KayLeadfoot
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4·18 days agoI award you the dubious honor of “Best Pun on the Thread”
Waymo had non-standard stop-signs figured out six years ago XD Feels essential to running a half-way responsible autonomous car service?
3·19 days agoFirst iteration appear to be Tesla Model Ys. No word on additional sensors, so I am guessing the answer is no.
I heard it in health class a bajillion times, so as a reminder, abstinence is the only effective birth cont- oh wait, no, no, Teslas are very effective at preventing pregnancy and STIs.
"World’s richest man needs richer :c "
Yeah. Yeah, can’t use it in any failure-sensitive field right now.
No more than you could use a human who periodically hallucinates (and that means you are NOT good to drive, give me them keys XD )
The “humans drive cars with just optical input” has become a weirdly tightly held misconception for Elon Musk, it’s a core part of his personality where autonomy is concerned:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-says-tesla-doesnt-023035552.html
Humans drive with optical input, haptic feedback, and millenia of evolution to handle the decision-making and social skills required to handle a vehicle safely. No LiDAR or radar waves, sure, but I wouldn’t say no if either were on offer!
The dumbest part? He developed this belief in ~2019. Lidar costs have dropped immensely since then, and are fast-dropping still. Any technologist who doesn’t fucking suck knows that component prices follow that depreciation curve. So he’s basically an old man shouting at a cloud at this point, it would be cheaper to fix the mistake, but it could hurt his personal branding as a guru.
Waymo is really interesting - you probably wouldn’t guess it, I’m a cautiously optimistic autonomy person! Waymo is already 12x safer than human drivers, that’s brilliant, I love that.
Teslas will (allegedly) start on a small, low-complexity street grid in Austin. exact size TBA. Presumably, they’re mapping the shit out of it and throwing compute power at analyzing their existing data for that postage stamp.
The rub… that all points out the obvious danger of rolling out the wild-west FSD that Tesla drivers are currently employing everywhere else. If it’s safe enough to trust to drive your car for you, why does it need a ton of additional guard-rails to operate without a safety driver?
8·20 days agoFortune reports, they’re testing them with employees taking the rides right now, and they’re just plain old Model Ys.
Google just hit me with “AI Mode” as the most prominent option in Google Search.
Not 30 minutes since its AI overview gave me EXACTLY THE WRONG ANSWER to basic factual questions, regurgitating the wrong part of a Wikipedia article of content that it stole.
4·22 days agoWas just thinking… mm. Toasty in waxed masks and wool coats.
This little subthread
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133·23 days agoFucking seriously!!! What is there to weight?!
2·23 days agoNice! Color me jealous, I drive an ICE truck, I test-drove a Lightning, it was very nice.
Rn, I think it’s something like 8% of new vehicle registrations per year are EVs. It’s about double that in Europe, and triple that in China (14% and 25%, I think).
So, growing, but if it grows much slower, we’ll be at the back of the pack, and I think being in the lead on this will keep our auto industry competitive for global exports, which are a big chunk of our export economy.
Oh thank you :D
Having worked in construction, I can report, you can totally still do this!
… One time per phone, unfortunately.