Fake It Until You Make It, lol

Wired: Tesla Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Driven by Remote Humans

https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-says-its-robotaxis-are-sometimes-driven-by-humans/

#robotaxi #tesla #robots

@ai6yr lag sucks

And now kills people

@autolycos @ai6yr On the plus side, Internet connectivity is famous for never having unexpected connectivity failures. /s

Thankfully Tesla is a company that is famous for putting public safety ahead of profits and we can be certain they will go to the extra expense of making the entire pathway redundant and will routinely verify failover ability during scheduled out of service times. /s

@scottmiller42 @ai6yr it seems you live at least 8 hours ahead of me
@autolycos @ai6yr I’m not sure I follow what you are saying.

@scottmiller42 @ai6yr I'm saying it is several hours before April Fool's Day in my time zone

But it's plausibly April Fool's Day in yours

@autolycos @ai6yr LOL! Nice one. I totally missed the fact that tomorrow is April 1. Thanks for the explanation! And also the warning so I don't get punked tomorrow. LOL
@scottmiller42 @ai6yr here's to the spaghetti tree harvest in Italy
Spaghetti-tree hoax - Wikipedia

@autolycos @scottmiller42 It's just a bad policy, in general. I was doing a news publication (really) and just stopped publishing anything issued April 1st.

@ai6yr

I'm doing to take the moderate stance and misremember Paul Harvey telling a story of a person cornered by a mountain lion and then suggesting if you are, stand your ground, raise your arms, and urinate yourself so it knows you are marking your territory.

There are better and worse ways to pull an April Fool's Day gag

@scottmiller42

@autolycos if we are now cheering the spaghetti harvest, can I also interest people in a vacation in San Serriffe this year, or perhaps investing in its growing economy?
@scottmiller42 @ai6yr
@NovaNaturalist @scottmiller42 @ai6yr not coccygeal enough for my vacationing tastes

@ai6yr what is the betting that the remote humans either have no license to drive in US or are currently banned for DUI.

"Hello your driver today will be Mr Rick Shaw"

@nf3xn "This is legal in the Philippines!"
@ai6yr Imagine how good public transport would be if all that money being funneled into self-driving cars was instead invested in proven technologies.

@Cyberoutsider @ai6yr 20 years ago, I was working in a research lab which had a focus on road automation.

Beyond driver automation, and self-driving vehicles, there was a big concept that we don't hear enough about.

Public transport. Personal vehicles were envisioned to only be for the last mile, from station to home. Then they would drive themselves to somewhere else where they'd be needed, rather than use prime real estate being uselessly parked there. Some would also be the public transport.

@ai6yr A.I. always ends up meaning "African. Indian."
@ai6yr Wowzer! Is this available for download on Steam? I'll pay extra to 'drive' Elon's car!
@ai6yr Would be nice if Wired had published this tomorrow...
@ai6yr Arrr, ye call that a Robotaxi?
@ai6yr LOL. How often is sometimes? 99 times out of 100?