Why did the remove Chik-Fil-A?

noggin said:

XS NightClub said:

..... Google maps is just plain wrong too often for me to let them even drive me to the closest 7-11

I distrust GPS for the same reason. My favorite example being a person I was talking to; she lives in Kentucky, set her GPS for a location in Indiana, and didn't realize her GPS had taken her far astray until she was an hour into Ohio.

Call me old, but I'll rely on my trusty Rand McNally road atlas.

Excuse me, I have to go yell at those damn kids on my lawn.

My husband works in EMS and if they trusted the GPS on their squads without question some people would surely die before they found them. I've had Google Maps fail me a few times. Nice thing to have but I would never fully depend on it.

The problem with using GPS like Google Maps is that people just input their destination and hit "Go" without actually looking at where they are going. If I have to use GPS I always check the route to see if it makes sense, zoom in on my destination to see if its correct, which is really easy with Street View where you can literally see the actual building you need to go to. Google Maps works perfect every time for me but I also double-check before I start driving.

Apple Maps not so much. Really scared that the rumored iCar is a thing.

Certainly an interesting read Jeff, I hope they make their target date, we'll see.

On the Falcon rockets, the hard part I think is fuel management. Staying​ on the proper trajectory and hitting the target is just crunching a bunch of navigation data and making adjustments to stay on course. But, doing that with the amount of fuel it has is the real challenge.

Jeff said:

Dutchman said:

I imagine that CP was counting on a much higher sales figures than what was ultimately realized.

Frankly the bad PR caused by the company's non-profit giving money to anti-LGBT rights groups was not a great incentive to stay either.

Oh....

Regardless of politics or morality, you would think they'd know better. It's about profit not morality.

99er said:

The problem with using GPS like Google Maps is that people just input their destination and hit "Go" without actually looking at where they are going. If I have to use GPS I always check the route to see if it makes sense, zoom in on my destination to see if its correct, which is really easy with Street View where you can literally see the actual building you need to go to. Google Maps works perfect every time for me but I also double-check before I start driving.

Great advice.

I still don't know what happened to Chik-Fil-A but I have some idea of where we stand with human relations, autonomous vehicles, scary GPS, broken Google Maps and space travel. Good stuff!

I know, right?
But it's gone, and buh bye!

The beauty of Pointbuzz, Captain. The beauty of Pointbuzz.

Come in for the beer, stay for the pickle, and don't forget to try the applesauce on your way out.

Shades said:

noggin said:
My favorite example being a person I was talking to; she lives in Kentucky, set her GPS for a location in Indiana, and didn't realize her GPS had taken her far astray until she was an hour into Ohio.

It may have made sense to go into Ohio depending on where in Kentucky she started and where in Indiana she wanted to go. Maybe she was the one who was astray:)

She was going from Bowling Green in Kentucky to Indiana Beach. So Ohio was a major detour :-)

Of course, it mat have been operator error ... But I'll continue to rely on my road atlas.

Just putting out there that I've never had an issue with GPS. Seems to work perfectly nearly every time.

I just started using the Waze app and it works great. It even alerts you of cops, hazards, etc.

As an aside, Google purchased Waze in 2013 for around 1.3 billion and now uses the data from Waze to further enhance its main Google Map database and to better its "real-time" functionality

Went on a road trip last week and Apple Maps had the tendency to direct us to the employee entrances of the parks, instead of the main entrance...

Google maps directed us to Busch Gardens employee entrance/offices , I'd guess since it's the official address.

That happens a lot with amusement parks because the address is typically an actual mailing address and not the tollbooth or parking lot. The address for Magic Kingdom takes you to the location where they shoot the fireworks from. A lot of parks have an address for every location of business within the parks too which can get really confusing.

Here's my thoughts. We have credible evidence autonomous vehicles are an improvement. We have information that shows they have an extremely acute capability to make these decisions for us. We're only a few years into this as well mind you.

Regarding nefarious use. People already drive trucks into crowds, this point is moot. Just because they have Tesla's Autopilot is beside the point, the'll do it regardless if they want to be nefarious.

My only thing with autonomy, is I'm hesitant because I still want to drive. I'm cool if you want to take me to work and get me there safe from point A to B, but there's several times I actually want to drive. I mean hell there's times I actually go out just TO drive. I hope this doesn't remove this freedom in 10-15 years or so, but is a mutual relationship. I know if anything me being that driver that's not letting the computer do it's thing is if anything the larger hazard then, but I have fun.

One thing that I don't think has really been addressed yet with regards to automated driving is liability. If someone is letting the car's computer do the driving, and the car gets into an at-fault accident, who is liable? Is the auto manufacturer liable since it was their product that failed? Is the driver at fault for letting the computer drive / not being able to take over? Even if the computer driven cars are safer, this is still a significant issue that needs to be addressed.

Indeed, the technical issues are completely trivial. It's liability where things will get interesting.

thedevariouseffect said:

My only thing with autonomy, is I'm hesitant because I still want to drive.

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I hope this doesn't remove this freedom in 10-15 years or so, but is a mutual relationship. I know if anything me being that driver that's not letting the computer do it's thing is if anything the larger hazard then, but I have fun.

Just like you can still go ride horses, I'm sure there will be places you can drive a car manually if that's your thing.

Perhaps you and Pete can open up The Luddite Car Ranch out in Montana or something. ;-)

So are the days of the sports car coming to an end? Except at the above mentioned ranch?