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by ggreer 6mo ago
Unless you think the video is faked, I'm not sure what your point is. It's an example of an unsupervised Robotaxi trip without any chase car. Of course you're going to get a selection effect where enthusiasts are mostly the o
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by ggreer 6mo ago
You can find videos of people taking Robotaxis without any chase car.[1] Though the use of chase cars shouldn't be surprising. Waymo did a similar thing with their self-driving rollout. They started with a small number of cars in subur
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by ggreer 6mo ago
The reason I'm using a single example is because we don't have comparable statistics across manufacturers, and because it's enough to demonstrate my point about Tesla's autonomous capabilities versus other brands. I am s
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by ggreer 6mo ago
> Tesla doesn't even have the permits to operate Robotaxis in California and probably never will because they are actually stricter vs Texas. I'd like to note that in just a few months, the goalposts have moved from "Tesla
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by ggreer 6mo ago
> If one person can do this then thousands should also be able to. That’s not at all true. Very few people take the time to drive thousands of miles in a short period of time and document it while never intervening for any reason (not ev
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by ggreer 6mo ago
That’s what it will take for you to believe that someone has gone thousands of miles without intervening? I don’t think that even Waymo (which has thousands of vehicles that have gone much farther without human intervention) has met the c
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by ggreer 6mo ago
If you never doubted it, then why did you call me crazy to believe it, then want something more convincing than, “a random Twitter feed and a news post from a company which is known to spread lies”? It’s quite annoying to spend time diggin
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by ggreer 6mo ago
One key difference in that analogy is that covid can clear up on its own, allowing people to convince themselves that some quackery worked. But cars don’t drive themselves thousands of miles, so anyone claiming their car did so (and posting
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by ggreer 6mo ago
I think you misread the article. The stranding was because they left a place without one of the passengers and had to go back to get him. It had nothing to do with autonomous driving. I’m not sure what help the autonomous driving experts ad
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by ggreer 6mo ago
How about if a guy who wrote an article titled Five Things My Roomba Does Better Than My Tesla [1] later drove across the country without intervening?[2] Unless all three people in the car are lying, it seems like an independent example of
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by ggreer 6mo ago
Let’s say, hypothetically, that someone has gone thousands of miles on FSD without intervening. What information would need to exist to convince you of this?
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by ggreer 6mo ago
David Moss is a traveling LiDAR salesman. He doesn’t work for Tesla, and Tesla didn’t know about him until one of his tweets about his FSD experience went viral. Unless you think he faked images of his FSD stats for months and Tesla went al
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by ggreer 6mo ago
FSD on HW3 is a significantly worse experience. And no FSD version currently available to owners allows you to ignore the road. It's only the robotaxi software that can be classified as "self-driving". Also the EU adopted law
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by ggreer 6mo ago
Barely touching the wheel is a qualitatively different experience than never touching the wheel. HW4 Tesla owners have gone over 10,000 miles without intervening, including a cross-country trip.[1] The car even finds charging/parking s
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by ggreer 6mo ago
That’s no longer true. As long as the car has a cabin camera (which has been the case since the Model 3 came out), it will only nag you if it can’t see your eyes or you’re clearly distracted.
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by ggreer 6mo ago
It's odd that this is a request for a preliminary injunction considering that the case is almost four years old. Both the 2022 and the new filing are heavily censored[1][2], so I can't know for sure, but I didn't notice any r
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by ggreer 6mo ago
This can also be true if the manufacturer of the product requires that retailers not offer a price below a certain amount. This is called the minimum advertised price (MAP) and is common for big brands like Apple. Another way to get around
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by ggreer 6mo ago
It's legal to go target shooting on most public lands, and on private property in rural areas (assuming you own it or have the owner's permission). People can easily burn through 1,000 rounds in a weekend in such places. Are they
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by ggreer 6mo ago
California already requires a license to 3d print firearms.[1] This is the same license needed to mass produce firearms, making legal individual manufacturing incredibly difficult. Also all firearms (even 3d printed ones) in California mus
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by ggreer 6mo ago
This law (along with similar ones in Washington & New York) is probably due to lobbying from Everytown, a gun control organization co-founded & mostly funded by billionaire Michael Bloomberg. They've sponsored summits to gather
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by ggreer 6mo ago
California already restricts access to ammunition. Only California residents can purchase ammunition in the state, and only after going through a background check. It is also illegal for a California resident to buy ammunition out of state
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by ggreer 6mo ago
It's probably the neighborhood HOA that pays for it. My HOA got Flock cameras after a string of thefts, and has similar signs up. The HOA encourages homeowners to submit their car license plate info so that if a crime is reported, it&#
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by ggreer 6mo ago
It’s quite common for cell phone carriers to provide law enforcement with historical records of which towers a phone was connected to at specific times. Also the phone itself stores detailed location history, including which wifi networks i
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by ggreer 7mo ago
I assumed it would go without saying that a general statement about agricultural water usage would not apply to a desert community of 250 people experiencing a 23 year drought.
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by ggreer 7mo ago
I don't think efficiency matters at all for washers, as they are a rounding error in terms of water usage. Most water is for agriculture, not domestic consumption.[1] The main issues for appliances are reliability and ease of repair. N
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by ggreer 7mo ago
It can also make sense to buy old/used versions of consumer products. For example: My parents have a washer & dryer from the mid 90s. They occasionally get a new belt, but besides that there's not much that can go wrong with t
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by ggreer 7mo ago
The Martian is an outlier in its success, but it's far from the only instance of successful self-published sci-fi. Recent examples I've read include The Powers of Earth [1] by Travis Corcoran and Theft of Fire by Devon Erikse
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by ggreer 7mo ago
I'm on Sequoia (v15.7.4). I have the original 2015 model (1.1Ghz Core M-5Y31, 8GB of RAM). It's a little slow, but fine for what I use it for (web browser, syncing music/photos to/from my phone, simple coding tasks). My
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by ggreer 7mo ago
It looks like it's still bigger than the logic board on the 12" MacBook from 2015.[1] I really wish Apple would resurrect that form factor, as every other MacBook since has seemed bulky in comparison. Thanks to OpenCore Legacy Pat
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by ggreer 8mo ago
A couple days before COTS-1[1] was to launch, a crack was discovered in the second stage nozzle. Rather than wait a month to fabricate and install a new one, SpaceX had a guy climb inside the rocket and use some shears to cut off the lower

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