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Amazing considering that he said he wasn’t comfortable putting his own kid in them just a few months ago.
by polkadotmatrix 5y ago
Amazing considering that he said he wasn’t comfortable putting his own kid in them just a few months ago.
- kelnos 5y agoGot a source for that? I searched around and couldn't find anything with him saying that.
- polkadotmatrix 5y agohttps://youtu.be/dmvZBiWYkFQ?t=242 https://youtu.be/dmvZBiWYkFQ?t=242 “I want to bring my little son along on this ride, but obviously that’s not where we’re at today.” edit: Fixed link
- mygoodaccount 5y agoEither you posted the wrong link, or your link was taken down within the last 20 minutes... Lots of Cruise employees in this thread.
- e4e78a06 5y agoYep, it was definitely taken down. I watched it only half an hour ago.
- redytedy 5y agoIt wasn't though
- polkadotmatrix 5y agohttps://youtu.be/dmvZBiWYkFQ?t=242 https://youtu.be/dmvZBiWYkFQ?t=242 I had an extra slash in the link, I corrected it in the original and above.
- xeromal 5y agolol. The conspiracies! It was a bad URL bro.
- kelnos 5y agoNot sure that means what you think it means. He might not have had regulatory or insurance permission to take non-employees in the car. Or it was just company policy to not allow family members (which would seem to be prudent before getting approval for general use), and he's being good and not using his position as CEO to get around the rules.
- 999900000999 5y ago18+ is reasonable since it's still a dangerous experiment. I actually would love an automated version of this that goes at 200 or 300 miles an hour, the ultimate thrill ride. Have it run on something like the Autobahn. While it's impossible for a human being to drive at that speed, computers definitely could . It would be like sky diving but on land
- woah 5y agoWhy not go on a train?
- asdff 5y agoI love it when the self driving threads always circle back to reinventing the concept of public transportation as if it doesn't already exist. Want to know what the best hyperloop system in the world is called? The subway, invented 200 years ago.
- csdvrx 5y agoCan't sit on the front seat :)
- zaptrem 5y agoThe fastest passenger cars today can only make it to 200mph. Even a computer with perfect vision and 0ms reaction time would not be able to stop in time for a blocked road at that speed unless visibility/road were perfect. Maybe on roads in the Mojave Desert/South Dakota I90/etc?
- jedberg 5y agoHe didn't say that. He said they weren't ready to yet. I think he meant legally because his son is under 18 so their insurance wouldn't cover it and also it was employees only at the time so again their insurance wouldn't cover it. I didn't get any sense he meant that he didn't trust the technology (otherwise he wouldn't be in it either).
- polkadotmatrix 5y agoPeople routinely take risks themselves they wouldn't impose on their kids. It's much harder to believe that he didn't bring his son because of some weird insurance exclusion (presumably 1. they were insured for riders under 18 outside the vehicle and 2. he would have explicitly called out that it was a legal formality) than that this was extremely new technology which still had a reasonable chance of getting into a serious accident.