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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] EpsilonVonVehron@kbin.social 136 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2016,.. "I really would consider autonomous driving to be basically a solved problem," Musk said. "I think we're basically less than two years away from complete autonomy."

[–] Shadywack@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2016 was when we were supposed to be driving fusion powered self driving cars

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Self flying car*

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the future, now and forever!

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I'm almost 50, but I remember when I was a kid, my mom told me that by the time I turned 16, cars would drive themselves. Just tell it where to go and it would do it.

That timeline would have been the early 90s. Oops.

After driving a modern car with all of the current safety features, I've come to the conclusion that self-driving cars were even farther away than I thought. It frequently misinterprets the situation and screeches its irritating alarm noise.