Podcast for 25 March 2018

[MrBogosity]

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Co-Host: John Petersen

News of the Bogus:

• 0:56 - North Carolina police officer faces charges after beating, choking and tasing suspected jaywalker https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/09/us/asheville-police-taser-jaywalking/index.html
• 5:15 - Homeopathy cancer paper withdrawn after arrest of lead authors https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/homeopathy-cancer-paper-withdrawn-after-arrest-of-lead-authors
• 8:45 - NHS homeopathy ending in London http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43373817

12:07 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: The News Media https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-selfdriving-uber/self-driving-uber-car-kills-arizona-woman-crossing-street-idUSKBN1GV296

• Exclusive: Tempe police chief says early probe shows no fault by Uber https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Exclusive-Tempe-police-chief-says-early-probe-12765481.php

18:13 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Romania https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/16/romanian-court-tells-man-he-is-not-alive

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[evensgrey]

Actually, self-driving cars have been in development and testing for about 50 years, starting back in the heyday of SAIL.  They had a van with an extra 4-cylinder engine installed in the back to drive the generator that powered the PDP-11 they also put in.  (A PDP-11 was about as good as it got for installing in a vehicle in those days, before microprocessors.  It's main advantages were it could be put inside the back of a van, something not usually feasible for 1960's computers of useful power, and the unusual design of the expansion bus allowed a large number of external interfaces with a simple interrupt priority to be added to it, just the kind of thing needed.)  It never got beyond a test track, but being able to get a 1960's era PDP-11 to operate a vehicle AT ALL was pretty good.