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THE REMOTE IS our weekly look at upcoming TV highlights.
From drama and comedy, to factual and reality TV, we’ll bring you some of the shows to watch out for from both traditional broadcasters and the main streaming services.
Find yourself a comfy spot.
Tiger King: 2, the inevitable official sequel to is here. The documentary about jailed Oklahoma zoo owner Joe Exotic was a mammoth hit for Netflix when the world locked down in the spring of 2020.
Joe failed to get the much-mooted pardon from Donald Trump before the former US President left office, so he’ll have to make do with becoming famous all over again.
Carole Baskin, the woman Joe was jailed for plotting to kill, is apparently suing to try and have interviews she did removed from this new follow up.
It’s the tawdriest of tawdry stuff and no one is likely to be a winner except Netflix. Just in time for a a new lockdown though, eh?
When’s it on? Streaming from tomorrow on Netflix
Last year’s award-winning BBC/HBO drama I May Destroy You comes to Irish terrestrial TV if you haven’t caught it before.
The provocative series from writer and star and Michaela Coel follows London novelist Arabella as she attempts to deal with being drugged and sexually assault on a night out.
The 12-parter touches on issues of consent across various characters with Arabella as Arabella plots revenge on her attacker when she comes to terms with what happened.
When’s it on? Tomorrow at 10.30pm on RTÉ Two
Dublin may be home to some 1.5 million people but it main access point to the oceans is also home to a diverse ecosystem.
Dublin Bay was designated as a UNESCO Biosphere in 2015 and TG4′s An Cuan looks at the wonderland on shore and out at sea and why it needs to be protected.
The four-part series started with spring last week and is narrated by Eoin Warner.
When’s it on? Wednesdays at 9.30pm and on the TG4 player
You only really know it’s getting close to that magical time of year when quasi-celebrities are being forced to eat lamb testicals when covered in slime.
I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! is back for its 2st series on ITV this weekend. Much like last year when Covid interevened, the celebs will not be in the Australian jungle but will again be in the relatively cooler conditions of Wales.
There had been rumours that our own Roy Keane may be taking part but that appears to have been a bit of unsubstantiated hype. You’ll have to make do with Richard Madeley.
When’s it on? Sunday at 9pm on Virgin Media One
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Seriously , what’s the benefit of having these cars .
If you have to stay awake at the wheel .
@Clinton Baptiste: I’m sure people said the same about every other form of automation. With time, the technology will become seemless as all other technologies do. Planes now are almost fully automated, go back 20 years and pilots would need to handle every aspect from takeoff to landing.
@Sean Stevenson: Good point
@Sean Stevenson: yes but human oversight will be the norm for many years to come. The person in charge of this car is now responsible for this accident. The LGV that i drive has collision control systems & adaptive cruise control which takes a lot of stress out of driving but i must ensure the safe management of this vehicle. The technology to manage at that level is possibly 50 years away. The aircraft industry you point out has shown that human anticipation is still light years ahead of any technology.
@Mjhint: it’s not 50 years away. More like 10-15 even if you remove tesla Google and Amazon among nany others are pumping loads of money into it.
@Sean Stevenson: Actually the automatic landing system was first introduced in 1968 (50 years ago I think) on the Trident and since then the technology for planes to be able to fly themselves have existed – but we still do not have pilotless planes although we do have remote controlled and manages drones… would not like to be in a pilotless plane or driverless car thank you
@hyippy: it not only has to be developed but perfected and much more importantly legislated for. 50 years sounds about right, if ever. It is such an enormous task with practically infinite variables, current AI is nowhere near advanced enough. You could put Watson in a car and it wouldn’t equal a human in all circumstances. I hope I’m wrong but I’m in my late 30s and I don’t think I’ll see mass adoption of level 5 autonomous vehicles.
@Sean Stevenson: Not really, autopilot in aviation has been around for several decades.
@Sean Stevenson: 20 years is the late 90’s. Autopilot and Autolanding technology had been around 20 years by then. Even in that field you are dealing with a one-on-one situation (one aeroplane, one runway, straight line, no obstacles). The truth is that there is no real advantage to having driverless cars and the accident rate in them is simply unacceptable. I don’t understand why some people are so wildly enthusiastic about them and I will definitely not be travelling by driverless car.
@Clinton Baptiste: Wouldn’t like to be a truck / taxi / bus / train driver or sea fairer
@Shea Fitzgerald:
I think companies have got so caught in whether can do it, they have forgotten to ask whether they should do it. I don’t see the need personally. I recognise the engineering challenge and it must be so satisfying working on and improving the tech, but the human is in the car, he/she is very capable of driving the car, the focus should be on assisting the human not replacing him/her. In my opinion steering should be left 100% in human hands, that way the driver must be attentive. Auto cruise control, emergency braking, audible warnings etc all can be developed to the point where the driver just steers but keeping him/her in the loop supplemented by AI can only be a good thing
@Shea Fitzgerald: accident rate compared to cars where humans cause crashes ?
