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by porphyra 2y ago
Ford did the same thing a few years ago when they shut down Argo and brought it in house as Latitude to work on ADAS tech instead of actual self-driving cars. Does anyone know if Latitude has shipped anything?
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by porphyra 2y ago
The Tesla cameras have surprisingly good dynamic range and can see stuff incredibly well even when human eyes struggle.
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by porphyra 2y ago
If Tesla were to artificially set up limitations like highway only, daytime, clearly visible lanes, good weather, car in front, no construction zones, no lane changes, etc, then they would easily have been able to offer full L3 and take ful
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by porphyra 2y ago
Ultra Cruise was only available on the expensive Celestiq before it got cancelled and merged with Super Cruise. Apparently, the Celestiq starts at $340,000, even higher than my original estimate of $200k.
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by porphyra 2y ago
The MB Drive Pilot only works at ridiculously low speeds (under 40 mph), on select highways, no sharp turns, no weather, no construction zones, lanes clearly visible, etc. It's laughable to compare it against FSD which works everywhere
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by porphyra 2y ago
Yeah and neither of them is close to FSD in capabilities lol. Super Cruise/Ultra Cruise is a brittle highway-only thing, only available in a handful of $200k+ GM cars, that works by localizing to a detailed lidar map of some interstate
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by porphyra 2y ago
Configuring the qutebrowser UI is a major reason I used qutebrowser for some years. I love ricing my system and saving screen real estate with a minimal UI bloat is nice.
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by porphyra 2y ago
Lidars perform very well in the rain [1]. [1] https://ouster.com/insights/blog/lidar-vs-camera-comparison-...
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by porphyra 2y ago
seems like there are lots of bugs: * Nothing prevents you from continuing to make guesses after filling all the rows. The confetti still plays even if you make an invisible guess. * Yellow tiles are incorrectly handled. For example if the w
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by porphyra 2y ago
There's also a recent Cybertruck crash [1]. [1] https://abc7news.com/post/3-killed-fiery-tesla-cybertruck-so...
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by porphyra 2y ago
I really wish we could buy a Citroen Ami in the US, which is a small, light, and slow (28 mph top speed) electric car for city driving. Plus, it looks super cute!
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by porphyra 2y ago
I wonder if rubber-tyred metros like the Montreal metro and some Paris metro lines release a lot of microplastics?
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by porphyra 2y ago
The Tesla Model 3 Long Range weighs 1823 kg. The BMW M340i xDrive weighs about 1818 kg. Seeing as these two cars are similar in size, capacity, and performance (0-60 mph in 4.2 s), it is nice to see that the electric option weighs about the
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by porphyra 2y ago
Yeah but spacecraft themselves being contaminated is a real possibility. NASA found that some bacteria can metabolize isopropyl alcohol [1] [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/06/bacteria
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by porphyra 2y ago
While it is an amazing technical feat, there are, expectedly, a bunch of quirks to be ironed out. The font rendering, for example, is very bad. Very excited to see how this goes in the future!
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by porphyra 2y ago
Out of all the Chinese car companies, the one that owns Volvo and Lotus is probably not a bad choice. They also plan to produce the Smart electric vehicles as a part of a joint venture with Geely. The CLA is also supposed to get self drivin
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by porphyra 2y ago
Those aren't touchscreen buttons --- they are on the steering wheel or yoke. On the current Model S and X they are capacitive buttons but there's a homing tab so you can find it without looking at it, and there's also haptic
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by porphyra 2y ago
That alone wouldn't be able to account for it. The Model 3 would need a fatality rate about a third as much as that of the Model Y to pull the average that far, seeing as the Model S has a fatality rate close to the Tesla average, and
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by porphyra 2y ago
Tesla aced another independent out-of-sample crash test [1]. The danluu article also mentions an iSeeCars report at the bottom that says that Teslas have a high amount of fatalities per mile driven [2]. However, while they claim to be using
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by porphyra 2y ago
A lot of advances during the Renaissance happened due to some vanity projects of the Medici family (e.g. funding Galileo Galilei and Brunelleschi's Dome).
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by porphyra 2y ago
True, although most of the snazzy NeRF and Gaussian Splatting papers still rely on good old COLMAP on the backend lol
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by porphyra 2y ago
Whether you can make reproductions of buildings and public interiors is known as "freedom of panorama". Wikimedia Commons has a comprehensive list by country [1]. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Fre
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by porphyra 2y ago
Photogrammetry has rebranded itself to "Spatial AI".
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by porphyra 2y ago
I'm surprised you had a working experience with passkeys. Every time my iPhone asks me to use a Passkey I just get "something went wrong" or some obtuse error message. It has never worked a single time and I just gave up.
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by porphyra 2y ago
We should automate the trains and repurpose the train staff to be conductors patrolling the trains to assist individuals in need and help in an emergency. That way, the jobs are saved, and the trains get more pleasant to ride!
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by porphyra 2y ago
Using the IMU seems hard as true signal of the train's gradual acceleration is likely drowned out by the noise of vibrations and the person's natural movements. I guess every time the train is stopped, you can calibrate the bias o
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by porphyra 2y ago
I wonder how well magnetometers would work inside metal trains full of electric motors.
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by porphyra 2y ago
This is one thing that is nice about using the Tesla in-car navigation. It always knows which way the car is pointed.
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by porphyra 2y ago
Yeah that is just insane. I saw some videos from China [1] where people were upgrading the storage in the new M4 Mac Minis. The Mac Mini's SSD is on a removable pcb but it is raw nand flash as opposed to, say, typical m2 2230 SSDs that
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by porphyra 2y ago
Remote operators only help out in rare cases

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