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I know you are joking, but unlike Google, Tesla at least tries to finish whatever they start and actually deliver stuff, while google quickly jumps the ship if
by usaphp 7y ago
I know you are joking, but unlike Google, Tesla at least tries to finish whatever they start and actually deliver stuff, while google quickly jumps the ship if the thing does not work out and abandoned all their customers
- devoply 7y agoPlease don't call willing experiment participants customers.
- Analemma_ 7y agoThe problem with Tesla is when they take your money promising to deliver something, when they can't. Full self-driving capability is never, ever coming to the current-gen Teslas, no matter what Elon says - the sensory capability just isn't there. Google at least says "we can't support this profitably, so we won't" while Tesla engages in fraud.
- ChrisClark 7y agoNever? Even when we've already seen it working?
- stonogo 7y agoYou've been told you've seen it working. You have not seen full self-driving.
- anthonybsd 7y agoYou have? Care to share with the rest of us?
- smt88 7y agoAlphabet doesn't seem to abandon moonshots as easily as it does consumer SaaS products like Reader. They still have massive, on-going investments in anti-aging and self-driving vehicles. I don't know of any moonshots they've killed yet.
- fooker 7y ago> I don't know of any moonshots they've killed yet. Project Ara?
- wezen 7y ago> I don't know of any moonshots they've killed yet. Google fiber is mostly dead.
- Apocryphon 7y agoThat one seems more like a fault of legal battles and rent-seekers.
- jsty 7y agoLet's be fair, Google does usually deliver a working product, even if they take it away just as everyone starts using and liking it.
- technofiend 7y ago>I know you are joking, but unlike Google, Tesla at least tries to finish whatever they start and actually deliver stuff, while google quickly jumps the ship if the thing does not work out and abandoned all their customers I'm envisioning the Mr. Fusion in Back To The Future as a Google product. Surely it would fail the second it left that narrow 5-10 year window of support. Error: 403, Forbidden; the user is not authorized for trans-time operation.
- magduf 7y agoSorry for the pedantry, but you're confused. Mr. Fusion had little to do with time travel: it was a commercial device which Doc got in the future, and which simply generated power from whatever you wanted to pour into it. Doc's flux capacitor is what allowed time-travel, and it needed a lot of power. So before, he had to either use uranium or lightning, but after installing Mr. Fusion he didn't need either of those hard-to-get things. So, if Mr. Fusion was a Google product, as soon as McFly transported the DeLorean to the future (outside Google's window of support) and the onboard computer synced the time over-the-air and the Mr. Fusion updated its clock, McFly would be stuck in the future, though presumably in that time he should be able to find some competitor to Mr. Fusion which he could replace it with (with Doc's help; McFly never seemed to be very good with technical things).
- technofiend 7y agoI was simply remembering the end of the first movie where Doc drops a beer can, a banana peel and so on into the Mr. Fusion so he can take Marty and his girlfriend into the future and joking when Doc ended up in 198-whatever Mr. Fusion would refuse to work because it was out of support. I think you're interleaving the timelines of later movies?
- nerpderp82 7y agoTIL, turn off autoupdates and clock sync when doing any sort of time traveling.
- drewg123 7y agoAs a Tesla owner, I have to say that I'm really looking forward to them delivering the Full Self Driving option that I paid for 18 months ago when I bought my car.
- BinaryIdiot 7y agoThe worst part is, it doesn't seem like they'll be able to. I'm curious what happens if they ultimate need additional / different sensors to make it happen. Do they replace those parts for free?
- microtherion 7y agoI also wonder whether the choice of sensor technology they already (pre-)SOLD informs Tesla's opinion of what sensor technology is NEEDED for Full Self Driving (Their view that LIDAR is not necessary seems to be an outlier in the industry; are we sure that view is not influenced by the sizable outlay they'd face for upgrading their previously sold FSD option cars if they changed their mind?)
- drewg123 7y agoMy understanding is that FSD will at least require a new computer module, which they are supposed to replace for free for those of us who have purchased FSD. However, it is an open question whether or not it will require additional / different sensors (like lidar).
- _red 7y agoA hypothetical: You are driving your car and see that the pickup truck in front of you has an empty cardboard box in it (you can tell its empty by the way its floating around in bed of truck). Suddenly a gust of win picks up the box and it lands directly in front of your car. Its not very big, about 12 inches tall. Do you: (a) Slam on breaks? (b) Roll over it? Now what will the "AI" in your car do? Self-driving cars are not coming anytime soon. They are a whole slew of problems that you can intuit solutions to fairly easily, that are still beyond the ability of current tech.
- toast0 7y agoHas Tesla started delivering repair manuals and replacement parts? I keep hearing about Tesla vehicles at the body shop for several months.