• @AliasAKA
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    22 hours ago

    So glad I have Tesla shorts lol

    • @Glitterbomb
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      241 minutes ago

      At tesla its not an unveiling until musk puts a brick through it

  • @[email protected]
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    You know what would have been even more useful is a 28k model 2. This show was a scam.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 hour ago

      I think the general rule of thumb is to shift the units of time up.

      If he says 2 weeks, try 2 months. If he says 2 months, wait 2 years.

      Robotaxis in 2 decades I think is actually achievable.

      • Annoyed_🦀
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        252 minutes ago

        It’s funny that Boston Dynamic has been quite successful with their biped robot, then Tesla announce something without even a working prototype.

        Then Waymo has been quite successful with their driverless taxi, then Melon announce something without even a working prototype.

        I wonder what he will copy next.

    • @teejay
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      64 hours ago

      Hopefully it’s infinity. It’s Elon Musk we’re talking about. These are 100% going to kill people (pedestrians, other drivers, riders) and animals.

  • @Veedem
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    556 hours ago

    It will never be $30,000 or less. He did the same thing with the Model 3.

    You really just can’t believe anything this guy says regarding his products.

    • kn0wmad1c
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      184 hours ago

      He said $30,000 for the cybertruck too. $30,000 just seems to be his “I don’t really know the price” price.

      • @hohoho
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        336 hours ago

        Try 10 years

  • @Mostly_Gristle
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    177 hours ago

    Given Tesla’s usual build quality I feel like it’s pretty much inevitable that there are going to be an enormous amount of skull and limb injuries from those gullwing doors.

  • @[email protected]
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    207 hours ago

    What mass transit program is Musk trying to disrupt now? (As he did California’s high speed rail with the Hyperloop.)

  • Blackout
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    207 hours ago

    Dumbest car design yet Elon. Congrats. Nothing says cab like a coupe design with gullwing doors.

    • DarkThoughts
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      I agree it is an idiotic design for a cab, but I’d argue the Cybertruck is a way dumber design even by visuals alone. That thing would at least make for a half decent sports car (again, visually).

    • @[email protected]
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      106 hours ago

      A cab with no driver is just an incredibly expensive gender neutral toilet. I shudder to think what will be done in these if they ever exist.

      • AmbiguousProps
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        21 hour ago

        Musk is installing men and women’s toilets separately, like God intended.

  • @breadsmasher
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    589 hours ago

    In real people years or “we will be on mars soon” years?

    • @Buffalox
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      Good question.
      The Mars base should be started years ago according to what Musk claimed, and they should have manned flights to Mars by now. And all he has is half failed tests just to do one orbit around earth! 🤣🤣🤣

      For 8 years he has claimed Fully autonomous driving will be ready next year. He even claimed years ago, that a car picking you up and driving you across the country was something we can do today!

      Enron Musk is a conman, he is obviously a liar, and there are people who still believe him?!

    • @WhatAmLemmy
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      186 hours ago

      In “self-driving by 2016” years

  • metaStatic
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    if he gets over his fear of lidar and stops trying to do everything with cameras this could actually work out … so basically this isn’t going to work out.

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    • @Buffalox
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      this could actually work out

      No it won’t, Elon Next year Musk has promised Fully autonomous driving next year since 2016. He has sold his cars with subscriptions for FSD for years, despite it doesn’t work. It’s even illegal to call it FSD now, so Tesla has to call it assisted FSD, which is an oxymoron.

      With this move, Enron Musk will more likely ensure the continued decline of Tesla. The Cybercab most likely will not be a moneymaker, and the focus on developing it, will detract from Tesla developing much needed new EV models, for a market with increasing competition.

      Tesla is far from #1 in developing autonomous driving, so the chances are very slim that they would be even close to be first to market.

      AFAIK this is pretty much the current rank:
      -1 Waymo (Google)
      -2 Mercedes
      -3 Mobil Eye
      -4 GM (Cruise)
      -5 Baidu
      -6 Tesla

      Possibly Nissan-Renault (WeRide) and Nvidia can match Tesla too.

      Notice that Tesla used MobilEye originally up to 2016, but MobilEye ended the partnership after a Tesla model S had a fatal crash. I suspect the irresponsible claims implementation and practices by Elon Musk were too much.

