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by zaroth 3y ago
They removed the human from the car. There’s still humans to recover from the edge cases. I don’t know if they actually remote control the cars or if they have to send a driver though.
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by zaroth 3y ago
Steele had illegal campaign cash from Hillary Clinton laundered as legal fees to back up his “dossier”. No charges for that of course, just a slap on the wrist fine. They applied the full force and technology of the United States spying app
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by zaroth 3y ago
It makes a difference because policy changes don’t happen instantly. Something we can do differently that seems obvious today could have been a disastrous policy just a few years ago. The optics of the IRS sending out bills for thousands o
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by zaroth 3y ago
A layoff doesn’t mean you over-hired for the market conditions which were present when the hiring happened. And under-hiring today because your crystal ball says market conditions will deteriorate in the future is also not always the best c
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by zaroth 3y ago
Sadly I think it’s just human nature. Problems always look easy from the outside. Underdogs which are at first rooted for, if they succeed enough, become reviled. New things that challenge the status quo are scary and vilified. In the end…
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by zaroth 3y ago
I see it completely differently. Up until Tesla made it possible, no one would ever even imagine buying a car based on functionality that would be added later . It was simply never done. Tesla pioneered the model of a unified fleet softwar
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by zaroth 3y ago
What does “running the driver in hard mode as much as possible” mean? Why do you think Tesla’s approach “didn’t work and they are now dead last in the game?” Maybe that’s just an opinion because you provided nothing to back it up - but I c
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by zaroth 3y ago
I didn’t realize Tesla’s team was so small. Both companies have truly done incredible work! It’s funny watching HN comments trying to tear down Musk and Tesla while their software—which has driven billions of miles—continues to just get bet
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by zaroth 3y ago
And the hard drives go where? But yeah, $3k would more than fund such a server.
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by zaroth 3y ago
I disagree with this on two levels. First the idea of "finished" is not how technology works. Technology is constantly evolving and improving, whether we are talking about Level 2 ADAS technology, or Level 5 self driving. It will
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by zaroth 3y ago
If by “ended up deciding they didn’t want on their platform” you mean being told by the USG to remove it, and when they didn’t remove enough of it, the President called them mass-murderers and threatened to do something about it? The arrest
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by zaroth 3y ago
This is a Washington Post article. Instead they claimed it was “allowing disinformation in 2016” that contributed to problems - what a joke they are still trying to push that narrative.
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by zaroth 3y ago
What do you mean it's not clear it's still there? It was there when they had their earnings call 4 days ago.
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by zaroth 3y ago
Level 5 self driving is just the final step on the very broad spectrum of life saving driver assistance software. ADAS software is already required in all new cars sold in the US and EU. And just this week for example Tesla released an up
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by zaroth 3y ago
Except fridges don’t kill 40,000 people a year. NHTSA says that improved safety technologies have saved over 600,000 lives between 1960 and 2012. Updates make the car safer for the driver, and safer for everyone they share the road with. Up
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by zaroth 3y ago
That’s wild!! To me it’s hugely inspirational and I meant it as a message of hope and optimism. What could possibly be horrifying about the idea of technological advancement saving millions of lives and vastly improving quality of life all
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by zaroth 3y ago
Cars are absolutely packed with software, and that’s never going to change. The question will only be if that software is getting regular updates or just safety critical recall type updates. Auto makers have gotten away with basically walki
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by zaroth 3y ago
Surely the ideal is the wiper is always moving at the perfectly desired speed and interval without any human intervention required.
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by zaroth 3y ago
Your loss I guess? I absolutely love the fact that my 2018 Tesla has all the features of a 2023 Tesla. Literally hundreds of things made better about the car over the last 5 years, truly useful features that didn’t even exist when I bought
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by zaroth 3y ago
Do the stats tell the full story? If you stop prosecuting crime, and cops then stop arresting criminals, the stats go down and the crime goes up.
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by zaroth 3y ago
It does have an auto mode. But also, you can now adjust wiper speed / interval on the steering wheel in a Tesla without using the touchscreen. Feature was actually added a just a few weeks ago in a software update.
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by zaroth 3y ago
No one was more instrumental than Musk in making Tesla and SpaceX happen. People who haven’t tried to run a company often fundamental misunderstand the nature the extent of the job, but claiming Musk is just “doing a useful thing once in a
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by zaroth 3y ago
It’s abundantly clear to anyone who has closely followed the development of SpaceX and Tesla the tremendous positive impact both technical and managerial that Elon has had in his companies. I think it’s a truly bizarre smear to claim he nor
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by zaroth 3y ago
What does the all-caps “need” even mean in this sentence?
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by zaroth 3y ago
I “unwillingly” have to share the road with people who murder 40,000 people a year with their vehicles. Thankfully we are developing the technology to get these reckless maniacs out of the driver’s seat.
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by zaroth 3y ago
I get that there’s strong vested interests trying to discredit him. But “selective editing” doesn’t describe the dozens (hundreds?) of videos he filmed when the Federal courthouse in Portland was under siege and he was routinely attacked by
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by zaroth 3y ago
One of the best decisions he made. Antifa accounts calling for violence and terrorism should never have been tolerated on Twitter.
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by zaroth 3y ago
In all fairness, the human driven ones crash an awful lot too! Keep in mind that truly reliable and robust AI driving will save 10s of millions of lives and trillions of dollars of avoided economic losses. Creating AI that can drive a car t
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by zaroth 3y ago
I’ll forever associate “aloha” with a scene from Locke & Key; https://youtu.be/d4gcKzhYZ2g Also seems appropriate to the circumstances.
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by zaroth 3y ago
> I find it endlessly fascinating that Putin et al understood our election system better than us. I think you’ve been brainwashed on this one. Local campaigns spend orders of magnitude more money and are run by extremely capable social

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