Travis In Austin

I can, had to watch it twice. See if you can locate the speakers in this photo.

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From who Chris?? I thought you were aware of this going on? It stems from a thread from January about 402s and Tad drivers, a new member posted something about they were available as horn only from Spence Cho at ACE, and he quotes an exact price. Then someone mentions that they were not able to do this in the past, that they had to come with drivers, and he confirmed that he obtained a pair without drivers, and the price. Here is a link to the thread. Well for some reason this browser won't let me copy and paste the web address of that threat, maybe I can link it another way.

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Some more in depth coverage and analysis of the issues from Auto Blog: http://www.autoblog.com/2016/03/17/senate-self-driving-cars-autonomous-privacy-google/ Some snippets from the article. Notice that Lyft wants to start the launch of full AVs, ride sharing, with no driver. They are positioning themselves as the best means to deploy a driverless AV. The other big issue is the privacy issue and there is some disagreement about this. This issue will become more and more important as things progress. Begin quotes During a separate portion of the two-and-a-half hour hearing, Urmson seemed more concerned with another factor threatening the country's position as an autonomous leader. "America is currently very much in a leadership position in this space," he said. "That said, Europe, China, Japan, they're hot on our heels. Not a day goes by that a company from China isn't trying to recruit engineers from our team and poach talent." General Motors' $500-million investment in ride-hailing company Lyft was on full display for Congress on Tuesday, as executives from both companies projected that ride-sharing companies would be among the first to deploy autonomous cars at a widespread level. " Cars: Big 'data-gathering machines' As Congressional hearings go, Tuesday's proceedings tilted toward innocuous. The only true disagreement between committee members and the panel of experts came when Sens. Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) asked the industry leaders if they supported mandatory privacy restrictions for personal data streaming off self-driving cars. Markey authored a report last year titled "Hacking And Tracking" that concluded automakers were unprepared to thwart car hacking and had opaque standards for gathering, storing and sharing consumer data collected from cars. He has sponsored legislation that would, among other things, rate the effectiveness of cyber protections and prohibit manufacturers from disabling certain functions, like navigation, if consumers declined to share that data. "The fact of the matter is these cars will be one big data-gathering machine." – Mary Louise Cummings Executives hemmed and hawed when Markey asked them to support mandatory standards for privacy. They all dodged his request for a yes or no answer and concurred that they all hold themselves to their own privacy policies in place. Markey replied, "We don't pass murder statutes for our mothers. They're not going to murder anybody. We do it for the people who might murder others. So we have some sort of standard." END QUOTES Hemming and hawing, that is when I begin to worry.

As I have stated in the past on this thread, the critical path to commercially available AVs is a uniform legal and regulatory framework, i.e., federal legislation. That process began last week in a Senate hearing of the Commerce Committee. The full hearing is available on the C-span website. All of the major players were there, Delphi, Google, GM, Tesla, were there and brought vehicles for Senators to drive/operate/ride. Here is an article giving a recap of the hearing. http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2016/03/15/google-alphabet-general-motors-lyft-senate-commerce-self-driving-cars/81818812/ These stakeholders want the legislation in order to make the massive investments required to make AVs a reality. GM has set aside a half a billion dollars for Lyft who they have partnered with to develop their software. There are a couple of issues. Some developers want to test with a licensed driver who can take over, others want to develop with no driver being required (or even present in the vehicle). Another issue of concern is preventing cyber attacks and backup systems. The article mentions a "couple" or a "few" years for assisted driving vehicles being widely available, and a "few" years after that. The process has thus begun for federal legislation and regulations for AVs. If Congress can move and get this done the path will be wide open for manufacturers to begin to make AVs widely available and on a time line originally suggested by Dave. Travis

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I looked, they are just friends, there is even an official press release: That is, according to "Sesame Street," which released an official statement on the matter on Thursday responding to an online campaign calling for the pair to be married. "Bert and Ernie are best friends," the statement posted on Sesame Street's Facebook page reads. "They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves." The statement continues: "Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most Sesame Street Muppets™ do), they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation." I understand that SpongeBob had no comment.

None of the Thunderbirds were gay.

http://time.is/GMT The DoD uses the Naval Observatory to set all military time and GPS satellites, http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/time/master-clock You have one of those watches that automatically adjust? How does is account for the time that the radio waves take to arrive at your watch? I miss the days when you could call "popcorn"

http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2015/10/22/muppets-gay-jokes-arent-offensive-just-unfunny Maybe they are all gay. Never knew that.

Which Muppet is gay? I thought it was a Teletubbie that was gay?

So how are the prices of liquor in Ohio compared to other states where there is a free market?

State store?

That was a great story, welcome to the forum.

Awesome video. Now that would be a dinner I would really enjoy attending, one with the two of you discussing Tchaikovsky along with the subtle nuances of national medical education policy.

No, Stonewall Jackson.

Well, they're dead.......Dead they all may be, but even dead any of them would do a better job than any of the recent or current bunch alive.So could your dog. The dog refused saying 'if nominated I will not run... if elected I will not serve'. Well shoot. Must be something we can do to change the dog's mind.