Daniel Scott

Oh man, yeh. What you used was OK, but far from great. It was rules-based and still used a variety of the sensors on the cars, which led to sensor fusion disagreements and some of the issues you experienced. Today's software (v14) is epic. I've been using Autopilot and then FSD since about 2016. Night and day. It's doing 99-100% of some people's driving now. It's just cameras to controls. End-to-end neural nets (video in, vehicle controls out). Plus it has reasoning now and the very latest version has a super fast reaction time. I've seen it do some boneheaded stuff over the years and I can easily say it's gotten really, really good. So much so that it finally passed the wife test. She no longer gets annoyed when I engage it and actually prefers it most of the time to my driving 😆

@sprhvy @JforMichigan @stevewatts823 @johnfaires @krassenstein This was 2 years ago.

I might get hate for this too but I bought a Cybertruck. With a young family, safety was important and so is not polluting the atmosphere with $5 a gallon gasoline.

@primo21_ @JforMichigan @stevewatts823 @johnfaires @krassenstein Glad to hear you tried it. Guessing it was some time ago though? The latest version – a completely different architecture – is light years better. It does about 75% of my driving from point to point, parking included. Most of the other 25% is when I'm looking to have some fun.

@sprhvy @JforMichigan @stevewatts823 @johnfaires @krassenstein I tried FSD and it stopped in the middle of the street infront of oncoming traffic when it attempted to make a left onto the freeway entrance. So no I don’t trust it from personal experience

Michigan also has Detroit and a number of car companies that don't know how to make EVs or solid software (let alone any real AI)...plus tons of political leverage and lobbying. But that aside, I would encourage you to learn more about how Tesla's Self Driving actually works and the safety engineering behind it. We can't pretend like 40,000 people dying each year and another 3M going to the ER from auto accidents is acceptable and just write of autonomous cars because they aren't perfect. Human drivers are far from perfect – hence the reason so many die in crashes.

@sprhvy @stevewatts823 @johnfaires @krassenstein It's illegal in Michigan to have anything in your hands while driving. It's shady because it fails, sensors are bad, networks have glitches, and AI doesn’t have intuition.

@primo21_ @JforMichigan @stevewatts823 @johnfaires @krassenstein Props to ya - but most people don't. 40,000 people die from auto accidents in the US each year. Autonomous cars will put a stop to just about all of that death and dismemberment.

@sprhvy @JforMichigan @stevewatts823 @johnfaires @krassenstein Heaven forbid some of us follow the rules and don’t drive and text.

It's only shady to you because you don't regularly (ever?) use it. Folks that drive with it every day do so because they trust it – it's next level. If you never drive distracted or drowsy, excellent...but that just means you're not like most people who can't put their phones down.

@stevewatts823 @johnfaires @krassenstein It's way safer to be a competent driver than to depend on shady tech.

@mikepat711 @TechOperator This is the only correct answer

@TechOperator My car looks like it did the day I took delivery

How often do you clean the interior of your Tesla?

@wholemars It’s too bad Grok can’t do sweeps of old posts like these and gently let them know they were dumb/wrong. Might help them avoid being bozos in the future.

turns out it didn’t

When the UI guy is back from vacation:

This is a story about my father, parenting, and my rule for the strongest relationships in life… When I was 12 years old, I tried out for a baseball all-star team in our area. I really wanted to make this team. The tryouts were my first adventure beyond the confines of my small town. An opportunity to see how I stacked up against kids from all around the state. When the results came out, the coaches called my house. They were taking 16 players for the team...and I was the 17th on the list. I was devastated. It was my first real experience with failure. Something I wanted, worked towards, and came up short. I went into my room, sat on my bed, and cried. A few minutes later, my dad walked in. He sat down on the bed next to me. After a few minutes of silence, he offered a few words: “I know you’re upset. I understand. It sucks. But here are the three things the coaches said you needed to work on. Let’s go out every day this summer and work on them. Together.” And we did. I’d patiently wait for him to get home from work, holding our gloves, a bucket of balls, and a bat. He took me to the local field damn near every single day that summer. I’m sure there were days when he didn’t want to. When he was exhausted from work or travel, but it never showed. And I came back the next year a completely different player. Years later, when I got a scholarship to play baseball at Stanford, I still thought back to that one summer as the turning point. But it was more than the practice that was the real turning point. It was what my dad said in those moments as we sat on my bed, with tears streaming down my face—and how he followed through on it every day that followed. He had two options when he walked into my room and sat next to me. Option 1: Tell me the coaches were idiots. I was the best player. They had made a mistake. They didn’t know what they were doing. Option 2: Acknowledge the pain. Tell the truth about the opportunity in the failure. And be there to support the work to meet that opportunity. Honestly, in that moment, I probably wanted Option 1. It would have made me feel better. It would have told me that the world was the problem. That an external thing was to blame. That I was great. Option 2 was the tough pill to swallow. But also the right one. I believe that the strongest relationships in life stand on two pillars: The first is high expectations. The belief that the other person is capable of excellence. That their potential is only limited by their own views. The willingness to tell the truth about that opportunity and the work required to meet it. The second is high support. The ability and willingness to provide the love, support, and engagement to help the other person meet those high expectations. A lot of relationships fall short of this standard. They hit one pillar, but miss the other. Low expectations and high support will provide comfort, but no growth. High expectations and low support may spark short-term growth, but breed long-term resentment. Sir Isaac Newton famously said: “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” It’s a beautiful line, but I think it leaves out the part that matters most. The giants had to bend down. They had to choose to provide energy to lift him. That’s exactly what my dad did the night I didn’t make that all-star team. He didn’t lower his shoulders to the level of my disappointment. He didn’t tell me the high heights didn’t matter. He told me that I was capable of the climb—and then he gifted me with his attention and energy to help complete it. I think about this constantly now. This, to me, is the highest calling in our relationships: To create an environment of high expectations with those we love and show up to support them to meet (and exceed) those expectations we’ve set. This is something I’ve been thinking about a lot as a father. I hope it resonated with you.

