[dba-Tech] Building a self-driving car

[Rocky Smolin]

A lost skill. Now that you can have a cheap Snark tuner clipped to the head
and it shows you exactly where you are relative to the pitch you want.

I recently taught my son's GF to play the uke.  First lesson - tuning, and I
made her tune it by ear to see how good her pitch perception was. It was
spot on.  

r 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
Arthur Fuller
Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2016 8:40 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Building a self-driving car

Way back when, I owned a BMW 2003 ti. Man, I loved that car! I was so atuned
to the music of its engine that I could slam-shift it through the four gears
without touching the clutch pedal, and no gear-grinding at all, ever. Almost
like tuning a guitar.

Speaking of guitars, when I first began guitar it would take me a long time
to successfully tune it. But a year later I could do it in a few seconds,
and that has stuck with me over the decades. Recently I was in a nearby pawn
shop looking for a guitar, and tried out about 5 of them, all of which
needed tuning (surprise). I had brought my tuning fork with me and in the
space of about 3 minutes had tuned them all. But I decided none was
appropriate so I left empty-handed. But it was nice to realize that the
skill of guitar-tuning, once mastered, never leaves you. And it's the same
with manual transmissions. There's a joy to be hand in sensing the music
inherent in them (well, actually, in the engine itself rather than the
tranny). But you get the idea.

On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Jon Tydda <jon at tydda.plus.com> wrote:

> Manual transmissions aren't about efficiency, they're about fun :-)
>
>
> Jon
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