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Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation after railroad incidents (www.nbcnews.com)
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[–] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

WHY THE FUCK ARE PEOPLE STILL EXPECTING THIS GARBAGE TO WORK? Tesla’s “full self driving” crashes have been widely covered. Is it simple ignorance? Are they not aware of the news? Is it stubbornness? Laziness? Thinking that “it won’t happen to me”? Do they sincerely believe Musk’s lies?

I know that victim blaming isn’t the answer, and that’s not what I’m doing. I just want to know what’s going on in their heads.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    People don't know about the unreliability of such systems. They also don't know how simple Tesla's autopilot is compared to other systems.

    As a person who has used OpenCV before, I would never trust a computer vision system. I maybe could trust LiDAR based systems as those can see 3 dimensionally but that's a big "maybe".

    The weirdest part to me is that one apple engineer who died in a tesla crash. I have no idea how an engineer working in a software company could trust that thing

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I have no idea how an engineer working in a software company could trust that thing

    Because many of us are fucking morons. I had one colleague who was writing the control software for a baseball-throwing machine. Despite being way past the deadline and way over budget, the client asked him to create a special version of the software so the machine could be used with Little League teams. He decided to do his first test of this version on a field with actual Little Leaguers on it, which resulted in a 125 mph knuckleball (no spin at all so incredibly erratic in flight) a foot above a 10-year-old kid's head. Which resulted in the only time in my programming career that I had to physically intervene to prevent a fistfight between two people (my boss and the client).

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Some of the stupidest people I've ever known were brilliant engineers.

    Same could be said for many people with very specific doctorates.

    As the popular band Smashmouth once sang: 'Your brain gets smart, but your head gets dumb'.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    What's mad is there are self-driving vehicles that do actually seem to work. There is even a few that have enough confidence to remove driving controls. But they use LiDAR, the one technology that musk refuse is to incorporate for some reason.

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