It’s Dr Jekyl’s truck.

Looks? Cheap. Price? Expensive. Build quality? Cheap. Depreciation rate? Expensive.

They really ought to have picked one, anybody can run this scam once, but consumer sentiment builds fast and rebuilds slow.

"that hits different. " - Elon Musk stumbling out of the Tesla adhesives research lab.

Mighty bold of you to assume Optimus can do anything of economic value XD

Look at the article, it shows the install process. They glue that shit on by hand. Direct plastic-to-glass bonding, quality stuff there.

They didn’t do fasteners because stainless steel is tough/expensive to machine… machinists are expensive and gluers are minimum wage.

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Should have known their tank from the future would react poorly to being assembled using Bazooka Joe bubblegum. Tanks hate bazookas!

T-90 commander: “comrade, what’s that buzzsaw nois-”

Yeah, it’s tough. Unfortunately, Teslas have struck and killed many motorcyclists in self-driving mode.

One was in the HOV lane (think bus lane but California style). HOV lanes are for busses, high occupancy vehicles, and motorcycles in California.

So, had the Tesla been following the rules, they wouldn’t have killed that guy. That biker probably felt safer being in the HOV lane, because it’s lower traffic and slower traffic.

The sloppy development causes unnecessary deaths. Like, why did they remove the radar module? A radar module makes emergency braking trivially easy. Spending any time programming it to follow the rules of the road and avoid bus lanes, that ALSO would have prevented that guys death.

It’s tough. Autonomy will cause car crashes, but so long as it causes fewer car crashes, it’s a good thing. But the bone-headed errors that seem to have no correction, that makes me angry. The wild-and-crazy hubris seems to be just a Tesla problem, too, Uber killed a single person in a bone-headed way and they quit the endeavor altogether.

And to think… the dog already loved car rides, just imagine when they think Honda Civics are some sort of carniceria on wheels

That’s my exact reaction to Waymos (also San Francisco). Both surreal and probably the direction of all automotive transit.

Seriously! Amazing.

For me, my commute is easy, but I like road-tripping. I’ve got a flight ceiling of about 6 hours where it stops being fun. I’ve got a destination about 12 hours out that I love (Hot Springs AR, it rocks). I’d go to Hot Springs way more often if I didn’t need to drive it, or even if I could flip a switch and take a break safely.

So, they do have details in the source docs: they specifically reference both ADS and ADAS.

ADAS is currently a Tesla FSD-type experience. You need an attentive human in the driver’s seat (for now). It’s a driver’s aid.

ADS is the wild west. That’s what Waymo currently provides in their autonomous fleet. No occupants, no problem.

I am stoked to see how it does what Toyota trucks do best, which is hauling trailers and going either down rough roads or going entirely off-road. I wasn’t mentally ready for this news today, so I have no idea what this means for the fully off-road experience.

I’m surprised they didn’t set the threshold at 82.49%, get that Cybertruck in there for the government’s own duty-free store.

Like, that Honda is built in Alabama, the automakers here are probably going to think that the USA is a basket-case market that should be avoided, rather than a market to invest more in. The Honda is built in Alabama BECAUSE our previous automotive manufacturing policy was effective. Doing a rug-pull on the companies that play ball is dumb as all get out.

God, I’m getting mad about it. Excuse me. I’m a hot-head on trade policy I guess.

Goddamnit, that’s the worst laugh I’ve had today. By all qualitative and moralistic measuring, the worst

I’m watching that retrofit conversation closely. Gooniebirds are currently stating that HW3 will be upgraded to HW5 directly (which does not exist beyond typically fantasist claims by the CEO that it will be an order of magnitude higher powered than HW4), so I’m not totally sure yet.

In the world we live in, in today-land where people are currently using FSD to drive their vehicles (in bus lanes and beyond!), the HW3 FSD vehicles were sold with false advertising. They cannot fully self drive, not safely, anyhow.

So yeah, we’ll see. Also, heya!

big if true

I thought it was a little sus when I saw this in the C-Span footage of JD Vance visiting the pope

I hear this feedback a lot! Hardware comments and software update comments. Like that the most recent combination of both is some sort of panacea for whatever glaring safety deficiency it is that I’m commenting on at the time. I don’t blame you at all for making that argument, I appreciate a devil’s advocate and I’m trying to be a generally more open-minded person.

Here’s the rub, though. HW4 was introduced, what, 2 years ago? HW3 was on sale as of 24 months ago, and they were selling FSD as a paid add-on with HW3. If it cannot do the job safely and reliably in every configuration it was sold in, it really doesn’t matter what the top-of-the-line capability is.

Imagine if Ford had seatbelts that killed people on the Ford Fiesta or airbags that didn’t deploy. It wouldn’t be a reasonable counterargument for Ford to say “well, that’s not a problem, because they work fine on the Mustang GT, though.”

It’s a safety issue with no obvious solve other than deactivating FSD on the systems where it doesn’t work safely (which is the majority of Teslas that exist). Can’t retrofit, because apparently the Tesla designers are about as good at designing cars as I am, and the form factor of HW4 doesn’t fit in the HW3 slot.

Welcome to Texas, where speeding and open-carry are fine but cussing is strictly prohibited :D

I hear he fucked the Pontiff’s couch after poisoning him.

IDK, they fired all the fact checkers and the blue checks don’t mean anything anymore, so I guess it might be true?