adamjcook

@adamjcook@mastodon.social

Engineer focused on #Robotics, #ControlSystems, #SystemsSafety, #Manufacturing and #Simulation. #ManufacturingOpen Contributor. #Purdue Engineering alum. Living in #Detroit. He/Him.
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adamjcook, (edited ) to chicago

I was at Pride all weekend while visiting with my wife (videos and photos soon!), so I missed this Drama concerning that erupted.

Ok.

Let us, again, all put on our hats and take a look at the situation here as I understand it.

Below is the video that kicked the beehive between Tesla defenders and detractors on "what really happened?".

This clearly chaotic video was taken from a larger drive sequence in which FSD Beta was active.

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adamjcook, to fediverse

Which app (preferably for macOS) supports thread composing (I can write an entire thread "off-line" and then publish it all at once)?

I have tried @ivory and @MonaApp so far... neither seem to support it.

Killer feature from that I really need.

With support for image and video attachments.

adamjcook, to random

Oh memories.

Taking a break from 's Hate Train on the Hellsite to recall this series of Tweets from a few years ago.

While under-appreciated then and now, the Tweet thread by Musk posted below contains an extremely damning admission and it displays the considerable blind spot associated with remotely updating systems without oversight.

Musk has no clue what he admitted to here, but systems safety experts do.

adamjcook, to twitter

Interesting.

It appears that is now "locked down" such that one cannot even view Tweets or user accounts without logging in first.

Not sure if this is an intentional change on Twitter's part or if they just broke something.

adamjcook, to twitter

So, if it was not the case before, now that seems to be walled off for good...

How can the and, say, The White House (as a two random examples) continue to remain solely on social media platforms that are inaccessible to millions of unregistered users?

Those exclusively on the , an open platform, are being actively denied public services, official policy announcements and timely emergency alerts.

Wondering if there is a legal argument here.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23779764/twitter-blocks-unregistered-users-account-tweets

adamjcook, to random

At minimum, needs a train between the Detroit Metro Airport and Downtown.

Come on now.

This was last weekend.

Waited over 2 hours for a bus at the airport.

I am patient, but this should not happen.

Bus service cannot hope to (even remotely) satisfy a region the size of the Detroit Metro.

It simply cannot.

Not sure how many are coming in out-of-town for the this weekend, but the Draft next year is going to be a disaster from a transportation perspective.

adamjcook, to random

I have to say, it has really been a disappointing time under the Administration for - after having so much promise initially.

I do not know what the issues are here, but President Biden should ask Secretary for his resignation.

Sure, former Secretary Elaine Chao was ideologically worse than Buttigieg, but they are both virtually identical in ineffectiveness.

That is unacceptable.

Sad to say, but here we are.

adamjcook, to TeslaMotors

This is a lie. is lying here.

At no time, are vehicles capable of “driving themselves” - only capable of the illusion that they are, which Musk exploits.

This is a common Musk Lie, made in the interest of selling Tesla vehicles and pricey add-ons.

People have died under this lie and will continue to do so, completely avoidably.

Let’s explore the underlying foundations of this lie and why it is so dangerous.

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adamjcook, (edited ) to random

Hmm. Interesting article.

@samabuelsamid, who I generally agree with, offers some thoughts.

@mimsical, who I also generally agree with, is mentioned in passing.

And, well, I have typically agreed less with Timothy Lee's thoughts over the years (particularly on -related topics), but this article is reasonable enough.

But let's crack it open and take a look at a few things that I think are iffy.

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https://www.understandingai.org/p/the-death-of-self-driving-cars-is

adamjcook, to random

No, because "flying cars" have never remotely made financial sense - particularly with the concerns which are almost always hand-waved away by the startups.

https://www.crainsdetroit.com/manufacturing/does-detroit-city-airport-have-future-flying-cars

adamjcook, to tesla

Interesting moves in the changing space lately (in the US and in Canada).

It sure would have been nice for the US to mandate some open charging standard years ago, but it seems that everyone is coalescing around 's so-called NCAS "standard".

Right now, it seems to me that NCAS is not actually a standard, but rather, an open specification.

Hopefully, this gets on an independent standards track.

Closed standards are bad for consumers.

https://news.gm.com/newsroom.detail.html/Pages/news/us/en/2023/jun/0608-gm.html

adamjcook, to detroit

Oh. Cool!

