People can’t wait to use fireworks for this Fourth of July.
According to the latest reported sales figures, fireworks are sold as pancakes, fireworks races and there is no revealing ending for sales in sight (well, they fade regularly after July 4).
Why is this feverish fireworks looking for this year?
Several are quoted.
First, the maximum number of official fireworks and occasions are canceled due to crowd considerations in a post-COVID context, so there will be no opportunity to attend those massive exhibits this year.
Second, if large-scale occasions are not planned, many have to take the issues into their own hands and hold their own fireworks in front of their homes.
Third, some other people think that lighting fireworks is a symbolic gesture and a laughing activity. This means that there is an additional boost to interact with fireworks, to do so by the game and to provide a remarkable message or about our time.
Fourth, and the simplest reason, after being trapped in their homes for several months, other people must faint and party, so the Fourth of July offers a rampant basis to do so.
How many times a year can you sit legally or stand outside your home, regularly also in the street space, and continue, spend the best time of your life and make noise with the noises, explosions and dazzling flames of the fireplace and light?
Practically our respected July 4 is the only time of year to do so (well, you might come up with New Year’s Eve, however, it’s a lighter weight on a smaller scale by comparison).
And this year, the 4th of July comes on a Saturday, a weekend day that offers impeccable festivities.
Many others don’t realize that, for the fireworks industry, July 4 is the time of year when approximately 90% of their income occurs over a tight two-week period. It is considered a seasonal product, commonly called hyperstational due to the massive dependence of such a limited window, and the rest of the year is faithful to prepare for the next annual celebration.
Of course, there are the professional fireworks efforts that take place throughout the year. Many of the theme parks do fireworks shows year-round, while many sports make use of fireworks to herald runs scored or touchdowns made. Generally, the use of fireworks in a professional context is rather minuscule when compared to the incredible volume of public-used fireworks consumed for July 4th.
You may think it’s obvious that the Fourth of July would be a massive fireworks gala. Believe it or not, when the pandemic first started in March or so, some predictions were made that The Fourth of July could be a colossal fireworks failure. We were all supposed to be decidedly internal and therefore we would not be able to pass out to adopt the use of fireworks. This trust momentarily detained some of the fireworks corporations when they left their tiredness as they would as a business, as their full annual profit stream would possibly have been about to explode.
We now know that the opposite is about to happen, that is, that this will be the greatest use ever made of fireworks on July 4 through the general public.
Fireworks corporations promote it right now as an amazing lottery price ticket of their time, reaching gold perhaps having a product that other people are asking for.
Another explanation of why the exuberance of fireworks is the preference to do something different, apart from sitting in space and playing indoor games. You can’t go to the cinemas because they’re almost all closed, and you can’t go to the mall, and you can’t even pass out to eat in a restaurant.
In general, being locked up and having exhausted all other options, the appeal of fireworks is immensely irresistible.
However, there are some drawbacks that need to be emphasized, even if it turns out to be a spoiler for unrestricted exaltation.
Being from fireworks
A notable disadvantage is that sales of illegal fireworks are also increasing.
You may not think that buying illegal fireworks is a problem. Unfortunately, in addition to being illegal, and in addition to denying sales to valid fireworks manufacturers, the other irrational fear is that those fireworks are likely to cause damage.
As you know, even legal fireworks are harmful and other people can get hurt.
According to government studies, several thousand wounded are sustained year after year at this time of year through the use of fireworks.
In one of these government-run studies; Statistics mean that young people under the age of 15 are to blame for more than a third of injuries.
Sparks and bottled rockets are among the non-unusual maximum products, which makes sense as they are occasionally used negligently and given to young people to try them.
I don’t need to be horrible, however, I know that the maximum non-unusual injuries are the hands and hands (approximately 28% of the injured), followed by the legs, eyes and ears. Burns are by far the maximum and non-unusual form of the injury and can lead to disfigurement or total loss of the appendix.
Therefore, with illegal fireworks, the threat of hurting yourself or one enjoyed increases, and stays in the brain that even with legal fireworks, it assumes threats to you and your loved ones.
The damage done to others who do not participate in your fireplace’s birthday party increases possible misfortunes. Going a little crazy, those who use chimneys on the Fourth of July will probably throw those explosive weapons into the air, land in nearby neighbors, causing injuries or possibly a chimney through the lighting of a roof.
The fact is, everyone, and I mean everyone, will have to be reflective, measured and careful with their fireworks on July 4.
Despite such hopes, it is easy to bet that there will be many injuries, especially this year, due to the increase in house fireworks and the likelihood that other people will have to get ahead. from their homes to see the large number of improvised fireworks extravagances in the neighborhood.
Hospital emergency rooms are already the result.
