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50 States, 50 Protests, 1day
Feb 5 @ your downtown.
Trust the process.
The man is a tragic waste of functioning organs. And it would be really really funny if one of his own jank ass “smart cars” ends up ending him.
Crap folks, it didn’t work. Gotta think of something more subtle
He always springs into action once something affects him personally.
It’s a feature, not a bug.
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Incorrect. Wishing death on one person.
ITT: people wishing death on a billionaire.
I wouldn’t worry about it. They kill us all the time in the name of profits.
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If he was trying to reduce the deaths, he would go with LiDAR.
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Only when it becomes the possibility of his own death.
Homicidal Autopilot, the hero that tried to save us.
Maybe I judged AI too harshly…
if I was as rich as Elon, whether it’s my own companies tech or not, I’m having a paid human driver on hand at all times anyway
Genuinely surprised he’s actually in his own shitty cars and not a Rolls Royce or something.
I mean, dogfooding is a good thing, right?
Elon Musk has made Tesla part of his personality and is the public face of the company. He’s stupid on many levels, but I don’t think he’s this stupid.
I wonder how many of the crazy design “features” in those cars are just for his personal indulgence. Like the Model S plad wheel that looks like the yoke on a 747 and which was completely unnecessary and (from what I’ve heard) less usable than the standard wheel.
That’s just an option right? From what I understand it normally ships out with a regular steering wheel. (Not defending Musk, just trying to get things straight).
If so, I wonder if some engineer used Jedi mind tricks and was like “Elon this idea is so cool, we should have people pay extra for it” to avoid the asinine wheel being shipped out standard.
If it looks stupid, it was Elmo’s idea. There are articles about how engineers ran a shadow Cybertruck design since they hated the very concept and everything Musk suggested with a passion.
They also recently removed the indicator stalks from the facelifted Model 3. For me that would be a reason to get a different car altogether.
“That would be a reason to get a different car.” Sorry - old Airplane joke.
I mean its a fun “cool” thing if he had build like a 100 of them not take it into production.
“We’re trying to have those conversations with Elon to establish what the sensors would need to do,” Baglino added. “And they were really difficult conversations, because he kept coming back to the fact that people have just two eyes and they can drive the car.”
But people have human brains, unlike Teslas or their CEO. Conversely, goldfish have two eyes, yet cannot drive a car.
We have two identical forward looking eyes for stereo vision. As far as I know, Tesla’s don’t even have that. They’re all different cameras with different angles. These cars drive like someone with one eye closed.
What a fantastic day to have eyes
I was just about to mention the goldfish “driving the tank” robotics project. I’m still betting it was inspired by the old joke:
There are two goldfish in a tank. One says “How the hell do you drive this thing?”
Stupid article. Lidar can’t see lines painted on the road. Using lidar wouldn’t have any impact on the described problem.
The described problem wasn’t that the car didn’t see the lines, it was the car steering into oncoming traffic when it couldn’t see the lines. Lidar could potentially very well help with that, by giving the car a better model of the surroundings letting it better reconstruct the intended road path even when the lines are faded, and also see oncoming traffic better and avoid it.
Exactly this. Also I wanted to point out, LIDAR absolutely sees the lines on the road. Of course, this is not much use if they’re faded, but LIDAR receives points from the road/ground, and since lane markings are white, they have a much higher reflectivity. So if you look at a LiDAR pointcloud, the lane markings have a higher point concentration and you can definitely see them.
Source: I work in this sector.
The successful autonomous vehicle deployments all use LiDAR and hd maps and cameras. Tesla is way behind at this point.
LiDARs can absolutely detect painted lines and other painted symboles on the road. LiDAR is an active sensor technology that emits a LASER light beam and measurs the reflected echo, using the time delay between emittion and reception (time of flight) to measure distance. The painted lines will reflect the LASER with more intensity than the asphalt and the LiDAR sensor has the ability to measure that as well.
Flashback to the Segway CEO that died on a Segway.
We’re disappointed it didn’t finish the job.
Ive had multiple people get so mad at me for comments about how poorly this shit works. I don’t understand how this is the hill so many people want to die on. It doesn’t work.
This. People need to stop simping for billionaires. It’s embarrassing to watch.
Sunk cost. The price for these “premium” cars is sillyz and the features don’t work. But people wouldn’t pay such a price for unfinished crap, right? Right?! So they justify it to themselves and get defensive.
Also a lot of people will treat any shitty-shit consumer piece of crap as being part of their “personal identity” (an effect very purposefully created and used in the marketing strategy of lots of brands) and that is much more so for something which is way more expensive than pretty much all consumer gadgets out there and which people most definitelly are seen with (in some ways its almost a cross between a 2nd skin and a home away from home).
As soon as people treat something as part of their identity, any criticism of it is felt as a criticism of they themselves, which depending on the social environment and maturity of the individual, can be taken as an attack.
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Rise? Lifestyle brand marketing has been a part of basically every culture since the dawn of civilization.
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We are trained to this. For decades we both consume ‘brands’ and are ourselves ‘branded’.
