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  • Apple wants iPhone-like touch surfaces to be able to wrap around spheres

    tobiantobian
    This might be future input device for VP. I can’t imagine any helpful use on a MacBook, iPad, or mouse.
    watto_cobra

  • Tesla wants Apple's help to beat Autopilot death lawsuit

    tobiantobian
    Xed said:
    I don't think you thought your comment through... unless you want to defend how automated systems like airbags, antilock braking, traction control, blind spot warnings, lane guidance, cruise control, and adaptive cruise control have lead to less safe driving and more accidents because, as you put it, those make us actively asleep. I, for one, don't miss  having to quickly depress and release the brakes in quick succession to stop fast without locking up the brake, and I can't even imagine what it would be like to have an airbag button that I have to push the moment I'm in an accident.

    Of course, you'll say that you didn't mean those things and/or that they don't count (somehow), but the absolutely do. They are autonomous systems — denoting or performed by a device capable of operating without direct human control — that have prevented a great deal of damage and minimized the loss of life, even if it means that the younger generations will never understand how and why a brake can lock up and your vehicle to skid without functional control as a result.

    You're naming driving assistive features, not driving substitution. Of course we're not going to sleep, but play games instead, texting, making facetime calls, etc. ..Autopilot was always so unneed to intervene ,) It's soooooooo boring to supervise all the time, but having no joy of *driving* ,)
    ronn9secondkox2VictorMortimertmay

  • Tesla wants Apple's help to beat Autopilot death lawsuit

    tobiantobian
    Driving a car involves concentration, considerations and reactions. If we rely on an autonomous system, requiring only considerations, but skipping reactions, that's weakening our concentration. It actively makes us asleep by repeatingly telling our brain no reaction is needed. Also, we are loosing the feel of how car exactly reacts to steering a wheel and thus our reaction once in a while can be inaccurate.

    We shouldn't use autopilot at all, if it's not 100% reliable.
    ronn9secondkox2VictorMortimerjbdragon

  • Apple employees urge management to act on Gaza conflict

    tobiantobian
    DavidEsrati said:
    Interesting. No worries about the fighting in Ukraine?
    Or any other conflicts around the world?


    Perhaps this is because of a different pace. At the end of the year, death toll in Ukraine was around 9.700 people after these years, while in Gaza it's over 30.000 since October. Civilians x soldiers ratio also differs. Hard to judge...
    watto_cobraronnmuthuk_vanalingamJaiOh81

  • Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in Apple Vision Pro aren't cooking your brain

    tobiantobian
    Just add up a few tens of wi-fi networks around you, bluetooths, VHFs, UHFs, Zigbee bulbs, EDGEs, LTEs, GSMs, NMTs, FMs, AMs, DVB-Ts, DABs.. agregate it and still be sure it won’t disrupt your brainwaves, or your bodys electromagnetic field. Sure there are studies, that considered all this together right? No link to insomnia, etc.

    I can tell you, whenever you switch your phones bluetooth on and off next to my head, with ears covered and closed eyes. I can feel it as a slight tension in my head, when concentrating.
    byronlwilliamlondon