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posted by martyb on Thursday July 26 2018, @08:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the if-it-walks-like-a-duck,-sinks-like-a-duck,-oh,-wait... dept.

The Los Angeles Times reports:

The duck boat that sank in a Missouri lake last week, killing 17 people, was built based on a design by a self-taught entrepreneur who had no engineering training, according to court records reviewed by the Los Angeles Times.

The designer, entrepreneur Robert McDowell, completed only two years of college and had no background, training or certification in mechanics when he came up with the design for "stretch" duck boats more than two decades ago, according to a lawsuit filed over a roadway disaster in Seattle involving a similar duck boat in 2015.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Knowledge Troll on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:02PM

    by Knowledge Troll (5948) on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:02PM (#713421) Homepage Journal

    Thank you for joining the conversation!

    From what I've read about autonomous cars (a few papers on Stanley), nobody is, or at least was, using NN

    I'm familiar with Stanley and the whole DARPA grand challenge because this has been very interesting to me since the original grand challenge announcement. Stanley was an amazing machine and Sebastion went off to Google to start their project (and then left but I don't know why, also Sebastion is actively hostile to steering wheels because of a family death in a car). The Stanley technique of color recognition fusion with the local sensor data was really clever and all kinds of good especially in that there were minimal moving parts or at least no gimbals.

    Tesla is NN: https://electrek.co/2018/06/11/tesla-ai-director-insights-autopilot-computer-vision-neural-net/ [electrek.co]

    Waymo was and I think still is NN: https://opendatascience.com/the-history-of-neural-networks-and-ai-part-iii/ [opendatascience.com]

    I cant find a better reference but this suggests and I believe that GM is also NN: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gm-apos-self-driving-car-133500602.html [yahoo.com]

    I can't find any reference at all for Uber but I think it is NN too.

    It's fucking crazy isn't it? And people act like this is the same thing as an airplane autopilot and base how well this is going to go on provable models. Shesh.

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