No way, those "robots" are remote controlled, by underpaid actors in motion capture suits XD

Paid shill for deathmobiles.

If the most relevant way to describe someone is “influencer”. Then everyone influenced by them is a moron.

I think Hank Green described it as a term marketers came up with. So, yeah it tracks.

It's funny that nobody who follows influencers refers to themselves as an "influencee".

Another word for an individual: 'data point'

If a death threat doesn't leave an impression, what will?

Impressively life threatening

How come nobody honk? Are they used to this nonsense already?

It didn’t “run a red light”. In the video, the lights were green when it entered the intersection.

But yeah, it should not have tried to make that turn from that lane.

Damn shame that CVTs are so janky because it's the only non-manual transmission I'd consider. But reliable CVTs that don't do fake shifts are hard to come by.

The eCVT in my wife's Ford C-Max is an absolute dream. It's so smooth and helps the car take off much faster from a stop than my 350Z, despite having 100 less BHP. Nothing beats the feeling you get from immediate torque when you don't have to wait for the revs to build. Problem is that it also has a 75% failure rate after 100K miles. She's at 120K now and it's still going strong, so she was in the lucky 25%.

Nissan CVT has had its fair share of bad press, but CVTs in general are good to go, and more specifically, Toyota's CVT is a good piece of gear. I don't doubt your story, but it's got me real curious about what the issue is. I can't imagine a scenario where hard braking somehow disables the car, but I know "safety features" in abundance are a thing.

Bud. Nossan always was known as trash. You just didn’t do enough research before buying it. No offense. As a dude with buddies that have The last sports cars from Nissan. 300z turbos. Nissan has been garbage for decades.

They also really need additional sensors. Elon is keep saying that self driving cars only need cameras. But cameras can be blinded or also make mistakes. Hence good self driving cars should atleast have sonar.

I like that homeboy was just like "Have a safe ride" and dude responds " we will" or some shit. Like you (tesla) just stuck us in the middle of an intersection making an illegal turn after missing where to pick us up by a block and we've been in the car for less than a minute. Don't tell us to have a safe trip, promise me we are going to get somewhere safely at that point.

It's invite only. But I have no clue.

Probably because robotaxi is written on the side of it. Clearly a warning to other drivers, to avoid accidents.
It's like having that "learner" sign most countries have on cars for people learning to drive.

So many people in Austin drive well BELOW the speed limit that you end up wishing you were on the West or East Coast again doing 20MPH over every time you drive. Atop of not driving fast, they also refrain from anything more than a little tap of the horn for even the most life threatening maneuvers.

It's not even a Texan thing, it's JUST a ridiculous Austin thing.

As dumb as this tech is in its current state, it still seems safer to me than human drivers. So far they've had very few accidents. Human drivers will do a dangerous maneuver to get in front of you then at the red light they'll get out of the car and try kick your ass.

Stopping might have still been a better result than turning in front of incoming traffic though

Impressions are like dents left in the hood from the impact of pedestrians.

I'm curious about this distinction. What's the difference between "raises" and "begs"?

No way, the company leadership that gave us MechaHitler would never skimp on Q/A or safety guardrails for their AI products.

Yes. The entire system is still in early alpha, and the only people who have been invited to participate have been vocally pro-Musk in the past. So quite literally yes, it’s only influencers who are using the service, and all of them are known to slob Musk’s knob.

Literally... yes. Those are all that are allowed iirc.