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by ypzhang2 7y ago
But all that does is move up the threshold. Feels like you and the parent comment are assuming the threshold stays fixed. That is most likely not the case. Uber is setting the stars threshold at some arbitrary number to achieve some qual
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by ypzhang2 7y ago
It doesn't matter? Regardless of how people distribute their scores, as long as there is some overall correlation to quality, then there would be a cutoff at some point (as long as Uber decides to remove drivers below a certain cutoff
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by ypzhang2 7y ago
Then its probably fool hardy to have any sort of ranking for self driving efficacy due to lack of publicly accessible data.
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by ypzhang2 7y ago
By disengagement reports cruise is second behind Waymo and these two are way ahead of everyone else. They are testing 160 or so Chevy bolts in California it seems like. https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2019/02&#x
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by ypzhang2 8y ago
Not 100% on topic, but one of the pet peeves I have noticed with cyclists is quite a few of them do not obey the rules of the road. As vehicles, they have to stop at stop signs and lights, but feel like quite an appreciable percentage do n
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by ypzhang2 8y ago
How about this analogy: 3 newspapers dominate the news industry. Their circulation reaches the majority of people in a country. They refuse to publish editorials / letters from a certain point of view. That fits all of the tests that
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by ypzhang2 8y ago
Issue is Autopilot is more of a feature that is geared towards convenience. You are doing all of the driver attention work, but someone who activates Autopilot isn't required to. I think a lot of the argument against Tesla is that Aut
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by ypzhang2 8y ago
That artificially limits the potential reachable market though. Like a comment above says, if you don't have the retail presence, for people who want to test drive before they buy, they just won't have it on their list of options
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by ypzhang2 8y ago
There's a big difference in cost and complexity between buying a car online and buying clothing online though, especially if financing is involved (not many people are going to have the cash on hand to float on 2-3 vehicles at any one
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by ypzhang2 8y ago
Its about tweeting material information or disinformation about the company. If he's saying he's driving home from the Tesla factory, that isn't material information. Him tweeting that Tesla is going to make 500k vehicles is
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by ypzhang2 8y ago
I don't understand the point you are trying to make? It doesn't matter if Musk would not have said these things "on the record" or not, since he never had an agreement to be quoted off-the-record. It would seem to be hi
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by ypzhang2 8y ago
? German components are always known to "fail often" (oftentimes without adequate maintenance), especially compared to Japanese cars (outside of Porsche). This hasn't changed much with time. German cars have always been abou
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by ypzhang2 8y ago
The tariffs and the sanctions were just the proverbial last straw. Turkey was heading to a economic crash anyways. The latest US-Turkey stuff just pushed it over the edge. But yes, the US is in a very strong position vis a vis almost ever
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by ypzhang2 8y ago
There are certainly segments of this population that can afford to pay back a loan. Or there is a loan that can be structured so that this segment of customer can pay it back. Its just not profitable or efficient for a bank to lend in thi
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by ypzhang2 8y ago
Banks can't meet capital requirements for lower than prime lending or aren't willing to do it. This leads to a segment of the population (usually lower income, but not always) without broad access to credit or leverage.
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by ypzhang2 8y ago
Sure, whether the ID verification tool in question is appropriate or enough of a mitigation for election purposes is arguable. In fact it could very well be that no electronic verification process would be enough, since as you say, every v
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by ypzhang2 8y ago
yeah, i'm not speaking to their other claims or security practices, which by all accounts appear terrifying. Given apparently whats happening, who even knows if they have actually integrated with a vendor or not. I'm just speakin
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by ypzhang2 8y ago
This is an established ID verification process that is used by banks, financial institutions, etc... (assuming they integrated with a vendor, look at someone like Jumio). Not speaking to anything else related to this at all, it does sound l
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The Half-Life of Danger: the Tesla Model X Crash(thedrive.com)
16 points by ypzhang2 8y ago|8 comments
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by ypzhang2 9y ago
The issue with the statements from Tesla is that they seem to prioritize PR and obfuscation before actual relevant factual statements. The fact that the driver received disengagement warnings prior in the drive is not very relevant to the a
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by ypzhang2 9y ago
A better solution would be to do regular speed studies and actually update the speed limits posted. Also, prevent municipalities from passing laws on their own speed limits and creating speed trap situations. I see a lot of speed limits th