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Well that article is a lot less exciting than the headline would have you believe. John Carmack is going to fix up some of the crappy code in his 2012 Tesla bec
by Traster 5y ago
Well that article is a lot less exciting than the headline would have you believe. John Carmack is going to fix up some of the crappy code in his 2012 Tesla because it's so bad he's decided to fix it himself.
>Also, it’s a step closer for Carmack to coming to work for Tesla.
Yeah, that's how I would convince Carmack to come work for Tesla, let him hack away on your shitty decade old MCU that was likely written by an intern anyway. As we all know, shitty MCU -> AGI. If I remember correctly this was the same MCU that would just log everything until it ran out of space and crashed right?
- atonse 5y agoIf anyone can make the graphics work better on the older hardware it’s Carmack so it’s exciting for early Model S adopters I guess.
- southerntofu 5y agoWouldn't it be even more exciting to use robust tech, as in a car that doesn't require any forms of sensors/firmware to begin with? That would certainly be cheaper, safer and more ecological, in all cases.
- c7DJTLrn 5y agoAlso, I doubt that there's much need to work his low level graphics optimisation magic like he did with Oculus. Something tells me that the interface is probably rendered in a browser and there's low hanging fruit all over the place.