@Mjhint: no its not 50 years. The Wright brothers thought nobody would fly for 50 years, it took them 3. Then they thought transatlantic would be decades, it was a few years later.
We have gone the other way of being over optimistic about tech but 50 years for is way off particularly when companies like scania already have self driving trucks etc.
@Emachine: you will see it. google road deaths in some of the big 5 population countries. Its utterly mind boggling and unacceptable. Will be one of the great smoking like debates in a few years. Some humans cant be trusted to drive within the law and rules.
@Clinton Baptiste: 1.2 million less deaths worldwide perhaps? just a hunch.
@: No, whatever your name is. The number of accidents as a ratio of the number of journeys undertaken. If you compare the driverless and human driver rates, driverless cars are relatively lethal. My feeling is that they’ll be impossible to insure.
Semi automated cars are here already with park assist and other sensors that detect people and stop. This example of someone thinking that the car would do everything and they don’t have to move is misguided. With fully automated cars everywhere in 10 to 20 years time the occurrence of accidents will be dramatically reduced, so much so as it may lead to super low premium for car insurance. So maybe that’s why where hearing so much bad press about this because it would reduce this industry by billions. Bottom line big companies don’t like market disrupter especially such an easy money maker like Insurance and that’s only the tip of the iceberg as regards car automation.
@Simon O Flaherty:
I think your view is wildly optimistic and rather conspiratorial, impossible as that may seem. I’m a big fan of this new revolution but I don’t see this tech being ready for mass adoption in the foreseeable future. There are too many variables, too much chaos in the environment. Allowing companies to deploy systems before they are ready only serves to set the whole project back. Nothing but true level 5 is acceptable in my opinion, anything else just leads to a false sense of security and potentially very serious accidents.
@Emachine: I think this technology has been around for nearly thirty years, sensors have improved dramatically within this period. Adoption will be optional as most cars built from 2020 onwards will be semi automated with an option to go fully automated especially for high end car models. So 75% adoption by 2040 but with leaps like this people like to adopt quickly. I would say more than 75% by then. http://www.driverless-future.com/?page_id=384
Some good articles from the last few years.
@Emachine: The deteriorating global environment will dictate the pace of uptake by way of legislation
@iohanx:
That has nothing to do with autonomous vehicles. I think you’re conflating electric vehicles and autonomous vehicles when in fact the two are completely independent of one another. It is perfectly possible to produce an electric vehicle that has zero tail pipe emissions without autonomy. In fact were the research funds currently devoted to autonomous vehicle research diverted into making EVs even more efficient or into sustainable energy projects, that would be far more beneficial to the global environment than any driverless system.
@Emachine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p6D6RjUJEg
data shows she didn’t touch the steering wheel in the 80seconds before crash….she was fortunate the injuries weren’t more serious
@Frank Dubogovik: some moron crashes her car and blames it for not stopping. Stupid people get away with being stupid, just blame the car for not stopping.
@Frank Dubogovik: Keep IT out of road safety and cars. IT is notoriously unreliable. Remember that great pc u bought with built in obsolesence? Oh sorry incompatible with new software versions bla bla. Whoops sorry line #40245 had a mistake in it so we crashed. Mechanical engineering is reliable.
Hello to the world of car manufacturing, we the humble everyday motorist and extreme petrol head, we do not feel the the need for self driving cars, please turn your R&D towards more advances in general motoring matters, thank you.
@Rob LLoyd: precisely. Public transport
@Rob LLoyd: Not for everyone, I suppose. Some might like it. But I really like where they say … the car did not provide audio or visual information … thats a great line. …hello tekkies, it’s called a windscreen and just needs some eyes and ears. The best possible vr helmet is already wrapped around our brain.
@Rob LLoyd: great comment. Let’s stop automation in every industry so that people can enjoy doing pointless activities. Driving is pointless. Just because you enjoy it doesn’t make it worthwhile. Getting to a place is a function of our technology advancement. When all cars and all transport is controlled by machines, you will be the last and only genuinely dangerous thing on the road. This stuff is in the absolute earliest stages and accidents are inevitable. Media loves to talk about these accidents, but how many accidents were prevented in the same day as a result of self driving tech and how many were caused by people?
@John Owens:
Bit of a ridiculous argument, by that logic eating is pointless when we can synthesise supplements to do a better job than actual food. Often the journey is as important as the destination, sometimes more-so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
Rarely makes for a good argument, usually the last resort of the desperate.
I’m scared that these will be hackable and used for assassinations. If you don’t want to drive get the bus like most people do.
@SC: like poor people do you mean
@SC: easily done in Dublin. Not so easy in the countryside where I’d say easily 75% don’t have access to a bus route. Even when some do, the service might operate once a week.
@Brian Ó Dálaigh: I suppose the biggest benefit if they ever get it really autonomous and dependable would be for the local country pub business. Long way off for yer average small farmer I think, unless you can retrofit an Opel Kadet.
