Exactly. Apart from waking up the vehicle and closing the high voltage connectors, a whole myriad of things run off the low-voltage system, including lights, climate, infotainment and most (if not all) actuators.
This. It may seem like wishful thinking, but the problem of desertification is so immense that we ought to approach any potential remedy with first principles and determine feasibility.
Could passive desalination be a way to bootstrap local ecosystems in arid environments to a degree where it would be self-sustaining?
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This would make sense if not for the fact that heat pumps are far more effective at heating homes than simply sending electricity through a heating element.
There was a company in France, I believe, which offered heaters that had builtin computers to render 3d graphics and heat the space. Not sure what happened to them or if they’re still around.
BMW also uses those stickers on vehicles that just collect data for BMWs autonomous driving program (they have the sensors, but not the software to actually self-drive)
Those stickers don't prove anything, especially if BMW themselves deny it. You can find those stickers on support-vehicles without any autonomous features as well. There will be more press coverage anyway and we'll find out soon.
Driving in general is inherently dangerous. For an informed opinion on the matter, we need crash rates per driven distance with and without autonomous driving activated. Preferably by manufacturer.
Though censored in some news reports, the vehicle has stickers with the text www.bmw.com/autonomousdriving. Apparently an autonomous driving test vehicle, although it is unclear whether autonomous driving was active at the time.
One BMW spokesperson said: "We are currently investigating the exact circumstances. Naturally, we are in close contact with the authorities. One thing is already clear: The BMW vehicle involved was not an autonomous driving vehicle."
Maybe it was a vehicle with additional equipment for collection data/imagery that was still completely driven by a human driver. That would explain the stickers.
My understanding is that in most of the civilized world (not in the US), the norm for media is not to report defaming information before its veracity has been established.
It’s a good thing when media shows some restraint not to make unsubstantiated claims that are impossible to fully retract in the public consciousness.
Note: This doesn’t mean media shouldn’t report on anything short of a conviction, but it probably shouldn’t report in a defaming way on something that may not even be reportable news at all (i.e. an ordinary fatal car crash)
I’m sorry, but you’re blowing this out of proportion.
Wanting the media to include the brand of the car involved in the crash (totally normal thing to do), is not equivalent to avoiding names of murder suspects. The brand is a fact, regardless of whether the self driving nature caused the crash.
