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Elon Musk wants to turn Tesla's fleet into AWS for AI – would it work?
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- Version467 2y agoNothing about this idea makes any sense at all. Classic Musk moment. This is basically the same thing as websites running crypto miners in the background, just for cars. I wonder how he comes up with this stuff.
- krapp 2y agoLSD, cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine, mushrooms...
- 3cats-in-a-coat 2y agoUndiscovered potential that will bring a new revenue stream, shooting our margins to the sky, growth forever, etc. etc That's all of it, and as long as you trust he's worked out the details, the trick works. If you sit down and start thinking about it though, you quickly realize it's utter nonsense. In this case, the cost per operation will be much higher than if you do it at a datacenter for a long list of reasons I'm too bored to repeat (but if someone wants to know, ask me). So talking breathlessly about how much compute sits idle and unused in all the Tesla cars is like this joke: "Sure, we lose money on every T-shirt we sell, but we'll make it up in volume"
- WhereIsTheTruth 2y agoHow? He? Well, you should ask his boss, the DoD
- sidibe 2y agoThis is a great idea! Solves all the problems with GCP and AWS and uses existing idle compute so it's great for the environment. Can see this genius idea being a trillion dollar segment for Tesla not sure why it only went up 15% after he announced this. Too many investors with Elon Derangement Syndrome I guess
- wredcoll 2y agoIs this supposed to be sarcastic?
- spywaregorilla 2y agoThe poster's past month of comments appears to be nearly entirely elon focused. So guessing no, just culty fever.
- solumunus 2y agoI haven’t gone through their entire comment history but I immediately saw multiple negative comments about Elon there. The comments are indeed all about Elon though.
- solumunus 2y ago> trillion dollar segment Of course.
- 3cats-in-a-coat 2y agoPoe's Law claims another victim.
- Nostromos 2y agoElon is truly the genius that we deserve and I tip my fedora at him. I don't know about what chips Tesla uses but if they're using the right chips and have enough storage on board, this might actually be the first time this idea pays off (other than the plethora of crypto miners). I mean who hasn't come up with "what if we use peoples' phones, computers, etc. to do compute while they're not using it?!?" as a startup idea?
- sevenseventen 2y agoSiphoning compute from safety-critical systems while driving? or battery life from someone else's vehicle they might need to get home? or additional power from someone else's line?
- pxtail 2y ago> Musk, who loves to riff on earnings calls, compared the unused compute power of millions of idle Tesla vehicles to Amazon’s cloud service business You didn't even spend one minute to skim the article and yet you are spreading false claims
- sevenseventen 2y agoWith equal evidence, one might say that you didn't even spend one minute thinking about how such a scheme would necessarily be implemented before going "wooha, awesome!" The idle compute power of millions of Tesla idle vehicles _does not belong to him_. The electricity in their batteries _does not belong to him_. The line power charging those batteries _does not belong to him_.
- Ekaros 2y agoNot to comment on insane idea, but the fact that there would be 1 kW of computing power on each car? Wouldn't that mean 1 kW power draw? On top of everything else? Wouldn't this affect the fuel economy too?
- rsynnott 2y agoI mean, look, this isn't a real thing. It's about as real as the flying version of the Roadster. You're not really supposed to be worrying about the practicalities; that's not how this works.
- enslavedrobot 2y agoMinimal impact. A model 3 uses about 1kWh to drive 4 miles. An hour of using the inference computer at that power level would reduce range by 4 miles. My hardware 3 computer @144 TOPS draws 72 Watts.
- Ekaros 2y agoSo at 20 miles an hour speed it would drop range by 20%?
- enslavedrobot 2y agoYes. But under most use cases that doesn't matter. Range is mostly a concern for long highway trips where the average speed is much higher. At low speed drag and friction losses are much lower and range increases beyond the EPA number. Also cities have many charging locations so you never worry about running out. In my personal case I can charge in my garage and almost never get below 50% charge (only charging to 80% overnight to maintain a 20000 charge cycle life of the battery).
- mateo1 2y agoYes, yes, and also you'll likely be paying for it. 1kW*0.25$/kWh=185$/month
- autoexecbat 2y agoIs he suggesting taking precious power from other people's cars?
- pptr 2y agoI assume there will be revenue sharing between Tesla and the car owner. Tesla can't force people to give them electricity for free.
- getpost 2y agoIt begs the question, is outlier success mainly due to crazy ideas combined with a lack of discernment?
- sevenseventen 2y agoOr does it come from the competent, careful people who do all the work?
- solumunus 2y agoNo, Musk is an idiot. Next.
- LightBug1 2y agoJazz hands !!!!! Ridiculous ...
- wasteduniverse 2y ago[dead]