Wait until Shrinkflation meets AIflation, where most services once mediated by humans are taken over by dumb, error-prone, allucinating AI, with no possibility of recourse.
I find electric cars louder than the current engines most of the time. The space travel noises they put out while driving are louder than say a non hybrid Camry, not to mention ICE cars don’t make any backing up noises. Parallel parking of electric cars is so annoying. Hybrids too, I can hear the whining of a Prius coming down the street from half a block away.
This is not to say I’m against electric and hybrid cars, I’m all for them. But the fake noises they added are not a benefit.
Weird, my experience has been that EVs are much quieter and that's a real improvement in densely populated areas. Past a certain speed the main source of noise is the tires and then EVs aren't much better than ICE vehicles (wrt noise).
Im in a super dense area. Speed limit is really low. So tire noise is not that big of a factor and the WOOOOOOO of electric cars is prevalent over others. Obviously comparing apples to apples, a diesel truck is going to be super loud.
They’re a benefit to the lives they’re attempting to save.
You’re objectively wrong about the nose but it could be that the sound is particularly annoying to you for some reason, or that your brain has not yet been conditioned to automatically tune it out like it has with ICE engines.
> On average, cars moving at around 30 mph on local roads will produce sound levels ranging from 33 to 69 decibels.
> To ensure that pedestrians will hear electric and hybrid vehicles coming, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration requires these vehicles to emit sounds ranging from 43 to 64 decibels when they are moving at less than 18.6 mph.
> Results align with previous findings that EVs and ICEs exhibit similar noise levels at low speeds, particularly post-AVAS implementation. Earlier studies reported larger differences (3–4 dB lower for EVs than ICEs at 10–20 km/h), likely due to the absence of AVAS
> Additionally, a deeper investigation of how AVAS contributes to annoyance could inform improved design standards for EV noise emission, encouraging a balance between functional safety and acoustic quality in urban environments.
> Still, the move is a major win for Zhou, and is seen as a soft sign that the Chinese judiciary, and therefore national lawmakers could be gearing up to protect workers from the threat of AI automation and austerity — while laborers remain largely on their own in much of the western world.
I hope more countries enshrine in law the principle that AI must augment humans, not completely replace human judgement. Legal reassurance of the fact a computer can't be held accountable, so it must not be allowed to make business decisions on its own.
There's some controversy about what would be better, universal basic income (UBI), or universal basic jobs[1]. But either one surely would be better than the status quo.
As automation via AI and the autonomous robot workforce slowly comes online, both of which are happening, these "basic jobs" will also become obsolete or automated. Jobs will increasingly shift to the STEM and away from workers on industrial lines or there will be extremely limited numbers of workers basically acting as overwatch; this can already be seen in a number of places where large factories are basically managed by 10-20 people unless theres large construction/expansion. This will become more prominent, as can be seen by the dark factories already in the works or partially operational. Many industrial jobs are going away, and people who have been in those industries their whole lives will not easily find other careers. UBI guarantees you can at least minimally survive without work, which is important during those periods where people are having to learn new industries to survive as their jobs are removed by automations.
Manufacturing isnt going anywhere, but it will increasingly take fewer and fewer people to operate and build many things.
UBJ would work in some cases where your knowledge could be (relatively) easily applied in other places, but we basically already have a partial implementation of UBJ, you can easily get employment assistance from almost any state in the US, but its also trying to do the same for 5+% of the human workforce at the same time. Sometimes it can be many weeks or even a few months to get something; what can a person already not making a lot do in that case? With UBI the stress is alleviated, and can help bolster the persons living situation when out of work.
Perhaps they were very smart, but also they were all autistic[1], so they had poor social skills and had a hard time coordinating large groups against encroaching H. Sapiens Sapiens tribes.
The Flynn Effect covers from around 1930s to 1980s and the phase out of leaded gasoline happened during the very end of that timeline, meaning adolescent IQ measurements during the time the Flynn Effect covers would have all been raised in an environment where leaded fuel was either dominant or at least common.
That makes me wonder if studying may be more effective right before bed time, despite tiredness from the day, or if it's more effective early in the day, while we're less fatigued.
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