Going live again on my #Kick channel in a few minutes. Probably going to make this an ad-hoc, regular thing - with weekly, #engineering and #robotics educational streams intermixed in there.
Today, it will just be me working on some OnShape #CAD 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. 😅
Another day, another extremely dangerous lie by #Musk that drives human driver complacency and that will result in completely avoidable death and injury.
#Tesla vehicles, at no time, can “drive themselves”.
#FSDBeta-active vehicles are not capable of “driving themselves”.
If your #NHTSA investigators are still wondering, after years of twiddling their thumbs, why #Autopilot-active, #Tesla vehicles keep slamming into the back of roadside emergency vehicles… I just provided you with the answer.
Anyone remember the time when #Musk promised that, if you buy a #Tesla 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 Our cat, Momo used to be like that when he was younger. Now he's older and has calmed down a lot, but he'll still get a bad case of the zoomies at least once, maybe twice a day.
#Musk’s completely unsupported and unhinged promises of future therapies, treatments or prosthetic devices enabled by his #Neuralink firm and this #Tesla “#Optimus” humanoid robotics project is pretty damn disgusting.
A new, disgusting low.
Even relative to Tesla’s vast #Autopilot and #FSDBeta wrongdoings, which is saying something.
This “#Optimus” humanoid robot is so primitive currently relative to the state-of-the-art that there is zero visible path for prosthetics use.
#Neuralink has not even so much as had a single human trial. There is zero underlying support in terms of patient benefit, safety and capabilities.
These disgusting, off-hand overtures by #Musk give people who may be suffering from debilitating and painful physical and neurological issues false hope, at best.
@adamjcook This makes more sense when you consider that Theranos' and Elizabeth Holmes's downfall was not because she was a sociopath, not because they lied to patients and put them at risk.
...It was because she caused a very specific subgroup of the monied political class to lose on their investment.
#Musk’s completely unsupported and unhinged promises of future therapies, treatments or prosthetic devices enabled by his #Neuralink firm and this #Tesla “#Optimus” humanoid robotics project is pretty damn disgusting.
A new, disgusting low.
Even relative to Tesla’s vast #Autopilot and #FSDBeta wrongdoings, which is saying something.
@adamjcook It's the assured destination of narcissists that succeed; lie and manipulate to build your own legend, begin to believe it despite knowing its fragility, and begin the spiral of spewing constant lies and half-thoughts.
@oleksify@adamjcook I am not sure what you think is being done with that project. This kind of work has been going on for years to allow people who have been injured to use a prosthetic that they can actually control them. This work has long pre-dated anything Tesla has done. And comparing a sci-fi comic book movie to medical research is not a reasonable comparison.
The compiler will almost certainly not be #OpenSource, which is just a tiny bit sad, but the advancement of Rust into this domain would be a milestone.
A missed opportunity, in my view, to discuss how #SiliconValley’s somewhat recent entry into the #SafetyCritical 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.
People today cannot really remember a time when everyday products would readily kill or maim. So, having lost those experiences over the decades, Silicon Valley increasingly saw a business opportunity.
But modern society is grounded on the public’s trust and, given enough critical mass, trust can be virtually lost overnight.
Quite literally.
That is Great Depression stuff right there, folks.