CW: Carbrain out the wazoo

    • ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
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      Because people doesn’t know how useful the Swastikar is, they do everything that a chinese car do, cost more money but is not chinese!

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    The author mentions getting tired and having to take rest breaks while driving their normal car. I’d argue that if you’re too tired to drive, you’re way too tired to supervise FSD.

    I get it, having a stressful and difficult job followed by a long drive home is hella hard. But at least, when you’re driving, you feel tired. You feel the need to pull over and rest, which is objectivelly more safe. In FSD mode, what happens if you fall asleep? Maybe the car will sense it, but what if you’re dozing off doing microsleep with your eyes open? (i’m not sure how common it is, it happens to me sometimes)

    At least in a normal car your feet are on the pedals and hands on the wheel if you doze off. In FSD, you have to add the reaction time of a waking human to the time it takes to move your hands and feet to the wheel and pedals, and then you can apply a correction. It’s… geez.

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      she wouldn’t have the need for a self driving car if worked less hours, lived closed to her job and used public transportation to go to work (in case her job couldn’t be home office’d).

      the thing is that this is essentially a capitalist and american problem.

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      The author mentions getting tired and having to take rest breaks while driving their normal car. I’d argue that if you’re too tired to drive, you’re way too tired to supervise FSD.

      Not only that, but how effective could she be assessing patients when she’s that exhausted?

      Wouldn’t it just be better… for everyone… to do these assessments via video call, like so many other healthcare professionals do? She’s not assessing someone’s broken bones.

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      I will say, cruise control makes driving much less tiring. I can put on something to listen to, change up how I sit, and just zone out with my thumb over the cancel button so I’ll immediately slow and have time to slam on the brakes. If my cruise control would also match speed with whoever is in front of me and keep me in the lane, it would be even less tiring

      That being said, the only way I’m using Tesla self driving is if I’m hyper alert and ready for my car to decide it wants to do some offroading

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      I used to live in Phoenix, Arizona and I don’t blame her for driving. They NEED better public transit there. On the occasion my wife and I couldn’t drive, it was often faster to walk for literal hours than take the bus. Phoenix is the definition of sprawl. It upset me so much when people were complaining about the city extending the light rail.

      All that said, this article is pure cope. She bought a truck that makes a political statement and is upset that people don’t like that it makes a political statement.

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    I know 2 people, completely separate and accross the country from each other that have wrecked due to autopilot failures or errors or whatever. I know this is ultimately anecdotal, but it really seems like Tesla isn’t putting up pretty good numbers given my horizon.

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    I’m a psychologist who drives all over Arizona to do psychological assessments.

    She has to drive a monster truck to appointments???

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    The funniest part is that tesla self driving is objectively unsafe. There’s a reason other auto manufacturers artificially limit their systems, which aren’t far behind and in some cases are on par or arguably ahead of teslas self driving. This is also part of the reason musk is getting involved in politics, to censure the nhtsa from reporting on accidents and deaths due to his systems and remove regulations slowing him from deploying his unsafe garbage

    Like you can buy a Mercedes with drive pilot, which is a much more measured approach to self driving and fully hands off in tested and approved markets. You can buy a Cadillac with super cruise which does something similar, ford blue cruise, bmw driving assistant, etc

    Notice the difference? Unlike teslas “beta” full self driving these work in managed conditions, either limited to geographic areas, road conditions, etc. they’re still bougie as fuck, dumb as shit relative to public transit, and ridiculously expensive, but if you’re going to trust your actual ass life to some robot shit maybe go with one of the ones that’s terrified of the liability involved and not the one run by a baby that will sweep your death under the rug.

    But man a public transit system would just be the absolute worst right? Better keep dumping our money into making tons of shitty cars that can barely drive themselves. I get to spend 1/4 of a mortgage on a goofy looking piece of shit that breaks if you tow something with it, or if a scooter hits it, or if someone puts a magnet on it but at least I don’t have to sit near any poor people on my way to work

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    My partner hates seeing this. Looks like a block on the road and makes you question if you are hallucinating.

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    I have difficulty seeing the exterior cameras on the cybertruck. Where are they located? Are they active at all times?

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      It’s a bad idea to mess with Teslas. They are recording at all times, circularly, and if you fuck with it the owner will be able to get video.

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      Also, of course she’s the kind of person to hide that she gave a TEDx talk and not a TED talk until the last possible moment on her website.