Travis In Austin

The publicist was quoting her family in Ireland.

"Suddenly" in a Catholic country, involving a Irish Catholic girl usually only means one thing. So very sad.

Roadway funding in budgeted as much as 10 years out, so you won't see savings in near term. Nor will you see savings in repairs and rebuilding, which will stay the same and then increase because the theory is that instead of having to build new roads, or expand them, you can get more cars on the same road without compromising speed with AV cars. However that assumes that a majority of vehicles on a particular freeway are all true AV. Once you are running more vehicles over same road because of efficiency than repair and maintenance will go up. But certainly cheaper than new construction or expansion of roads.

It's not that complex in my estimation. They will do what they always do. Special interests will be at the table, voters with control as a block (AARP et al) will determine how willing you are going to make them give up their car and go out and purchase a new one. There was a program to get old polluting vehicles off road. Cash for Clunkers. I don't know how it worked out, it might be a path to expedite transition.

That is the model I think we will see, they can use diamond Lane for free to start. Not sure what will happen out in rural area. Like Hope AR is a good example. Will interstate become restricted to AV only, or maybe locals can use it from 10 am to 2 pm, (daylight, non prime time?) AND have to use real roads at other times. Will small towns be required to adopt an AV only model? It's all going to be very interesting. I though it was fascinating that someone actually applied with DOT for a true AV, (Level 4 or above) and not advanced cruise, AND it will be available in some form in 2019

It's the money. A significant portion of society can only affordable used vehicles. Most importantly, the most important voting block has to be "grandfathered" in, seniors, retirees. People who are on social security are not going to be able to replace their cars at the drop of a hat. They vote, and they will determine, to a large extent, how this is phased in. If there is an incentive to switch, it will happen sooner. This was the case of HD TV. General Aviation has had some major technological advancements over the years that save money and resulted in huge increases in safety. Just one example is a transponder with altitude encoding. This is a retrofit, new antenna , cable, power hookup, and new panel instrument in radio stack, if there was room. That was just starting when I was learning to fly in '75, and it was over 30 years to phase that in. They did it by giving long, long advance warning where it would initially be implemented. BOS, JFK, LAX, DFW, SFO, and then slowly started shrinking where you could fly without that installed and under what conditions. Everyone one agreed that it was a good thing, and was necessary, but it cost between 3 and 10K to put one in. There are a lot less General Aviation owners than there are car owners, but they were able to get a realistic phase in period

It will be a 10 to 20 year transition just like everything else that has been federally mandated. They can ramp it up, on AVs on the interstates. Then only AV'S on US highways. Then that starts going state and local. How long for seat belts to be required to be installed in every car? Airbags? Antiock brakes? How long to mandate conversion to HD TV? How long to install collision avoidance on passenger trains? It still hasn't been funded by the way. Those timelines have been discussed much earlier in here. The one thing for certain is that federal legislation will be required in order to do it, and then Regs by DOT to implement it. It will be decades before you go into a car dealer and they only have vehicles without steering wheels, and it will be decades before a license is only available to the wealthy. It will certainly start ramping that way over time. Travis

What was the projected time of phase in for having to purchase an AV or face having to pay high price for license? Travis

It's going to be close. Dave may hit it right on the dot, 2019, it mat be 2020 before public can get them. It appears that the first approved and licensed truly AV will be by GM "General Motors is looking to reinvent the wheel, by building a car without a steering wheel, pedals or gear selector, because it doesn’t need them.The automaker on Friday revealed images of an autonomous car it’s hoping to put into production by 2019 and is petitioning the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for permission to do so.If approved, it will likely be the first production vehicle of its kind to hit the road, two years before a similar proposal from Ford.Based on the Chevy Bolt, the electric Cruise AV will initially be employed in a ride-hailing capacity and operate within a pre-determined, well-mapped ‘geo-fenced’ area, so it won’t be entirely off the leash."

Nice seeing you in here @bhendrix

I thought I was pretty explicit. Let me be more clear. You have done a wonderful job in trying to educate people here that when you get to a certain level of system the quality of the recording becomes more and more important. Stated another way, many, many people here have stated they didn't realize how bad a recording was until they heard them on speaker X. Some, you will recall @Chris A , initially thought their new speakers had a problem, or were sounding bad. I recall on more than one occassion you making inquiry about what recordings someone was using, or suggesting it could be part of the problem, and people remarking later it was a particular recording that threw them off.

I think you are over analyzing it. To some people tube amps sound better than solid state. To some people SET amps sound better than push-pull. The amount of negative feedback, or any at all, make a difference to some people in how things sound. If something sounds better to your ears that is the ultimate test. Are you happy with it. Some are never happy (satisfied) and keep swithiching out gear, and that's cool too. Here is another thing that Chris has been instrumental in educating Pepole about. Once you get to a certain level of audio reproduction, the source becomes more and more critical. This is more in 2 channel than HT, but is true of 5.1 Sacd and DVD-A: Technology can go too far in making things smaller, lighter or more convenient. Things like compression of audio files (MP3) streaming, etc. Music can become over-processed in the recording, mixing and mastering stages. You are seeing a major swing right now in music delivery industry segments developing much higher requirements and standrds for digital music files, video uploading. HIgh rez downloads are increasing, and hi rez streaming is on a major rise.

Thank you, now even I can almost understand it.

I'm going to mount them under a couple of flat mounted ones that are just using built in speakers currently.

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I was wondering because I have seen you and MikeTN talk in very technical terms that a particular model of I think they talk about this a lot in the type amp and as amp sectioons as well.

I was wondering because I have seen you and MikeTN talk in very technical terms that a particular model of speakers might not sound as good with a particular tube amp topology and the common factor in these discussions seems to be impedience. While it make one type of amp work harder than another, is it more likely to be an audible difference?

Yeah, @dBspl Kerry, how about it?

I think Kerry said.it was passive in the video. I thing that mounting system for flat mounted tv applications is outstanding. Nice job @dBspl

@Chris A But the basic topology of an amp can work better for a particular set of speakers because of the speakers have a demanding or unusual impedience curve?

Has your cashier's check bounced yet?

I would like to hear those. Have you heard them?

Most speakers are voiced to some, not.so much an issue with subs. But Mixing fronts with L and R can cause an EQ mismatch. In a movie not as.big a deal because about 80%.comes.from center. Distortion. Can be different between them, and you could end up with more IM distortion in order to volume match and this would result in unpleasing and fatigue.

Nice save Chief.