so... uhh... what's the point?
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So it's a taxi.
Motherfucker loves trying to reinvent the wheel only to end up at the goddamn wheel.
"I'ma invent a giant system that goes underground so we can move people around faster!" That's a subway, you santorum-covered condom.
Par for the course for techbros. His hyperloop was a shittier train. UberPool is a shittier bus. All these dumbfucks grow up being told they're the specialest boys, so of course people who made better things before them were clearly wrong.
Hyperloop was a raging success - it stopped funding of railway. I believe he even admitted that this was behind it to begin with.
Luckily only in Murica.
The liberal parties here tried to make the same argument here, but luckily no one takes them seriously (in Europe this means something different, than in the US. It's not progressive/left-leaning, they are more like Libertarians/Republicans. They don't hate gay people, but hate paying taxes and regulations)
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Motherfucker loves trying to reinvent the wheel only to end up at the goddamn wheel.
A shittier version of the wheel.
An oval.
Isn't the Cybertruck steering wheel called a squircle?
I cringed. I don't know if you made that up or not, and the fact that I genuinely can't tell made me sad for this stupid timeline.
Apparently it fucking is. God I hate everything.
Hahahaha
Edit: oh fuck I thought you were just making a joke. Jesus fucking Christ.
Terrible name for a terrible design. Yoke style steering wheels are not safe for cars because they create awkward handholds as they rotate.
Yoke style works in planes and race cars where they aren't rotated 360+ degrees regularly, rarely over 90 degrees either direction.
If it made sense, Saab would have done it.
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props for the accurate use of "santorum."
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- Will have a driver in the "robo" taxi
- Will need to only run on specific area at specific time frame
- Won't run in "bad" weather
- Has all other kinds of small rules and quirks.
This seems like a complete waste of time for everyone involved.
It's almost like it's a grift for government contracts
Imagine that job though. It is your job to be a scapegoat for traffic collisions.
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So..... A regular taxi, then? 🤔🤭😂😂😂😂
No, this will be less convenient and more expensive. Like the tesla tunnel thing in Vegas: subway, but much worse.
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I thought it was a 2 seater with no controls. Lemme guess... It's a fleet of Model 3s.
Didn't Tesla choose not to allow Tesla vehicle lessee's to not buy their cars so they can convert them to robo taxis and also software upgrade them so sell at a higher price in the certified pre-owned market?
That was the initial plan but it hit a number of roadblocks.
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The release of the Robotaxi product was much delayed, and had Tesla kept to the "no buyout of leased cars" they would have been swimming in returned vehicles with nothing to do with them yet.
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The policy was put in place at a time when the autonomous hardware was thought to be the "final" version (referred to as Hardware 3). It turns out the "final" version wasn't powerful enough, so a new final version was released (Hardware 4). So all the cars that were leased were not going to be useful as taxi cabs, so they offered those for sale to their leasers.
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So just a regular Taxi then.....groundbreaking.
if he innovates even more he might eventually invent trains!
He did it again. Except now you have a shitty robo taxi with a driver that pays no attention. The worst of both worlds.
For ‘driving’ reasons.
I must say, it's been a little nicer not having this dipshit in the headlines every single fucking day. I guess he's going to start saying things again and fuck with my peace of mind.
I think Musk should 100% trust his fucking piece of shit robotaxi tech and use it exclusively. Good chance it drives him off a bridge.
Waymo doesn't need it, but he does? lol
That's because Tesla self-driving takes a different, and imo way worse, approach.
Waymo relies on mapping, the entire city is basically 3D modelled and loaded into the car memory. It's more or less 'on rails'. It also uses LIDAR for live data alongside imaging cameras, again building a 3D model of its environment combined with image recognition.
Tesla decided that, for some reason, they want their cars to drive 'like humans', only relying on vision and deployable anywhere, without pre-mapping.
Demanding a computer to behave like humans, instead of using a computer's strengths, seems like a very poorly thought out move to me.
drive 'like humans', only relying on vision […] without pre-mapping.
Demanding a computer to behave like humans
So basically their taxis will go into the job of driving a taxi without any prior knowledge of the city? Like a human? Only relying on road signs? Will it also stop to ask for directions? Like wtf? What kind of stupid idea is this from Tesla. Sounds absolutely moronic.
A human taxi driver doesn't work like this. They are people who know the city very well going in, or at least used to before GPS navigation in vehicles came to aid.
He's famously said that humans are good enough with just our two eyes. So he went the cheap route of not including lidar and relying on stereoscopic cameras.
He's an idiot. Because when I want stuff automated, I want it to be better than what a human can do.
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Waymo also has much more reliable tech. To my knowledge waymos are level 4 while Tesla is only level 2 (which doesn't even qualify as autonomous)
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I'm planning to launch a human-only taxi service, but to cut costs the humans will be AI.
This is even worse than I expected. I expected another delay, or a autonomous taxi with a remote driver constantly monitoring at best. This is no better than a regular taxi.
More fraud.
yeah, totally not to keep the robotaxis from being molotoved. although after what musk did, not sure the presence of drivers will stop people.
More like: "If a "driver" is present and the car decides to kill someone, we can blame it on the human instead of the shoddy programming"
And only handpicked hardcore cult-members are invited for the "beta-phase", and are invited to share their experiences via Video and Photo for Stock Pumping
Yet another fantastic win for the world's greatest business genius^TM^.
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