If the most relevant way to describe someone is "influencer". Then everyone influenced by them is a moron. They are just a mega moron. It's a safety hazard any of these vehicles are allowed on the road. Let alone, driving autonomously with no actual intelligence on board.
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Paid shill for deathmobiles.
IKR? Shades of Ralph Wiggum.
If the most relevant way to describe someone is “influencer”. Then everyone influenced by them is a moron.
I think Hank Green described it as a term marketers came up with. So, yeah it tracks.
It's funny that nobody who follows influencers refers to themselves as an "influencee".
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That sounds more life threatening than impressive.
If a death threat doesn't leave an impression, what will?
Impressive in the most literal sense. Indeed.
A truck ran over me
It left an impression
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It didn't just "Run a red light", it downright attempted a left turn in a lane meant to drive straight through. They're just lucky that the incoming traffic was stopped when it happened or they might have been t-boned.
How come nobody honk? Are they used to this nonsense already?
What exactly does honking accomplish though?
Waking up the safety operator perhaps.
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Not related to self driving, but other shitty car design.
I had a Nissan with a CVT before it was widely known they were garbage. I hit the brakes to avoid someone that ran a red, and the CVT went in to some protection mode and left me and my family stuck in the middle of the intersection for 2 entire light cycles before it'd move again.
Dealership just kept saying it's fine and it was protecting the CVT from damage after going from throttle to brake quickly. I don't give a fuck about the CVT, I care about the squishy bits inside the cabin.
After it did that again and the power windows stopped working the same day, I traded it in for a Mazda with a proper transmission. 248k miles later it's still great.
Damn shame that CVTs are so janky because it's the only non-manual transmission I'd consider. But reliable CVTs that don't do fake shifts are hard to come by.
The eCVT in my wife's Ford C-Max is an absolute dream. It's so smooth and helps the car take off much faster from a stop than my 350Z, despite having 100 less BHP. Nothing beats the feeling you get from immediate torque when you don't have to wait for the revs to build. Problem is that it also has a 75% failure rate after 100K miles. She's at 120K now and it's still going strong, so she was in the lucky 25%.
I had a Honda with a CVT and it was pretty bulletproof. Never skipped a beat.
What's the reasoning behind CVTs being the only non-manual transmissions you'd consider?
They lack the nice feel of manuals and the reliability of modern automatics. Have you tried an 8HP or 9G-Tronic? Either one will last you a long time and shift so smooth during relaxed driving that you can't tell it's going through gears.
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I find it impressive that nobody honked.
Probably because robotaxi is written on the side of it. Clearly a warning to other drivers, to avoid accidents.
It's like having that "learner" sign most countries have on cars for people learning to drive.
Or every bad driver in California. I see those stickers on cars being driven by 50 year olds.
You know a 50 year old can be a student driver, right?
God, my wife right there. Started driving at 50 and she scares the shit out of me.
I mean… most people I know with learner’s permits don’t have their own cars. It’s probably their parents’ car and somebody just forgot to take the sign off while the learners aren’t driving or it’s permanently adhered.
That 50-year-old is still shaking from letting their kid drive to school, and is now going to work where they'll dread going back to pick their kid up and let them drive home. Or maybe a few more practices in empty parking lots first... Which are fucking hard to find by the way, they're all full of cars!
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But I would 100% be allowing it to hit me if we are going slow enough that my car could be damaged enough and then sue the shit out of Tesla.
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Thanks to whoever wrote "raises the question" instead of the commonly used yet incorrect "begs the question".
I'm curious about this distinction. What's the difference between "raises" and "begs"?
Raising a question means what you think it does. Bringing up a question which is a natural consequence or follow-up to a previously stated point.
The original meaning of begging the question is quite different and is a form of circular argument where the premise of an argument already assumes its conclusion is correct.
"Begging the Question" is a logical fallacy that's completely different than a thing raising a question.
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It is impressive how bad it is.
They also really need additional sensors. Elon is keep saying that self driving cars only need cameras. But cameras can be blinded or also make mistakes. Hence good self driving cars should atleast have sonar.
As a RADAR guy I have to say they need RADAR, but I might be biased. I suppose LIDAR would be nice too. There's something called sensor fusion where you combine the measurements of different sensors, ideally using different technologies to get better measurements.
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And radar is dirt cheap. Toss a radar module (or two!) under the hood, watch as your cars stop plowing into stuff in the frontal plane of movement. It's automation so simple that even Hyundai gets it right.
And radar is dirt cheap.
Even by the middle of WWII, radar had been made so cheap that they (the US at least) were putting radar devices into artillery shells. The idea that 80+ years later radar is cost-prohibitive for fucking cars is ludicrous.
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Respect for the capital letters
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I like that homeboy was just like "Have a safe ride" and dude responds " we will" or some shit. Like you (tesla) just stuck us in the middle of an intersection making an illegal turn after missing where to pick us up by a block and we've been in the car for less than a minute. Don't tell us to have a safe trip, promise me we are going to get somewhere safely at that point.
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Beta testing on the public roads is always a good idea. Privatize the profits and socialize the road hazards and deaths.
Impressive, I have always wanted to die in a car accident thanks Tesla!
Hey you know what, lets just throw a million or more of these things into the real world right now. The sooner we can rack up the body count the sooner we can get grifters to scream into the zeitgeist about government control or whatever. Idk let tesla fuck up their value and live in infamy
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So I think the only button he operator has was the kill switch. Instead the operator should have a second button to report an error or something, without causing the car to do a full stop.
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