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, to detroit

Wild weather in right now, pretty much out of nowhere.

Tornado Warning in , so I am told.

Stay safe out there!

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, to detroit

Incredibly tragic.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2023/08/19/eastern-market-ceo-injured-wife-dead-after-being-hit-by-car/70631502007/

adamjcook, to tesla

🧵Here is my take on this development… this case should have never made it to judges and juries.

It does make it to judges and juries because of the deliberate disinterest of the US’s theoretical auto safety regulator - the .

We are dealing with extraordinarily complex and highly-opaque system engineering issues here.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-17/tesla-failed-to-fix-autopilot-after-fatal-crash-engineers-say

adamjcook, to detroit

is so rich in history.

A modest amount of history has been lost over the years, but I really appreciate the frequent glimpses back in time… however small.

This the examination room at our vet’s office in Downtown Detroit.

adamjcook, to detroit

’s last free-standing synagogue, one of the most unique buildings in Detroit, just completed a $5.4 million renovation.

Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue.

And the building looks great.

It is absolutely wonderful that these institutions and community staples are doubling down on Detroit’s future.

We need more of this.

adamjcook, to Michigan

"Fix the damn roads" is one of the most out-of-touch slogans in politics today and I wince every time I hear and see it.

I live in and I cannot even get a damn bus to because the City of Livonia was allowed, inexplicably under Michigan Law, to simply opt-out. 🤷‍♂️

adamjcook, to random

I want to celebrate this more (as a huge proponent of US ), but I disagree with the ’s point-of-sale rebates for .

Advanced manufacturing credits for some domestic production? Sure.

Not POS vehicle rebates.

And I believe that the POS rebates will ultimately be far more than the CBO scoring suggests.

It was a missed opportunity to allocate those funds to broaden US manufacturing competency.

https://emoltzen.substack.com/p/a-year-into-the-ira-billions-are

adamjcook, to tesla

Here’s the thing.

Clearly, today does not have internal engineering competence in systems.

Competent safety-critical system engineers do not ship “beta” systems to the untrained public.

But let’s put all that aside for a bit.

Overworked, stressed engineers is simply incompatible with the exacting work of safety-critical systems anyways.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/16/23833447/tesla-elon-musk-ultra-hardcore-employees-land-of-the-giants

adamjcook, to twitter

It is interesting watching (from afar) sheepishly backtrack on the hype.

There were three, maybe four ringleaders as far as I could tell - which included some that are competent in science and physics that should have known better.

But whipping up useless hype gets people paid by Twitter at the moment.

It all really underscores my position on how unsuitable Twitter is for actual science and public education - and that was fairly true even in the pre- Twitter Era.

adamjcook, to detroit

I have said it before, and I will keep saying it...

Nothing has damaged and more than the industry - from multiple fronts and multiple perspectives.

And although I believe that some public officials here are starting to (finally) recognize that, we must be far more aggressive in shifting away from this industry in Michigan.

The amount of state incentives that have currently been spent on facilities is too much at this point.

adamjcook, to Engineering

Going live again on my channel in a few minutes. Probably going to make this an ad-hoc, regular thing - with weekly, and educational streams intermixed in there.

Today, it will just be me working on some OnShape models with some classical music in the background. I do not plan to do much talking unless there are questions in the chat.

I am new to OnShape (having used PTC Creo for decades), so I am in a learning phase. 😅

Stop on in! 🤪

https://kick.com/motorcityadam

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.

🧵

adamjcook, to plc

Tonight, in about a half hour (10 pm EST, 7 pm PST)... I am going to try and launch my first stream on Kick.

The channel is here: https://kick.com/motorcityadam

We will see, but I am currently thinking of doing Monday and Friday streams.

I will not be playing videos games, because I am terrible at those. 😅

Instead, we will be doing using some and, in time, other digital engineering tools. In the future, programming and more.

Please join the channel if that interests you!

adamjcook, (edited ) to TeslaMotors

Anyone remember the time when promised that, if you buy a vehicle today, it will soon earn you $30,000/year in personal income by acting as a public "robotaxi" when not in use?

That was in 2019.

Same basic lie, different day.

The lie worked for Tesla when Tesla needed it most financially (and Musk was never challenged on it by US regulators), and so Musk is now trying it again.

Of course, the "Tesla Lie" actually killed people (by creating human driver complacency).

adamjcook, to random

A Tiggy Cat .

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, 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, to opensource

Wow. Big!

The compiler will almost certainly not be , which is just a tiny bit sad, but the advancement of Rust into this domain would be a milestone.

https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/a-decade-of-rust/

adamjcook, to ML

Well put.

And frankly, the community needs a serious (technical and ethical) wake-up call.

Many would gush over Tesla’s so-called “ Days” while neglecting to demand any safety case.

That advanced and legitimatized Tesla’s wrongdoings - wrongdoings where people have died avoidably.

These are systems and not “AIs”.

A robust systems safety process is the real, competitive value - not the data, NN architecture, sensors, compute, or whatever.

Tesla has no process.

adamjcook, to random

A missed opportunity, in my view, to discuss how ’s somewhat recent entry into the systems space is really the far more pressing issue here.

Hand-waving systems safety yields enormous cost savings (far more than is typically expected) and is corrosive to a modern society in ways that courts could never rectify once sufficiently lost.

https://www.businessinsider.com/venture-capital-big-tech-antitrust-predatory-pricing-uber-wework-bird-2023-7

adamjcook, to 3DPrinting

The recent consolidation in the market has been interesting from its lofty promise back around 2015 or so.

I can recall many pilot programs at many manufacturers that I saw personally.

is a tough nut (perhaps, the toughest nut) to crack in terms of displacing entrenched, proven processes like machining and casting.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-13/3d-systems-is-said-to-bump-offer-for-stratasys-to-24-a-share

adamjcook, to detroit

The US is in an abusive relationship with cars - and in nowhere is that felt more than here in , so I submit.

The car’s heyday as an economic growth engine has long passed, ICE or or otherwise, and all that is left in its wake its sprawl, unmanageable roadway death, unnecessary environmental damage and housing inaccessibility.

https://newrepublic.com/article/173782/ev-revolution-help-bankrupt-public-transit

adamjcook, to random

“Safety” is a term tossed around like a cheap suit these days - with cars, submarines, planes, whatever.

Note that safety has primarily nothing to do with software, software versions, sensors, 5-star ratings, statistics, data and so on.

Safety is all about the process - what is the fitness of the process that continuously seeks to identify, quantify and handle failure modes to avoid unacceptable death and injury.

No system can ever be “perfectly safe”.

But what is the process backing it?

adamjcook, to tesla

Inefficient, environmentally-harmful and unsafe.

and Clark County, reaching new lows of crummy urban planning.

https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/las-vegas-loop-tunnels-reach-encore-westgate/

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