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by chc 9y ago
I am having a hard time figuring out if this is a strange joke I'm failing to get or if you actually mean to suggest that Nazism is victimless.
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by chc 9y ago
AFAIK Autopilot is clearly marked as a beta and displays a dialog reminding you of that when you activate it in your car. And "full self-driving capability" is not a reference to Autopilot — it's saying that Tesla eventually
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by chc 9y ago
I think you misunderstand the data. This isn't "people who opted into Autopilot vs. people who opted out" — the no-Autopilot group is people whose Teslas were made before Autopilot was introduced.
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by chc 9y ago
I'll agree that the name "Autopilot" seems to mislead people, but that is a complete side track. Neither the person I replied to nor the person he replied to were talking about the name; they were talking about the technology
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by chc 9y ago
The NHTSA found a 40% safety improvement when comparing Teslas with Autopilot to Teslas without. I wouldn't put a huge amount of stock in the exact number, but because one group never uses Autopilot and the other offers a realistic vie
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by chc 9y ago
After the first fatality while on Autopilot, the NHTSA did a study on whether Autopilot was inherently safe and whether it had any defects that needed to be addressed. It found that Teslas with Autopilot were substantially safer than Teslas
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by chc 9y ago
And yet, according to the NHTSA, cars are still much safer with it than without it. You seem to be smack-talking rather than offering a reasoned analysis of whether Autopilot is better than no-Autopilot.
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by chc 9y ago
This seems like trying to argue that brakes are bad because, while people normally use them at times when they should stop, it's also possible to use your brakes at times when you shouldn't stop. The fact that something can be use
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by chc 9y ago
Also somebody who's been blinded by a bright light, or is suffering from a medical event, or is looking at their cell phone. There are lots of things that cause people to hit objects that should be easily avoidable.
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by chc 9y ago
What Tesla has seems to fit that definition. In fact, what Tesla has seems pretty similar to the autopilot in airplanes — both keep the vehicle on the right course without constant control from a human, but both require a human to be ready
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by chc 9y ago
The alternative to giving away your personal time for free to an open-source project is gouging people on vital medication? That doesn't seem true in any sense.
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by chc 9y ago
I think you probably mean "meme : culture :: atom : physics" (i.e. memes have the same relationship with culture that atoms do with physics).
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by chc 9y ago
That was exactly my point: A lot of the US is laid out in a way that is pessimal for mass transit — "hellscapes," as you put it — so investing in public transit infrastructure doesn't seem like enough to make a big difference
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by chc 9y ago
Will there be a lot fewer cars, though? Assuming you want to achieve the same throughput, you'd still need about as many cars as there are at rush hour today.
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by chc 9y ago
In most of America, this idea seems to be even less practical than self-driving cars. America is pretty much designed to be a pessimal case for public transit. San Diego, where I live, does invest in public transit infrastructure and has re
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by chc 9y ago
Why wouldn't flash memory give good access times with fragmented data? It's not like it needs to move a head around like a hard disk. Shouldn't one block be as accessible as any other block?
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by chc 9y ago
It looks exactly like Lisp to me, just with angle brackets rather than parens.
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by chc 9y ago
It's a PITA and also kind of dangerous.
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by chc 9y ago
Then we would expect all whales to be baleen whales, but they aren't. The fact that only one branch of cetaceans has baleen suggests that it came about after the cetaceans' common ancestor went in the water.
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by chc 9y ago
There are lots of salient differences between tobacco and psychedelic mushrooms, but they are mostly of the "banning tobacco would be much more reasonable" variety. I think that was the point.
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by chc 9y ago
Is offering breakfast not normal for fast food chains in Canada? Most of them do in the US, including Burger King.
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by chc 9y ago
There is cultured vegan cheese, but it is a fairly premium product that doesn't get a lot of mass distribution. There's a recipe book for it called Artisan Vegan Cheese, and the woman who wrote it sells cultured vegan cheese and b
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by chc 9y ago
I don't know about oat milk specifically, but I've had yogurts made from soy, coconut and almond milk, and cheese made from almond milk and cashew milk. The yogurt is generally good if you like the base flavor of the kind of milk.
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by chc 9y ago
Even if your hobby is in demand, that still doesn't mean you'll love doing it on somebody else's terms. Like, I enjoy developing software, but I've had projects that I didn't particularly enjoy and constraints tha
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by chc 9y ago
I don't know know where you live, but Nokia has released a new version of the Nokia 3310 in some places (not the USA yet, though).
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by chc 9y ago
One is a part of the other, so "both" seems like the natural answer.
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by chc 9y ago
It's not as precise as I'd like, but there has been an independent investigation of the safety of Autopilot. After the first fatality while on Autopilot, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration wanted to determine wh
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by chc 9y ago
They actually have a driver-facing camera in the Model 3, which is presumably coming to their other cars in a future refresh.
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by chc 9y ago
It was 140 million a year ago[1], and 222 million last October[2], so I guess a conservative estimate would be 600 million miles on autopilot (assuming that's about two months of change and usage remained steady). [1]: https:/&#x
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by chc 9y ago
The Bolt wasn't even available in most states for the first six months of the year. That would probably account for low sales.

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