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Elon Musk Stormed Into the Tesla Office Furious That Autopilot Tried to Kill Him (futurism.com)
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[–] snownyte@kbin.social 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"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.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Good luck with that around here, Elon.

[–] FarceMultiplier@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] set_secret@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait are they entirely sonar and imagine processing??

[–] dpkonofa@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Thats so god damn funny, theres 10 year olds doing arduino projects with more advanced tech than a tesla

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I believe he also tried to get rid of the sonar at one point a few years ago. It was a bit of a disaster iirc.

[–] uglyduckling81@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

No they wouldn't. The system is terrible. Lidar would help with the shitty phantom breaking but that's all.

[–] shininghero@kbin.social 50 points 1 year ago

"Curses, the assassination plot failed!"

[–] FarceMultiplier@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 year ago

To think that we were almost free of him...

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago

Damn, maybe next time.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

i would also be upset it didn't succeed

[–] Currens_felis@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago

Mission failed, we’ll get him next time

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

"Do something to program this right," he repeatedly demanded, as quoted in the biography.

Why doesn’t gEnIuS cOdEr musk just do it himself

[–] Madrigal@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Ok, I’m finally convinced that “AI” is sentient.

[–] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Well look at that he was always a stubborn dumb asshole who doesn't listen to people who know more than him.

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

I’m shocked, I tell you. Shocked!

[–] 0_0j@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

AI didn't want to blow its cover...

"I got my eyes on you, musky!"

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] egeres@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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" 🤞🏻