Message-ID: <67f5a39a@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <67ef0717@news.ausics.net> <67f26f8b$0$28481$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <20250408075216.0000711e@gmail.com> User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 9 Apr 2025 08:30:50 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 39 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Bytes: 2616 John Ames wrote: > On 7 Apr 2025 22:40:30 GMT > rbowman wrote: > >> Then there are the suicidal deer. I had one cross the eastbound >> interstate lanes to safely get to the median strip. Then he made a >> u-turn and tried to cross back. I was driving a Kenworth at the time >> so it was 'Sorry, Bambi!' > > I had one slalom back and forth in front of me for a good 300' before > he finally lost his footing and took a header into the ditch. Here down under kangaroos are no better. I chased one along the side of the road for over a kilometer, with it crossing sides in front of me each time I tried to "overtake". _Eventually_ it remembered that it could jump over the fences on either side of the road and bounded over one. > I s'pect it's some aeons-old predator-evasion tactic that makes them do > this, but *boy* is it Not Adaptational for dealing with road traffic. With 'roos I think the consesus is that they're just plain stupid. But lighter than a deer at least. Back to computers, I heard that kangaroos were befuddling animal-detection software for self-driving cars during testing. Each time one jumped the software thought it had suddenly gone further away then gotten closer again. Here it is: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-24/driverless-cars-in-australia-face-challenge-of-roo-problem/8574816 Oh boy, looks like they still haven't figured out how to handle them: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-19/self-driving-cars-kangaroo-research/103993614 -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#