If it sounds too dark and dark, I regret to have cast a shadow over the joy, however, after seeing first-hand the serious injuries that can occur and the long-term negative effects on a person’s life, adding for young children, a little sobriety and caution is valuable as a sour stick in the mud
Changing gears, when other people make fireworks in front of their homes, they decide to do it on the street.
This makes sense, as your front yard may have grass or shrubs, all of which are less difficult to burn, while street asphalt is impervious to the flames and explosions caused by fireworks.
Have you ever tried to drive to the grocery store on the Fourth of July?
If you have, you know it’s one of the most difficult and scary nights of the year to drive (even harder than crossing the roads on Halloween).
As you walk the streets of your neighborhood on the Fourth of July, you should slowly sneak through the places where other people have set up their fireworks.
In addition, some other people sit in garden chairs on the street and young people run in any direction, with the goals without problems to be hit by a moving car, and those young people are so excited that they are not looking for traffic and are not aware of what is going on. passing around them.
Night darkness tends to obscure what exists in and around the streets, and sudden flashes of fireworks can cloud your vision, distract you directly forward, and marvel at a driving force with a reckless driving judgment.
Many parents, when asked to come to the store to buy a little more soda or chips, think twice and recommend that they can wait until the next day.
Another thing about the Fourth of July night driving is that there are idiots and (dare I say) thugs who like to throw firecrackers at moving cars.
It’s not an idea.
Anyone opting to drive their car during the fireworks celebratory time is taking a big chance and must have a vital reason to do so.
A similar facet is how to take an injured child or adult through fireworks to the emergency room, which gives you more complexity as it can drive alone, but is limited to the speed at which it can pass due to obstructions and other people on the streets, in addition to the same pitfalls faced by lifeguards driving ambulances or vehicles.
In general, be careful on July 4 and, if possible, avoid the roads to avoid driving, especially star-time fireworks activities.
Mentioning the anguish and agonies of driving in July is a similar subject.
Self-driving cars will be gradually viable as a means of transport. Real self-driving cars based on AI will not use a human driver.
Here’s an intriguing question: will genuine AI-based self-driving cars have trouble driving on a Fourth of July night, and if so, what kind of difficulties can AI driving systems face?
Let’s unroll and see.
Understanding self-driving cars
To clarify, genuine self-driving cars are the ones that AI handles the car completely alone and there is no human assistance in the task of driving.
These cars without driving force are considered grades four and five (see my explanation in this link here), while a car that requires a human driving force for percentage of driving effort is considered as a point 2 or 3. Percentage of Driving Tasks are described as semi-autonomous and commonly include a variety of automatic add-ons called Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).
There is not yet a true self-driving car at Level 5, which we don’t yet even know if this will be possible to achieve, and nor how long it will take to get there.
Meanwhile, Level Four efforts gradually seek to gain some traction through very narrow and selective public road tests, there is controversy over whether those evidence deserves to be compatible with itself (we are all guinea pigs for life and death in an inconsistent context) Taking a stand on our roads and roads, some point out, see my indication in this link here).
Since semi-autonomous cars require a human driver, adopting such cars will not be much different from driving traditional vehicles, so there is not much new in itself for the canopy on this issue (however, as you will see at a time, the following problems apply).
For semi-autonomous cars, it is vital that the public be aware of a disturbing facet that has happened in recent times, despite those human motivating forces that continue to publish videos of themselves sleeping behind the wheel of a point 2 or 3 cars. We will all have to avoid being tricked into thinking that the driving force can divert their attention from the task of driving while driving a semi-autonomous car.
You are to blame for driving the vehicle, regardless of the automation point that may be thrown at point 2 or 3.
Autonomous and Fourth of July
For true point four and five autonomous vehicles, there will be no human driving force involved in the driving task.
All occupants will be passengers.
The AI is driving.
The ultimate and non-unusual misconception about self-driving cars is the false confidence that they will be “superhuman” and will incredibly lead humans (for my scruples about Elon Musk making such claims about autopilot, see the discussion in this link here).
In fact, we can agree that AI will not drive in a drunken state, and in that sense, yes, it is an improvement over the human drivers to whom to drive in a drunken state.
Do you think, however, that not getting is equivalent to “superhuman” capabilities?
That sounds dubious.
Also note that the popular sometimes accepted for driving grades indicates that artificial intelligence is intended to drive in the same way that a human driving force can potentially drive on a road, meaning that if a human can drive somewhere, I can do it. the same is true, but not necessarily beyond what a human can handle.
Again, this would be “superhuman” when it comes to driving.
In addition, existing driving titles exclude the off-road driving law (see my explanation of this link here). Therefore, AI could be driving off the road, if the automaker and autonomous driving generation have such provisions, but that is not a requirement.
For a wide variety of reasons, don’t think that AI driving systems will be superhuman because they are misleading and offer false expectations.
