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Comment Re:So I read the Article... (Score 1) 422

Really, you prevent accidents by having the *relative speed* between vehicles be zero. Which, when everyone is on the highway going 60 is actually pretty true. Parking lots are actually some of the more dangerous locations because it's not that uncommon for relative speed differences to be 10-20mph - hence many accidents.

Speed increases severity of accidents when they happen- but in large part it doesn't cause them in the first place.

So what they should do, is go to places where there are widely varying speeds based on the GPS data, and put the cameras there. Alternatively, they should up speed limits in those same locations so that all cars end up at the same speed. Authorities in some locations have done this recently not surprisingly upping the speed limit made the relative speeds of cars lower, and caused the accident rate to go down. Most locations have a natural speed that seems 'fast enough' to most people, and setting the speed limit at that speed helps lower the relative speed difference between cars.

Comment Re:It doesn't run on the phone? (Score 4, Informative) 297

When you dock the Atrix, the Firefox browser and other dock-provided services aren't running from the Atrix but instead from a stripped-down Linux PC inside the dock. A real post-PC device would run everything from the smartphone or tablet, and it would use the dock to add more processing or take advantage of peripherals."

From everything I've read, this is patently untrue. The browser runs on the phone 'webtop'. There are those on XDA-developers that have already figured out how to get the 'webtop' to start even without the laptop dock connected and instead display to HDMI.

Anyway, I don't agree with many of your conclusions, but I do agree the peripherials are overpriced - as I would expect for a first of it's kind product.

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