Elon is a loudmouth and youtube is also full of vidjeos of tesla owners that have been pissed off in one way or another by Tesla.
The Fukashima incident is a very telling illustrator of the irrational fear of nuclear. Fifteen thousand people are killed and no one goes around saying you can never build or live near a coastline again. But a few people may die a few years earlier because of the radiation from the nuclear element of the disaster and there are people all over saying nuclear power should be eliminated.
Soon-ish self driving taxis (robotaxis) will begin taking over and in a not too distant future most people won't own their own car but just use an app on their phone to call for a cab which then will take them anywhere. That means it will be the fleet operators that decide which type of fuel they will use and for the most part it makes more economic sense for them to have electric vehicles. Range is less of a problem then, you might have to switch car once or twice if you are making a long journey, but that is not so bad.
The Luddites in Arizona are doing all they can to turn soonish to never sh by throwing rocks and bottles at the test cars. And slashing tires when they can. They found when they do this they don’t get yelled at or shot by the autonomous driver.
I would sure like to hear how these self driving cars do with real driving conditions and just not clear days in Arizona. How do they do in the snow when the rods are covered in slush, mud, snow or one of those Arizona sandstorms?
With driverless being in our soon-ish future for the last 50 years I am sure you are correct. But what are we going to put in our garages if we have two and three car garage homes?
Ahh, the flying cars which for the past 70 years everybody be flying soon to avoid all of the traffic on the roads.
The Luddites in Arizona are doing all they can to turn soonish to never sh by throwing rocks and bottles at the test cars. And slashing tires when they can. They found when they do this they don’t get yelled at or shot by the autonomous driver.
I would sure like to hear how these self driving cars do with real driving conditions and just not clear days in Arizona. How do they do in the snow when the rods are covered in slush, mud, snow or one of those Arizona sandstorms?
The gas turbine and juice dispenser was a bit silly but didn't I spot a gps navigator, two way radio and on-demand tv?
Their auto pilot seemed to be more like Tesla cruise control though, more primitive than that since it required a separate specialised road. Same with the second video, it relied on special markings in the road, so more like line following robots. If there were special roads and special rules for self driving cars it would be much easier to implement.
I suppose people have been dreaming about self driving cars for a long time, but there haven't really been anyone investing a lot of money into building something that's commercially available.
I have never understood why driving in snow is a requirement for a self driving car. It is clear that a huge percentage of human drivers can't. And a huge percentage of those don't realize their incompetence, and go ahead and drive anyway.
I have never understood why driving in snow is a requirement for a self driving car. It is clear that a huge percentage of human drivers can't. And a huge percentage of those don't realize their incompetence, and go ahead and drive anyway.You clearly have not visited places like Finland in the winter.
What’s the indifference between and above average driver, average driver, below average driver and a way below average driver?
What’s the indifference between and above average driver, average driver, below average driver and a way below average driver?
Insurance rates might be the best metric. Driving tests are another. You don't have to get a perfect score to get a driver's licence, at least here in the US. Nor do you have to demonstrate that you can still pass after a few years have gone by.
In any case we allow those below average drivers on the road. Why shouldn't we allow an autopilot with the same below average skills?
I have never understood why driving in snow is a requirement for a self driving car. It is clear that a huge percentage of human drivers can't. And a huge percentage of those don't realize their incompetence, and go ahead and drive anyway.
I have never understood why driving in snow is a requirement for a self driving car. It is clear that a huge percentage of human drivers can't. And a huge percentage of those don't realize their incompetence, and go ahead and drive anyway.You clearly have not visited places like Finland in the winter.I was born in snow country and have driven in snow a lot. My point wasn't that it is never necessary to drive in snow, only to question why self driving cars have to be better than human drivers. Here in the US every time it snows the news channels are filled with pictures of people driving into ditches, spinning around corners, driving into the backs of strings of stopped traffic and the like.
There was a video posted the other day of a Tesla in autopilot that hit a patch of ice. It controlled and recoved the subsiquent skid apparently all by itself.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anLpxYuchB8&feature=youtu.be
There was a video posted the other day of a Tesla in autopilot that hit a patch of ice. It controlled and recoved the subsiquent skid apparently all by itself.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anLpxYuchB8&feature=youtu.beI DO NOT believe it! That was somebody swinging the dashcam around. The car did not swerve.
I don't see why they can not make that work eventually, it's just that the cars were developed in California and not in Sweden/Finland, we will have to wait a bit longer over here.
There exist much better videos showing the car doing trick driving, but for some reason this was the best I could find now:
https://youtu.be/bp9KBrH8H04?t=142
And that was eight years ago.
I don't see why they can not make that work eventually, it's just that the cars were developed in California and not in Sweden/Finland, we will have to wait a bit longer over here.Google cars only drive where their high resolution maps exist, and can be correlated with the world around the car in real time. When it snows, and the world around changes, they can't function. This is a problem they will probably deal with eventually, but right now its something that haven't even tried to address. They are trying to address the low hanging fruit first, which makes an enormous amount of sense.
Are you really going to use stunts performed on a highly controlled circuit as an example of their prowess in automated driving? Its really not that hard to do. 99% of the automated driving problem is achieving safe free range driving.
If autonomous, on call cars do take over our two and three car garages will be used as the already often are - to store the stuff that SWMBO doesn't want in the house.
On a more optimistic note they will also be the place to setup and use our more important toys like mills, thermal chambers, water jet tables and the like.