Any Tesla driver here?

She knew she would be giving him a full-body massage, and was being paid to do it.

His behavior was tasteless and pathetic, but legal and fairly predictable.

She got a quarter megabuck for an hour's work. Probably now more for selling her story.

Cool feature:

Yeah, I guess Musk knew it was coming so knew he needed to get in front of it by switching to a group he knew he could get support from.

I like this reply,

"Pictures like this wouldn’t be available if elon owned @Twitter"

LOL

There's your problem right there.

TurdSipper Dumb snipped-for-privacy@notformail.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

TurdSipper Dumb is becoming far too stupid. Not that he wasn't dirt dumb his entire, pathetic life. Must have been all those fake princely encounters he spent his life bragging about as if it provided some further up notch in existence.

I had a V70 Volvo that kept locking me out of it for no apparent reason. Computer scan by the main dealer showed no fault present or logged. I could see it would one day let me down late at night in a thunderstorm so got rid of it. Best decision I ever made was to never have another modern car ever again. I only drive vintage stuff now.

What will you do when there's only 1 of 10 gas stations left because nearly everyone is driving BEVs? Well, that's not until 2040, so maybe none of us will be around and s.e.d. is long gone too.

TurdSipper Dumb snipped-for-privacy@notformail.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

I'll bet the Volvo was never able to unsee your visage and probably drove itself off a cliff.

Instead of Miss Daisy, you drive Rosy Palm and her five sisters. Vintage stuff indeed. Bloody hilarious.

Yeah. I may have saved the life of a co-worker who wanted a Tesla for the self-driving bit, and was totally overestimating the capability of Teslas to handle unexpected situations, ones for which it was never programmed or trained, when I provided a few accident reports plus my analysis of what had fooled the Tesla, destroying his trust in the autopilot.

The basic problem is that the current technology of understanding a visual scene is quite immature, being far less capable that of almost any vertebrate animal.

The Neuroscience folk have figured out a good bit of it, but their algorithms require implementation of hyperdimensional associative memory of specific kinds, which we can only simulate clumsily on modern computers (no matter how many cores et al), and cannot implement in any form suitable for following a scene fast enough to guide an automobile at 190 mph (regularly achieved on the German autobahn).

Joe Gwinn

It would seem that your friend, like yourself seems to think the autopilot is autonomous, it's not. It's not intended to be autonomous. Tesla warns you in every way possible to pay attention as if you were driving while using the autopilot. I don't think they could do much more to alert people to the fact that autopilot is simply a driving aid, not a substitute for a mentally capable driver.

The autopilot is very nice. I often find myself trying to double tap the cruise control which my Kia doesn't have. :(

probably a mistake to call it autopilot..

Pretty much the same thing really. You don't put on autopilot in a plane and go walking around the cabin. It simply flies the plane. It doesn't avoid or handle all situations. It just flies the plane better than a human can in normal conditions. That much is true of the Tesla autopilot.

The problem is people don't understand what autopilot does in an airplane. So in that sense, yeah, maybe a bad choice of names.

That would have been the anti-social twit detector.

No point in telling a customer that he isn't the kind of driver they want in control of their cars.

More likely drive you off a high cliff at speed. You managed to get rid of it before it succeeded in getting rid of you. Pity.

No anti-lock braking system? There's hope for us yet.

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Dick's like John Doe and Cursitor Doom do try to present a united front - rather like right and left buttocks, though far right and lunatic right bums might be closer to the mark. Flyguy would sit between them.