Walter Isaacson's new biography on Elon Musk also reveals that the CEO left his engineers who wanted to use LiDAR exasperated.
@ApexHunter@lemmy.ml
link
fedilink
English
-51Y

Stupid article. Lidar can’t see lines painted on the road. Using lidar wouldn’t have any impact on the described problem.

@markr@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
11Y

The successful autonomous vehicle deployments all use LiDAR and hd maps and cameras. Tesla is way behind at this point.

Synapse
link
fedilink
English
71Y

LiDARs can absolutely detect painted lines and other painted symboles on the road. LiDAR is an active sensor technology that emits a LASER light beam and measurs the reflected echo, using the time delay between emittion and reception (time of flight) to measure distance. The painted lines will reflect the LASER with more intensity than the asphalt and the LiDAR sensor has the ability to measure that as well.

@db2@sopuli.xyz
link
fedilink
English
81Y

I’m furious it didn’t succeed.

@peterpayne@lemmy.ml
link
fedilink
English
61Y

Oh noes…

Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk’s PR work for free.

Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.

Do you just go into every single article and spam this comment?

@hyperhopper@lemmy.ml
link
fedilink
English
281Y

He’s right though. We can’t go a day without some inane bullshit about musk getting posted. This event happened 8 years ago, it’s not even news. It should have “2015” in the title. This is a bad post, and I’m disappointed we always have to have these kinds of posts around.

@malloc@lemmy.world
creator
link
fedilink
English
651Y

Counter point: If I didn’t hear how badly he runs his businesses, or how bad his company’s products are. I would have easily bought one or more of his products.

I have backed out of Tesla pre-orders because of the bad publicity, many reports of bad build quality, and terrible business decisions.

If this was a puff piece, I honestly wouldn’t have bothered posting it.

Most people on the entire planet are aware of how shitty he is at this point. Everyone that would not purchase a product related to him is already not buying said product. There’s no more people to convince. Don’t act like a white knight while degrading the content in this community.

I swear this specific community is turning more people off to lemmy than any other. These type of posts are why.

@Jomega@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
12
edit-2
1Y

Last time I mentioned Musk in a casual conversation, this one guy kept going on and on about how he thinks he’s a genius and how Twitter will be so much better now and how he’ll bring us all into space and how people only don’t like him because he’s conservative. He would have kept talking forever if we didn’t change the subject.

My point is that lots of people don’t know how shitty he is. Some people live in an echo chamber where they don’t ever hear about that stuff because certain people want to sell a narrative where the rich man is competent and the poor people are just jealous. Others just aren’t very attentive.

Not everyone is you. It’s good that you know he’s shit, but you shouldn’t assume that everyone knows everything you do. It’s important that we dispel the myth that the rich and powerful got that way by being smarter than us. If it takes a hundred articles to do that, then it will all be worth it.

Most people on the entire planet are aware of how shitty he is at this point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consensus_effect

And

https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/h45mt3xoby/econTabReport.pdf

Section 49, where 64% of people either liked him or didn’t know enough about him to have an opinion.

My we are pompous today

Unfortunately, because of him being a billionaire his PR is self sustaining and posts about him aren’t going anywhere.

@Dasnap@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
1351Y

It was set to protect human lives, so it made the only logical play.

@malloc@lemmy.world
creator
link
fedilink
English
541Y

Just need to sneak in this code

if (facialMatch(elon)) { haltAndCatchFire(); }

LiDAR is essentially radar that uses light instead of sound

Radar doesn’t use sound. It sounds like the author doesn’t know the difference between sonar and radar.

Yeah, it uses radio frequencies. RaDAR stands for “Radio Detection And Ranging”. It uses radio waves (usually in the microwave bandwidth) to detect things. Basically, since those radio waves are affected by the Doppler effect, you can have a computer do some math to determine the speed of whatever those waves reflected off of. Because the Doppler effect changes a wave based on how fast an object is moving relative to an observer. So if you’re a stationary observer, you can figure out how fast an object is moving relative to yourself, purely based on how much that moving object changes the waves you’re reflecting off of it.

@30mag@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
241Y

It also looks like the author doesn’t know the difference between sonar and radar.

@scarabic@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
71Y

He always springs into action once something affects him personally.

@paddirn@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
71Y

Homicidal Autopilot, the hero that tried to save us.

@markr@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
101Y

As 2023 FSD frequently attempts potentially lethal actions, 2015 FSD must have been spectacularly awful. The headline neglects the fact this was 8 years ago.

@mycroft@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
11Y

He noticed in 2015… How much you wanna bet he trusted it more back then and it almost killed him a bunch.

@dynamojoe@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
71Y

Even the robots hate you, Elon.

kingthrillgore
link
fedilink
English
631Y

We’re disappointed it didn’t finish the job.

@jcit878@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
281Y

if I was as rich as Elon, whether it’s my own companies tech or not, I’m having a paid human driver on hand at all times anyway

Marxism-Fennekinism
link
fedilink
English
171Y

Genuinely surprised he’s actually in his own shitty cars and not a Rolls Royce or something.

Dr. Dabbles
link
fedilink
English
21Y

Now imagine paying for that crap…

@Valmond@lemmy.ml
link
fedilink
English
31Y

Tesla computers are getting self conscious?

Poplar?
link
fedilink
English
11Y

[removed]

Create a post

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


  • 1 user online
  • 191 users / day
  • 586 users / week
  • 1.37K users / month
  • 4.49K users / 6 months
  • 1 subscriber
  • 7.41K Posts
  • 84.7K Comments
  • Modlog