The explanation for why this is a vital point and that corresponds to this general discussion about driving on July 4 is that a genuine self-driving car is not supposed to magically drive in a way that goes beyond the way humans would take the car from driving circumstances.
Sure, the AI will not be tipsy, and it will not be “frightened” as it tries to maneuver throughout the firework’s laden streets, thus avoiding those kinds of human driver foibles.
On the other hand, detecting all those low pose elements is simple for the self-driving car.
Through the vehicle’s headlights, the cameras will do whatever they can to visually scan the scene and perceive what’s happening. Radar would possibly run into many objects, those near the ground are hard to discern. The lidar would be useful, like other sensors, some like thermal imaging take a look when fireworks flash and spit out flames (for more information on sensors and sensor fusion, see my explanation in this link here).
Unlike a human, it is that AI has been programmed to address the details of a Fourth of July phenomenon.
Humans know that there are many fireworks on the floor and that they are inherently dangerous. In addition, humans know that young people have a tendency to run, even to lie or crouch in the middle of the street.
Keep in mind that today’s AI absolutely lacks any kind of non-unusual meaning or so-called non-unusual sense reasoning (as I do here in this link). Currently, AI is very successful and cannot “think” like humans. This is very important to achieve this, as AI will not “understand” what happens on July 4 and will simply react to everything that happens in front of the vehicle.
A human driving force would have a global concept of what happens on the roads and would probably be driving more cunningly through a widespread plan on how to deal with problems. AI would take one step at a time, as if it didn’t have a context appearance where other people are on the street and what they do.
You can simply say that it doesn’t matter if the driving force has an overview, and the only thing that the issues are what’s in front of the car.
To some extent, it is true that the action in front of the car is the maximum element, however, we also make many paintings in intellectual anticipation when driving a car.
For example, you would possibly know that the street across the street is one of many families living in houses along the way, and I can assume they’ll go outside on the Fourth of July in giant numbers. In the meantime, if I turn right at the end of the block, I know there’s a side street that probably wouldn’t have many people.
Keep in mind that only through visual cues, you may not make the same driving judgment and instead say that it passes directly to the street that the mass meetings had, just know the scenario when viewing it directly.
This is what a self-driving car probably does.
If you think a GPS and map would be this, general maps are highly unlikely to provide a really extensive clue as to how the street is limited by many families with young people and will offer such clues in advance.
However, there is a way you can come and play for AI.
One of the facets of autonomous cars is that they use device learning (ML) and deep learning (DL), a type of combination of computational models that allows AI to verify warning models. Possibly that by circulating this Fourth of July, the ML/DL will possibly check to “learn” how the streets look in terms of meetings and will be better prepared for the coming years.
But this is probably not going to be happening this year.
Most self-driving tests will be conducted on July 4, and rightly so.
Automakers and autonomous generation corporations are running lately to ensure that self-driving cars drive safely in everyday circumstances. Any perception of driving in the rarity once a year of the Fourth of July is considered a case of edge or angle, suggesting that it is so normal that it deserves no attention at this time and would instead unduly undermine power towards the popular. type of driving
Another side that would be tricky for the self-driving car is the option of the smoke from the fireworks darkening what the camera sensors can see. Fireworks flashes can also have an effect on cameras and the nature of visual images captured and interpreted through the on-board PC system.
Conclusion
Trying to get a self-driving car to get around a classic fireworks demonstration on the streets is something that goes beyond what maximum AI handling systems can achieve seamlessly today.
AI is sometimes programmed to be a shy and incredibly cautious driver, and the number of possible elements and pitfalls would undoubtedly lead the formula not to advance, or to do so at a slower speed than a snail or turtle.
What we want to do is upload this type of driving situation to the specialized driving list that we want to be handled by self-driving cars.
In the meantime, we will be quite dependent on the human drivers, who, as I said, deserve to avoid driving on the night of the 4th of July, if possible to avoid it, and take a look to enjoy the festivities, doing it safely and resolutely. . allow someone to get hurt.
I know this Fourth of July!
Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned expert in synthetic intelligence (AI) with over 3 million perspectives accumulated in his AI columns. As an experienced, high-tech executive
Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned expert in synthetic intelligence (AI) with over 3 million perspectives accumulated in his AI columns. As an experienced high-tech executive and entrepreneur, it combines the practical delight of the industry with in-depth educational studies to provide cutting-edge data on the long-term supply and long-term supply of AI and ML technologies and applications. A former USC and UCLA professor, and head of a pioneering AI lab, he speaks at major AI industry events. Author of more than 40 books, 500 articles and two hundred podcasts, he has appeared in media outlets such as CNN and co-hosted the popular technotrends radio screen. He has served as an advisor to Congress and other legislative bodies and has won many awards/recognitions. He sits on several director forums, has worked as a venture capitalist, angel investor and mentor for marketing founders and start-ups.