He has been lying about it for 5 years now and has been stringing on Tesla customers with statements like, "It's almost there!" and "Next version will blow your mind!" etc
https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/n6nsmt/elo...
It's stunning how he has gotten away with lies for so long.
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14319340 [5 years ago]
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17553371 [3 years ago]
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27628957 [6 months ago]
I think autonomous travel would be a great experiment for locomotives on isolated tracks.
Tesla's "self-driving" burns that line into thin air, and also misleads drivers into a false sense of security. Musk needs to own up to that, because in the absence of a clear way to see who's at fault, the onus is on him to clear the air and he hasn't.
There are several self-driving vehicle projects that have logged far better safety records than human drivers.
They have radar and lidar units.
Musk has insisted on solely cameras, which are far cheaper, but suffer from a slew of entirely predictable vision problems. Just hit up youtube and search for "tesla phantom braking."
All of a sudden: Tesla scrubs its blog (which used to talk about all the wonderful benefits of RADAR), removes all RADAR from future vehicles, and talks about how AI has advanced to make Radar unnecessary.
Its pretty funny watching this in realtime. Surely, Elon Musk has heard of archive.org? You can't just scrub your blog and hope that people forget... in fact, scrubbing your blog makes these things more easily seen.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210418114757/https://www.tesla...
What was the famous line in 1984? We were always at war with Eastasia.
Yes, Streisanding your disregard for public safety is hilarious. Elon should do prime-time comedy.
Hey wait a minute...
I think that's a little past an experiment; the first one went in in 1981. At this point, I would think most new fully segregated metro lines are automated. It's ~a completely different problem to self-driving cars, and a far more tractable one.