• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    We noticed when Musk was promising “Full self driving” to “come out by the end of the year” every year for over a decade now.

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    16 days ago

    At yet as a pedestrian I’m essentially part of teslas beta testing. I didn’t opt in to being smashed by a fugly as fuck tetrahedron.

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    17 days ago

    Just throwing it out there that nothing about Teslas valuation makes sense1 without being first to market with self driving, and with a real moat around it.

    1: brain got ahead of the fingers and forgot to write the critical modifier.

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        Edited for clarity. I mean that nothing about Tesla’s valuation makes sense without them being first to market with self driving, and also some time/ runway to have first mover advantage. Its a valuation famously detached from reality.

        And they aren’t. From what I’ve heard their self-driving is bogus, which is also the target of the article.

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    16 days ago

    Original Reuters article

    Interesting they say that in advance of each public demo, employees "worked long hours mapping routes and training the software on specific hazards to make the company’s self-driving technology appear more capable than it really is*

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    15 days ago

    as a motorcyclist, i give all teslas a wide berth and put as much distance between me and them as possible as quickly as possible

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    That can’t be right. Self-driving was, at most, two years away over a decade ago. The world’s richest, and therefore smartest since money is a 1:1 proxy for intelligence, could not have been wrong about this. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to catch the giga-loop to my launch to Mars Base 5 while my digital assistant definitely doesn’t delete all my family photos.

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    i know people who have BRAGGED to me about how it’s driven them home, shit faced drunk!

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      Problem with these things is they will work 80-90% of the time. Especially in good conditions. But if anything odd happens…