KayLeadfoot

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[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 64 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They tested a LiDAR rigged car, and it stopped just like you predicted. As of 2021, Tesla uses only cameras for FSD, and not even radar (which my stupid fine Toyota truck has).

They tested the idea safely by building the wall out of styrofoam, or at least that's what it looks like when it blows apart :)

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Aw come on, I thought the lasers versus watermelons demo was a lot of fun, and if that isn't mad science, I don't know what is

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 86 points 3 days ago

The scientists in Ireland calling their data set to prevent this exact fucking thing "Coyote" sent me over the moon.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 109 points 3 days ago (30 children)

"But humans can do it with their eyes!" - says the man not selling a human brain to go with the optical sensors

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I <3 irrational memes

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 20 points 4 days ago

That is an absolute no-brainer. Pay aside, take care of family.

That's the whole purpose of the pay anyhow, money is just an odd totem that we allow to take care of our families.

Plus, you get to hang out with the little one for 3 months! Your wife loves you even better. It's wins all the way down.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 11 points 4 days ago

That's enough of that, you'll bruise its self-esteem...!

And as you know, that voids the warranty

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 31 points 4 days ago

I thought it was funny... if I have to explain the joke, though, maybe it wasn't that funny!

Like, King of Hammers is just about the hardest off-road race there is. The hard parts of King of Hammers do not look like a parking lot. The hard parts look like the picture below. To get hit with a DNF in the parking lot is unexpected, and that's the onion-y quality in my head. Again, the joke is not as good if I need to explain it.

https://www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/8cf49fe481ba89de68410474a8e02e3361076037/hub/2016/01/26/6e6d7d6f-78ad-40d9-9ba9-34d577b2c219/credit-kathy-durrett-koh-2015-6.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 2 points 5 days ago

As a muscle car driver in the past, oddly, the sound is a big deal. The sound scratches some primal itch. A muscle car sounds like mechanical power. It's hard to explain, it vibrates through the pedal, so I guess it's sort of a human-machine interface feature. But also emotional. A lot going on there, I actually find that dimension of the design real interesting, most potential buyers hate what they attempted.

I can see how the corporate suits and engineers wouldn't get it. But surely at least some of their engineers are gearheads? They tried to replicate it, and just widely missed the mark to most folks. It sounds really shitty in the videos I've seen.

You're right, tho, the simple answer... it's fake. It's much more expensive than it used to be, and it's clearly imitation. Nobody likes being a sucker, and a bad deal like that makes the buyer a sucker.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 2 points 6 days ago

Greater than the sum of their parts, love it.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 4 points 6 days ago

Whether it is a feature or a bug depends on how their sales numbers look for Q1 2025.

Call it Schroedinger's bug.

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