The town where I grew up has a red light which only changes when a weight sensor is tripped. But weight sensors are expensive, and the approaching two-lane road only has a sensor in one lane. Worse, it's calibrated for cars, so motorcycles never trip it.

Yes, only. If you ride up late at night on a motorcycle, you have a choice between committing a serious traffic offense and waiting several hours for the light to change. No, this problem isn't ever going to be addressed.

I think it's damned reasonable to be scared of what we'll get when people hand authority to machines. Not for Terminator reasons, but for simple bureaucratic stupidity.

Some people also put magnets in their boots[2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_loop

2. http://www.instructables.com/id/Traffic-Light-Trigger-for-yo...

Shame they only put the loop in one of two lanes, though...

It's probably already addressed: run the light. Check the regulations of your local jurisdiction, but it very likely that the light is treated as "broken", and you are allowed to proceed after verifying that the intersection is clear. Yes, I've tested this IRL.

If it's an intersection you deal with regularly, call the local DOT, tell them about it and they'll come recalibrate the sensor. Yup, tested that IRL, too. Buddy of mine said that in his case they met him at the intersection so they make sure his bike worked when they were done.

And, BTW, it's not a weight sensor but an induction loop. Meaning that turning the bike off and restarting it can trip the light. Something something electricity through the starter windings.

We've already seen how poorly designed test-data and training combinations can result neural nets that behave in a racist fashion. More broadly, neural nets have been enlisted in quests like find insurance risks or security risks and here they could really bad effects if they get veto power.

Uhh, or

(A) Back up, pull over your motorcycle, walk the crosswalk(s) as a pedestrian with a 'bike', get on motorcycle on the side of the road you want to go on, continue; or

(B) Make a right turn + U-turn as many times as needed to reach the desired turn? (3-way intersections can pose a problem, but the through road is most likely defaulting to green and if not you can pull over...)

If your municipality still treated either of the above as a 'serious traffic violation' yet still not springing for better sensors that likely exist for more mainstream compatibility then you're just living with idiots at that point (or they just don't like motorcycles :P)

It seems happy with uploading the same file to Google drive and putting a link in the email. Though that doesn't solve my use case of sharing with Chinese Nationals who are blocked from those urls. I'm also not clear on how/why this is somehow more secure.

RAR files used to get through, but now Gmail detects them as well. I think even 7z.

See: http://imgur.com/a/y4Lxz

Tried tar, gzip, even uuencode. Then taking "exe" out of the file name with the uuencoded version.

Edit: Shell archive works! apt-get install sharutils;shar file.exe > file.exe.shar

Have you tried the -mhe option in 7zip?

1.http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/sharutils.htm

We have been making laws that limit what we can do for millennia.

This also has nothing to do with robots.

You can violate systems with overrides, and doing so might have consequences, but that's distinct from systems you can't override which was kemendo's point on our fear of where the control lies. (If tomorrow we decide to swap the meaning of red and green, that control is still humans'; the lights won't do anything about it.)

A self-driving car that locks up if you try and run a red would be an example, but as you didn't say that I'm guessing you just missed the point.

You wouldn't be "overriding" killer robots by hiding in underground tunnels. You'd just be avoiding them entirely.

My main argument though is that people's distrust comes from extrapolation of negative real life experiences, not just from the world of fiction.

You can rewire it or shoot it with a gun. It has no physical control over your actions.

That is the actual sense of the word "control" in a humans-vs-robots debate.

So it's not the machines, it's humans ceding power to them voluntarily.

But traffic lights don't "have a say", they're put up and have their mechanics defined by humans. Neither does electronic time recording have a say on how many hours of work are required for an employee to get a paycheck.