so much money pumped into a pipe dream, when tech just isn’t there yet. It doesn’t matter how many AI models and image recognition systems you use, sometimes you just can’t plan for every case. Driving is an incredibly complex task, that to us humans makes sense and we can easily adjust to. Snow covering the lanes? Slow down, take it extremely cautiously, and find out where the road is.
But we know what it really is all about - selling more cars. Even if the tech isn’t there the illusion that it’s just a few years away keeps people buying it. Modern AI is only fueling that techbro BS that it’s almost here.
When really, trains. Trains are relatively (to cars) easy to automate and make run safely, can move way more people. I’m still extremely salty that Musk tried to derail California HSR with his stupid Boring company just to sell more Teslas.
tuhriel@infosec.pub 1 year ago
I’m happy to dunk on musk as much as the next guy, but that title is bull.
Lightyears measure distance not time, how can they mess that up?
DrBob@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Because he’s a long way away. Longer than miles away…maybe…light years?
Kichae@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Musk <-------------------------------- LYs -----------------------------------> Self-Driving car
Any questions?
k_rol@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Your point doesn’t help me because it shows that we can fold space-time to create a shortcut with warp technology.
Corgana@startrek.website 1 year ago
This might be the most lemmy comment I’ve ever seen
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Because the self driving tech exists, but it’s in the next galaxy
Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 year ago
It’s actually on earth, in metro trains
stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Could be in the galaxy, but it would be safe to assume out of the solar system.
sexy_peach@beehaw.org 1 year ago
www.merriam-webster.com/…/light-years ahead
tesseract@beehaw.org 1 year 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.
HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 1 year ago
han did the kessel run in 12 parsecs
towerful@programming.dev 1 year 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.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
Parsecs away.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Maybe he needs 5.879 × 10^12 miles more data
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
There are probably self-driving cars in some alien civilizations.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 year ago
They aren’t streets ahead.
IllNess@infosec.pub 1 year ago
That just means it has to be created in space.