Steve Randy Waldman

someone should write a mystery novel in which the murder weapon is a paintbrush and then a hose to quickly spray away a very temporary white line.

from #DavidRosenthal #DSHR https://blog.dshr.org/2024/04/elon-musk-threat-or-menace-part-4.html

"So that's all there is to Autopilot. No radar, no lidar, no GPS, no map, no geofencing, no proper driver monitoring. It just uses the camera to follow the lines. It doesn't disengage if it can't see the lines, it just keeps going."

Elon Musk: Threat or Menace Part 4

The previous post in this series, Elon Musk: Threat or Menace Part 3 , was based on the impressively detailed reporting from a team at the W...

Apr 16, 2024 at 8:40pmWeb
Show threadscott fApr 16, 2024
@interfluidity cc @swfong
Show threadCasey JenningsApr 16, 2024
@interfluidity
This could be the first chapter of what might become your most famous work.... well that and the article on banks
Show threadJayApr 17, 2024
@interfluidity It might be fun to write a book wherein the police think they have a serial killer on their hands who has been going after people all over the city but it turns out it’s just a road maintenance crew who fucked up when prepping the paint for stripes so Teslas don’t see them.
Show threadAN/CRM-114Apr 17, 2024
@interfluidity it’s an episode of Monk guest starring Mike Richards and Wayne Knight except it’s the episode of Seinfeld where Kramer was removing lines from the West Side Highway and Newman was smuggling soda cans to Michigan for the ten cent refund
Show threadRalph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZApr 17, 2024
@interfluidity The thing that gets me is that Tesla's FSD is not as good as MobilEye's EyeQ4 with one camera...Level 2.
Show threadRalph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZApr 17, 2024
@interfluidity You cannot do Level 5 without detailed mapping and LIDAR or imaging radar and surround view. Musk insists on trying it with only the latter.
Show thread@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNoteApr 18, 2024
@interfluidity Not auto pilot but that hey your not in your lane BS on my Bff’s new car just about had a heart attack when we drove over multiple white lines created by a bauxite load that had leaked.
Show threadHavyhh2Apr 18, 2024
@interfluidity why they are allowed on any roads in the world defies logic....
Show threadJohn M. GambleApr 18, 2024

@interfluidity

When Wile E. Coyote can hack your car with a can of Acme paint, it's time to rethink your algorithm.