“He came up with a simple solution: getting the lane lines repainted on that pesky curve — which of course, didn’t actually address the underlying problem.”
This is why Musk is not a technological genius or a technological thinker of any degree. If he was, he would’ve had a spark of a thought in that shallow brain of his, that says there could’ve been a more broader approach to tackle things like unpainted curves. Like thinking how the software could identify what’s a curve and what isn’t.
No, his solution is to just go around and repaint every curve possible.
Good luck with that around here, Elon.
My first thought, because I am smarter than Elon, is that better road lines, especially those that are embedded in the asphalt/cement so they truly can’t wear out, would be another good business idea.
almost ironic that musk has single handedly prevented auto pilot from actually being useful. Given how far ahead Tesla were early on, if they’d incorporated lidar they’d probably have a level 4 system by now.
Wait are they entirely sonar and imagine processing??
Yes. And, I shit you not, his reasoning is that humans only have 2 eyes and not LIDAR and we’re able to drive so that’s all a computer should need to drive too.
Which isn’t wrong… in theory…
The difference is that we do not have anything even close to the human brain in its capabilities.
…not to even mention that there can be upgrades to human vision. The reason our vision is how it is is due to energy efficiency and a small defensive surface area. A car doesn’t care about any of that.
Doing something just because that’s how humans are, without further reasoning or as an argument in of itself is… ambitious to put it mildly.
Which isn’t wrong… in theory…
Wrong? No. Stupid? Yes.
That’d be like saying building a car with wheels is not necessary, we use two legs and can get around everywhere!
The whole point of technology is improving what we can do with our bodies alone. Yes, we use two eyes to drive. Yes, I wish I had some magical radar that could immediately warn me if a child is suddenly jumping in the road.
Pretty much. They are parallell solutions, neither necessarily better than the other (though for a car radars and such probably are just objectively better). Like how wheels are better on asphalt, but legs are better on rugged terrain or forests (aka more versatile, but even then you can always augment legs with a bicycle).
Thats so god damn funny, theres 10 year olds doing arduino projects with more advanced tech than a tesla
No they wouldn’t. The system is terrible. Lidar would help with the shitty phantom breaking but that’s all.
“Curses, the assassination plot failed!”
To think that we were almost free of him…
Damn, maybe next time.
Mission failed, we’ll get him next time
Well look at that he was always a stubborn dumb asshole who doesn’t listen to people who know more than him.
Ok, I’m finally convinced that “AI” is sentient.
I’m shocked, I tell you. Shocked!
Elon must be so disappointed in the poor programming that goes into his Teslas that they can’t even kill a pedestrian properly, it’d be morbidly ironic.
AI didn’t want to blow its cover…
“I got my eyes on you, musky!”
I don’t want to be a fanboy, but I’m still hopeful that eventually we have enough accessible computing power (individually) such that the self-driving car can be trained end-to-end with “easily” 🤞🏻
