Don’t rule out Tesla’s Robotaxi. I’m 10 rides in (Bay Area— around SF proper), and it’s clean, cheap, and efficient. As good or better than Waymo.
IMO:
- Tesla is pushing Waymo on pricing and service areas
- Tesla will drop the safety monitor in the next 6 months**
**I say this as a FSD subscriber on my own car and seeing the arch of progress, albeit with a software branch that’s supposedly 3-6 months behind Robotaxi’s
Is Tesla robotaxi actually even close to Waymo? I thought they still needed someone in the car with the robotaxi and Waymo had been operating fully autonomous for quite a while already. My understanding is that this is one of the reasons people really like Waymo, it’s like a private ride.
Tesla lost the race and won’t even be in the space in any meaningful way in a few years. They’re only limping along because they have some guy pumping the stock.
Speaking of which, if SpaceX announced today that they are going to put people on Mars in 5 years, I still would find that more believable than Tesla getting anywhere close to Waymo, in the same time frame.
Being next to the steering wheel is worse. If the human needs to be in the car, then he should be behind the wheel. Putting him next to the wheel is categorically stupid and only serves as theater for fools.
As I commute on a motorcycle (often in the rain, causing lower visibility) this is terrifying to me and I hope regulators in my state don't let it happen here until Tesla can prove their "camera only" approach is safe.
I'm always flabbergasted by Tesla fans' commitment to vastly inferior product and their insistence that the big breakthrough is "just around the corner bro, believe me". I'm pretty sure you all just have Stockholm Syndrome after paying for FSD in like 2019 and ingesting copium for over 5 years. I hope you reach a place in your life where you have the confidence to ask for a higher standard.
Sandbox rules simply don’t apply when real money is at stake— the contracts that sit behind these relationships are all that matters + a companies ability to stop doing business with one another.
Delta probably isn’t even entitied to a pro-rated refund of their prepaid CrowdStrike subscription. If Delta has a multi-year deal contract with CrowdStrike, Delta most likely have to keep paying CS for some time In the future.
CrowdStrike breached but almost certainly cured within allowable period.
Maybe they sue for gross negligence which I think may circumvent contractual liability limits in certain situations.
I found that reading easily and quickly left me more hours in the day to work at skills that are not easily conveyed via literacy.
I could easily be biased though: much of my adult life has involved reading large quantities of material and writing much shorter quantities afterwards; if my life were not text-centric I might've viewed the early start and subsequent advantage as a waste?
Coincidentally, the age when my mother taught me to read, via manual repetition (first flashcards, then books, then my own library card)
(being in the habit of reading for years before you get there also makes elementary school far more bearable, as you have time free to think your own thoughts while the rest of the class is still finishing the assigned reading)
Countless details show a lack of polish, finish, or thoughtfulness. As an example the looped video, arguably the main feature, is clipped in portrait mode and is rendered (literally and figuratively) underwealming. It’s viewable in landscape.
Perhaps it’s just an intense focus on the end product instead of external marketing. I can’t help but wonder if there’s an eye for excellence in this org.
No question, humanoid robots are coming. If this startup can’t stand up a decent website after an Amazon investment and an Amazon PR push, did they rake the time to through safety concerns (local shut off, etc)?
This isn’t a very very bad. This stuff is highly controlled for a reason.
Engines have a variety of LLPs (Life Limited Parts), and airlines are required to count cycles, hours, etc and replace with OEM certified replacements— all part of the reasons jets don’t fall out of the sky
IMO: - Tesla is pushing Waymo on pricing and service areas - Tesla will drop the safety monitor in the next 6 months**
**I say this as a FSD subscriber on my own car and seeing the arch of progress, albeit with a software branch that’s supposedly 3-6 months behind Robotaxi’s