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)
Wait, who actually likes paying taxes?
//edit: Forgot I’m on Lemmy. I’ll show myself out, comrades.
I do, mostly. Believe it or not, we do live in a society. Taxes and fees are integral to the well-being of the place you live in, from the small (apartment building, street, beighborhood) to the medium (city, commune) to the big (region, country).
Public services need to be funded, and we fund them with taxes. I like paying taxes. What I hate is when those taxes get misused. What I hate is the CEO of my company, who last year made 300x what I made (and I make well above average salary) paying half the amount pf taxes I pay (percentage wise) because my money comes from salary and his comes from capital gains. What I hate is seeing homeless people around because you could build homes and give them to the homeless if the rich fucks were taxes properly.
Hear hear. I think it was Chomsky that said something like “we should all be celebrating tax day; that we don’t speaks volumes”
People who are not too stupid or egoistic to see that good things happen with them?
I love the awesome public transport network here, I love the good maintained hiking paths, I love that I can walk safe outside because of good social security. I love that all people have access to good healthcare here
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?
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.
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.
An X... New rimless cross spoke omnidirectional wheel
Musky naming something involving X.
Challenge: Impossible.
AKA…the “New and Improved Wheel”. It’s all about the marketing.
props for the accurate use of “santorum.”
“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”
-Elon Musk
Imagine that job though. It is your job to be a scapegoat for traffic collisions.
I can imagine very few people will be lining up for that job.
You underestimate how desperate people are becoming to feed their family
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
When waymo was first getting qualified, they had human drivers too. Once they had so many miles, they quit needing the humans.
Didn’t Waymo start with assisting drivers though? Like I get it, fuck this shitstain, but this seems like a very reasonable approach to self driving cars.
- Step 1: Prove the concept in a closed environment.
- Step 2: Prove the concept in an open environment, but with traning wheels in case something goes wrong.
- Step 3: After extensive testing in step 2, full rollout of final product.
Waymo have laser beams on their heads.
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.
humans are good enough with just our two eyes
This requires the car to have an equally sophisticated visual cortex as well, which we cannot achieve right now. Cars need those better sensors to equal our abilities.
God, hearing his stupid arguments shows us he really knows nothing about anything.
I’m planning to launch a human-only taxi service, but to cut costs the humans will be AI.
The “human driver” in question:
Hey man, I got 5 kids to feed
I thought it was a 2 seater with no controls. Lemme guess… It’s a fleet of Model 3s.
Cybertrucks pulling wooden carts.
Gotta do something with all that extra and unsellable inventory.
The driver fits in the trunk.
Why do you think that Teslas have a “frunk”? It’s for holding the driver, of course.
Ah, so the Model S.
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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The purpose built one coming in 2026 is a 2 seater. This launch is using the new Model Y’s
Oh so it’ll be a fleet of Model Y’s.
To start ya. It’ll eventually be all their models, we’ll… probably not the CT.
yeah, totally not to keep the robotaxis from being molotoved. although after what musk did, not sure the presence of drivers will stop people.
Remember his robots - ROFL
Will the driver be dressed like Optimus?
Tesla’s brand of self driving is unsafe, you say?
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
This is exactly what happened with his stupid Hyperloop
- 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.