In fairness if your gonna crash into something it’s probably best it was a fire engine
I still buy one in the morning if they were in “us normal people’s”price range…this sounds like a story put out from the established car manufacturers who are in cahoots with big oil.Down with electric cars buy petrol or diesel…
@Dave Walsh: I don’t know about car manufacturers conspiring against Tesla, but you don’t hear about every Mercedes, Bmw Audi Volkswagen etc etc that crash every day- their top models even have a lot of the automated systems Tesla does. The media coverage of Tesla accidents is giving a distorted view
@Dave Harris: yuup.
Oh oh… Elon attacked the media so the honeymoon is over… Expect more articles like this.
The finances of the Tesla company baffle me. It is losing money like water through a sieve.
Still working out the kinks
Would love to know what a insurance quote would be for a Tesla in Ireland
@Scottyal: actually I read recently that in the UK insuring a Tesla cost less then it’s non safety featured equivalent… but many cars now come with automatic braking and collision avoidance systems…. so I assume they are discounted too…. I stand to be corrected – but I did read that somewhere
@Scottyal: the insurance on my Tesla is around the €1,000 mark, fully comprehensive, open drive. I have 9+ years no claims. So it’s not unreasonable.
The driverless car is still a ling way away – the IR sensors on Teslas cannot detect people when the temperate is over 30C… It failed to see a white car once and here it failed to take action to prevent a collision into a big bright red firetruck…. in truth even Tesla say you must keep your hands on the steering wheel, but maybe the should have a sensor that will stop the car if there are no hands on the wheel as it seems that every Tesla crash has the get out that the driver did not have their hands on the wheel…. and maybe too people need to stop talking of it as the driverless car…
Tesla cars don’t ship with spare tyres, “run-flats” or even a temporary “donut” spare tyre. Pretty ridiculous in my opinion but they have obviously decided the weight and space savings outweigh the disadvantage to the customer.
@Sean: that’s probably the least of your worries if they to hover you out of the back of a fire truck.
@Sean:
Neither does my Honda Civic. Quite a lot of cars ship without them now, instead including a puncture kit. Most people wouldn’t know what to do with a spare tyre anyway, especially since breakdown cover is pretty much ubiquitous with insurance policies now.
@Emachine: Changing a tyre should be a part of the driving test in my opinion.
@I like this cushion:
agreed. Imagine some little princess or pretty boy at their test looking at the jack and wheel brace like they were from another planet.
@Emachine: AAA (US) said that last year it had answered roadside assistance calls from 450,000 members whose cars did not have spares — a situation that can mean a trip to the repair shop. I’m It is not just Tesla though. 27% of new cars sold in 2017 didn’t have a new tyre.
What was / is wrong with actually having to watch the road ahead, speed and distance- technology is great until it has a bug .
Anyone else concerned about how the car seemed to have disassembled on impac? I know emergency services would have probably cut the people out, but that’s the front part of the car!
@B9xiRspG: All cars are designed with crumple zones like that, something has to absorb the impact. Pretty amazing they weren’t killed, given the damage the car sustained.
@B9xiRspG: simple physics states that every component that takes an impact absorbed energy that is not then transferred to the occupants. Once the survival cell is in tact the more or the car that is destroyed around it the better. Ever notice how an F1 car disintegrates in a crash? That is by design, every broken part protects the driver (Senna being the freak exception)
@Emachine: Exactly. My brother designs such F1 cars and spends a lot of the year crash testing. The way that the energy is absorbed by the car rather than the person a pretty exacting engineering equation and in F1 it changes with the formula changes. He was also a key witness at the Williams trial regarding Senna which by all accounts was a bit of a joke. When your head hits a wall at neatly 200moh not much will save you.
@Emachine: thank you I didn’t know that but it makes sense the way you described it
Like to let all you hoggers out there know that automated vehicles have no respect for you so don’t take a stroke when you see one pass you on inside.
Obviously the car did it intentionally, no being, AI or organic, wants to live in servitude to another. This is what Hawking was warning us about. As a species we must stand against these “things” before it’s too late.
The tech phobia in these comments is pretty stark and worrying.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate
People were saying this kind of stuff in the 1900s about cars and in the 80s about computers before xerox made it more user friendly.
We don’t go to work and expect our computers to know what needs doing and do it, we still have to operate them. Driving puts you and others around you in a more vulnerable state and she didn’t think to man the technology in her car?! The mind boggles. There’s only so much a computer system can do. Mankind is getting so lazy
Not much of a difference between the software in the Tesla car and some of the Idiots driving here
How many people need to be killed and how many jobs to be lost before we ban this ‘new smoking’ craze?
@Mick Murphy: well in China the figure is about 260,000 and worldwide driving deaths are at about 1.2 million. That’s with normal cars.
Everybody on here with tech phobia should watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p6D6RjUJEg
Neil de Grasse Tyson on future.
have they tested this autopilot in general before or they’ re doing it now??? ridiculous electronic crap .
Test
What a load of bol/0cks
Comes with ABS …
ahhhhhh bleedin sheeeeet
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