No it is the Superhochtechnologieministerium für Wisssenschaft, Technologie und Luft- und Raumfahrt. Use the right wording, dammit.

No, not all Russians are evil and deserve to die. But closing your eyes and playing oblivious to what’s happening out there, just believing the state propaganda and living in a position “oh it’s just the bad leader” is not a morally OK position.

If there is a dictator in your country you have some moral duty to find out at least a bit about the truth.

How do I know?

I’m German.

My grandparent’s generation was the one that actively closed their eyes, that actively looked away, that everything that happend was someone else’s problem. They were the Generation that arranged themselves, that did good business as long as it wasn’t them that were deported, killed or fought at in the war.

This is not a position that is morally OK, but this is what I see of a lot of Russians. Not all, but a lot.

For me it was 52 years. Or 14 if you count the day my first child was born, which in turn put enough stressors on me to burn out and not to read or answer any mail (bills & taxes) and go bankrupt in 2018.

I am on the way out, defend free time like nothing else, but still can feel stress reactions in my body.

Ooh wow. Tons of possibilities for sci fi movie scripts. Btw, the downvote wasn’t from me - probably someone found that thoughts scary And them being scary, there I agree. With the downvote no.

Wtf is this the 2024 version of a lobotomy?

Yeah 5000 of them to get the 500 mW a smartphone needs in standby mode. 50000 if you want to power up the phone from stabdby (assuming it just uses 5 Watts)

It is the article that mentioned smart phones which is bullshit. This is a (probably expensive) battery specialized for extremely low power devices which need to run for many years. It will never be something that powers your phone.

The tech is really cool and there’s applications for such a battery - just not phones.

I had to google, maybe some else wants to know: Galileo units is a (non-SI) measure of acceleration.

1 gal = 1 cm/s^2

100 gal = 1 m/s^2

So the 500-something gal from the article is roughly around half the acceleration of gravity we normally feel.

The place next to the door was unoccupied, the incident (fortunately) also happened while the fasten seatbelts lights were still on.

A couple of mobile phones got sucked out but no human.

Just purchase it now and next year the full self flying package will be available. We’re doing it with cameras only.

Boeing Boeing Boeing Boeing…

• Hey Joe, is this set up for the correct specs for the plug doors?

• Bert, don’t ask such things, else we’ll be here until night. Just fix those darn bolts with it, then let’s go for a drink.

Level 3 autonomy is exactly that. Mercedes allows you to do other things than driving in specific situations like specific (!) highways etc.

BMW also has Level 3 on low speeds on specific highways.

This is not autonomy in all situations but only during the day, no rain etc.

For limited situations the car fully takes over and in case of an accident it is legally Mercedes’ or BMW’s responsibility not the driver.

That specific situation is indicated by the lights.

It will not drive autonomously in a city or so or where pedestrians are.

All cars in NL have yellow plates. The guy before you made a joke.

Different regulations apply for the driver when the car is autonomous vs controlled by a driver.

These lights do not indicate driving assists like Tesla’s autopilot but full level 3 and above autonomy. In level 3 for example, Mercedes is responsible for any damages due to accidents - not the driver.

Also in level 3 the driver may legally use their phone, which is illegal for a car driver normally and give them a ticket.

So there IS a legal requirement to find out about the autonomy level of a car from outside.

The reason for these lights is that Mercedes has Level 3 autonomy, so the car can self drive without the driver taking attention - for example here in Germany it is illegal (and there are photo traps) to use your phone on while driving. The lights are a solution to the exemption that you are allowed to use your phone while your car is on Level 3 autonomy.

On level 3 you need to be able to take over again within 30 seconds after the car actively asks you to do so.

When I urgently needed to print something a few years ago I ran to the store and purchased the cheapest laser printer I could find, which was a Ricoh for Eur 42. Windows GDI printer shit, but I also found Mac drivers and a working linux driver.

It waa the low end model, had the same printing mechanism as the larger Ricoh Multifunction things and third party toner was dirt cheap. Ah and I can’t remember any paper jam.

Inkjets, especiallw those from HP are a scam.

I only threw out the (fully working) Ricoh after years, because someone gave me a network connected full color Oki Multifunction led printer device for free.

(Ah I checked later, “normal” price for the Ricoh when not on sale was Eur 75 or so)

Now even Betteridge’s law is dead.

What about some decent driver’s education and not letting kids drive cars? Just like the rest of the civilized world handles it?

Thanks for mentioning that - I updated my wording, as I didn’t want to say “it can’t happen like this”, I just did want to say “There might be no warning at all”.

(Update: changed wording & inserted the missing “always”, I just wanted to warn people of other situations, not rule out it can happen like this - there just might be no warning at all when falling asleep while driving )

Falling asleep while driving doesn’t always work like that. Your brain can also just shut off.

Many years ago I was going the Autobahn from Munich to Nuremberg - going with 150 km/h, 95 mph or so.

I was driving in the middle lane of 3, it was Friday early evening (around 6) and still daylight.

As said I was on the middle lane, low traffic (fortunately!) and suddenly I was on the left lane.

I was just out for a few seconds, enough time for the car to wander over to the left lane.

That probably was my closest situation to dying in traffic.

(I switched my schedule to not drive 2 hours after work THAT DAY)

In huge parts of the world these are standardized and readable as well - where Vienna Convention signs are being used. (Those with have more pictograms).

Detours are also labelled by standard signs in a pre-determined font with a specific reflectivity. Easy for a car to recognize.

And even without text recognition is one of the really easy parts of self driving. I’ve done development on document recognition for random bank statements, builinng plans and legal documents - all the paperwork for financing a house - before. Those documents come in in various fonts, layouts differently formatted etc.