self driving is the future, but im glad im not a beta tester.
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You're probably right about the future, but like damn, I wish they would slow their roll and use LiDAR
Elon Musk decided they absolutely would not use lidar, years ago when lidar was expensive enough that a decision like that made economic sense to at least try making work. Nowadays lidar is a lot cheaper but for whatever reason Musk has drawn a line in the sand and refuses to back down on it.
Unlike many people online these days I don't believe that Musk is some kind of sheer-luck bought-his-way-into-success grifter, he has been genuinely involved in many of the decisions that made his companies grow. But this is one of the downsides of that (Cybertruck is another). He's forced through ideas that turned out to be amazing, but he's also forced through ideas that sucked. He seems to be increasingly having trouble distinguishing them.
He's forced through ideas that turned out to be amazing, but he's also forced through ideas that sucked.
He's utterly incapable of admitting that one of his ideas is garbage.
There is a reason he fawns all over Trump and that's because both of them are of a type. Both of them have egos large enough to have their own gravitational fields but lack any real talent. Look his family up, they're all like that.
They removed their lidar sensors after the prices had already come down.
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Yikes. Glad they're ok
Ditto! They were about 1 foot from hitting the tree head on rather than glancing off, could have easily been fatal. Weirdly small axises of random chance that the world spins on
I still don't understand what made it happen. I kept watching shadows and expecting it to happen earlier.
It makes no damn sense! There were worse shadows. it was totally unpredictable
There's some difference in the fences on the left side at the exact time the car passed by on the other lane. My guess is that the timing of the other car made the software interpret those changes in the input as something moving instead of simply something being different.
They seriously need to pull FSD if it were just a matter of people risking their own lives I wouldn't mind but they're risking everyone else's by driving this glitch machine around.
I thought it might be following the tire tracks but no. It just decided to veer completely off.
It's full self-driving, doesn't need roads. Put into wrong car.
I fear the day I’m on the receiving end of a “glitch.” It’s ridiculous that anyone can think these are safe after how many of these videos I’ve seen.
As a motorcyclist... Yeah.
Typical piss poor quality from Leon Hitler. F Tesla.
There’s an obvious reason. It’s a fucking Tesla.
It was in stunt mode
Not really worth talking about unless the crash rate is higher than human average.
Imagine if people treated airbags that way XD
If Ford airbags just plain worked, and then Tesla airbags worked 999 times out of 1,000, would the correct answer be to say "well thems the breaks, there is no room for improvement, because dangerously flawed airbags are way safer than no airbags at all."
Like, no. No, no, no. Cars get recalled for flaws that are SO MUCH less dangerous.
you do get this wrong, its a flying car
But does it do it less often than humans?
A good point, but I'm not sure that's where the bar is. How does it compare to other self-driving systems that have lidar, for instance?
Depends on the issue at hand. To get these approved and widespread, better than humans may be the bar.
I have done it zero times, and I am definitely a Human man.
Can confirm, also a human and never caused a car crash
I'm gonna answer your question with a question, as I don't have your answer. When a human wrecks up it's their fault. Who's fault is it when something like this happens? Should ut still be the person in the driver's seat?
No idea how that will turn out. Fully auto, but you have to maintain the vehicle and ensure it's road worthy as the owner.