of a shape.)
XBoxBoy
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