Comment on Musk is lightyears away from a self-driving car

tuhriel@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because he’s a long way away. Longer than miles away…maybe…light years?

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• Kichae@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Musk <-------------------------------- LYs -----------------------------------> Self-Driving car

  Any questions?

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  • k_rol@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Your point doesn’t help me because it shows that we can fold space-time to create a shortcut with warp technology.

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• Corgana@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This might be the most lemmy comment I’ve ever seen

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• altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because the self driving tech exists, but it’s in the next galaxy

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  • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s actually on earth, in metro trains

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  • stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Could be in the galaxy, but it would be safe to assume out of the solar system.

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• sexy_peach@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  www.merriam-webster.com/…/light-years ahead

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  • tesseract@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s extremely nuanced. ‘Light years ahead’ is correct since you are thinking about a race where one competitor is a long distance ahead of others. On the other hand, ‘light years away’ doesn’t make sense, since we think of achievements in terms of time needed, rather than distance.

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    • ji17br@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’ve never heard the term miles ahead?

      Tommy is miles ahead of Timmy in math class.

      Clearly not referring to distance but it absolutely makes sense.

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• HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  han did the kessel run in 12 parsecs

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  • towerful@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think the headcanon is that the shortest distance is impressive.
    Either a different faster and harder route through “the kessel”. Or that 12 parsecs is the absolute minimum distance it can be done in, perfectly apexing every corner.

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    • Vodulas@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not even headcanon, that is canon. They used the fan theory on Solo to explain it. That whole movie was so unnecessary…

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    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      yeah honestly I know the answer even though I did the joke. the star wars mythical travel requires hyperspace navigation where objects still exist in it and the nav computer is basically plotting the smallest safe distance (or something like that). Basically all speed in hyperspace is the same its just about the route. Its basically explained in the original movie when han says (spoilers ahead /s):

      "Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy! Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?"

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    • t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or it’s a roundabout way of saying he cheated: “He finished the marathon in 22 miles!” :D

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Parsecs away.

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• Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe he needs 5.879 × 10^12 miles more data

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• Zaktor@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are probably self-driving cars in some alien civilizations.

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• HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They aren’t streets ahead.

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• IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That just means it has to be created in space.

  I just made the Kessel Run in twelve parsecs.

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