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by snrplfth 10y ago
AnthonyMouse, I can't seem to reply to your comment directly, so I'll have to comment to mine. >They don't have to be, for the same reason that you don't have to understand Maxwell's equations to understand that
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by snrplfth 10y ago
Tesla is not even assured of getting self-driving approved in lots of jurisdictions. It's going to be a long uphill battle to get it accepted. They are aware that even well-intentioned owners and modders could get into all sorts of tro
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by snrplfth 10y ago
See my answer to AnthonyMouse below for my thoughts on this. I'm not saying that it's ideal for Tesla to lock down the system like this. I'm saying that, given the risks they face, in terms of legislation, regulation and pu
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by snrplfth 10y ago
It is what they appear to be referring to, given the fact that they are saying "using a self-driving Tesla...for revenue purposes will only be permissible on the Tesla Network". So you can drive people for money, or you can let
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by snrplfth 10y ago
> Why not? It's how everything else works. If you buy a house and then install your own electrical wiring which causes your house to burn down, you have no claim against the construction company and nobody blames them for it because
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by snrplfth 10y ago
Sure, ideally, I would like to see Tesla open up its self-driving systems to new inputs and modifications, and just disclaim all liability for the consequences. I think it would promote more innovation and novel uses for the software. Howev
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by snrplfth 10y ago
But even just inputting destination addresses has its problems. What happens when an Uber-like app freaks out and spams the self-driving algos with a hundred destinations a second? Or screws up the location and sends a passenger a dozen mil
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by snrplfth 10y ago
> Historically, there have been a few other companies that had hundreds of thousands of pre-orders, where you would end up waiting years for your car to be built and delivered to you. Their names were Lada, Volga, etc. Soviet auto compan
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by snrplfth 10y ago
But saying "Okay, but we're not responsible for damages" will not fly with regulators, legislators, public opinion or the integrity of their brand. If someone modifies their Tesla to accept input from Uber, and Tesla does not
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by snrplfth 10y ago
Of course it would be nice if Tesla could just release some sort of API for giving inputs to their cars, coupled with a cast-iron waiver that makes clear that they are not responsible for any consequences or damages. However, they know th
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by snrplfth 10y ago
No, it's a car manufacturer telling you that they do not want you handing over control of a vehicle to ridesharing programs that they cannot be sure are compatible with their self-driving systems. Ridesharing programs will literally be
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by snrplfth 10y ago
I just don't see how this is not ownership. You aren't renting, you're paying a standard purchase price for a good which has some restrictions on its use. Do you think that Tesla should have to make sure that its self-driving
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by snrplfth 10y ago
You actually do buy a car, but the autonomy software comes with restrictions. You can the car manually if you want to use it for ride-sharing.
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by snrplfth 10y ago
True. And besides, what restriction on liberty is there here, really? If you don't like Tesla's terms, don't buy a Tesla.
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Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn are very densely populated, but there's a lot more to the city than that. Huge swaths of the New York metropolitan area are two-storey houses, and what I suggest is upgrading these to five or six store
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Getting development permission in New York City is extremely difficult and expensive, much more so than in Toronto. Also the level of demand is much higher. This tends to drive developers to serve the upper end of the market moreso than the
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by snrplfth 10y ago
Maybe they should allow the construction of more housing. Seems like if you have supply problems, you should permit supply to grow.
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Even if you had effective nuclear pulse propulsion, you'd still need reusable chemical launchers to get them off the surface of Earth. Nuclear pulse engines are generally not something that you start up inside an atmosphere, for both s
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by snrplfth 10y ago
Well, Paul Ehrlich is an entomologist, so it's not too surprising that he should consider human populations to be essentially automatic, mindless swarms.
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Some small number of urban planners have been "beating the drum" for a while, but the vast majority of urban planning during the 'Age of the Car' has been pro-automobile and anti-everything-else. It wasn't private c