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Tesla Fans Furious at Video of Tesla Crashing Into Wall Painted Like Road (futurism.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In the piece — titled "Can You Fool a Self Driving Car?" — Rober found that a Tesla car on Autopilot was fooled by a Wile E. Coyote-style wall painted to look like the road ahead of it, with the electric vehicle plowing right through it instead of stopping.

The footage was damning enough, with slow-motion clips showing the car not only crashing through the styrofoam wall but also a mannequin of a child. The Tesla was also fooled by simulated rain and fog.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Your perspective is very generous to Elon. "It's a cheap part, why would they omit it? Probably it was some dumb kid working there".

Usually cost-cutting measures that make significant compromises are top-down pushes, profit is their concern. Might not have been the CEO himself but, in my perspective, it would have been from the top levels.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No I'm not trying to be generous, If it were just a dumb decision it would totally have been his. This is like a recent graduate engineer vendetta kind of decision. I don't think he's actually smart enough to try to make this bad decision.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Back in like 2016, a huge part of the grift was that Tesla was a tech company and their system would get smarter forever as it got more data.

Using an expensive sensor that can just detect objects instead of relying on computer vision and machine learning is kinda like an admission of failure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

that's fair

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Your perspective is very generous to Elon. “It’s a cheap part, why would they omit it? Probably it was some dumb kid working there”.

What's the opposite of occam's razor? The most convoluted, unbelievable answer full of assumptions is the correct one? Because it seems like rumba is operating from there.