What’s mad is there are self-driving vehicles that do actually seem to work. There is even a few that have enough confidence to remove driving controls. But they use LiDAR, the one technology that musk refuse is to incorporate for some reason.
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magnetosphere@fedia.io 21 hours ago
WHY THE FUCK ARE PEOPLE STILL EXPECTING THIS GARBAGE TO WORK? Tesla’s “full self driving” crashes have been widely covered. Is it simple ignorance? Are they not aware of the news? Is it stubbornness? Laziness? Thinking that “it won’t happen to me?” Do they sincerely believe Musk’s lies?
I know that victim blaming isn’t the answer, and that’s not what I’m doing. I just want to know what’s going on in their heads.
echodot@feddit.uk 19 hours ago
stsquad@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
Cost, the reason is cost.
echodot@feddit.uk 17 hours ago
That’s like saying that they’re going to cut the engine out of a car because it makes the car more expensive. Yeah but it also makes the car work.
Self-driving without lidar is never going to work, and it’s likely to get them sued for releasing it like that.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Yes. That’s Tesla’s entire design philosophy: the industry standard is holding this piece on with 5 bolts? Do it with 3. Cut every corner.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
There are analog versions called buses.
echodot@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
I think an analogue version would be a taxi. Buses drive set routes I would hope that the self-driving car can go on all roads not just pre-selected ones.
Strider@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I still personally know multiple people who still think those are awesome cars.
They’re otherwise educated, intelligent people!
I really don’t comprehend.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
propaganda/advertising works
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
Elon Musk is best friends with Tony Stark. He’s a jeanius.
These people locked inside and burning to death are just crashing it wrong.
yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
People don’t know the unreliability of such systems. They also don’t know how simple Tesla’s autopilot is compared to other systems.
As a person who has used OpenCV before, I would never trust a computer vision system. I maybe could trust LiDAR based systems as those can see 3d but that’s a big “maybe”.
The weirdest part to me is that apple engineer who died in a tesla crash. I have no idea how an engineer working in a software company could trust that thing
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Because many of us are fucking morons. I had one colleague who was writing the control software for a baseball-throwing machine. Despite being way past the deadline and way over budget, the client asked him to create a special version of the software so the machine could be used with Little League teams. He decided to do his first test of this version on a field with actual Little Leaguers on it, which resulted in a 125 mph knuckleball (no spin at all so incredibly erratic in flight) a foot above a 10-year-old kid’s head. Which resulted in the only time in my programming career that I had to physically intervene to prevent a fistfight between two people (my boss and the client).
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
all this shit is tested in sunny Southern California at day time. None of it works raining or snowing.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Some of the stupidest people I’ve ever known were brilliant engineers.
Same could be said for many people with very specific doctorates.
As the popular band Smashmouth once sang: ‘Your brain gets smart, but your head gets dumb’.