KayLeadfoot
joined 3 months ago
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?
Fortune reports, they're testing them with employees taking the rides right now, and they're just plain old Model Ys.
Google just hit me with "AI Mode" as the most prominent option in Google Search.
Not 30 minutes since its AI overview gave me EXACTLY THE WRONG ANSWER to basic factual questions, regurgitating the wrong part of a Wikipedia article of content that it stole.
It is that EXACT shade.
Separately, the guy from Dukes of Hazard has a Cybertruck, he carts Kid Rock out at concerts in it.
Naturally, it has the General Lee paint job. Because Idiocracy was not a comedy, it was a crystal ball, I guess.
This was not the forum I was expecting a fact-check in, but fair enough! I always got sources on tap.
The reveler in the stands who reported live that the Cybertrucks were "lustily booed like they were wrestling heels" reported that they saw 5 Cybertrucks in total: https://www.reddit.com/r/thebulwark/comments/1j2zz5k/comment/mfw9tni/
Here's video of 2 of the others (when it says "pre Mardi Gras," that's because Orpheus is technically a Lundi Gras parade): https://www.usatoday.com/videos/tech/2025/03/04/crowds-boo-tesla-cybertrucks-during-mardi-gras-festivities/81458097007/
That sounds like high elvish, that bastard!
God, what a piece of shit.
who you calling feo ?!
Was just thinking... mm. Toasty in waxed masks and wool coats.
The "humans drive cars with just optical input" has become a weirdly tightly held misconception for Elon Musk, it's a core part of his personality where autonomy is concerned:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-says-tesla-doesnt-023035552.html
Humans drive with optical input, haptic feedback, and millenia of evolution to handle the decision-making and social skills required to handle a vehicle safely. No LiDAR or radar waves, sure, but I wouldn't say no if either were on offer!
The dumbest part? He developed this belief in ~2019. Lidar costs have dropped immensely since then, and are fast-dropping still. Any technologist who doesn't fucking suck knows that component prices follow that depreciation curve. So he's basically an old man shouting at a cloud at this point, it would be cheaper to fix the mistake, but it could hurt his personal branding as a guru.