Elon Musk Shows Self-Driving Tesla Accelerating Into Oncoming Traffic to 10 Million Viewers
Elon Musk Shows Self-Driving Tesla Accelerating Into Oncoming Traffic to 10 Million Viewers
Musk’s demo of Tesla’s FSD lasted almost 20 minutes before he had to intervene to stop an accident.
Just the complete irony of Musk being killed by Autopilot would be too much for me.
'Inventors' killed by their inventions happens way more than people probably realize. First one that comes to mind is the Segway guy. Then there's the more recent dude who built that shitty submarine for dives to the Titanic. Anyone else care to share any incidents?
You’re not wrong, but just to be clear: Musk did not invent the Tesla.
Well, the main salesman for Skydrol (a phosphate based, non-flammable hydraulic fluid for aviation), did not invent the product; but was known to drink some of it during his pitch to "prove" that the fluid was safe. He died of stomach cancer.
The Chief Designer of the 'Titanic' Saved Everyone He Could as His Ship Went Down. Thomas Andrews died in 1912, when the ship he had designed sank, after encouraging the Titanic's passengers to get off the ship if they could.
Hope springs eternal, as they say
It would do a lot to correct the public's understanding of irony. Ever since Alanis Morisette came out with her hit Ironic everyone's been using it wrong
I had something real witty all planned out as a response to your irony comment, but before I can click the "reply" link, out of nowhere IT'S LIKE RAAAIIIIIIAAAAAIIIIINN ON YOUR WEDDING DAAY steamrolls into my head like Yoko Ono on a goddamn bullhorn and I get lost in the song and completely forget everything I was going to say. And I was so proud, too. Damn you, Alanis!
I wonder at what point we just change the definition
Dean Kamen is still alive. The person you're thinking of was the new ceo after he sold the company, not the segway's inventor
“That’s why we’ve not released this to the public yet. That’s the first intervention for the whole drive.”
Why is it on any car, even his, on public roads? Why should untested, unregulated software be controlling thousands of pounds of metal at all?
Looking at it another way: we're all guinea pigs if we consider untested public policy that should work in theory.
Self-driving is not untested, but the problem is that deep down AI is just a lot of statistically derived rules and life is random and will inevitably find a loophole. Technically it's still less likely to kill you on average, maybe even on average if you exclude drunk driving, street racing, and the like.
It's really a philosophical question: would you take dying by your own fuck-up over dying because an AI confused a piece of cardboard for a brick wall or pedestrian?
I think the sweet spot is having the AI back up the human instead of the other way around, but that won't sell as well as reading a book on your commute.
It’s really a philosophical question: would you take dying by your own fuck-up over dying because an AI confused a piece of cardboard for a brick wall or pedestrian?
It's a "philosophical question" that implies that we must choose between manual driving and AI driving that can be confused by a piece of cardboard.
There's nothing saying that Tesla's full self driving is something we have to accept. Musk himself artificially limited the solution by disallowing lidar (amongst other bullshit decisions).
We're not at the point of philosophical questions yet IMO, and we shouldn't get locked into the false dichotomy of manual or musk's version of automatic driving when there are other, much safer and more reasonable solutions both inside automobiles, as well as alternatives such as expanding public transit.
As someone who works on AV SW for a living, it's really not a big deal, assuming you've got certain limits already in place.
However, unlike Tesla, we're not just handing this out to random people who clicked "I agree" on the screen. We've got tons of dedicated training and have to demonstrate we can react to stuff and take over under worst-case conditions, and take incidents like this really seriously.
It's funny that he says "Oh, this is why it's not released to the public", as I did some driving with a Model 3 on the latest version of FSD within the last few weeks, and in a 1 hour drive had plenty of "Oh shit" moments like this. So yeah, they'll totally release garbage like this to the public, no doubt about it
The software is probably better tested than a good percentage of human drivers on the road in America, and definitely a better driver than some subset of that group. Good 'nuff, right?
(But seriously, get this crap off the streets along with the people who shouldn't have licenses.)
2016,.. "I really would consider autonomous driving to be basically a solved problem," Musk said. "I think we're basically less than two years away from complete autonomy."
The video link requires a Xwitter account, of which I do not have. 😒
Video here after 16:30 mark:
try in nitter
"LEMME SHOW YA SOMTHIN!!"
--Fire Marshall Elon
Let's say you're just minding your own business, you stop to have a cup of tea and a croissant at a nice street side cafe. UH OH! A PSYCHOTIC, 2-TON MURDEROUS AUTOMATON ON FOUR WHEELS COMES BARRELING DOWN THE SIDEWALK!
That’s what we call, children, a BAT-tery OUT OF HELL!
Tesla stock holders hate this one simple trick.
Tesla stock holders hate this one simple trick.
I think you may mean “dick”.
“Enough talk! Let’s kill a human…” —Captain Murphy
You can't break prime directive two!
You just made my whole day :-)
Heh, have fun on the RESERVATION! We're not gonna honor those bogus treaties.
“That’s why we’ve not released this to the public yet. That’s the first intervention for the whole drive.”
Which, fair enough!
no, that's not "fair enough", it's unacceptable for him to be testing this shit on public roads among other drivers.
15 years of ownership. Billions of dollars.
Result: The world's most expensive port of Burnout.