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  • “While our vehicle was stopped to pick up passengers, a nearby cat darted under our vehicle as it was pulling away”

    I mean, it sucks, but it could’ve happened with a human driver as well… and likely has happened.

    I have rode in a Waymo and it shows you all the things it detects on a screen… which includes humans and small animals. It’s not a perfect machine, but it probably is a better driver than a lot of people already and it’s learning every day.

    I suppose this incident could get Waymo to put cameras/sensors beneath the car… something that regular car makers won’t think about.

    But yeah, it should’ve detected the cat beforehand and waited for it to leave before driving off. Then again, the human passengers didn’t see it either.














  • Note that there are different types of Anaglyph glasses. I think red and cyan are the most common, but there are red and blue ones as well as magenta and green ones.

    Good movies overall: Dial M for Murder, Creature of the Black Lagoon, House of Wax (1953). Also, The Polar Express and Coraline… though I think those two were not Anaglyph in theaters, not completely sure. They did put those out in that format on disc, however.

    80s horror that used the gimmick blatantly: Jaws 3-D, Friday the 13th 3-D, Amityville 3-D.

    That said, I think there is some app that you can download to a computer and turn more modern day 3-D movies into Anaglyph colors.

    That said, I much prefer newer 3-D technology. Besides Avatar, the best movies that used 3-D well are Gravity, Life of Pi, and especially Hugo. It sucks when studios pump out 3-D conversions to movies not meant to be 3-D originally, but when a director knows what they are doing, 3-D movies can look fantastic.