the american mind cannot comprehend trains
@halva hey it at least thinks thats a vehicle
@[email protected] Elon Musk imagining the ideal future of public transit like
@halva I like how the warning lights are displayed as oscillating traffic lights. A reasonable interpretation, but amusing nonetheless.
@[email protected] the fact i am able to quickly pick up how to use public transit in other countries is just further proof that I am not American, despite being born and raised in America x3
@halva Well what is a train, but a bunch of elongated big cars that can contain many people travelling on a set path, optimally reaching high speeds so it can transport lots of people vast distances?
@boefjim this reads like the dracula monologue
@halva @boefjim This new Castlevania game is getting really weird. And an NPC named “Elon Musk?” I can’t believe that’s the best they came up with. At least the level where the protagonist whips through DC will be interesting.
@boefjim @halva what is a car but a cut down train that all need their own motor and only fits a tiny fraction of the passengers
@robinsyl @boefjim @halva a car is just a pacer but like somehow even more shit
@boefjim @halva I mean, the single constituents of a train are literally called "rail cars" :D
@halva Quality software. I would totally trust this car driving me around on autopilot!
@halva also intrigued that it processes the crossing lights as regular traffic lights that keep jumping side to side. lol. lmao.

@halva

Would love to know what it makes of ox carts.

@halva Interesting, I have never seen it do that: distorting out those cars. I would imagine it rendering a bunch of trucks after each other

@halva

Of course not. Musk and the airline cartel don't like trains, so we've been told they are slow, uncomfortable, expensive, and unreliable.

You know, just like cars and airlines, except those things make money for Musk and the cartel.

It does always amaze me that the Randites don't love trains more. "Atlas Shrugged" was all about a railroad executive and how perfect that little sociopath was.

@halva (approaching hyperloop track)
@halva look how elongated those muskrats are

@halva

This would be freaking hilarious if not so tragic. XD

@sotolf

@rl_dane @halva @sotolf Someone should explain to the car that this is an exposed, above-ground hyperloop.

@royal @sotolf

Just noticed @halva's userid, and now I'm hungry for some [halva]. XD

When I was a kid in my 30s, I was reading LOTR and got to the part where Gimli was talking about "cram"/lembas/waybread. I had a brick of halva in the fridge and that's exactly what I imagined lembas to be: sweet, nutty, and quite filling.

Halva - Wikipedia

@rl_dane @royal @halva Now halva means "the half of" in swedish, so I read the string of mentions as

The royal half sotolf :p

@sotolf @royal @halva

I just love the fact that nobody has protested and the slightest to me saying, "When I was a kid in my 30s" 😆

@halva I think the phrase should be: the American Car Industry cannot tolerate trains
@halva Also note the “moving trafficlights”. Shouldn’t they at least have looked at a list of valid traffic signs and verified that everything in that list is properly recognised. Apart from the extreme stupidity in attempting this task in the first place.

@halva

Excuse you. I happen to love taking the train.

Perhaps it is you who don't understand the sheer scale of the United States. The entirety of the British Isles can fit inside Michigan. France is smaller than Texas. All of Europe wouldn't cross the Mississippi River coming from California. Trains are fine when you only gave a couple hundred kilometers to go, but when you're crossing thousands, it's best to take a plane.

@WarmasterPalak buddy i live in russia you dont get to sheersplain me

@halva

No, you know about long distances. I just need to explain to you about territorial boundaries.

@WarmasterPalak damn you're so funny
@halva @WarmasterPalak
Ah, I see the pot and kettle have met.

@GordonFawks @halva

I accept none of the blame for Twitler. Do what you want to the obnoxious Cheeto. I didn't vote for him. Lay waste to his entire world. Totalitarians and fascists deserve to burn in nuclear fires. Oligarchs, too.

BURN
THEM
WITH
FIRE.

@WarmasterPalak @halva wake up girls new copypasta just dropped
@sjolsen @WarmasterPalak @halva Excuse you. I happen to HATE taking the train.

Perhaps it is you who don't understand the shere insignificant scale of the United States. The entirety of the British Isles can't fit inside Michigan. France is larger than Texas. All of Europe would cross the Mississippi River Coming from California. Trains are HORRIBLE when you only gave a couple hundred kilometers to go, but when you're crossing thousands, it's WORST to take a plane.
@halva it finally makes sense that “tech” bros keep “inventing” worse versions of trains

@halva Video description:
A car is stopped at a grade crossing, as a train, marked "Amtrak California" passes. The camera zooms in on a dashboard touchscreen showing each train car rendered as a gray block in the shape of either a tractor-trailer or an elongated sedan, frequently flickering between the two shapes.

Transcription: [laugh] Look how elongated they are! [laugh] I have never seen that. Oh, my gosh! Great song.

@halva In my (limited) experience buses don’t fare any better.
The car literally has car brain
Also that's Amtrak California
@halva not a bug but a feature /s
@halva reminded of the one from someone stuck behind a horse and buggy and it was going absolutely apeshit trying to figure out what it was looking at
@halva
I wouldn't want a Tesla even if they gave it to me as a present, and now I wouldn't even want it near me, especially on the street.
@halva just a wild flock of migrating cars, nothing to see here.
@halva FR? Fragmented reality: take a bit of truth and make up your own reality. AI in a nutshell
@halva Just to provide some technical context: the car almost certainly knows that that is a train, but the visualisation has no way to render a train, so it falls back to rendering it as long semi combo.

@halva TBF I was failed mate organ driving test by not treating a level crossing with enough respect. We just so rarely get them in the UK. I don't think I'd ever encountered one. I hadn't even learned to fear sunset and the deer that come out then.

I wonder how many roadkill shaped dents Tesla's acquire

Whoa! A Hyperloop without a tunnel! 🤣

Vision-only robotaxis next year? 🙈🍿

@halva limo processions clogging american streets
@halva we have no problem comprehending trains as long as they’re carrying freight. Passenger trains, on the other hand…

@halva the fact that the car can't process the train is a passing detail. that it can't process the *lights* is scary as hell.

And this is in the US, yes? imagine how many other sorts of world crossing lights and stop signs this means it can't deal with, if it can't even manage US ones.

@halva I saw similar in Toronto, in a friend's tesla which showed realistic outlines for cars and trucks, but for trams showed nothing. I am not going to let one of those things drive me around by itself.

@halva

Don't laugh at the hand that steers you?

Maybe the laughter is a stress response to the mortal danger he's put himself in? Paid for, no less...

@halva

Looks like it was programmed by a German. Trains are more or less local fairy tales here.

@halva "Self-driving" cars...🚋
@halva Now I feel all the hard (unpaid) work I put into those "select pictures with trains" CAPTCHAs was worthless (?)
@halva personally my favorite part is the tesla thinking there are teleporting stop lights