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Comment I'm a human and I want radar (Score 1) 219

I have a very old car, but I recently drove a new rental. Radar has two huge benefits for me. First, I'm bad at checking my blind spots. On a self driving car it could fill in for camera glitches. Second, radar can detect when the car I'm following slows down faster than I can see that the car's getting closer. Especially if it's doppler radar. A self driving system deserves the same info.

Comment Re: Really? (Score 1) 78

It's a gimmick on an EV. It could be really useful on a plug-in hybrid.

The difference is you're very likely to plug in an EV even if it has solar. Many people don't plug in a hybrid. But if your hybrid has solar and enough batteries, you'll get carbon free power whether you want it or not. Especially if the government mandates all cars be EV or such hybrids, which I think they should.

Comment Re:Adverts and films? (Score 1) 96

"Draw a kitten" would not be worthy of protection.
A two paragraph detailed scene description would be.

OK, but does the description being copyrightable mean the work also is?

Suppose some guy commissions an artist to make a painting based on a two paragraph detailed scene description. Further suppose the artwork gets entitled by that two paragraph detailed scene description, so others know what it was. (Weird, but that's par for the art world.)

Now suppose some other guy commissions another artist, who has never seen the first painting, to make a painting based on that same two paragraph detailed scene description. It gets a regular, short title. Is that new painting a copyright violation?

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