SAE International endorses joint effort by AAA, Consumer Reports, J.D. Power and the National Safety Council for common naming of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
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SAE International endorses joint effort ... for common naming of Advanced Driver Assistance
I fully support this effort. Car safety systems should have common, understandable names.
SAE International endorses joint effort by AAA, Consumer Reports, J.D. Power and the National Safety Council for common naming of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
SAE International endorses joint effort by AAA, Consumer Reports, J.D. Power and the National Safety Council for common naming of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
Return Shout-out to Automotive News
Had a great time talking with Automotive News on the #COVID19 effect on #AutonomousVehicles. A quick 15min listen on AV and EV status.
Apple Maps mapping van sighted on Detroit suburbs expressway
One of the vans had been previously spotted in June in downtown Detroit, as shown on a map of Apple Map van sightings collected by Mac Rumors. The earliest listed was in 8/2014. The last update to the map was in 7/27/2015, so I will not bother submitting this sighting
The two new (as far as I know) items that the 12/10/2015 sighting adds
- The van had "Apple Maps" written on the side. Early sightings, before Apple announced the project publicly, did not have this.
- Apple has apparently finished focusing on downtown Detroit, and is now working on the suburban expressways. (The van changed from eastbound I-696 to westbound I-696.) They do not yet seem to be focused on residential areas in Detroit, unlike reported sightings in other metropolitan areas.
How to Identify What Number is Your Font Character
This is a bit of an update / extra information for the information found at http://scripts.sil.org/UTTUsingUnicodeMacros (also archived at the Internet Archive).
It was written in 2005, but I found it still useful.
However, the toolbar icon mentioned in that page was not found in Office 2010.
Below is another method for identifying the computer encoding number associated with a character one has but does not know.
In Windows 7, there is Private Character Editor (eudcedit.exe), which can be started from search box of Start menu. It requires administrative permissions to run.
Once opened,
It was written in 2005, but I found it still useful.
However, the toolbar icon mentioned in that page was not found in Office 2010.
Below is another method for identifying the computer encoding number associated with a character one has but does not know.
In Windows 7, there is Private Character Editor (eudcedit.exe), which can be started from search box of Start menu. It requires administrative permissions to run.
Once opened,
- Select an empty box to open a character editor.
- Make sure in upper left, Character Set selected is Unicode
- Select on the menu Edit, then Copy Character
- Click in the Shape box to activate.
- Paste in a single unknown character of interest from the Windows clipboard, and the numeric code should be listed above it in hexadecimal.
This was the easiest way I found to identify non-ASCII characters.
The two characters I was looking for were ° (0x00B0) and ℃ (0x2103).
To go from number to display of character to copy, charmap.exe is the program I recommend using.
Results and data from a small test of phone GPS navigation app data usage
Off-board, cloud based cell phone GPS navigation takes around 1 to 15 megs per trip, with wide variation based on pre-caching, length of route, and other unknown factors.
A limited test on iOS shows Apple Maps and Google Maps to both have under 0.5 megabyte data usage for most navigation steps.
It seems on iOS, Apple Maps has a less data usage compared to Google Maps. However, it is not a large enough difference, in my opinion, to affect most users.
Scout by Telenav has consistently higher usage, but again it is debatable if over a month if it would add up to enough to affect any users.
The main item to note is if a user wants to save mobile data usage, preplanning and letting system precache data while on a WiFi connection is a worthwhile way to save a megabyte or two of data usage per trip.
A limited test on iOS shows Apple Maps and Google Maps to both have under 0.5 megabyte data usage for most navigation steps.
It seems on iOS, Apple Maps has a less data usage compared to Google Maps. However, it is not a large enough difference, in my opinion, to affect most users.
Scout by Telenav has consistently higher usage, but again it is debatable if over a month if it would add up to enough to affect any users.
The main item to note is if a user wants to save mobile data usage, preplanning and letting system precache data while on a WiFi connection is a worthwhile way to save a megabyte or two of data usage per trip.
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