Onboard helpers, bad-weather suspensions, but no crashes. WIRED asked experts to grade Tesla’s Austin autonomous taxi service—and, crucially, how to know if the system is safe.
  • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    2 months ago

    This means, too, that Tesla hasn’t hit the milestone Musk promised back in January, when he told investors that the company would launch “unsupervised full self-driving as a paid service in Austin in June … no one in the car.”

    Back in 2015 he claimed fully autonomous driving would be available in 3 years (by 2018) and since then it was always a year or two away. Why does anyone believe anything he says?

    “From a technology standpoint, Tesla will have a car that can do full autonomy in about three years, maybe a bit sooner.”

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autonomous_Tesla_vehicles_by_Elon_Musk

    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      2 months ago

      Because people are, by and large, both forgiving to charismatic people and hopeful.

        • rigatti@lemmy.worldEnglish
          103·
          2 months ago

          Kind of disingenuous to say that. He has some sort of weird nerd charisma. Prior to him revealing how much of an asshole he is, he had way more people that thought he was cool, myself included.

          • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            2 months ago

            Trump has always been a petty shithead loser. He was mocked back in the 80s for being creepy around women, running failed businesses, and not paying his contractors.

          • thejml@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            4·
            2 months ago

            I think the IDEA of Elon back then was charismatic and energizing. He was seen pushing space flight and EV’s forward into the future. Watching a video stream of the first Falcon flight to land the booster back on Earth was exciting. The fact that their stream was on the internet and full of interesting detailed real time telemetry and video was something new and different and felt like the future.

            But watching Elon the man talk and stumble through even early interviews and press conferences was not, and to this day, I find it painful to watch. A great orator he is not. But then neither is Trump, I suppose.

        • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          2 months ago

          I don’t think Musk or Trump have any charisma, but apparently a lot of people see (inherited) wealth as charisma.

  • Cosmoooooooo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    182·
    2 months ago

    NO, it’s not safe. They’re designed by a nazi that only cares about profit, and doesn’t give a shit about his nazi cars setting people on fire, or driving families off cliffs. After all the doors are locked, and can’t be opened - of course.

    Get these the fuck off the road.

    • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Honestly at this point, I’m not sure which has the greater cost to life. I’m starting to think, maybe this is the fastest way to tangently demonstrate how fucking full of shit this guy is. He blows up a few space ships, no one’s directly effected. Maybe running over one or 2 kids directly with a robo taxi will wake enough over to “maybe we shouldn’t let this guy kick tens of thousands of americans off healthcare.”

      (not saying this is a good thing, but of a trolly problem. Musk has spent hte last 6 months getting in positions to do horrible things to so many people, and god knows how many deahts he’s responsible for. Maybe if he messes up and does a few of the kinds of deaths that people get scared over and take action, than things will go better.