I like that we’ve collectively agreed on the idea that Tesla’s driving AI will detect and target children.
Not most children, but if a rich shareholder needs a transplant, the car has a database of matching people who are organ donors or who's parents believe in organ donation and will make subtle attempts to accidentally run them over. (A joke but fuck it maybe not at this point)
So I guess you’d have to either fill up your trailer with gas or charge it. Now that’s two vehicles you have to power, which kind of defeats the purpose of towing anyway.
It seems a better solution would be a PHEV with a large battery and a range extender for when you need to tow....why on earth do this?
Fuck it. Why not just get a little steering wheel and a little person to drive your little tow truck behind you? No need to worry about losing Wi-Fi signal.
Everyday, car engineers move closer to the ultimate form of transportation: the train.
Let’s make more vehicles with a single purpose, this will save the environment. One set of wheels and a motor is not complicated enough. We need two sets of those and A motherfucking I to achieve the same thing farmers did as soon as tractors were invented.
What problems does this bullshit solve?
This is actually almost environmentally motivated. Instead of driving a pickup truck because you need to pull a trailer for your once a year road trip, you get a self driving tow to follow your fuel efficient compact car.
A compact car is already perfectly capable of towing a trailer, no pickup truck needed. Just ask the Dutch.
Just have three jacked trailers orbiting you like koopa shells
I'll take 'solutions for problems that don't exist ' for $500, Alex.
It's like...people just think of the worst fucking ideas that are possible to imagine...& other assholes KEEP GIVING THEM MONEY for the worst ideas possible. Is this real life?
bus enter the chat
"hey guys, I know yall hate me because poor people can use me but it seems like this whole self driving car thing isn't working out because it requires an absurd amount of new technology to work perfectly..... you know if you just put a moderate amount of money into me I could solve most mass transit problems right?"
mob of angry suburban karens swarm the bus, light it on fire and tip it over
Guarantee asshole drivers will try to squeeze into the space between car and trailer.
Solution is that the trailer will tailgate you all the time. It'll also flash its beams if you don't go 10mph above the limit.
Because of the millisecond reaction time of the powerful processor, there is no way this could go wrong.
People use "WiFi" as a generic term for wireless protocols all the time, this almost certainly doesn't use actual WiFi.
Yeah, the tensile strength of Wi-Fi is way too low to tow anything larger than a jet ski. You'll need at least some vhf 5G CBRS to tow a camper.
In Europe, where nobody fell for the lies of the car manufacturers that you would need a big fat truck just to tow a caravan, we just hang them legally and without issues to our cars.
I turned my laptop on this afternoon and my wifi couldn't connect because my laptop couldn't find my wifi network.
Took two goes.
So now imagine you are driving at seventy miles an hour down the motorway, and your car loses contact with your cararvan.........
I've been battling Wi-Fi issues with my soundbar for a week now and because Wi-Fi won't work properly it's struggling to remember that it's supposed to turn on with the TV...
The worst part is it wasn't an issue with the ISP at my old place so I'm close to the point where I'll have to go and buy a rooter to bypass their Wi-Fi...
TL;DR: Wi-Fi towing is fucking moronic.
This is pure poetry, with steady crescendo!
"where nothing can possiblie go wrong. I mean, possibly go wrong. That's the first time something has gone wrong..."
What about wifi jammers?
One asshole with a radio jammer targeting WiFi bands will cause an accident. This could be exploitable by nation state actors in specific scenarios if this gained popularity. Bad bad idea and should be discouraged. Towing should be physical-driven with interconnecting hardware.
This has some real verification can vibes.
Ok, but WiFi connection isn't strong enough so how about connecting them by a cable, which transports the data...
Future is going to be thrilling
Wardriving is back on the menu (don't know that it ever left but feel like it fell out of notice)
Eh, a year and a half ago I caught a guy on a bike using a brute force car opener up and down a street near the job site I was on. Basically the device spits out every key fob door open code on a list until the car opens, or possibly it goes through known permutations used by various companies. What I know for sure is he had a small laptop and a USB antenna and was stopping at every car for a few minutes opening the ones he got, and moving on from the ones he didn't. Caught a decent video of his face and what he was doing for the police before he made off on his bike.
It's a relay attack, it tries to rebroadcast the car signal to the key fob, and rebroadcast the key fob signal back to the car.
They're hoping the key is close enough to the car to be able to relay, but not close enough for the owner to see them doing it.
Jeff is watching chaos ensure on the highway. 3 seconds have passed since he turned on his long-range WiFi Jammer.
A hitch is a few hundred dollars and a few hours of work. This is going to be a few thousand dollars. Who would use this?
Few thousand? You basically have to buy most of an entire car as your hitch, including the most expensive parts like the engine or the motor and battery. This will be a few tens of thousands of dollars.
That what future piracy looks like
It seems like an extremely silly middle-ground solution between traditional hitch loads and self-driving trucks. If this somehow took off, I'm sure the general public would more quickly accept self-driving trucks. But I can't see why anybody would look at this solution and think it's a good idea.
Lmao no way this thing ever actually gets made/approved
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