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Sad news
Dan Nicholes passed away last night April 21, at Hospice House.
Arrangements have been made for a gathering to give thanks at Killarney Lake Lodge. The date will be sorted soon. The plan is to have it live streamed and York Funeral Home is in care of the arrangements.Sharing for Susan Butterfield.
Dan Nicholes update
Susan Butterfield just let Johanna know that Dan is now in hospice. She wanted to let us in FABAC know that he is being well taken care however he is not able to receive visitors.
BruceNotes from April FABAC Meeting
So...
Last night started off looking like we were going to have to go hunting for someplace else to eat when our dinner reservations weren't. Sandy was able to twist an arm and get us in. Kudos to her.
As usual, Gary took the floor while dodging some new-fangled delivery robot (how long until it gets hacked and goes on a food flinging spree?).
- There wasn't much to report as it's been a quiet month, what with spring happening.
- Carol & John have some runs planned for later on and we have some BIG runs also happening later.
- There's an airshow and Windsor's field meet and the long awaited trip to Owl's head.
- We need something this month, just a short get-em-out of the garage trip with a nice little drive that involves food at some point. It doesn't have to be far or fancy. How about a picnic somewhere? We haven't done one of those in years and anybody can make a sandwich.
- Our next dinner will be at Dimitri's on the 15th of May—always a favourite with us.
Rob E.
GT6 Rear Discs
Everything‘s going great with the rear brakes. This is the final mock up. The bracket is on its way to the machine shop. Hoping to have it by Friday. I’m trying to have everything up and running by the end of April.
Cheers,
JOHN
Can a self-driving car be courteous?
Tesla owners have been given a month of free Full Self Driving (Supervised) to see for themselves how far the technology has come. We can use FSD (Supervised) as long as we give full attention to the road ahead (Yes, there is a camera in the car checking that.) and keeping hands on the steering wheel prepared to take over if the car does something unexpected. I truly have been enjoying having the car do all the driving, signalling, turning, stopping, avoiding pedestrians and bikers. Set a destination and watch the magic. On Friday, I was using FSD to take me to the Southside of Fredericton and the car did something that really surprised me. You will see in the short clip below that there is lots of traffic and an oncoming vehicle signalled for a left turn across my lane. The car ahead almost stopped to let him turn but not quite. My Tesla made a full stop to let him cross, even though it knew there was a green light a ways ahead—a true act of courtesy. I did nothing. It is what I would have done, and that is what people are experiencing with FSD—it is acting so humanlike.
If you are interested in such things, the version of software doing this 'magic' is based on Artificial Intelligence. Super computers are given millions of hours of videos showing good driving habits in countless situations. The computer learns how to drive from these. This replaces an older method which involved writing hundreds of thousands of lines of computer coding trying to explain how to drive. One of the advantages of FSD is that the Tesla has eight cameras and no distractions. Everything we do is recorded on a little jump drive in the car. It is only shared with Tesla if there is an accident or we report a problem. It is not perfect yet, but it is being improved every day. I have had three updated versions of the software in the past ten days. I have several things I would like to see changed—time will tell how that goes.
If you are really excited about all of this, let me know and I would be happy to give you a demonstration.
- David
Monthly FABAC Meeting Wednesday April 17
East Side Mario’s is booked for the car club on Wednesday evening for 5:30.
- Joe H.
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