Elon spent all this money on making a taxi that drives itself but needs a driver and only works some of the time.
Elon is a genius.....
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This is even worse than I expected. I expected another delay, or a autonomous taxi with a remote driver constantly monitoring at best. This is no better than a regular taxi.
- Will have a driver in the "robo" taxi
- Will need to only run on specific area at specific time frame
- Won't run in "bad" weather
- Has all other kinds of small rules and quirks.
This seems like a complete waste of time for everyone involved.
It's almost like it's a grift for government contracts
So..... A regular taxi, then? 🤔🤭😂😂😂😂
No, this will be less convenient and more expensive. Like the tesla tunnel thing in Vegas: subway, but much worse.
The autonomous taxis near me are legit more expensive than lift and Uber, the only time I tried to use it at least.
They've also got agents watching you inside the autonomous taxi at all times, so that's fun.
So just a regular Taxi then.....groundbreaking.
He did it again. Except now you have a shitty robo taxi with a driver that pays no attention. The worst of both worlds.
if he innovates even more he might eventually invent trains!
So it's a taxi.
Motherfucker loves trying to reinvent the wheel only to end up at the goddamn wheel.
"I'ma invent a giant system that goes underground so we can move people around faster!" That's a subway, you santorum-covered condom.
Par for the course for techbros. His hyperloop was a shittier train. UberPool is a shittier bus. All these dumbfucks grow up being told they're the specialest boys, so of course people who made better things before them were clearly wrong.
Hyperloop was a raging success - it stopped funding of railway. I believe he even admitted that this was behind it to begin with.
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Motherfucker loves trying to reinvent the wheel only to end up at the goddamn wheel.
A shittier version of the wheel.
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More fraud.
SMH not even 700 ppl remote working in India like Amazon
Are they allowed to honk?
Imagine that job though. It is your job to be a scapegoat for traffic collisions.
Fantastic use of traffic collision, great reference.
"Accident implies there's nobody to blame."
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Will the driver be dressed like Optimus?
Optimus doesn't wear clothes.
Answer the fucking question.
More like Hobotaxi, am I right?
Or Nobotaxi, if that's funnier. Whichever you like is fine.
For ‘driving’ reasons.
I must say, it's been a little nicer not having this dipshit in the headlines every single fucking day. I guess he's going to start saying things again and fuck with my peace of mind.
I think Musk should 100% trust his fucking piece of shit robotaxi tech and use it exclusively. Good chance it drives him off a bridge.
Waymo doesn't need it, but he does? lol
That's because Tesla self-driving takes a different, and imo way worse, approach.
Waymo relies on mapping, the entire city is basically 3D modelled and loaded into the car memory. It's more or less 'on rails'. It also uses LIDAR for live data alongside imaging cameras, again building a 3D model of its environment combined with image recognition.
Tesla decided that, for some reason, they want their cars to drive 'like humans', only relying on vision and deployable anywhere, without pre-mapping.
Demanding a computer to behave like humans, instead of using a computer's strengths, seems like a very poorly thought out move to me.
drive 'like humans', only relying on vision […] without pre-mapping.
Demanding a computer to behave like humans
So basically their taxis will go into the job of driving a taxi without any prior knowledge of the city? Like a human? Only relying on road signs? Will it also stop to ask for directions? Like wtf? What kind of stupid idea is this from Tesla. Sounds absolutely moronic.
A human taxi driver doesn't work like this. They are people who know the city very well going in, or at least used to before GPS navigation in vehicles came to aid.
He's famously said that humans are good enough with just our two eyes. So he went the cheap route of not including lidar and relying on stereoscopic cameras.
He's an idiot. Because when I want stuff automated, I want it to be better than what a human can do.
humans are good enough with just our two eyes
This requires the car to have an equally sophisticated visual cortex as well, which we cannot achieve right now. Cars need those better sensors to equal our abilities.
God, hearing his stupid arguments shows us he really knows nothing about anything.
Because he seems to base his ideas purely on how cool he thinks they are rather than practicality and efficiency (such as the hidden tesla door handles).
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Arguably mapping out cities to this degree across the globe is a ginormous effort, on an order of magnitude more so than what Google Maps etc. currently provide. Thus I don't think it's entirely unreasonable to try designing something that operates purely in terms of sensory input (and of course map data where available, those approaches don't have to be mutually exclusive).
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Waymo also has much more reliable tech. To my knowledge waymos are level 4 while Tesla is only level 2 (which doesn't even qualify as autonomous)
Waymo have laser beams on their heads.
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yeah, totally not to keep the robotaxis from being molotoved. although after what musk did, not sure the presence of drivers will stop people.
More like: "If a "driver" is present and the car decides to kill someone, we can blame it on the human instead of the shoddy programming"
I thought it was a 2 seater with no controls. Lemme guess... It's a fleet of Model 3s.
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