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901.
by jsight 7y ago
> Do you navigate your phone while driving? The implication is that with physical button interfaces you can do a lot of stuff without moving your eyes from the road. I wouldn't do that if my phone had physical buttons either. I mean
902.
by jsight 7y ago
I've grown up in rural areas, and I think that at some point, automated driving can be even better in those scenarios than humans can be. I have not seen any evidence of us being at that point today. Of course, the focus of these compa
903.
by jsight 7y ago
You are absolutely right, and I'm not sure why you are getting downvoted for that. It isn't as if Hertz has any vested interest in this that would make them desire to make stupid mistakes like this. Arguably the individuals respon
904.
by jsight 7y ago
I'm sorry, but everything that you said in relation to Tesla there is wrong. My Nissan with ProPilot can also control the throttle, brake, and steering, but that doesn't make me a mere passenger any more than cruise control does.
905.
by jsight 7y ago
You aren't wrong at all. Though it does matter more if it crosses a physcologically significant number (thus so many prices ending in "$.99 or $xx,x99").
906.
by jsight 7y ago
A big part of that announcement was be able to claim that they had delivered on their promise.
907.
by jsight 7y ago
I don't hate dealers, but stories like yours are what I think of when people complain about Tesla delivery issues or service issues. Both of them are really far from perfect.
908.
by jsight 7y ago
I don't understand the downvotes. Your point is valid, regardless of what people want to read into the reasons behind the price changes.
909.
by jsight 7y ago
The words that you quote are from a demonstration video from 3 years ago. The features demonstrated were not available to the public and still aren't. Tesla's has never claimed that a current vehicle can drive itself without the d
910.
by jsight 7y ago
That all seems like a big stretch based upon some big assumptions to me. It is far from conclusive that LIDAR alone would make the difference in cases like this, due to the way sensors have to be fused together to handle these kinds of scen
911.
by jsight 7y ago
Autopilot cannot cause deaths as autopilot cannot drive. 3 drivers who chose not to pay attention caused those deaths. EDIT: (I'm assuming for the purposes of this statement that you are correct and those were easily avoidable by an at
912.
by jsight 7y ago
You make a number of fair points, IMO, and people are often too quick to dismiss arguments like this. Having said that, this case is a bit special, IMO. By your own logic, this comes down to a cold calculation of how many crashes (and death
913.
by jsight 7y ago
I mean, there are several competing companies now and none have matched the range of a 2012 Model S. I'd say it is fair to say that noone considered it possible back in 2012. Now they build them with profit margins that are at least as
914.
by jsight 7y ago
> Who's left to do that? The article says that they gutted the solar sales team. They now sell them via the stores, the internet, and direct marketing to their car customers. There isn't as much revenue here, but presumably it
915.
by jsight 7y ago
> Uber represents the new kind of company where all the risk is pushed to the employee, while all the profits are pulled to the company. What profits are you referring to? My issue with this line of thinking is that it basically makes it
916.
by jsight 7y ago
It wasn't by the end of his first term, though, right? Fair point overall, though.
917.
by jsight 7y ago
> Smart dudes have wrestled over those problems for years. I think the strongest case for dropshipping would be new cars. The dealerships have presented a problem for people for years, but they are politically well connected. I've b
918.
by jsight 7y ago
Are we just going to ignore the idea of paying $30k for a Civic? I hope noone is doing that.
919.
by jsight 7y ago
LOL, I love the way you describe that... "for the few that actually read the manual". That has basically been my experience as well, and the ones that complain the loudest are the ones that refuse to read and understand what is ac
920.
by jsight 7y ago
+1 to everything but the last bit. In my experience, the best compromise is something like Hibernate (or some other ORM) for the mapping and the really basic queries (find by ID, find by some random field, etc). Possibly still hibernate for
921.
by jsight 7y ago
I'm surprised that I haven't seen this analogy more often. There are a lot of parallels between what Tesla is trying to do and what Ford did in its early days.
922.
by jsight 7y ago
I wish it was more controllable, but yeah, it is a feature. There are lots of almost unfixable bugs in my non-Tesla's software stack, but they don't improve. The situation for the rest of the industry is that they are adding incre
923.
by jsight 7y ago
TACC is definitely a really nice thing to have. I'm a little less convinced by the stuff in the FSD package above it.
924.
by jsight 7y ago
When a driver unintentionally crashes into a solid object for no particular reason, noone needs vast knowledge to realize that the driver wasn't paying attention at that time.
925.
by jsight 7y ago
You can buy a model 3 today for $35k US, and the car is better than what was promised. The sedan that Tesla released in 2012 has more range than any electric car produced by any competitor since then. You are right that people overstate the
926.
by jsight 7y ago
Toyota used to produce ~440k cars out of that plant. Tesla does ~360k. I'm not sure that "fisher price playset" vs disneyland is the analogy that I'd use for that difference.
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by jsight 7y ago
I mean, the BMW plant near here has fires about once a year two, if the last couple of years is a baseline. I'm not convinced that you are proving anything.
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by jsight 7y ago
That is possible, I guess, but they've done really badly as a purveyor of used cars in the past. It doesn't exactly seem like a profit center for them.
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by jsight 7y ago
They literally tell you to put your hands on the wheel and pay attention every time you don't, and sometimes even when you do. So yes, they push the idea that awareness is required.
930.
by jsight 7y ago
I don't understand. What other theory are you proposing than that he wasn't paying attention?

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