• Owl [he/him]
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    1810 months ago

    Bizarre. Who are these people who believed in Tesla through the last dozen “full self driving in two years” announcements, and yet finally saw through it for this?

      • Tom742 [any]
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        10 months ago

        Sometimes it seems like the most controversial thing I say to libs is that fully autonomous self driving doesn’t exist.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          710 months ago

          Sometimes it seems like the most controversial thing I say to libs is that fully autonomous self driving doesn’t exist.

          I’ve argued the same with my neighbors and coworkers back in CA for decades and it was always just a year or two away, and that I was the irrational one. morshupls

          • buckykat [none/use name]
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            810 months ago

            Fully autonomous self driving vehicles do exist, the Vancouver skytrain has been running them since the 80’s.

            Fully autonomous self driving vehicles without tracks, grade separation, or platform screen doors running on the public roads mixing with cars, pedestrians, and velocipedestrians don’t exist.

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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              310 months ago

              Remember “all of you will be using AR/VR headsets in mandatory teleconferencing in a few years, better get in on the ground floor” proselytizing? I sure do.

              Remember “you better start buying internet funny money/ugly monkey jpegs because that’s the future of finance” proselytizing? I sure do.

  • halfpipe [they/them]
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    1210 months ago

    Robotaxi? Does Tesla do anything at this point except copy stuff that Chinese companies have been doing for years?

    Well, I’m sure the Tesla version will cost 10x as much and have a triple digit bodycount in the first month.

  • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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    3110 months ago

    They move too many people, 20 people is basically collectivist communist nonsense. Make it like a luxury mobile room for one person and put like a tv in it and they’ll love it

      • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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        1610 months ago

        I honestly imagine there’s a significant part of the finance bro archetype that would probably go woaw just like sonic soypoint-2 and give them money so … possibly?

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          1110 months ago

          no-copyright games started as pretty blatant and obvious pro-environmentalist messaging, considering how later stages showed industrialized hellscapes that eggman-announcement put in place where the enslaved roboticized animals toil away.

          But that’d fly over the head of bazingas as always, because literary analysis is bunk because it isn’t le STEM.

  • IzyaKatzmann [he/him]
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    1410 months ago

    After the event, analysts at Jeffries published a note titled “We, underwhelmed.”

    this had me laughing

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    10 months ago

    The only surprise was a Robovan? What did Elon expect? Rookie mistake. He needed to also introduce the…

    • RoboHeli
    • RoboPlane
    • RoboRidingMower
    • RoboCycle
    • RoboEDM
    • RoboRobo
    • Etc
    • Flyberius [comrade/them]
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      2310 months ago

      It’s just a stock company. They could announce they were going to stop producing anything and I’m pretty sure the stock would continue to be traded

  • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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    3210 months ago

    like… despite Tesla’s repeated failures in this department, actually building cars isn’t the hard part of solving autonomy

    50 “prototype” cars that don’t work and no plan, just “2 more years bro trust me bro”

    • @[email protected]
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      1710 months ago

      That’s the most damning part IMO. People caught on to his infinite 2 years away self driving, so he shifted a bit and now a thing that is dependent on self driving is 2 years away. He lies like a child.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    1110 months ago

    Sounds like it went like a wet fart… which is one of the sound board options on the bazingamobiles as factory standard. fellow-kids