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‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen
  • Huh?! If I look at the source of the article at Mozilla, Tesla is actually ranked as almost least creepy.

    So I do not understand where this is coming from. Also the picture of the article only showing teslas is highly suggestive

    https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/cars/

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    Why is React, a client side rendering framework, a popular choice for server side rendering?
  • You can configure nextjs to compile as only client-side-rendering, so that it runs like before!

    Another thing: NextJS is not only SSR. It’s hybrid. The advantage here is that it decreases the visible first load time.

    First load pre-rendered HTML and styling is sent to the browser. So the page is already fully visible. After that all scripts and secondary CSS will be loaded. And even after that the bindings will be done.

    Where as with pure CSR, all JavaScripts need to be loaded and executed and only then stuff will become visible to the user

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    Tesla braces for its first trial involving Autopilot fatality
  • Although it’s far from perfect, autopilot gets into a lot less accidents per mile than drivers without autopilot.

    They have some statistics here: https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport

    EDIT: As pointed out by commenters in this thread, autopilot is mainly used on high ways, whereas the crash average is on all roads. Also Tesla only counts a crash if the airbag was deployed, but the numbers they compared against count every crash, including the ones without deployed airbags.

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    Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers in its first 3 days.
  • Just wow.

    I bet you do not live in The Netherlands. We have a standardized process to complain against a fine.

    If the picture doesn’t prove with certainty that you were holding a phone, complain to the address in the letter or just don’t pay the €359 fine and talk to a judge about it.

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    Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers in its first 3 days.
  • The fine contains a letter, a picture and payment information. If the person really wasn’t using their phone, they can file a complaint and the fine will be dismissed. Seems pretty simple to me.

    However, I have not heard any complaints about it in the news and an embarrassing amount of fines has been given for this offense.

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    Numerous Tesla owners say they've been trapped inside their EVs after they lost power.
  • You’re totally right.

    There is a manual door handle, which is not supposed to be used.

    Most guests in my car naturally tend to go for the manual handle instead of the button, when not instructed.

    So the people who claim to be locked are either looking for money or are total dumbfucks.

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    Numerous Tesla owners say they've been trapped inside their EVs after they lost power.
  • You’re right about that. The software is quite epic, compared to other EV manufacturers, like BMW.

    The route planning for 1000+ km road trips is almost perfect.

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    Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers in its first 3 days.
  • The system works with AI signaling phone usage by driving.

    Then a human will verify the photo.

    AI is used to respect people’s privacy.

    The combination of the AI detection+human review leads to a 5% false negative rate, and most probably 0% false positive.

    This means that the AI missed at most 5% positives, but probably less because of the human reviewer not being 100% sure there was an offense.

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    Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers in its first 3 days.
  • Just to clarify the result: the article states that AI and human review leads to 95%.

    Could also be that the human is flagging actual positives, found by the AI, as false positives.

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    Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers in its first 3 days.
  • We have a couple of these cameras in The Netherlands.

    We found it quite intrusive to look into people’s cars. Therefore the computer will flag photos, of possible offenses, and a person verifies them.

    Unfortunately the movable camera has a huge lens and it’s reported to a waze-like app before they are even finished setting it up.

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