Tesla’s Robotaxi Can’t Drive in the Rain, and Dumps Passengers If the Weather Looks Risky.
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Google (Waymo) already has an entire fleet of autonomous vehicles available for hire in Austin and many other cities. Amazon (Zoox) has been testing on the roads in Austin for over a year now. Both have thus far seemed to be doing really well from a safety perspective. But then again, like VW, they're using lidar and can see through rain, fog, and night.
From a business perspective, Google and Amazon have diverse revenue streams and the deepest pockets imaginable, and will crush Tesla, whose only other sources of revenue are actively drying up.
Forgive my ignorance, but why is Tesla using cameras and not LIDAR?
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For the thrill of a highly possible, but statistically improbable, violent death?
Thrill seekers gonna seek thrills.
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This article is TERRORISM because it Probably HURTS ELONS FEELINGS!
"don't call me a snowflake, YOU'RE the snowflake!"
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Far as I can tell, he's losing money, just not fast enough to choke him to death.
Manual override: on.
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Well it had a chance of finishing its education, before it got Musked while getting off the school bus
Right before it wile E. coyote'd itself.
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even if they did, i'd still walk in the rain before riding in one of those fucking things
I have as much of a chance in the trunk of a mob owned Chevy celebrity as I do in a Tesla. At least I can try to talk the mob down.
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Forgive my ignorance, but why is Tesla using cameras and not LIDAR?
Because Elon has far more influence than intelligence.
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For anyone wondering waymos (Google driverless cars) handle rain just fine as far as I've seen, and they have service in Austin. Idk why you would ever choose to take a tesla taxi.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]for a robotaxi that has a driver for "safety"! Congratulations, Elon. You invented a taxi!
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All of this is so plainly obvious, along with how shitty Tesla is as a company. But TSLA somehow keeps its overinflated value.
I don't understand it.
It's a meme stock. Game stop on ketamine.
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Imagine a taxi that can't operate in the rain. That is what Tesla has delivered in Austin TX.
These riders learned that the hard way, but don't have anything particularly negative to say about it... That's the advantage of only making a Robotaxi service available to hand-picked Tesla influencers.
Distracting af. Anyone have a copy of the video without such noisy ball gargling throughout?
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Forgive my ignorance, but why is Tesla using cameras and not LIDAR?
It’s cheaper.
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Forgive my ignorance, but why is Tesla using cameras and not LIDAR?
They used to use LIDAR but Musk decided the hardware cost too much
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It’s cheaper.
So is not using a Tesla
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But I thought cameras > LiDar?🥴
I mean to do a little devils advocate here he did say in terms of cost... not in terms of quality.
and quality is as we all know not important for self driving vehicles...
/s
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So is not using a Tesla
What’s it cost to hire an assassin? Teslas might be cheaper.
Less reliable, though.
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Because it's all government subsidies/contracts.
We pay him. Involuntarily. That’s how “capitalism” is supposed to work. Right?
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I have as much of a chance in the trunk of a mob owned Chevy celebrity as I do in a Tesla. At least I can try to talk the mob down.
Spoiler alert
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Accretes?
....you know, I never thought of it that way before but yeah, the way our economic system is designed, money is like gravity. Once it passes a certain threshold, it just...accretes.
And much like gravity it would take a rare and exceptionally violent event to break that hold and scatter it again in a way it won't just pull back together.
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Spoiler alert
looks around desperately for boxy 80s cars "phew!" I exclaim, whilst not noticing the Tesla wiggling it's ass in the bushes while stalking me.
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Imagine a taxi that can't operate in the rain. That is what Tesla has delivered in Austin TX.
These riders learned that the hard way, but don't have anything particularly negative to say about it... That's the advantage of only making a Robotaxi service available to hand-picked Tesla influencers.
Why am I just now noticing Tesla’s logo looks exactly like an IUD?
