Elon Musk's "fully autonomous" cars will, like other robotaxi vehicles, rely on remote human pilots.

Silicon Valley wants us to believe that their autonomous products are a kind of self-guided magic, but the technology is clearly not there yet. A quick peak behind the curtain has consistently revealed a product base that, at a minimum, is still deeply reliant on human workforces.

  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    21 days ago

    Remotely-driven robotaxis seem like the worst option available. I’m imagining a whole cubicle farm LARPing GTA5.

    • Mak'@pawb.socialEnglish
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      22 days ago

      What’s hilariously tragic is that he could very likely have his full self-driving if he would just shut his shit-spewing asshole of a mouth for a hot second, and spend some of his ungodly billions on the problem.

      There are incredibly bright people out there who can make this stuff a reality. But, it takes paying them well, not shit-talking or overruling them, and giving them the environment for success—e.g., not taking away the radar from the cars.

      He just wants to talk a big game without spending any real effort or money on the problem. And, it’s just sad, because he could have his FSD and look like a genius.

        • Mak'@pawb.socialEnglish
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          21 days ago

          It may well be a matter of opinion whether Tesla, even operating at its highest potential, could now overtake the likes of BYD, which is getting extensive help from its government. But, it’s reasonably clear that Tesla’s chances get thinner with every bad decision of Musk’s.

          He fucked with the engineering, chasing pennies on critical components, like the lidar. He fucked with the crown jewel of the company—its Supercharger network—by destroying the team, and thereby slowing down rollouts and critical maintenance. He ran his mouth off and chased away folks—like me—who would have otherwise bought, by espousing pants-on-head-crazy crypto-bro viewpoints. Hell, his idea of PR is a poop emoji auto-responder.

          It’s just frustrating to see such a great concept—the ubiquitous electric car—be fucked up so badly by the person with the most means to succeed.

    • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      22 days ago

      To be fair it is probably not on purpose. He is just too stupid to make realistic estimates of what will be possible.

  • dumbass@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    22 days ago

    It’s been 7 hours of driving random people around the city, name after name I’ll forget quick, then I see a name that brings my blood to a boil, an old bully/tormentor, I take over the car and deliver the script perfectly, he doesn’t remember my voice, why would he? We head off and he zones out staring at his phone, completely oblivious to the fact he is heading towards his doom, we come to a train line and my internet connection ‘drops’, causing the vehicle to come to a complete stop, a minute later a large train smashes into a the car, completely destroying it and killing them before I can successfully reconnect to them.

    And that’s how to get away with murder.

  • Chaotic Entropy@feddit.ukEnglish
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    21 days ago

    This always the solution to these big, over promised AI projects… “what if i just pay someone a pittance to do the hard part.”

  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
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    21 days ago

    It’s just like the indoor farm factory things, eventually everyone realises it’s too expensive

    Cost of car + remote driver infrastructure + remote driver (minimum) wage will be much higher than simpler car + local driver