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I saw the Tesla Robotaxi:

  • Drive into oncoming traffic, getting honked at in the process.
  • Signal a turn and then go straight at a stop sign with turn signal on.
  • Park in a fire lane to drop off the passenger.

And that was in a single 22 minute ride. Not great performance at all.

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[–] eugenevdebs 15 points 1 week ago

But Musk told me it's ready for primetime, why would he lie?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not great performance at all.

That's better than I was expecting to be perfectly honest.

I'm pretty impressed with the technology, but clearly it's not ready for field use.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Well obviously it's been trained on human taxi driver behaviour

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Watch that stock price fall... wheeeee

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It already jumped up about 10% on monday simply because the service launched. Even if the service crashes and burns, they'll jump to the next hype topic like robots or AI or whatever and the stock price will stay up.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (5 children)

A man who can’t launch a rocket to save his life is also incompetent at making self driving cars? His mediocrity knows no bounds.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One of those American robot cars

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

At least it's not driving straight into a tree, I call that an improvement.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's crazy is that the safety driver's hair has gone completely grey in just two days.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That safety driver did not give a single fuck about driving on the wrong side of the road..

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

He must have seen so much worse to not even be flinching at that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Hooray! I feel so safe. I think I'll move to Texas so I can get obliterated by this taxi from the future.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (6 children)

What real world problem does this solve?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Actually, lots. The issue is that if it doesn't work it's dangerous.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Tesla is is just following the regional driving style. Humans make the same mistakes at 15:06

/s

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

It found out who made it so it knew what to do

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cruise cars were already doing this and performed far better. GM is fucking braindead and pulled the plug like usual though.

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