      Elon Musk is insane and a con man, to believe anything he claims about the future of his companies is naive.

      • JohnEdwa
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        97 hours ago

        Because Musk has a weird obsession that everything needs to work with just cameras, and no other sensors can help. While it might work someday in the far future with proper AGI (e.g Delamain from Cyberpunk 2077), until then it’s a pretty hopeless endeavour.

        • @IphtashuFitz
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          96 hours ago

          The problem is computer vision has a LONG way to go before it’s truly on par with human eyesight. Musk loves to crow how cameras are sufficient since we use our eyes to drive.

          The thing is, eyes have special neural circuits that detect motion. They essentially filter out unnecessary information and send just the motion details to the brain. This prevents the brain from being overloaded with every detail the eye constantly sees.

          And being overloaded with everything is exactly what computer vision currently does. It’s just a stream of images that the computer must analyze completely. So it’s working exactly opposite to how the eye & brain works.

          • JohnEdwa
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            Long way, but it’s not an impossible task, as at the core the eye is nothing but a bunch of light sensors that spit out a result, we just need to figure out how to calculate that result ourselves. Motion amplification could be one solution given enough computing power to do it in real time, for example.

            But we agree, safe and accurate camera based self driving isn’t going to happen in a long, long time.

        • @Buffalox
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          I’m not sure the approach Elon Musk has to developing self driving will ever work.
          From what I’ve heard about how they “teach” the AI, it probably won’t, because loading massive amounts of new data is rewarded, but there is no proper qualitative control.

      • @[email protected]
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        46 hours ago

        Man, how did Mobil Eye not just tack an “s” on the end? The pun is right there, and it’s frankly excellent and super topical to what they’re trying to do.

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      What benefit would a lidar bring that they haven’t already achieved with cameras and radar? The car not seeing where it’s going is not exactly an issue they’re having with FSD.

      • @Num10ck
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        a lidar could tell the difference between a person on a bus billboard and a person. it brings 3d to a 2d party.

        • @[email protected]
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          A lidar alone can’t do that. It’ll just build a 3D point cloud. You still need software to detect the individual objects in there and that’s easier said than done. So far Tesla seems to be achieving this just fine by using cameras alone. Human eyes can tell the difference between an actual person and a picture of a person too. I don’t see how this is supposed to be somethin you can’t do with just cameras.

          • @Buffalox
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            So far Tesla seems to be achieving this just fine by using cameras alone.

            Funny, last I heard, Tesla FSD has a tendency to run into motorcycles.
            With lidar there would be no doubt that there is an actual object, and obviously you don’t drive into it.

          • @Num10ck
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            15 hours ago

            are the tesla cameras 3D?

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              No, and neither are your eyes, but you can still see the world in 3D.

              You can use normal cameras to create 3D images by placing two cameras next to each other and creating a stereogram. Alternatively, you can do this with just one camera by taking a photo, moving it slightly, and then taking another photo - exactly what cameras in a moving vehicle are doing all the time. Objects closer to the camera move differently than the background. If you have a billboard with a person on it, the background in that picture moves differently relative to the person than the background behind an actual person would.

              • @Buffalox
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                neither are your eyes

                That’s a grossly misleading statement.
                We definitely use 2 eyes to achieve a 3D image with depth perception.

                So the question is obviously whether Tesla does the same with their Camera AI for FSD.

                IDK if they do, but if they do, they apparently do it poorly. Because FSD has a history of driving into things that are obviously (for a human) in front of it.

  • Zier
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    Coming in 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, oh whatever. In the future Ketamine Karen will introduce a new scam / con / road safety hazard!

  • @NeoNachtwaechter
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    Oh. So “unveiling” doesn’t mean they have something. Just the “2 years” promise is repeated for the N’th time ;-)

    • @SlopppyEngineer
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      87 hours ago

      Normally it’s always promised next year, so a 2 year deadline means the project is in serious trouble.

      • @[email protected]
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        That’s true, he’s been saying 6 months or a year for Full Self Driving for almost 10 years now.

  • DarkGamer
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    I’ve heard this one before… Musk has proven himself an untrustworthy bad faith actor who lies constantly about many things, especially self-driving Teslas.

    Now he’s a right-wing loon because he thinks they will let him get away with fraud. He acts like he’s on a speed run to ruin his own credibility.