Technology

Fight Club taught me the cost of human life to corporations.

If PredictedLawsuitLosses < CostOfRecall then RecallNotAnnounced

Human life doesn't factor in at all for them.

Some of you may die~

But it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

This is why capitalists align with fascists.

Google, Meta, etc, are all taking the knee, because no regulation lets them slurp up our data. Target is shooting itself in the foot on DEI to appease stupid Mussolini, because a fascist autocrat doesn’t enforce labor protections.

Damn, must suck living in the US

I'd be down if and when they do better than human drivers. Until then, there's trains.

Well, what are we 'aposta do?!

Strangle these defenseless corporations with the same kind of regulations we continue to create and impose on small businesses? Do you even know who their father is?!

only Texans... (with the robotaxis)

When I worked with kids, there were a lot of biohazards. Mostly shit, snot, and piss, but on a bus you'll probably get a fair bit of puke too. I'm guessing the driver has to clean the bus.

I recall that people blocked Waymo cars at one point by simply placing orange cones in front of them. Given Teslas only use cameras I wonder if you could just slap a sticker of an orange cone (or just a splash of orange paint) on the hood and confuse it enough that it wouldn’t move…

Edit: Or, if you really want to be a dick, get some black stickers (the stronger the glue the better) and surreptitiously put them over one or more cameras.

Yeah once they're out of the womb, fuck 'em. We only care about the unborn.

I believe Waymo has a better set of sensors (Lidar + Radar+ Cameras instead of just cameras), more processing power, and more research / time / resources spent on it compared to Tesla.

So it's not that we aren't ready for self driving taxis, but rather about which cars are ready to provide that service

Waymo is really interesting - you probably wouldn't guess it, I'm a cautiously optimistic autonomy person! Waymo is already 12x safer than human drivers, that's brilliant, I love that.

Teslas will (allegedly) start on a small, low-complexity street grid in Austin. exact size TBA. Presumably, they're mapping the shit out of it and throwing compute power at analyzing their existing data for that postage stamp.

The rub... that all points out the obvious danger of rolling out the wild-west FSD that Tesla drivers are currently employing everywhere else. If it's safe enough to trust to drive your car for you, why does it need a ton of additional guard-rails to operate without a safety driver?

I am optimistic about self driving, just not Teslas. Unlike other self driving cars, Tesla is exlusively reliant on cameras. Others, like Waymo, have cameras, lidarr sensors and radar.

My $60 robot vacuum has lidar....

Move fast and break ~~things~~ schoolchildren!

I still don't get how anyone thought this notion was ever considered a good strategy for anything... it clearly shows these people have no skin in the game because there is no way they would break their own things