The Commodore looks to me like the usual "one design - half a dozen brands" product by GM. Possibly because... well, that's what it is.
No it's more of a any sedan from the 80's --- Post updated --- BMW have to recall over 1 million 3-series, 5-series, X5, X3,and Z3 for fire risk. What's your 2 cent on this?
Or a slightly reworked Opel Senator for Australia. And how's that relevant? GM has probably recalled every car they've ever manufactured by now...
Well BMW have to recall over 1 million 3-series, 5-series, X5, X3,and Z3 for fire risk One do you have to bitch about GM in everything you post. I know I do the same with England but it not everything I post and Two because this recall is happened 06/11/17 (or 11/06/17 in you're in America).
No Chrysler is like shooting fish in a barrel. So it's doesn't matter than you can be driving in a ticking time bomb because GM had a problem like that over 10 years ago?
Ah, well, Chrysler is in a league of its own. They got saved by FGA. 'Nuff said... It does, but it's: A) Unsurprising B) Out of context
A.) Agree, all car companies want your money and don't really give a shit on what they make, the only reason they're recalling that shit is because they don't want to deal with the law suits. B.) How is a recall on multiple car models is out of context on a thread about cars.
Oh I thought we're still talking about Blazing BMWs. Anyways most cheap sedans from the 80's thru 90's looked basically the same.
The tow truck caved the trunk of my floor in and cracked my bumper cover. I called them and they said that the way they towed the car could not have possibly caused that kind of damage. Sure. I'm probly gonna end up having to stand in the trunk and stomp it back into shape, but I'm gonna see what I can do. Imgur album
Wanky marketing aside, this is pretty cool and probably quite significant. Also damn cool: (Wish there was a better source for this than motor trend)
If you feel like making a big deal out of it, take it an auto shop and get an estimate, then try and get the towing company to pay for it. You could probably ask them if they think that it was possible to be done by the tow truck as well if you wanted
That's actually really cool. It's kind of neat to see how perfectly they follow the lanes, like watching the AI pathing in a city building game, only in real life. That in-car display is also really awesome. It must have super powerful radar and computer systems to pull that off. Mercedes has totally lost their marbles and it's the best thing ever.
Well, its a staged video, so that is probably an animation showing what it should in theory look like. But as far as I can tell they are simply taking "significant" objects from the point cloud generated by the sensors. Significant objects are probably detected based upon the distance between them and infinity (as far as the sensors are concerned), then an algorithm to filter out the ground. A potentially good way to visualise this is Microsoft Kinect. If you take a night vision camera, cover up its IR flood light and point it into a room with a kinect in you will see something like this: These are all IR light beams that kinect bounces off the environment for its depth sensing technology. From this Kinect can build a point cloud of data, similar to the following image: As you can see, its quite easy to distinguish foreground objects (such as humans) from back ground objects (such as the wall). Kinect fuses this data with normal visual imaging and a couple other sensors in order to build an approximate skeleton. However Google looks to be taking this point cloud data and rendering it directly to the screen, then they probably have algorithms to detect what objects are in order to figure out what potential risks may be present. In Waymo's (google's) case they let the car learn what those potential risks are by driving them for millions of miles and letting the cars observe the environment. The car likely recognises cars/ bikes/ people as separate entities so that it is already aware of potential risk factors before they occur, then as soon as it recognises something which has caused danger in the past it will react. I imagine there are also simpler systems built in too for avoiding collisions with any object, for when the prediction and pattern detection algorithms can't pick up on any early warnings (and it will continue to learn while doing this, constantly updating the patterns and risk factors, hence why it will get safer with time). For completeness, this is the end result that Kinect's software produces based on the data it processes. Developers can then write code to deal with the skeleton tracking points (much like softbody physics in BeamNG) rather than having to deal with all those raw inputs.
Recalls on multiple car models is nothing new. That fire risk recall BMW's doing for all those models you listed is because all those use the same parts to cut production costs and make it more easier/faster for multiple models to be built on a single production line, why alot of cars pretty much have a "base" platform that several models use. Also the point of car manufacturers issuing recalls isn't solely because of "law suits", Not every manufacturer is 100% perfect all the time, and what's with "car companies don't give a shit about people or what they make, and just want your money?" If they didn't give a shit, then it'd reflect on everything they even bothered to make, and the public will see it, and that's it, nobody will buy their cars. I mean, it's like that massive recall Toyota did a while back over the floor mats, accelerator, and anti lock brakes. They still got sued anyway, but Toyota went ahead with the recall, because it's obvious on the fact that they didn't want more people getting seriously injured or even getting killed.
Only a couple hours later he was sharing the news article on facebook saying "Im famous!" I think hes fine lol
