"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.
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.
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.
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.
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" 🤞🏻