2y ago

Elon Musk Stormed Into the Tesla Office Furious That Autopilot Tried to Kill Him

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2y ago

Elon Musk Stormed Into the Tesla Office Furious That Autopilot Tried to Kill Him

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"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.
  
  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.
- 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
i would also be upset it didn't succeed
"Do something to program this right," he repeatedly demanded, as quoted in the biography.
Why doesn’t gEnIuS cOdEr musk just do it himself
Ok, I’m finally convinced that “AI” is sentient.
Well look at that he was always a stubborn dumb asshole who doesn't listen to people who know more than him.
I’m shocked, I tell you. Shocked!
AI didn't want to blow its cover...
"I got my eyes on you, musky!"
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" 🤞🏻

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