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what's the state of the art of augmented vision and first- or third-party​ safety measures?[0],

I mean, the mods quit Brighton beach (UK ( so I've not seen a excess of rear view mirrors lately. (the used market may still be saturated..) [1]

phones are beacons, [2]

potentially we could be broadcasting centimetre accurate position and velocity

I like the idea of roadside computing cabinets downloading local trip data and doing the hard lifting but basic stuff like flow scheduling

how about this beacon tells you its stopping distance, driver reaction time, gear and acceleration limits and expectations of driver style?

I am convinced that there's so much more to learn about elementary ergonomics, about human vision not computer vision and about what open the market will pay to attach devices to vehicles that already challenge budgetary constraints for most new purchasers.

I absolutely would pay say $500 device capable of displaying correctly where I am regarding the other road users and their intentions or probable because they're on the work run same as always. for a glance

[3] I don't drive any more, but I would have claimed in my twenties that I drove to work at a incredibly predictable pace. I doubt it could be so smooth with the traffic today, but in suburban and rural areas, well a big pothole at a dirt crossing sure will affect the movement of hazards. Where LIDAR may not travel, "local pilot's license knowledge" I reckon could save a great number of lives. The sudden steering wheel input and deceleration and acceleration around a big pothole would well warn fast coming vehicles to not take that lane as free, if not then used for turning right across a middle lane, so stay on the hard shoulder instead)

I want to glance at the road between my handlebars at a projected map of data,

(only when i am glancing down. The other day I saw the Canon Eos 1-v 35mm film camera linked being discontinued. This and the wonderful Eos 3, had eye focus point tracking. I remember reading the brochures and thinking BS, but nope, I remain convinced that you are going to get better results if you have dark eye colour, not pale blue like mine

[0] my brother is a professor of transport research, whose tutor literally created the formal discipline (kinda Djikstra for transport, but sadly despite his traffic following equations being important, my brother and I should have either subscribed to better peace pipes, or lived when computing wasn't infant and so our interests not so separated. he is a Cambridge alum, I'm just either the commercial enemy or PPE impenetrability, oh i i did my best to not get the green corduroy jacket and lecture physics on Open University... I go on because I know nobody deserving a real professional commercial successful (meaning completed, delivered, used. I honestly think the nearest he came to a product launch was resolving traffic light sequencing in Tokyo in the early eighties, if you wanted to hire genius safe in the certainty should suddenly genius demand credit, the last thing you ate was poisoned, to my bro you go. I think it is because the litany of failure is so incredible. once he started reciting funded closed European programmes and projects. long minutes in, i realised he was reciting alphabetically by the conurbation and chronologically since, well he knows or once did, each and every one.

I couldn't plug my brother enough,

byt my excuse for doing so here, is the fact that I can write books how to get value from him of the order Google was paying for some feted guys tangled up in that uber unpleasantness. The fact may be that cases like that keep my always almost retired brother out of big business. AFAIK his refusal rate is in immeasurable range off p=1. I would drop my life to move that needle and get the world itself a result. (at least I can't imagine deaths in my brother's vision of transportation future) Not would, I guarantee you devotion, as far as the best alignment of a exceptional pitch with what makes a exceptional mind tick that has resisted professional commercial scrutiny for half a century. I would do anything to have him on my board if I was in the field. Not being funny, were the closest in a combined century, but I receive nothing. Silence. Zero... the air itself approaches 0K if i broach commercial transport research. Sure he could be just under NDA. Just NDAs I know displease his academic mind how rattle snakes regard dingoes. But you can take my limitless effort to broach any possibility as my word. Any time. Whilst age permits,be ideal..

[1] as in mods and rockers, see Quadrophenia, especially if you haven't, especially for

[2] this immediately worries me about"throwies" and how much this matters for potential unintended regulation consequences

[3]

CANON EYE TRACKING I WISH TO CONTROL ON STREET HUD OF ROAD USERS A series of tiny infrared LEDs (light emitting diodes) shine harmless infrared energy onto your eyeball as you peer through the viewfinder. Light sensors record the infrared reflecting off your eye and calculate the focus point. A computer in the camera then examines this data and decides which of the focus points is closest to that point and selects it. If the camera is in AI Servo mode then it will also adjust focus automatically based on that selected point.

