Bruh the streets of San Francisco are packed with waymos carrying passengers today
this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2024
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daily reminder that if you were only 10% as bad at your job as billionaires you'd be fucking fired in an instant.
You can carve that promise in granite "The Cyber Cab will be available in two years."
Cybercabs are two-seater vehicles
Just two seats why? Has this so-called genius ever taken a cab with friends ever?
Friends? What does that mean?
Dude famously hates being around other people, that’s why he hates transit so much. I’m sure in his mind it makes perfect sense.
That's hilarious. He gets rid of the driver, so now instead of an extra seat there's 3 less seats compared to a conventional cab.
This guy is so out of touch that he doesn't even know people that could tell him that.
Which is impressive since itd be the first place my mind would go to for space utilization, mind you I dont think this stupid cab will ever be a working thing outside of prototypes but still.
Don’t worry I’m sure he’ll get loads of investments for it and get a city to shut down their public transport in some way before he cancels the project.
Well FSD is just right around the corner after all!
But in all seriousness, if his shitty candidate and party he endorses wins, they honestly probably will be on the roads in a few years time.
Anyone else expecting a $100,000 "RoboBeast" in eight years and no mention of the $30,000 version ever again?
Like all techbros, Elon wants to paint himself as some kind of visionary genius. Instead they're all just anti-regulatory right-wingers who just poorly regurgitate better people's ideas. Elon's already run this playbook before so we know he's gonna do it again.
This is what I don't get, I can also just say 'visionary' things by just opening any sci-fi book and pointing at a random page and claiming that I want to make that.
The hard part isn't envisioning cool sci-fi concepts like self driving cars, colonized planets, ai servants, and life like VR. The hard part is actually doing them.
Actually paying attention to the sci-fi you're consuming would give you an advantage over Musk. He says he loves the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a series which spends a lot of time mocking corporate executives and corporate marketing. It's also a series where every AI is either an asshole, malfunctioning or both.
He also thinks the main character in Blade Runner is named Bladerunner despite the fact that Deckard's name is said like 10 times in the movie.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-main-character-blade-runner
And there are robotaxis in some places already, like airports (Germany?).
Bet he's just spewing this shit to cover up for something else, like they all do.
Yes let us create the Daemonculaba!
The robot taxi and the bus thing both depend on FSD working well, so maybe they'll be ready in like 20 or 30 years.
They'll do what every AI company does and have guys in India do the actual driving 'until the technology is ready', like how the Amazon grab and go stores were implemented.
That's how the robots at this same event were being run.
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-beer-pouring-optimus-robots-are-not-autonomous-2000510899
Way too much latency for that but I wouldn't be surprised if they try to do it
Although skeptical, and especially disliking Elon musk, this is merely speculative. It could take five years, or it could take 25 years. We just don’t know yet. However, unlike fusion, we’ve never achieved FSD yet. But, like fusion, I’m sure we will.
Just not yet, and, I hope, not a product of an Elon Musk company.
Well according to Elon FSD is going to be ready "next year" for the last 8 years or so. I wish he would swallow his pride, admit he was wrong, and start using lidar and other types of sensors.
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