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

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    VictorMortimer said:
    Xed said:
    bobolicious said:
    "the car maker believes that Autopilot is safe to use, and that it only becomes a danger when drivers are not paying attention to the road"
    Define 'auto'...?
    Would you use that simplistic answer also work for automobile? I'm guessing you wouldn't.

    On the one hand, fuck Tesla and Musk's lies about Autopilot's capabilities, but on the other, autopilot doesn't mean the driver doesn't have to be aware, present, etc. Airplanes have had autopilot for over a century and yet we're still not flying airplanes without pilots in them. Well, except for the drone category and those are controlled by a remote operator. I'm assuming that if a commercial airliner crashed and the NTSB discovered that it was because the pilot was playing games you wouldn't be defending the pilot with a comment like "define 'auto'?"

    I love all the automation I have in my car which allow for more relaxed and safer driving, but I understand that I'm still required to have situational awareness with those automated systems in place inside my automobile. Anything less is just asking to be a Darwin Award nominee.
    Turdla literally sells cars with something that they call "full self driving".

    Does that imply to you that a human driver still needs to be aware or present?

    The word "autopilot" isn't confusing to actual pilots, but it can be to the general public.  But if Cessna started selling "full self flying", I guarantee you that even a licensed pilot would expect that would be a fully automated aircraft.  I also guarantee the FAA wouldn't allow anything named that to be sold if it wasn't capable of full automation.
    We have had full self flying systems for years, I.e. Auto-land. Even when it’s a fully functional, non-touch system, the crew will always actively monitor and be prepared to take over in case of anomalies. In aviation it’s never about the functionality, it’s always about the potential for failure. 
    ronnMplsP9secondkox2argonaut

  • Apple Watch now fully available online and in-store after import ban stay

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    I have a different take on this issue. They are only assumptions however so disagree if you like. 

    I tend to believe that Apple looked at the patents and decided they would have a chance of having them ruled invalid, so they went ahead with their own plans for their design. 
    The hiring of staff is perfectly legal and is just a red herring. It’s just a sound bite to gain public support against Apple.

    The design of the Apple Watch already incorporated the sensor  base design from the beginning and Apple just added the light sensor to the existing cluster. 

    It seems like Masemo’s patents are very similar to what Apple was already using for their style. 


       

    Bart Ywilliamlondonfred1

  • Merry Christmas from all of us, here at AppleInsider

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    Merry Christmas to all the Apple Insider family and friends 
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  • If you want blue iMessage bubbles that much, buy an iPhone

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    RayshardT said:
    The point that Messages is the default and can't be changed is a valid argument for being anticompetitive in the iOS messaging ecosystem because it's makes it such that you can't fully switch to a different messaging app.  A different messaging app that can process SMS/MMS should be able to be the one stop shop for such data but Apple forcing users to use Messages which does nothing to make the SMS/MMS experience better. Even though SMS/MMS is an outdated technology, other apps could provide better user experiences. For example, in Google Messages on Android, emoji reactions on SMS are intercepted and displayed in a more friendly way. Another example would that another SMS/MMS app would inform the user to send a video via link instead of MMS to preserve quality. 
    That’s a load of bollocks. I live outside the US and enjoy using iMessage.  However people from the Android world want encryption in their phones also, so are already on Signal or Telegram or What’s App. It is totally seamless for me to use whatever app they have used to send me a message whenever I reply. I am happily able to get encrypted messages to them and frankly Signal is pretty good. 
    KalMaddaradarthekatwilliamlondonwatto_cobraronn

  • How Apple's 40 years of learning & iteration is powering Vision Pro

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    InspiredCode said:
    I wouldn’t say Apple was outfoxed in the 90s. Apple just lost their way. It took Steve Jobs return and acquiring another operating system to get out of bad engineering decisions of the time. 
    MS outfoxed Apple using the agreements about Word/Works to steal the complete user interface of Macintosh and create Windows. That’s what the eventual investment/payment from MS to Apple ($150,000,???) - can’t remember off the top of my head how many O’s were involved.- was about. 

    The bad engineering decisions were another story. I believe what happened was in some way attributable to the change in culture Steve’s “being outed” brought about. When he was pushed, all his followers were devalued as well. The new power was held by conventional, cheap as thinkers. This also locked Apple into the old OS past it’s us-by-date. Steve always had a sixth sense about when a technology was outdated and how to transition to the new. He returned with the transition mostly complete with OSX. 

    Steve’s final departure had the opposite effect than his first - it entrenched his way of thinking in the company culture and empowered his people to endeavour to create. 
    CurtisHightwatto_cobraradarthekatlolliverbaconstangjony0