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 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!

CrackedWindscreen, to random
@CrackedWindscreen@mastodon.online avatar

Wow. I like a van-derived car more than most, but even this seems a little steep to me.
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/lexus-lm-luxury-mpv-receives-%C2%A3112995-range-topper-uk

adamjcook,

@CrackedWindscreen THE GRILL!

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,

First off, let us look at ’s “official” statement, from their website, as to the true limitations of and the products.

Hmm. That does not sound like Tesla itself is confident that their vehicles can drive themselves at any time. 🤔

Because the vehicles cannot.

But and Tesla play this dangerous, deceptive mind game with the public - and it is indeed a mind game.

adamjcook,

Now, let’s look at the underlying part.

and -equipped vehicles are Level 2-capable vehicles - with the exact same limitations as many other vehicles on the market today.

Namely, the key limitation is that the human driver must remain the fallback for any dynamic driving task or vehicle failures at all times and under all conditions.

Effectively, that means that the human has the exact same control responsibilities between the two vehicles shown below.

adamjcook,

Zero difference.

Only the illusion of a difference yielded by the presence of a poorly-understood (by the general public), opaque automated driving system.

, when paired with a human, is inherently dangerous.

Many believe that any kind of automation, sprinkled on top of a car, will automatically and definitely make the combined human-machine system “safer”.

Nothing can be further from the truth.

We can look to Autopilot in commercial aircraft as a contrasting example.

adamjcook,

Many also believe that automation enhances the engineered system part, the vehicle or the aircraft.

Not true.

, in fact, invisibly sits between the human operator and the vehicle controls.

Aircraft has fallen from the sky, operated by multiple, highly-seasoned pilots, right in front of the aircraft controls, for minutes due to the inherent danger of this invisible specter.

Only an acute respect for that fact can challenge that deadly, subconscious complacency.

adamjcook,

hand-waves this fact as well on their official Autopilot product website, as shown below.

That “relaxation”, that “workload reduction” you might feel when using or ?

Guess what that really is?

Complacency.

Deadly complacency.

And it strikes when you least expect it, when the vehicle suddenly encounters a failure and it takes you an additional second or three to regain situational and operational awareness.

Tesla washes its hands of that though.

adamjcook,

Indeed. Flight automation (Autopilot) has yielded enormous commercial airtravel safety benefits - but obtaining such benefits was far from “free”.

Aircraft pilots are continuously and meticulously trained, supervised and managed.

Flight deck interfaces and processes are maintained similarly.

Humans that operate control towers feed in critical flight information to these flight automation systems.

An enormous ballet of interacting processes are necessary to complement safe flight automation.

adamjcook,

None of that exists in the context of roadway vehicle automation.

Human drivers are not exhaustively trained and supervised - and it is impractical to do so.

That is why the Lie above is so dangerous.

We already have an unmanaged automated system on the public roadways and Tesla/Musk further enhance the human driver complacency that already inherently exists.

Zero safety upside to Musk’s Tweet above.

Only a safety downside.

adamjcook,

Hey Secretary ,

If your investigators are still wondering, after years of twiddling their thumbs, why -active, vehicles keep slamming into the back of roadside emergency vehicles… I just provided you with the answer.

Free of charge.

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-autopilot-may-be-responsible-for-another-fatal-cr-1850204165

adamjcook,

@normalguy Well, hopefully you found a car that you like better! 😄

For what it is worth, I have no opinion on people’s personal car selection choices, Tesla or otherwise, with respect to these posts.

I am just concerned about public safety.

CrackedWindscreen, to random
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Oh is that true? Musk has used a Unicode X for the logo, therefore it cannot be copyrighted? Please say its so.

adamjcook,

@CrackedWindscreen I believe that it is!

Oof.

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F

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,

For reference: https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-says-tesla-owners-131400548.html

adamjcook, to random

A Tiggy Cat .

adamjcook,

@CityHoosier Ha! He is a total nutcase too!

Zoomies all of the time. 🤪

Celeste_pewter, to random
@Celeste_pewter@mastodon.social avatar

I think the heat is making me extra cranky, but I saw this on the bird site, and just felt a wave of exhaustion. Tell me Elon doesn’t understand the site he demanded to buy, without telling me.

adamjcook, (edited )

@Danielsand @Celeste_pewter Oh. I agree.

I would put good money on a bet that Musk is screwing around with blocking and unblocking already.

adamjcook,

@lolopb @Danielsand @Celeste_pewter Yes, I believe so.

IIRC, Musk wanted to create some kind of "soft block by default" so that his alt-right pals could continue to harass members of the LGBTQ community.

I am certain that Twitter has done this without being too obvious somehow.

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,

This “” humanoid robot is so primitive currently relative to the state-of-the-art that there is zero visible path for prosthetics use.

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 give people who may be suffering from debilitating and painful physical and neurological issues false hope, at best.

adamjcook,

At worst, patients may reject the advice of their current medical professionals to hold out for these fantastical medical treatments and devices that has zero visibility on.

Unethical to the core.

If we had any semblance of effective regulatory agencies in the US, Musk would have been cracked good a while ago.

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,

@brennansv Musk had apparently promised that its robotic "limbs", combined with Neuralink's device would benefit amputees.

I believe this was stated on a Tesla Earnings Call tonight.

He has made other completely unsupported claims in the past with respect to Neuralink.

adamjcook,

@oleksify @brennansv It is one thing to perform medical research and trials and to remain hopeful (but guarded) about the results and the patient benefits.

It is quite another thing to make definitive assertions and to lead people, that may be currently suffering, on.

I will wait for a transcript of the call but I believe the wording was that Neuralink and prosthetics born from “Optimus” would give quadruple amputees "an incredibly capable" cyborg body.

Totally unsupportable.

adamjcook,

@brennansv I have watched this previously.

These are actual devices with proven patient benefits.

Musk is off talking about near-term "cures" for "autism" enabled by and a myriad of other entirely speculative treatments for complex neurological conditions and spinal injuries - all centered on one medical device that has not seen a single human trial.

That is the ugly foundation for Musk's statements - which continue to reach further and further every time he brings it up.

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