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A 2025 Tesla Model 3 in Full-Self Driving mode drives off of a rural road, clips a tree, loses a tire, flips over, and comes to rest on its roof. Luckily, the driver is alive and well, able to post about it on social media.

I just don't see how this technology could possibly be ready to power an autonomous taxi service by the end of next week.

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[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

HAL9000 had Oh Clementine!

Has Tesla been training their AI with the lumberjack song?

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why someone will be a passenger in self-driving vehicle? They know that they are a test subjects, part of a "Cartrial" (or whatever should be called)? Self-Driving is not reliable and not necessery. Too much money is invested in something that is "Low priority to have". There are prefectly fast and saf self-driving solutions like High-speed Trains.

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 2 points 20 hours ago

I have no idea, I guess they have a lot more confidence in self driving (ESPECIALLY Tesla) than I do.

[–] KingCake_Baby@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

Don't drive Tesla

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, if Elon was my dad, I'd probably have some suicidal tendencies too.

[–] embed_me@programming.dev 14 points 1 day ago

More like the abusive step-father

[–] postnataldrip@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"It crashed!"

"Yes but it did it all by itself!"

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago

Except for the last 0.05 seconds before the crash where the human was put in control. Therefore, the human caused the crash.

[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I use autopilot all the time on my boat. No way in hell I'd trust it in a car. They all occasionally get suicidal. Mine likes to lull you into a sense of false security, then take a sharp turn into a channel marker or cargo ship at the last second.

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (5 children)

They have auto pilot on boats? I never even thought about that existing. Makes sense, just never heard of it until just now!

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

They've technically had autopilots for over a century, the first one was the oil tanker J.A Moffett in 1920. Though the main purpose of it is to keep the vessel going dead straight as otherwise wind and currents turn it, so using modern car terms I think it would be more accurate to say they have lane assist? Commercial ones can often do waypoint navigation, following a set route on a map, but I don't think that's very common on personal vessels.

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 points 16 hours ago

That's similar to commercial airliners right?

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[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Exactly. My car doesn’t have AP, but it does have a shed load of sensors and sometimes it just freaks out about stuff being too close to car for no discernible reason. Really freaks me out as I’m like what you see bro we just driving down the motorway.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Isn't there a plane whose autopilot famously keeps trying to crash into the ground. The general advice is to just not let it do that, whenever it looks like it's about to crash into the ground, pull up instead.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Being 787 Max did that when the sensor got faulty and there was no redundancy for the sensor's because that was in an optional addon package

[–] mbtrhcs@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Even worse, the pilots and the airlines didn't even know the sensor or associated software control existed and could do that.

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[–] tfm@europe.pub 8 points 1 day ago

"I'm confident that Save full self driving (SFSD) will be ready next year"

[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 36 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Anything outside of a freshly painted and paved LA roads at high noon while it's sunny isn't ready for self drivings it seems

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Actual self-driving vehicles, sure. Just not whatever the fuck Tesla is doing.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Typical piss poor quality from Leon Hitler. F Tesla.

Full Self-Destruct

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

It's full self-driving, doesn't need roads. Put into wrong car.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I am never getting into a self driving car. I don't understand why we are investing money into this technology when people can already drive cars on their own, and we should be moving towards robust public transportation systems anyway. A waste of time and resources to... what exactly? Stare at your phone for a few extra minutes a day? Work from home and every city having robust electric transit systems is what the future is supposed to be.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not a fan of self driving cars, but saying that people are able to drive cars is a stretch.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago

In general I am opposed to machines being in direct control of weapons. I am also definitely of the opinion that there are lots of people who shouldn't be driving.

[–] underline960@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Back when I still believed, I was excited because I wanted get in my car and take a 90-minute nap until I arrived at work.

With public transportation, you can only be half-asleep or you'll miss your stop.

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 day ago

I used to dream of watching a movie then falling asleep in bed while my car drove the 8 hours to my folks' house.

But I'd want that beast to be bristling with sensors of every kind. None of this "cameras only" idiocy.

Someday. Maybe.

[–] cestvrai@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have a 45 minute high speed train commute to a busy end-of-line station. I can sleep, read, work, or just stare out the window and think.

Same commute is probably twice as long by car during rush hour.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I wish I lived in a place that took rail infrastructure seriously. But all our trains appear to be built out of sheet iron and about four nails, oll movement is accompanied with eeeeeeeeeccccchhhhhhhheeeeeekkkkkkkscccreeeeeeeekkkkeeeeek

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[–] sidtirouluca@lemm.ee 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

self driving is the future, but im glad im not a beta tester.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 14 points 1 day ago (5 children)

You're probably right about the future, but like damn, I wish they would slow their roll and use LiDAR

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[–] yoshisaur@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago (6 children)
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