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Self-driving cars have been worked on since the early 90s. Like pretty much everything in the machine learning space, it’s advances in GPUs and the hardware tha
by foobiekr 8y ago
Self-driving cars have been worked on since the early 90s. Like pretty much everything in the machine learning space, it’s advances in GPUs and the hardware that has made any of this possible. Other than making wild, undeliverable promises, Musk has not had a lot to do with it. It’s not Tesla that seeded the valley with self-driving, it’s Google and Google themselves was seeded by DARPA and CMU.
- jm4 8y agoWell, I specifically mentioned self driving availability for consumers. No one else is doing that now. The rest kind of supports the point I was trying to make. He’s a polarizing guy. I don’t think it’s fair to completely dismiss him as a bullshit artist like some people do, but I get why they’re put off by his overly optimistic promises. I’m still impressed. As a Tesla owner, I find the car to be nothing short of incredible despite its flaws. It feels like it’s from the future. And the Falcon Heavy launch left me in awe. I grew up watching the shuttle launches on TV and they were cool, but I was amazed by the Falcon Heavy launch like never before. Say what you will about Musk and how he doesn’t have much to do with anything, but the reality is he’s the CEO who had the vision and somehow assembled the people who got it done. That said, if I had the choice of Musk or Bezos to be CEO of my dream company I’m picking Bezos every time.