17/09/2016 Click - Short Edition

If you're driving, and especially if you're parking, it's not

difficult to put a wheel wrong and end up with a parking ticket.

Now, it is possible to appeal a ticket and many appeals

are successful, but you've got to know what your rights are and how

Now, personally I don't, but this chap does.

The DoNotPay robot lawyer is a chat bot that can write you an appeal

letter in the time it takes you to answer its questions.

Were you or someone you know driving?

It starts by asking about the circumstances

In this case you can say, "Yes, it was."

Then it immediately understands the problem with your ticket

and the great thing is it will actually get evidence

from Google StreetView if it's relevant to support your claim.

Also include relevant previous cases where they have been successful in

getting their tickets dismissed. The appeals letter it produces

is based on actual successful claim letters that covered the same

criteria, be they confusing signage What was your inspiration

then for creating this? With the help of some lawyer friends

this artificially intelligent chat bot was created last year by

19-year-old computer science student Joshua. I really think market

tickets are like an arbitrary final on people, you have elderly people

and the disabled getting really expensive tickets and I see it as a

public service. If people get them legitimately they should pay them

but I think councils are using them to raise money so it's good to help

them. What was your inspiration

then for creating this? Well, it was quite

embarrassing actually. I got a large number

of parking tickets myself and after about the fourth

ticket my parents said you're on your own, you have to pay

for your own tickets. Out of necessity I had to become

a local parking guru and it wasn't long before I was hoping my family

and friends with their tickets. Joshua estimates that almost ?4

million in parking fines has been successfully appealed since the bot

launched in the UK, Seattle and New York. And it doesn't stop at parking

tickets. It can also help you claim compensation for delayed flights,

apply for council housing in the UK and fight landlords for property

repairs. And Joshua has decided not

to charge for its services. I promised

from the beginning it would be free I think people who need free legal

help are some of the most vulnerable in society and it would be morally

wrong to charge them, so I'm not making money and it's

a pure public service. Now we're off to Amsterdam

to the International Broadcasting If you're a content creator, and,

let's face it, aren't we all these days, if you make videos,

upload stuff or broadcast stuff, this is the place to see the latest

high-end kit that's available. Dan Simmons is there at IBC and this

is what he has found. Fancy an all-terrain 4x4

with 240-degree rotating camera and lightning fast tracking built

by former Russian engineers? And that's the cost

without the car, just an arm. And how about an electric

copter with 4K camera Released only last month,

it's a quarter of the price of a standard chopper,

but it does look to be Surely with drones everywhere

a ?400,000 chopper isn't The big problem with drones

is they are very restricted in terms If you're in the right air space

then a drone is fantastic. But if you need to cross a road

or get near to people or buildings or things you don't have control

over then you start running into lots of regulatory

problems with drones. This is Amsterdam's IBC expo

and is where the TV and film industry meet to show off

the next building blocks 360 video is on many

executives' minds here, The Globe is live streaming the feed

from the six GoPro cameras that make That offers viewers the chance

to peer into and explore the content without the dizziness sometimes

experienced through a VR headset. The clever bit is that it is

stitching all of this on the fly, but also it is putting it

onto a piece of hardware. Something that could become

the TV of the future. Postproduction for films shot in 360

is challenging because of the way the multiple camera shots

are stitched together. The final bit of future TV that

caught my eye was this from Auntie Beeb, which is cutting

up its own shows so you can pick It could mean cookery programmes

that avoid ingredients Comedy shows that cut out the kind

of jokes you don't want to hear. Or Click without, say,

pieces on the future of TV. So before I get swept up its back

to the electric chopper This prototype may only have 15

minutes of flight time but that's enough to get to Schipol Airport

in my very own Lamborghini Just one small problem that

shouldn't be left to postproduction. Keith...

How do you close the doors? Hello and welcome

to the Week in Tech. It was the week Tesla boss Elon Musk

announced safety updates to the driver assistance autopilot

function on its cars. It said it would make greater use

of the on-board radar A Tesla driver died

in a collision earlier this year It was also the week

that the director of the FBI advised that we should all cover our webcams

like he does to protect yourselves Amazon announced its virtual

assistant speakers are coming to the UK, complete

with a British accent. It was also the week where the most

amazing and also kind of creepiest Researchers at MIT Media Lab

at Georgia Tech adapted radiation technology that could one day mean

we could be able to read a book The system works by firing radiation

pulses from a special camera and measuring just how long it takes

for them to bounce back. At the moment, though,

it can only see one hand-written And finally, our eyes almost fell

out of our heads when we saw the most terrifying

looking drone yet. Japan's latest Pro Drone comes

with six spinning blades and a dextrous duo of very

sinnister-looking robotic claws. useful in collecting dangerous

materials. This is Bjork Digital,

and inside these rooms at Somerset House are 100 Gear VR

headsets and 20 HTC Vibes, music videos from Bjork's album,

Vulnicura. The show has been touring the world

and the promise is eventually to make a VR experience for each

of the nine album tracks. Visitors to this location will be

the first to see Quicksand, feautiring Bjork in her specially

made facially tracked Yes, not for the first time

Iceland's enigmatic imp has been dazzling and baffling

us with her intriguing deliver her vision is Andrew

Melchior. What was her motivation

for trying VR? I think she has always been

interested in technology, she was a bit of a geek,

which we love. So I think virtual reality

is the latest weapon in the arsenal with which to try and convey

and have an intimate relationship with her listeners and people

who like her work. In fact, Bjork is so keen on VR

that she even appeared at her own press launch

as a virtual avatar. There's something about when you put

those goggles on your face, that you are just immediately in

this kind of very theatrical world. But because you're the lone

viewer in this VR world Oh, right, three now,

now you're just driving me insane! The experience on the beach, tell me

about the thinking behind that? Bjork's a bit of an old punk,

she's a lot of an old punk, the approach of making do

with what you've got and getting it out there is the thing she did

for did for Stonemilker. It's a very honest, sort of,

what you see is what you get. We will see what I get soon enough

because if I know Bjork, which I now feel like I do,

things are about to get weird. I'm pretty sure I'm

in someone's mouth. Either that or I'm being attacked

by a huge strawberry. So the original aspiration was to do

something in her actual mouth, but unfortunately,

that was a bit risky. It might have muffled

the words as well. So we ended up making

this animatronic head, which the camera was specially

created for to be able to film All of these experiences feature

dynamic binaural audio. All of this is of course pretty

typical behaviour for one of the most atypical people

in the music industry. Unnerving and uncomfortable,

which is probably exactly as Bjork That's it for the shortcut of Click

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