• snownyte
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    668 months ago

    “He came up with a simple solution: getting the lane lines repainted on that pesky curve — which of course, didn’t actually address the underlying problem.”

    This is why Musk is not a technological genius or a technological thinker of any degree. If he was, he would’ve had a spark of a thought in that shallow brain of his, that says there could’ve been a more broader approach to tackle things like unpainted curves. Like thinking how the software could identify what’s a curve and what isn’t.

    No, his solution is to just go around and repaint every curve possible.

    • Flying Squid
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      138 months ago

      Good luck with that around here, Elon.

    • @[email protected]
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      38 months ago

      My first thought, because I am smarter than Elon, is that better road lines, especially those that are embedded in the asphalt/cement so they truly can’t wear out, would be another good business idea.

  • @set_secret
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    588 months ago

    almost ironic that musk has single handedly prevented auto pilot from actually being useful. Given how far ahead Tesla were early on, if they’d incorporated lidar they’d probably have a level 4 system by now.

      • Zoolander
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        368 months ago

        Yes. And, I shit you not, his reasoning is that humans only have 2 eyes and not LIDAR and we’re able to drive so that’s all a computer should need to drive too.

        • @[email protected]
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          158 months ago

          Which isn’t wrong… in theory…

          The difference is that we do not have anything even close to the human brain in its capabilities.

          …not to even mention that there can be upgrades to human vision. The reason our vision is how it is is due to energy efficiency and a small defensive surface area. A car doesn’t care about any of that.

          Doing something just because that’s how humans are, without further reasoning or as an argument in of itself is… ambitious to put it mildly.

          • @kadu
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            • @[email protected]
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              28 months ago

              Pretty much. They are parallell solutions, neither necessarily better than the other (though for a car radars and such probably are just objectively better). Like how wheels are better on asphalt, but legs are better on rugged terrain or forests (aka more versatile, but even then you can always augment legs with a bicycle).

        • @[email protected]
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          58 months ago

          Thats so god damn funny, theres 10 year olds doing arduino projects with more advanced tech than a tesla

      • @[email protected]
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        28 months ago

        I believe he also tried to get rid of the sonar at one point a few years ago. It was a bit of a disaster iirc.

    • @uglyduckling81
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      No they wouldn’t. The system is terrible. Lidar would help with the shitty phantom breaking but that’s all.

  • @expatriado
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    248 months ago

    i would also be upset it didn’t succeed

  • @breadsmasher
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    168 months ago

    “Do something to program this right,” he repeatedly demanded, as quoted in the biography.

    Why doesn’t gEnIuS cOdEr musk just do it himself

  • @asteriskeverything
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    78 months ago

    Well look at that he was always a stubborn dumb asshole who doesn’t listen to people who know more than him.

  • Madrigal
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    78 months ago

    Ok, I’m finally convinced that “AI” is sentient.

  • wellDuuh
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    38 months ago

    AI didn’t want to blow its cover…

    “I got my eyes on you, musky!”

  • @[email protected]
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    28 months ago

    Elon must be so disappointed in the poor programming that goes into his Teslas that they can’t even kill a pedestrian properly, it’d be morbidly ironic.

  • @egeres
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    18 months ago

    I don’t want to be a fanboy, but I’m still hopeful that eventually we have enough accessible computing power (individually) such that the self-driving car can be trained end-to-end with “easily” 🤞🏻