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by hcurtiss 3y ago
Nah, I think they've produced sufficient evidence to shift the burden. Where's your evidence of all these deaths? This is safety critical in the way that all cars are safety critical. This is not an airplane, and this is not th
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
I think it's quite likely that, if people had died, the press would have covered it (as they have so salaciously covered the accidents). I have no reason to believe Tesla is lying. But, before we barrel down that path, why don'
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
LOL - 700 crashes with no known survivors attributable to FSD? You're claiming 700 people have died while operating FSD? Friend, that's not a worst-case assessment. That's just a lie. But to be sure, there will be people w
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I am open to studies as rigorous as you demand indicating Autopilot/FSD is more dangerous than human drivers. But until those are produced, total miles and total accidents seem to be pretty objective, and easily tracked, numbers. The
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And in rural America it decidedly is not. Tesla Autopilot/FSD, on the other hand, decidedly is.
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But that's where you're wrong. All data indicate it's SAFER than human drivers. My decision is, on average, making people more safe, not less. https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/tesla-
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
True. But at a hypothetical 40 mph average, one accident per 6.57 million miles is one accident every 164,250 hours. There are 8,760 hours in a year. These are exceptionally safe machines.
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Tesla's system requires less supervision than other manufacturers. And that's where the rub is. They're saying -- hey, we'll make this tool available to you, and it really will function autonomously, but you have to kn
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
True, but what about 99.999%? https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/tesla-autopil...
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Law firms aren't terribly entrepreneurial. Absent somebody paying them their hourly rate, I suspect not a single document would be read. Newspapers regularly take risks deploying humans to investigate issues without any assurance the
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It's a lot of work to find them. It would be neat if there were a site where I could rate a number of movies and then it offers to me a critic or critics I could follow who generally share my tastes.
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The two shops around here charge about $175/month for a family ($80/month single adult). That's a difficult price to swallow when you have insurance through work, which almost everyone able to pay $175/month does. Ther
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And, barring an eco-religious return to the dark ages, we will soon be an interplanetary species. That sounds fantastic now, but so also did AI fifty years ago. And the moon fifty years before that.
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What transport? You tried permitting a major transmission line in the western US lately?
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What on earth are you talking about? More people have been pulled out of poverty in the last thirty years than ever in the history of humanity! https://www.economist.com/leaders/2013/06/01/towards-the-en
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
But depending on how you define it, our species has never been "sustainable." The very first house clobbered the meadow and mice beneath it, and that one meadow was forever "lost." Yet, we keep finding resources, and a
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
Precisely. Enter Bastiat.
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But are these advisories really meaningful? People volitionally ingest persistent organic flourines every day (e.g., Flonase, Prozac, Lipitor). These chemicals are really useful, and only very mildly harmful. EPA's straight-line cal
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
I am not convinced in that circumstance I would have been worse off in an F-150 or any other modern body on frame construction.
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I wouldn't be so sure. Tesla lowered prices and the press made the same kinds of predictions. Come earning season Tesla clobbered its competitors.
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I wouldn't style that an outage. I'm not sure what regular users that affected, but it could not have been very many.
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Last numbers I saw, Twitter DAUs have held pretty steady. What evidence do you have of a "slow death"?
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I ran into one problem with monocoque/unibody construction. I ran my wife's Honda Pilot into another vehicle on icy roads. Around 5 mpg, direct T-Bone. We drove home about 75 miles just fine. No leaking fluids. About 35,000 m
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by hcurtiss 3y ago
Yeah, I don't get it. The Volt was an excellent option.
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You're presently on a run and pinged HN? No judgment, but that strikes me as notable.
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It seems "aligned" is in the eye of the beholder.
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Even those suffering the largest consequences of carbon emissions are desperate to realize the profound benefits that accrue to an energy intensive lifestyle. Even when measured one directly against the other, the trade-offs are usually wor
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And how many of them would leap immediately at the opportunity to drive around in cars?
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Having just returned from both London and Paris -- yes, having the ability to tow my motorboat to the reservoir is awesome! And having the ability to just drive out of the city whenever I want is awesome! And having the ability to get to
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Maybe. It seems to me that the development of cars has coincided with radical improvement of human wellbeing on every conceivable measure. Yes, you would pollute less if you rode a bike. And even less if you walked. And even less if you

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