Well. I missed the meeting. 🥴

But it looks like the three buildings next to the Harvard Square Centre Building (which is currently undergoing renovation into residential units) on Broadway Avenue might soon undergo their own "renovation".

That little area of could sure use a boost... and it looks like it just might be happening.

adamjcook, (edited ) to threads

does not seemingly support on images at launch (h/t to @mmasnick's post on Threads pointing that out).

And that is pretty damn unacceptable.

adamjcook, to ai

So, a couple of things here.

Firstly, we seem to be in some sort of arms race in " safety statements" nowadays.

Or more like a race to the bottom.

The continued perpetuation of the actually harmful Train aside... what is even the point of this?

They did not even bother to write a letter.

Secondly, very hard to take this statement seriously given that personalities like , Sam Harris, Chris Anderson and Grimes have signed it.

https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk

adamjcook, to random

An interesting article here by @mimsical and I would recommend reading it.

I think it is a reasonable take on how, essentially, the regulatory landscape will look in the US and perhaps elsewhere.

That said, I have some notes.

Not so much on the article itself... but on my favorite punching bag, the .

For those that do not know, the NHTSA is the unserious, disinterested and effectively theoretical regulator in the US for vehicle and roadway safety. 🧵

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-will-we-know-when-self-driving-cars-are-safe-when-they-can-handle-the-worlds-worst-drivers-fd35b907

adamjcook, to detroit

The Hudson's Site Tower is coming along nicely...

Soon-to-be second tallest building in (and the second tallest in ).

adamjcook, to TeslaMotors

’s completely unsupported and unhinged promises of future therapies, treatments or prosthetic devices enabled by his firm and this “” humanoid robotics project is pretty damn disgusting.

A new, disgusting low.

Even relative to Tesla’s vast and wrongdoings, which is saying something.

This man lies like he breathes.

adamjcook, (edited ) to tesla

Oof.

What an absolute mess of a video from the Verge - and this mess has some dire public safety ramifications.

Not even sure where to begin, but let's look at a few things...

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https://youtu.be/pUtJ8HPZRkw

adamjcook, to random

A walk down Cass Avenue (my first time) in over the weekend. 📸

There is work to do, of course, but things are really shaping up.

In the near-to-medium future, there are serious discussions about putting a cap over the I-75 highway (as shown) - which would partly undo the separation that exists between Midtown and Downtown.

The cap would feature a park, most probably.

adamjcook, to Twitch

Just curious from any out there...

What is the opinion on these days versus ?

If you were a Twitch streamer, did you move over to Kick? If so, how has it been going? Thinking about moving over?

Getting ready to launch an and -related educational stream (not games, no one wants to see me flop around on games 😅).

Planning on multi-streaming to YouTube, TikTok and either Twitch or Kick.

adamjcook, to cars

Let's talk about vehicles equipped with a bit - a Level 3-capable vehicle that has been recently "approved" in a handful of US states.

This article almost entirely focuses on the legal dynamics of consumer liability should this vehicle create a direct (or, presumably, an indirect) incident.

But, as always, I want to talk about what I feel are the realities at work here and the many foot-guns that are associated with that.

https://www.autonews.com/mobility-report/mercedes-drive-pilot-automated-system-poses-legal-questions

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adamjcook, to random

I am truly awful at .

That is all. 😅

adamjcook, to detroit

The Dime Building light well in Downtown .

The Dime Building (also known as the Chrysler House) is one of Detroit’s oldest skyscrapers.

23 floors. Completed in 1912.

adamjcook, (edited ) to random

Here is a unique one that I snapped yesterday in .

This is from inside the original stairwell of the Kales Building (opened in 1914), looking out, at the stabilized facade that used to be part of the now-demolished Adams Theatre Building.

The facade and the Kales Building are shown here on Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3362573,-83.0521193,171a,35y,351.23h,18.18t/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu

(I took special care when writing the for the image, so consider checking it out.)

adamjcook, to random

Fred Lambert of Electrek, one of ’s main corporate scribes, is so close to getting it here.

How people write something this while failing to recognize the immense dangers of it is beyond me.

https://electrek.co/2023/05/30/tesla-driver-claims-crashed-tree-self-driving-mode/

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