Self-driving cars: Google and others map the road to automated vehicles Google and a number of automakers are spearheading the movement to get automated vehicles on America’s roads. Self-driving cars are street legal in three states, and Google’s fleet has collectively logged over 300,000 miles of time on the road. However, there are several obstacles in the path of widespread adoption, with legal and moral oppositi…

LPT: Pressing 0 on an automated call machine will often transfer you to an agent If you’re calling a number where you have to navigate a phone menu, pressing 0 once or repeatedly will often transfer you to an agent. Although it’s not a spoken option, I’ve got it to work with many numbers, and cut my time spent on call. submitted by /u/rrvvs

Mexico, the Automated Self-Serve Entry System, and the lost FMM Ticket Lord let me start with my husband stressed me out about this! We went through the self-serve kiosk when we got to Mexico. Honestly it works pretty smoothly if people read the instructions and don’t sit there trying to move their passports around on the scanner. The machines are a little slow, they take roughly 15-30 seconds to scan your passport…

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LPT: When you need to call the Walgreens pharmacy, type 771 when the automated phone system starts talking. This bypasses the stupid prompts and connects you directly to the pharmacy. I used to work there and now I use it every time I call them. submitted by /u/HooverDamm-

LPT: Skip pharmacy automated prompts and talk to a person. Hate your pharmacies automated “help” prompts? When the computer asks “how can I help you today?” Say “cancel prescription”, it will likely then connect you to a person. They probably won’t know what you said to the computer, so just ask your question. YMMV but it works on the prompts for one of the major us chains. submitted by /u/ilikes…

What is a good provider service to use to make automated social posts for several clients and their platform pages/channels? I wanna go ahead and make social media posts doing social media marketing for like 20 clients that each have 3 to 4 social platform pages or channels each, but I can’t find a place that allows me to automate and organize all of that so I can take care of all of them at one place rather than logging into each of their accounts and trying to set s…

Is there a real need for automated social media content creators? So a bit of context here. I recently started a hobby YouTube channel a few days ago and decided to use AI to create videos and automatically upload videos once created. This got me thinking. Is there a real business potential for creating marketing videos for brands and automating uploads of such videos to platforms like Tiktok? I’ve been dabbli…

Swippitt Debuts Phone Charging Hub With Automated Battery Swapper Swippitt has introduced an innovative charging solution at CES that aims to eliminate the need to manually plug in your iPhone. The system consists of a bread bin-style hub that automatically swaps depleted battery packs with fresh ones through specially designed phone cases. The Swippitt Hub houses five 3,500mAh battery packs and works with co…

Flashing Lights On Emergency Vehicles Can Cause ‘Digital Epileptic Seizure’ In Automated Driving Systems Elon Musk has perpetually promised that self-driving cars are only a year away. However, today’s relatively rudimentary autonomous systems are still making errors that most humans wouldn’t make behind the wheel. New research found that the flashing lights mounted on emergency vehicles can disorient automated driving… Read more…

Chicago Will Be The Latest City To Issue Automated Tickets For Blocking Bike And Bus Lanes More major cities across the United States have been hopping on the automated ticket issuing system bandwagon that uses cameras mounted to city buses to photograph, identify, and ticket vehicles that block bike and bus lanes. The city of Los Angeles recently spent $11 million on 100 AI bus cameras, and New York City… Read more…

YNAB alternative that is automated? I read YNAB has a steep learning curve at first. I keep starting videos and stopping them (thanks ADHD!), adjusting things here and there. But I cannot stand having to reconcile constantly and categorize every single transaction. I forget about my budget for a couple days and then get overwhelmed when I have so many transactions to categorize. …

AAA Study Shows New Automated Braking Systems Are Twice As Effective As They Were Just A Few Years Ago Modern cars beep, ding at you, and flash warnings across their various screens in ways that would send someone from the early 2000s into a coma. Sure that can get annoying, but these warnings and the automatic emergency braking system that engages soon after are getting much better at preventing crashes altogether. AAA Read more…

LPT Misspell Tump on every social media platform in order to keep the AI/Russian bots away. They send automated messages after homing in on his name. submitted by /u/Nihilist-Denialist

LPT : To reach a human, tell the automated system you want to buy something or report fraud If you are calling a customer service number and experience difficulties getting through to a human agent, do the following: 1- A telecom company, say you want to either add a new line or buy a whole new service. Then tell the sales rep what you are really calling about. 2- With banks, just tell the robot you are reporting fraud and it will inst…

Automation: Find and send automated messages on Instagram Hello Reddit! I was wondering if there’s a software or application that allows me to find leads on Instagram e.g. someone in lifestyle/travel niche and also automate the sending messages + but “change” the names but keep the message the same? It’s taking a lot of time and I’m pretty sure there’s a software for this? submitted by /u/Extre…

Automated marketing platforms to choose at the beginning? Like everyone here, I’m creating an ecommerce, but it was born on one of the most inhospitable continents for entrepreneurship. I’ll get straight to the point, in Brazil inequality is huge (many poor, but at the same time many rich, after all we are among the 10 largest GDPs in the world) and the tax burden is extremely high. That being said, th…

Automated Editing Thousands of “Every Day” Photos? I’ve been taking a photo of my face every single day for 14 years. Theres a couple of times where I did not have my good camera with me and had to use my phone. Because of this, the shadows on my face are not even and don’t look like the same vivid brightness my good camera gives me with it’s flash. Lucky for me, I only have about 300 images th…

Automated Severe Weather Warning Posts With Graphics?? Here is my dilemma. I post severe thunderstorm, tornado, flood, etc. warnings to a Facebook page, and I am desperately trying to find a way that will automatically post the warnings as they come in from the National Weather Service across the state, WITH the warning graphic (polygon shape on a map) for visual aid. The polygon images used for the…

An automated marketing engine for online businesses. Hi everyone, Last year I helped a friend grow her business in Sydney. I noticed she spent far too much time posting on social media. It was exhausting. So I spent the last 18 months coding, and the end result was an app that automates a large part of this process. Basically, all you need to do is upload photos of your business. Amazely uses AI t…