These fucking bazingas want a Rube Goldbergian way to avoid mass transit no matter what and it's fucking exhausting. 
THE most controlled environment
Piece of junk can't work on a one way road in a tunnel designed for it
"They should try installing a metal guide rail," I'd like to quip, but I looked at the picture and seriously those markings are clean enough for a high school robotics club to navigate.
"They should try installing a metal guide rail,"
Some college or something made a self driving systems that used small reflective strips attached to a road course to guide itself, and apparently it was super effective and allowed them to run multiple cars totally autonomously. But yah know, talking the US government into installing a bunch of tiny strips every foot of the highway is a tall order.
Things like that are also done in LEGO robotics classes and competitions. Not sure how much more difficult it is to do with larger vehicles, but such technology has been quite available for at least more than a decade.
Isn't that dangerous? That tunnel is so narrow. Just one way? What happens if you have to reverse? Break down halfway through? Have a medical emergency? I don't get how it's supposed to even work.
I don't get how it's supposed to even work.
It works on sheer luck so far and a relative lack of widescale application. It's a few gimmick demos in Las Vegas, and so far
there hasn't been a demonstration of why they are a very, very bad idea in an emergency.Reminder that the batteries these things run on are incredibly explosive and burn for days at thousands of degrees with no feasible way to put them out
Well.. you see, if there's any blockage, the vehicle behind the blockage can be used to push it along. If the pushing vehicle malfunctions and also becomes a blockage, ANOTHER vehicle can drive up to the blockage and start pushing...
first thing i asked when someone was telling me all excitedly about it.. what happens when a car breaks down?
deafening silence..
Have you really experienced traffic jams in all their freedom if you haven't experienced traffic jams in a narrow tunnel deep underground?
Something very funny can happen in one of the bazinga tunnels, and when it happens, there are pretty much no anti-funny regulations being heeded right now.
Battery fires are hard to put out, but when they're in a tunnel it's easy! You just back-fill the tunnel, easy peasy.
just in case people assumed this was a make-em-up joke, here's video of a traffic jam in a tesla tunnel in 2022: https://xcancel.com/pixelnull/status/1479086874140594176
Musk should be fitted with an explosive collar and told that the next time he tweets it will detonate
Having finally experienced the barely functional idiocy of tesla "self driving" firsthand by having to drive behind one of these bazingas while on a bean delivery for work a few weeks ago has only made me more pissed off reading about this shit
If it doesn't understand what a stop sign is then it isn't really self driving
It's marketing bullshit and always has been.
Like a decade ago there were feverish promises that *"the human (these techbros love to talk like that, like edgy smug alien robots) will soon be obsolete on the road" or even "the human is actually more error-prone than the bazinga device!" and often defended after the fact with "every error (fiery lithium death) that the system experiences only improves the system!" as if some voracious volcano god that needs sacrifices.
The worst part is that the reason humans are so error prone is that we don't get enough sleep because sleep isn't profitable under capitalism
If they hate trains so much, why do they keep inventing trains but bad?
Don’t suppose we can bring more automated trains and market them as “revolutionary, disruptive, AI-powered transportation!”
What else can I say but
