Elon Musk's robotaxi will have a human driver for 'safety' reasons
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Hahahaha
Edit: oh fuck I thought you were just making a joke. Jesus fucking Christ.
Terrible name for a terrible design. Yoke style steering wheels are not safe for cars because they create awkward handholds as they rotate.
Yoke style works in planes and race cars where they aren't rotated 360+ degrees regularly, rarely over 90 degrees either direction.
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An oval.
AKA...the "New and Improved Wheel". It's all about the marketing.
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I'm planning to launch a human-only taxi service, but to cut costs the humans will be AI.
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So the headline is pretty inaccurate.
There will be a person in the passenger seat. They aren't a safety driver, or driver at all. They've been operating with an actual safety driver for around a year now for employees only.
We don't really know what they'll do, but I highly doubt it's jump for the wheel if it's about to do something. I think it's going to be more of a, the car decides it can't do anything and is just sitting there incorrectly and they won't have to dispatch someone to fix it like Waymo does. This could be a legitimate saftey issue if the car is just stuck on the road.
Once they're happy it's not getting in situations like that they'll remove the person and dispatch people as needed.
But we won't know for a few more days when we get reports of what they're doing while the first people test it.
It's a safety driver. Their systems are L2 autonomy.
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The "human driver" in question:
Hey man, I got 5 kids to feed
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Can't wait for Nat geo to make a series about maga-inventions. Must be some wild never-published concepts in there.
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Imagine that job though. It is your job to be a scapegoat for traffic collisions.
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Imagine that job though. It is your job to be a scapegoat for traffic collisions.
I can imagine very few people will be lining up for that job.
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Remember his robots - ROFL
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I thought it was a 2 seater with no controls. Lemme guess... It's a fleet of Model 3s.
Cybertrucks pulling wooden carts.
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So the headline is pretty inaccurate.
There will be a person in the passenger seat. They aren't a safety driver, or driver at all. They've been operating with an actual safety driver for around a year now for employees only.
We don't really know what they'll do, but I highly doubt it's jump for the wheel if it's about to do something. I think it's going to be more of a, the car decides it can't do anything and is just sitting there incorrectly and they won't have to dispatch someone to fix it like Waymo does. This could be a legitimate saftey issue if the car is just stuck on the road.
Once they're happy it's not getting in situations like that they'll remove the person and dispatch people as needed.
But we won't know for a few more days when we get reports of what they're doing while the first people test it.
The article says, "This is basically a human supervising driver whose entire job is to watch the car and make sure it does not drive itself into a ditch."
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The driver fits in the trunk.
Ah, so the Model S.
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For ‘driving’ reasons.
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Cybertrucks pulling wooden carts.
Gotta do something with all that extra and unsellable inventory.
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Waymo doesn't need it, but he does? lol
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I must say, it's been a little nicer not having this dipshit in the headlines every single fucking day. I guess he's going to start saying things again and fuck with my peace of mind.
I think Musk should 100% trust his fucking piece of shit robotaxi tech and use it exclusively. Good chance it drives him off a bridge.
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Luckily only in Murica.
The liberal parties here tried to make the same argument here, but luckily no one takes them seriously (in Europe this means something different, than in the US. It's not progressive/left-leaning, they are more like Libertarians/Republicans. They don't hate gay people, but hate paying taxes and regulations)
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Wait, who actually likes paying taxes?
//edit: Forgot I'm on Lemmy. I'll show myself out, comrades.
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Is the human able to get out and pee? Does it have le...like, a body? With legs? Or more like RoboCop? "Accidentally" dead person comes back to life in taxi form.
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Terrible name for a terrible design. Yoke style steering wheels are not safe for cars because they create awkward handholds as they rotate.
Yoke style works in planes and race cars where they aren't rotated 360+ degrees regularly, rarely over 90 degrees either direction.
If it made sense, Saab would have done it.
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yeah, totally not to keep the robotaxis from being molotoved. although after what musk did, not sure the presence of drivers will stop people.
