i love living in a sci-fi dystopia

TacoMac

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well Podunk's firechief better figure it out quick because every car maker is going electric in the next few years..... cars ain't coal fired any longer..
I think eventually it's going to come down to battery redesign. They're going to have to engineer some sort of system to disable sections of the battery packs after an accident.

My thought is something like an air bag system that separates the battery pack into sections on impact so that they don't short out, overheat and perpetually burn.
 

TacoMac

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I love Carl's Jr.....their Chicken Bacon Club is to die for.
That confuses the hell out of me. Hardee's and Carl's Jr are the same thing, right? But whoever redid the Hardee's logo and color scheme destroyed that franchise. You can't even see them anymore. In fact, I can't remember the last time I saw one. They used to be everywhere.
 

smokinrav

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two people dead, nobody in the driver seat. 6,000 lb experiments in half-baked, camera-only autonomy, capable of doing 0-60 in under 3 seconds, just roaming the streets.

very normal and very cool. i love the future
Tesla says this car not sold with Autopilot with FSD, and it wasn't installed over the air since purchase in 2019. Fwiw.

I am NOT a tesla fan boi

Whats truly fucked up about Teslas is they have hundred camers inside and outside the car, but not one is watching the drivers eyes for fatigue or inattention. My moms 24k Hyundai has cameras watching the drivers eyes.
 
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TacoMac

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Whats truly fucked up about Teslas is they have hundred camers inside and outside the car,
No, they do not.

They have a total of 8. They're the equivalent of a Ring doorbell camera in that they're fisheyed to achieve a 360 degree view outside the car. There are no cameras inside the car at all.

They also have what they call ultrasonic sensors. It's actually just basic radar that everybody uses for self adjusting cruise control.

The biggest problem with Tesla's system that will in all likelihood prevent it from ever becoming truly autonomous is that it can't tell what anything is. The competition (Uber, Google, etc.) are all developing Lidar, which can.

Example: Let's say that across a road you have in thirds a section of water bottles, a shower curtain, and a brick wall and a given car is barreling towards it at 80 mph.

The Tesla has no idea what any of it is. It simply sees a wall all the way across the road and will hammer the brakes to try to stop and wind up hitting whatever it hits.

A car with Lidar will be able to tell the water bottles from the shower curtain from the brick wall and will begin slowing down but aim towards the shower curtain knowing that it's the path of least resistance.

That is why you find so many Tesla cars crashing on autopilot - their stupid owners bought into the "Musk is God" narrative that his cars are invincible and they wind up dying in droves because Tesla's ill branded autopilot system is about as far away from a true autopilot as you can get.

Many other manufacturers (Volvo, Cadillac, BMW, etc.) all have similar systems that they brand as 'driver assist' for that very reason. In fact, Cadillac's is actually superior to Tesla's.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Informed consumers aren't believing these obvious hit pieces about Tesla.......Tesla stock is up 3 points this week...
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You can do a lot with all that paypal cash, the gift that keeps on giving. SpaceX plans on leveraging their starlink internet system to fund future projects. Starlink and other systems will clutter up orbital space and make ground based astronomy problematic, there are issues.

Someone could use starlink to fly a drone or RC plane using FPV into a target half way around the world and it would be difficult to jam. Just like the US military drones only much cheaper and much more accessible. But then again you can do it with 4G cellphone service and a dongle now, but that can be jammed by conventional means.
 
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