Ya, hardware that is on the road that won’t ever be autonomous without getting upgraded hardware amd software because its insufficient for autonomy, but has been shown to not be a problem on the latest autonomous versions.

As a consumer product, you are responsible and supposed to be paying attention at all times and be ready to take over.

It is completely acceptable that it does not function perfectly in every scenario and something like a fake wall put on the road causes issues, that is why you need to pay attention.

There is nothing to recall about this situation.

If the car is failing on things it shouldn’t be, like both Tesla and Waymo failing to properly stop for school busses while in autonomous mode, that does require an update. Alhough ive seen 0 reports of an autonomous Tesla doing this yet only supervised ones.

A Tesla not stopping for a school bus in supervised mode is acceptable though because the driver is responsible to stop.

Edit: and note, a problem like the school busses is a visual processing understanding problem. Lidar won’t help with that kind or problem.

Edit: and sorry to be clear, it is hardware still on the road, but I’m saying its acceptable that hardware does it because its not autonomous. If the newer hardware running without supervisors was doing it, that’s another story.

Edit: my bad, that’s was about the January reporting period. Ignore my other message if you saw it.

FYI, the fake wall was not reproducible on the latest hardware, that test was done on an older HW3 car, not the cars operating as robotaxi which are HW4.

The new hardware existed at the time, but he chose to use outdated software and hardware for the test.

No shit Sherlock

This is what I was thinking was possible ya. If they have enough money, they could just cover it themselves.

I really don’t know if that can be done everywhere though.

And ya, as an individual self insuring this way, it would be a disaster going against a behemoth like Tesla.

There are multiple unsupervised cars around now, it was only the 1 before earnings call (that went away), then a few days after earnings they came back and weren’t followed by chase cars. There’s a handful of videos over many days out there now if you want to watch any. The latest gaffe video I’ve seen is from last week where it drove into (edit: road closed) construction zone that wasn’t blocked off.

I would still expect a difference between California and people like you and me using it.

My understanding is that in California, they’ve been told not to intervene unless necessary, but when someone like us is behind the steering wheel what we consider necessary is going to be different than what they’ve been told to consider necessary.

So we would likely intervene much sooner than the saftey driver in California, which would mean we were letting the car get into less situations we perceive to be dicey.

What auto insurance company would insure an unproven tech like this at a reasonable rate?

If someones willing to insure it, it must cost an arm and a leg at least at this point in time in the cycle?

Are they even insured like typical insurance?

If Tesla owns it, don’t they just pay out of pocket as needed, they don’t actually have a monthly payment to themselves or anything?

Regular FSD rate has the driver (you) monitoring the car so there will be less accidents IF you properly stay attentive as you’re supposed to be.

The FSD rides with a saftey monitor (passenger seat) had a button to stop the ride.

The driverless and no monitor cars have nothing.

So you get more accidents as you remove that supervision.

Edit: this would be on the same software versions… it will obviously get better to some extent, so comparing old versions to new versions really only tells us its getting better or worse in relation to the past rates, but in all 3 scenarios there should still be different rates of accidents on the same software.

Sigh, now in CSI when they enhance a grainy image they AI will make a fake face and send them searching for someone that doesn’t exist, or it’ll use a face of someone in the training set and they go after the wrong person.

Either way I have a feeling they’ll he some ENHANCE failure episode due to AI.

What’s next, PCB producers?

Something in my computer monitor isn’t shielded and will alert me to a incoming cell phone call a second or two before the phone rings.

I’m pretty sure the only way this is true, is if they qualify their best developers as the developers who use AI the most and by absolutely no metric which would indicate this is actually good code.

Copilot - I see you’re using a random function, would you like to buy this cool shirt whose designer used Math.random() to help make them all unique?

There are newer LFP portable batteries with <10ms UPS switch times that charge quickly and will keep the power on longer. They also have much longer battery life’s (3000+ cycles) , and LFP cells don’t degrade the same when kept at 100% like other types, although you should still cycle them a few times a year.

Bluetti makes some, the elite series has their latest UPS features. The non elite are slower and noisier.

Its all fairly new and have been improving year over year. For example, earlier models may not have switched back on if power was out for a long time and it fully drained the battery. Now some models can turn back on.

Edit: more details.

Ya, macs are definitely more efficient with their ram.

I’ll have Android Studio open for my main work, Intellij Idea for all the backend work, and Xcode when I need to tweak some iPhone things. (edit: usually it’s just 2 of the 3, but sometimes its all 3)

I also mainly use real devices for testing,and opening emulators if all 3 are open can be a problem, and it’s so annoying opening and closing things.

I wish I had a 32gb ram laptop.

I can have 3 development IDEs open at once, and with all the browser tabs open and a few other programs here and there its stretching the limits on my Mac.

I never upgraded downgraded to Win11 so I haven’t seen a lot of this BS.

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