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Given that AI is core to Tesla's robotic and self driving future, it seems like theres a lot more to this story than what has been leaked thus far.

iszomer 1y ago
Maybe an intentional troll, given the profile's project.the.snowball moniker. /shrug
cosmicgadget 1y ago
There are other hardware vendors.
TheAlchemist 1y ago
Yeah, there is more to the story - it's just pure fantasy ! Tesla robotic future ? They are years behind competitors... they are very good at faking autonomous robots though - people are still falling for their Twitter posts, Robotaxi unveil with teleoperated robots and Tesla Diner teleoperated robot serving popcorn (which last something like 2 days... then it was gone already). It's all PR stuff, nothing is really happening behind the scenes.
- ethagknight 1y ago
  Well. My Tesla has been driving me around for a couple years now. it's not perfect but it's certainly not a fantasy to eliminate the human driver observation components and just let it rip. I dont know where Tesla stands in terms of progress for robotics, but a major difference maker will be Elon's willingness to risk billions to get there. Merging together the technological paths of autonomous behavior of a robot and all the little actuators, power supplies and sensors suites does not seem like a big leap either. Challenging but not fantasy. Part of Elon's process is demonstrating the potential need / business case, while also testing implementation in real world, high stakes environments. A bartender/service roll is a fun place to test since they can deliver a service in a public setting, potentially tethered to the wall.
  - TheAlchemist 1y ago
    "but it's certainly not a fantasy to eliminate the human driver observation components and just let it rip" Yes it is fantasy. This is the same thing like showing a mockup and saying - okay, that's it, now we 'just' need to implement and make it work. FSD as an ADAS system is fantastic. But it's nowhere near a fully autonomous driving.

iszomer 1y ago

Maybe an intentional troll, given the profile's project.the.snowball moniker. /shrug

cosmicgadget 1y ago

There are other hardware vendors.

TheAlchemist 1y ago

Yeah, there is more to the story - it's just pure fantasy ! Tesla robotic future ? They are years behind competitors... they are very good at faking autonomous robots though - people are still falling for their Twitter posts, Robotaxi unveil with teleoperated robots and Tesla Diner teleoperated robot serving popcorn (which last something like 2 days... then it was gone already). It's all PR stuff, nothing is really happening behind the scenes.

ethagknight 1y ago
Well. My Tesla has been driving me around for a couple years now. it's not perfect but it's certainly not a fantasy to eliminate the human driver observation components and just let it rip. I dont know where Tesla stands in terms of progress for robotics, but a major difference maker will be Elon's willingness to risk billions to get there. Merging together the technological paths of autonomous behavior of a robot and all the little actuators, power supplies and sensors suites does not seem like a big leap either. Challenging but not fantasy. Part of Elon's process is demonstrating the potential need / business case, while also testing implementation in real world, high stakes environments. A bartender/service roll is a fun place to test since they can deliver a service in a public setting, potentially tethered to the wall.
- TheAlchemist 1y ago
  "but it's certainly not a fantasy to eliminate the human driver observation components and just let it rip" Yes it is fantasy. This is the same thing like showing a mockup and saying - okay, that's it, now we 'just' need to implement and make it work. FSD as an ADAS system is fantastic. But it's nowhere near a fully autonomous driving.