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teslas are shit cars. They literally can't tell the difference between a painted wall and the real road.
ElOn mUsk iS a GenIUs
Well now I want to paint a tunnel on a wall, Wile E. Coyote style.
Been done.
That’s pretty terrible. Had to do it all with autopilot because AEB wasn’t showing up.
Excellent.
I recommend ACME paint.
Not all human either
Wowie I sure love increased accidents from a already bad problem!! /s
Waymo is gonna mop the floor with them
Waymo was recently forced to admit that "confused" cars are piloted by people in another country remotely.
https://www.techspot.com/news/111233-waymo-admits-autopilot-often-guys-philippines.html
Stop trying to make self driving cars happen. They are not going to happen.
This was already widely known. If a Waymo taxi does not know what to do, it stops in the middle of the road and calls a support center where a human plots a route for it. The tech media has been reporting on it for years. The only fact in that article that I have not heard is that they are outsourcing the jobs to the Philippines.
There's too much money to be made getting people onto a subscription model for transport. It will 100% happen, maybe just not on the timeline they would want you to believe.
Happened forever ago. It was (and is) called a train. Self driving cars will not succeed.
A train cannot run directly to your house. Driverless cars 100% will happen, eventually road taxes will force manual drivers off the road. Too much money to be made from forcing people onto subscriptions and also cutting the costs on delivery drivers for it not to happen.
If you look at how far along the tech is already, why kid yourself that it's not going to continue to improve and eventually be better than a human driver.
Go ahead and dump your savings in it then and we'll see who was right in a decade.
Only if you promise to heavly invest in train companies.
You are being misleading, it's been a known fact that they are remotely piloted sometimes but the majority of the time the are autonomous, and they are safer than normal drivers in general.
Literally the first sentence on your link "Remote drivers intervene in unusual situations"
Unusual usually means not common.
It's all part of the grift of AI and autonomous robots. Cute synchronized dancing videos but I have yet to see one thread a bolt into a nut.
That's a bit of a weird way to word it. Most assembly lines (even at a cheese factory I used to do support for) do things like packaging products, installing nuts, welding panels in auto factories, etc- those robots are real and incredibly good at their SPECIFIC roles, but those aren't the kinds of "robots" we're talking about here. They are the opposite of autonomous- as if you stand in the way of one of these they'll just freak out and emergency stop, or fail to and kill you. :)
The grift is that autonomous biped robots will replace skilled, or even unskilled labor in factories. Show me one tool task not confined in XYZ space carried out by these toys.
No, we get dancing and jumping around.
The fact that people who aren't licensed to drive in the US are driving Waymos is so fucking absurd. The first time one of those remote drivers kills someone is probably going to result in Waymo's whole business model to collapse from court fees alone.
We can dream. They will probably pay a fee and call it a day, treating it as the price of doing business.
Or it could be the thing that pops the bubble.
There's really no way to predict this shit lol
True. Hoping for the worst for them.
Are they actually driving them, or just setting waypoints for the vehicle software?
That's the thing - they are not driving them, they're telling the cars where to go to get out of the situation. It's not great, but it's tired seeing the hype of "FERR'N PEOPLE DRIVIN' CARS ON OUR ROADS".
actually driving, as in manually taking control of the vehicle by remote.
Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, recently noted that when the company's robotaxis encounter unusual situations, they may request real-time input from a remote response agent
I don't know how else to translate "real-time input".
From the same article:
Waymo says its remote fleet response agents do not directly operate vehicle controls, but instead provide real-time contextual information that the autonomous system uses while remaining in control of the vehicle.
So nobody is taking over and directly piloting the car. It's probably a good thing to have the car double-check with someone if something strange or unpredictable happens.
We're assuming that hasn't already happened and been buried.
But that's unpossible, intelligent redditors in 2015 who tell me I'm stupid told me that self-driving cars were 100% the future within ten years and that we would all be safer.
Those guys are all on Mars now laughing at you.
Let's have a bit of real talk here.
Why were flying cars a failure? Because on the ground, if something goes wrong, you can just stop. Pull over and stop. In the air, you have to have a trained pilot to handle problems and even then people still do occasionally die. So flying cars were never going to be a thing.
Self-driving cars, however, just requires time and research. We will get there, it's just early. The tech is not ready for prime time yet. But it will eventually be.
And in fact, to wrap it back around to flying cars: At some point, we will have self-flying transportation of some sort.
Once the safety improves to something like 10x that of humans driving/piloting, it'll all be self-driving.
We're just not there yet.
We're getting there in spite of whatever the fuck it is Tesla is doing.
Flying cars are a failure because everything that is bad about cars gets much worse when you try to make them fly.
Flying cars are a failure because they're inefficient.
Trying to get computers to navigate roads is also inefficient. Future transport will be on rails.
Will the rails go past every single building?
No because most of us can walk?
Yeah, fuck anyone who can't
Nice straw man :)
I'm quite serious. It's pretty sad how much of society, including people like you, are so dismissive of people with mobility issues. There are many more than you seem to think.
I'm not dismissive of people with mobility issues, hence it's a straw man. Transit just doesn't need to stop at every single building in order to be accessible because most people can take a short walk. We have much better ways of making transit accessible for those who can't, like inclusive pedestrian infrastructure which can also be used by wheelchair users or mobility scooters.
Oh please, private small planes, with licenced pilots crash about once a month.
And that has what to do with anything I said?
Happened to Inhofe so many times I'm surprised he died of old age
Fortunately, Tesla isn't the only player.
Fortunately.
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