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Comment on Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation after railroad incidents

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

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Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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’.

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ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I have no idea how an engineer working in a software company could trust that thing

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).

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SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
all this shit is tested in sunny Southern California at day time. None of it works raining or snowing.

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