I owned and used that VFC lens for many years.

Variable Field Curvature.

this can't be digitally recreated.

its a really interesting lens and the reason why I may yet fall back into my Kodak habit of yore.

Flash, on the Maxxum/Dynax AF cameras, from the get go, was incredible. Focus distance is critical for flash exposure. Minolta pioneered AF. Thry also played sloppy with a Honeywell patent, when we feared trade deficit to Japan, remember 4GL, 5GL... Originally Japanese manufacturers claimed solidarity. Then Minolta was left standing alone, stood up, and stupidly didn't settle. This was widely attributed to Minoru Tashima, he of Machinery and Industrial OpticAL Tashima. Reality, bad legal gamble lost to international politics. The punitive $100MM fine, hurt MINOLTA horribly, hence erratic pro equipment development.

On the contrary to the above comments assertion, Minolta had mire fast glass than anyone.

Edit, I used professionally almost every single MINOLTA camera and certainly every serious lens, from the SRT102b, to the last pre Sony, all home grown Dynax 7D...

if you're curious, just find a good store with a Sony A99II on display. This is the model that's​going to demonstrate the ability of a camera to be a genuinely delightful experience, above even the A9. If you can afford it, my experience of the A9, I challenge anyone to take a technically bad photo with it. The A99II is a serious machine too, but it caters to a old school crowd and the new models, the reason why they have a all new lens mount, again, is the lenses are designed for use with in camera software correction of distortion and vignetting etc. I personally dislike that change, not that i can criticize the results, but, strikingly demarked by the A9, we have entered the software supremacy era. Its incredible.

facing needing to argue with a person trained intensively from a early age to ground all conjecture in fact and human cost of mistakes, ie a general, I will gladly face that situation over aby necessary argument with a politician, even a more sensible type like as lawmaker. our world problems ate created by distortion of reality that no soldier would indulge or permit, none i ever knew at any rate

Thank you so very much for your link!

Simultaneously with my definite elucidation, I felt a really timely reminder that I haven't read the whole internet, and it's a beautiful thing to be informed of such a rich and established resource, just when you are getting sure that soon your bitterness and cynicism over the demise of the internet will soon inevitably pass.

Thank you, in other words, for a very useful link to what looks like it's great reading, and the whole breath of fresh air surrounding your contribution. I gush, but the aversion of creeping cynicism is genuinely something that I'm grateful for any day without exception!

Although the BOFH stories never clicked with me, I hazard that the je ne sais pas of your reflection could be - I speak for my own recollection of the genre - the immeasurable catharsis and balm I certainly felt, as a release from every excruciating situation in which I so dearly would have loved to have retorted, "Have you switched it off and turned it on again?"[0], toungue firmly in cheek or not, without fear for my unappreciated job.

[0] The IT Crowd, UK Channel Four, available in whole on 4OnDemand, for anyone who has been deprived.

NimTalk?

NimSquawk?

from the very obvious to the whimsical:

NimmoPhon

Nimference

Nimbeaumôt [sic]

Nimditer

Echonim

Edit:

how I missed Nimsical, I don't know..

Nimminent

I am pushing it rather, so I'll quit while I'm behind... Sorry, but I have to try suggesting PhonoNim, after [0] thinking of phone typos in text conversations.

[0] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=phononym

Specifically, what you explained stoked the fire, but what poured gas on it and simultaneously kicked the embers about the room, was Rudolf Guiliani taking RICO to make his case against Mike Milken, actually first of all Mike's far more vulnerable brother was indicted, but that aside Guiliani forced Drexel to shut it's trading desks, which drained the market for the junk bonds which had allowed so many tiny thrifts to engorge themselves, and without any mark to market -the whole market consisting of Drexel making two ways all on it's lonesome (who else had a clue what was in those bonds?) - the multitude of vastly bloated regional S&L's couldn't post their accounts, and simultaneously all went belly up.

Not being funny, but Guiliani forced the whole mortgage banking business into insolvency to make a point that some still think was Vendetta. Whatever the case, Guiliani forced a vast capital market to halt, for no reason I've ever learned, and handed a four trillion dollar bill to the taxpayer, for kicks. No wonder Trump likes his advice.