Hits Blunt Bro what if we put the cars on a special road that only took them where we wanted them to go, and strung a bunch of cars together to increase their capacity? Wouldn’t that fix the problem?
bro we could run the electricity above the special road, and then they wouldn’t have to stop to charge. You’re on to something!
You wouldn’t even need a whole road, just the two strips where the wheels would run. You could call them road strips or road lines or maybe road rails.
Goddam that is pure genius, I wonder why nobody ever thought of that earlier? 😋
Bro! We don’t need to restrict ourselves to one sedan size! We could make larger rectangular-ish sedans. More capacity!
And then make it look awesome and futuristic?
It always comes back to crabs
Nope, it doesn’t work in hyper loop either.
(Yes, I know where you going, but I find the above hilarious, as it is essentially taking the worst part of cars (inefficiency) and worst part of trains (fixed route) and mashing them together into useless product. Also hyper loop supposed to be alternative to bullet trains, not a tunnel)
All my data scientists coworkers who look at the map data that is supplied to these self-driving companies also say the same thing. Our Stanford PhD Data Scientist drives a 20 year old Toyota 😆
Well, good thing cities keep approving Tesla’s self-driving taxis then. What could possibly go wrong?
I don’t understand this. I have to pass a written exam and a driving test to be allowed to drive, and I am licensed by my state.
But a company can just say, “Trust me, bro,” and any municipal government can just respond, “Yeah, go ahead and put your cars on our roads”?
Show up to the DMV with several million dollars and I guarantee you can find someone who let’s you skip the test. Same deal.
This just in: conman Elon cons again. More at ten
Elon is a conman, but this is pretty standard strategy for the current era.
Promise unsolvable. Spend VC building tomorrow’s picks and shovels. Become right wrong nutter. Sell off stock holdings before the plebs revolt.
Well, what other option was there? Not let Musk make baseless, impossible lies to defraud customers, or have him face consequences for them!? Be serious…
could it count this as a stop sign, or is it too far gone?
How come Rivian can do it without all this drama? Costs less too.
I also love their charger network as a non-rivian owner. Seamless, sleek, fast, no faffing with an app…
But also their app has a route planner for EVs to account for charging stops?! And it lists all chargers, not just their own. I’m actually pleasantly surprised.
EDIT: well I just found out how they managed to roll their own route planner without me hearing anything about it and only seeing people talking about ABRP still: Rivian just bought ABRP, so their app is just calling ABRP in the background with only their specific car’s info. I opened ABRP today for it to tell me that I have to agree to Rivian’s TOS to continue using the app.
It was always flawed but at least predictable, until Karpathy left.
Now it’s shit.
It’s surprising how they were kinda the first to promise this sort of thing, but they’re SO FAR BEHIND the other companies who got into it. Sure, the other companies don’t claim that they’ll be anything beyond really advanced cruise control, but even then, a lot of them are really close to breaking out of that.
waymo and another driverless car company had the advantage in norcal, tesla took to long to jump on the bandwagon.
While it would be awesome if the probability of it driving into a lake were 0%, the important criterion is whether or not that probability is smaller than that of my wife doing it.
It’s not. That’s the fucking problem. They’d had years to perfect this tech, and you’ve had years to mentally torture your wife, yet the odds remain the same.
Wrong and dumb