@VladSaigau I told my wife years ago this was how I wanted to go. Might have been after seeing the movie Sunshine, but regardless it seems like a great way to go. By that point it will be pretty inexpensive too. Especially if they dehydrate the body :)

When I die, send me into the sun for a solar cremation. I’ve avoided eye contact long enough.

Rather than buying $TSLA low now, i’m going to wait until they have thousands of Robotaxis and are scaling quickly. Then I will buy at the top.

It's pretty simple actually. If they have camera data and LIDAR data, they can compare the two and then validate that when the camera, for example, sees a car and thinks it's 50 feet away, that the LIDAR confirms it's 50 feet away. With enough of this data on different objects at different speeds and in different scenarios, they can fine tune their vision model so that all they need are cameras.

@wholemars @itsmwong @grok break this down even further, go into extreme detail and technical depth as to why this is an important piece for Tesla’s vision approach.

Someone please explain to me like I’m 5 why Tesla doesn’t need lidar for FSD, but they use lidar to map…

@mikepat711 @BoBbyPleWniaK @elonmusk SpaceX IPO quiet period :)

@BoBbyPleWniaK @elonmusk Elons X feed has been boring as fuck lately. Not nearly unhinged enough

I notice both @elonmusk and I are showing restraint in our shitposting. This will be good for $TSLA. He moves the market, I just shitpost, but same same.

@mikepat711 @TheDemocrats Honestly both parties are really awful, just in slightly different ways.

@TheDemocrats I can’t believe I used to be a dem damn

Your agents shot a mother in the face, then called her a "fuckin' bitch."

@JPUConn @TRIGGERHAPPYV1 Wait we have to replace the tires? They're like brakes right? I was told that a little regenerative braking saves the tires from any wear 😹

@TRIGGERHAPPYV1 "Ev's have no maintenance"

A Tesla flipped over during rainy conditions in Merced County Fortunately the occupants escaped with only minor complaints of pain

@mikepat711 Legit saved me from being sideswiped at 70mph last night. Car tried changing lanes into me. I had no idea it was coming at me (blind spot) but my car did and quickly changed lanes to avoid the collision.

This is just normal Tesla ownership stuff. Returns time, gonna save countless lives, gonna expand the bottom line of any business with any physical logistics, gonna let you get your emails done on the way from A➡️B, gonna cost less than the average new car, gonna take you from doorstep to doorstep for less than the train costs to take you to some inconvenient corner to another inconvenient corner. Gonna make new markets none of us have thought of yet. Already makes a 10 hour drive feel like a 4 hour drive in a manual car. And you’re bearish? That’s too funny.

@The_x_Truth @aaronburnett @BassonBrain @Starlink Maybe Tesla should give them all free cars while they're at it.

@aaronburnett @BassonBrain @Starlink Baby they just need fucking internet dude? You'd think the richest guy in the world would verified free internet access to the poorest people.

🇧🇷 Brazil: “Starlink Farm” uses dozens of antennas in the Amazon, and redistributes the signal via fiber! A video attributed to the “viajandocomoluiz” profile on Instagram drew attention by showing dozens of @Starlink antennas installed in Tabatinga, Amazonas, on the border with Peru, to capture satellite internet and redistribute the connection via fiber optic to residents of the region.

@SunkenCity1 @SpaceX @viasat Scrubs happen all the time. Nothing nefarious here.

@SpaceX @viasat How did 28 seconds of weather change the launch... something bigger happened that they don't want to disclose

Watch Falcon Heavy launch the @viasat-3 F3 mission to orbit twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Literally just having a delusional golden retriever mindset measurably changes outcomes and physiology. Sleep badly? Convince yourself you're well rested. Stressful day? Convince yourself it's fuel. Failed? Convince yourself it's useful data.

@EarthSquad_ @wholemars @zachklein What gets you excited about the future?

@sprhvy @wholemars @zachklein Autonomous vehicles have solved nothing and your excitement for it is the problem. This conversation has been a waste of time, just like the money losing useless tech

A self-driving car is still a car.