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Elon Musk's robotaxi will have a human driver for 'safety' reasons

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  • stamets@lemmy.worldS [email protected]

    So it's a taxi.

    Motherfucker loves trying to reinvent the wheel only to end up at the goddamn wheel.

    "I'ma invent a giant system that goes underground so we can move people around faster!" That's a subway, you santorum-covered condom.

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    But it’s Nazi inventions. Or something I dunno. He’s an idiot and has always been. Just took everyone this long to realize it.

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    • tonytins@pawb.socialT [email protected]
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      Yet another fantastic win for the world's greatest business genius^TM^.

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      • stamets@lemmy.worldS [email protected]

        So it's a taxi.

        Motherfucker loves trying to reinvent the wheel only to end up at the goddamn wheel.

        "I'ma invent a giant system that goes underground so we can move people around faster!" That's a subway, you santorum-covered condom.

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        props for the accurate use of "santorum."

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        • stamets@lemmy.worldS [email protected]

          So it's a taxi.

          Motherfucker loves trying to reinvent the wheel only to end up at the goddamn wheel.

          "I'ma invent a giant system that goes underground so we can move people around faster!" That's a subway, you santorum-covered condom.

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          “Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”

          -Elon Musk

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            We are truly living in the future. 🤯

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            • spankmonkey@lemmy.worldS [email protected]

              Motherfucker loves trying to reinvent the wheel only to end up at the goddamn wheel.

              A shittier version of the wheel.

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              A wheel that may very well kill you, depending on a number of factors that they are well aware of, but unwilling to admit to, in order to fix them.

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                The "human driver" in question:
                Doug, the main character from the movie "Total Recall", ripping the Johnny humanoid robot out of its socket.

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                  Tech bros doing tech bro shit. Lord knows we didnt have taxis before.

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                    I thought it was a 2 seater with no controls. Lemme guess... It's a fleet of Model 3s.

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                    The purpose built one coming in 2026 is a 2 seater. This launch is using the new Model Y's

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                    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zipT [email protected]

                      Par for the course for techbros. His hyperloop was a shittier train. UberPool is a shittier bus. All these dumbfucks grow up being told they're the specialest boys, so of course people who made better things before them were clearly wrong.

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                      Hyperloop was a raging success - it stopped funding of railway. I believe he even admitted that this was behind it to begin with.

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                      • W [email protected]

                        Isn't the Cybertruck steering wheel called a squircle?

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                        Hahahaha

                        Edit: oh fuck I thought you were just making a joke. Jesus fucking Christ.

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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.

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                          • L [email protected]

                            I cringed. I don't know if you made that up or not, and the fact that I genuinely can't tell made me sad for this stupid timeline.

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                            Apparently it fucking is. God I hate everything.

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                              Hyperloop was a raging success - it stopped funding of railway. I believe he even admitted that this was behind it to begin with.

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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)

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                                The purpose built one coming in 2026 is a 2 seater. This launch is using the new Model Y's

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                                Oh so it'll be a fleet of Model Y's.

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                                  Oh so it'll be a fleet of Model Y's.

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                                  To start ya. It'll eventually be all their models, we'll... probably not the CT.

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                                    The driver fits in the trunk.

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                                    Why do you think that Teslas have a “frunk”? It’s for holding the driver, of course.

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                                      Tesla's brand of self driving is unsafe, you say?

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                                      • cruxifux@feddit.nlC [email protected]

                                        Hahahaha

                                        Edit: oh fuck I thought you were just making a joke. Jesus fucking Christ.

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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.

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                                        • stamets@lemmy.worldS [email protected]

                                          An oval.

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                                          AKA...the "New and Improved Wheel". It's all about the marketing.

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