TL;DR: Prius and Prius Prime have a flaw where the rear doors may get water-leak (possibly from a car wash?) and randomly open even while driving. Toyota has issued a large scale recall as well as a stop-selling order to all dealerships....
Tesla’s deal with Baidu isn’t new, the mapping data Tesla will collect likely can’t leave China, and Full Self-Driving can’t compete with more advanced Chinese alternatives...
Democrats, Johnson told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt last week, “move in a herd” and “act like a union” following their leader because there’s no diversity of opinion causing them to stray. Their groupthink could even be described as the behavior of “socialists,” he asserted. Republicans, however, can’t be...
Bullshit. Republican’s main problem is the opposite. They move together without thinking about it.
Even when Republicans know what they’re doing is wrong, they prioritize doing the wrong thing, but together. EDIT: Case in point: the reason why “RINO” is such an effective insult is because Republicans by-and-large understand this about themselves and the alliance they’ve formed.
Democrat’s problem is their lack of compromise on their philosophies and ideologies in my experience. A tiny bit more “practicality” and “pragmatism” (ie: embracing propaganda, embracing contradictions, etc. etc.) would make Democrats stronger.
Meanwhile, Republicans need to stop being so pragmatic. You don’t need to support Trump ya know? There were other options. I know Republicans do what is easiest in the short term, but they’re thinking way too short term here. Its going to eat away at the long-term prospects for their party.
Democrats will shit on each other and hang each other out to dry and abandon someone over the smallest inconvenience in their ideology.
Republicans will protect even grossly incompetent assholes who they disagree with in the name of party unity. (Exception: the “RINO” argument. If the overall Republican party believes someone is a RINO, they will shit on them and run them out of the party. This is the only sin that is worthy of expulsion inside of the Republican party).
My point is that Republicans are not driven by ideology as much as pragmatism. They are rather open about this too.
Compromise, lack of compromise. That doesn’t matter. The focus of the Republican party is party unity right now, no joke. They know that they’re in a tough spot politically and only sticking together is the only way they can possibly move forward.
You have to understand the mindset of Republicans. And honestly, its not a bad thing in all cases, its just overly strong right now in today’s Republican party.
Democrats need to learn from Republicans and become more pragmatic. Republicans need to learn from Democrats and take a few more Losses in the name of ideology (ie: Republicans should actually form a cohesive ideology and agree upon it, no matter how hard it is to do so).
Note that Republicans can’t even pass ideological “What the Party Believes in” like statements inside of the Republican National Committee right now. In part because they recognize its not important (which is… true… this current batch of Republicans is not about ideology). Meanwhile the Democrats get all tangled up in ideological arguments that the Republicans aren’t even playing with. So whatever, its seen as a win for the current batch of Republicans, but its not good for them in the long term IMO.
Lemmy, the social network, started off as a leftist hangout spot.
From the perspective of “Open Source developers who are anti-Reddit pro-Fediverse”, it makes a lot of sense for Leftist/Communist and anti-corporation leaning people to hang out.
After all, the more extreme the viewpoint, the more driven to action (ie: write tens-of-thousands of lines of code and release for free) people get. In some regards, its the nature of Open Source + volunteer effort to attract a more extreme ideology. IE: Free Software is driven by ideology, not by money. So you get ideological people, especially when the software is small and niche.
The July 2023 Reddit Blackout was a big challenge for Lemmy’s old community and the new community, as the new community basically “invaded” a large scale leftist hangout spot. But hopefully we all learn to work together and the nature of our neighbors moving forward.
I think anyone here (likely everyone?) is at least on the anti-corporate anti-Reddit side of the discussion. Which is enough of an alliance to keep us together, for now.
It does mean that we’ll have to keep up with the far-left old-timers on this network who wish to push their viewpoints. But they are the legacy and the start of Lemmy in some respects, even as the hypergrowth (starting in July 2023) has moderated the community pretty severely.
I mean, I don’t have much problem with people disagreeing with me. But I’m pretty openly pro-capitalist, though I’m not a dumbass libertarian.
I recognize the need for the “capitalist edge cases” (externalities, monopolies, etc. etc.) that must be regulated and fixed for the system to work. I also recognize that we’ve failed to regulate externalities (ex: CO2 emissions), and failed to regulate monopolies / anticompetitive behavior (see Google).
So I’m a “capitalism works, but only if we work to make it work” kind of person. I think at the moment, Reddit and many other social networks are falling into the well known and well studied failures of raw capitalism, but somehow today’s society has forgotten all the 1910s era solutions that we did (ex: Jungle, etc. etc.) where we regulated the hell out of the shitty behavior and fixed the most blatant problems, for the better of America.
We just gotta do the same thing today.
Overall, I accept that the commies / tankies were here first, and the history of Lemmy makes it clear why that happened.
Next-generation battery technology, in the form of either Sodium-Ion batteries, or Solid-State Batteries, are beginning to come into mass production....
Edited the “I” for less confusion. The blogpost’s title is “I made a…”, but “I” (Dragontamer) didn’t do this. I just found this blogpost and though it was relevant for this sublemmy.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World / Michael Cera as the titular character.
Yes, Michael Cera is great at portraying awkwardness. But… I don’t think Michael Cera’s awkwardness was the right kind of awkwardness that Scott Pilgrim had. But maybe that’s just me.
In total, NHTSA investigated 956 crashes, starting in January 2018 and extending all the way until August 2023. Of those crashes, some of which involved other vehicles striking the Tesla vehicle, 29 people died. There were also 211 crashes in which “the frontal plane of the Tesla struck a vehicle or obstacle in its path.”...
NHTSA acknowledges that its probe may be incomplete based on “gaps” in Tesla’s telemetry data. That could mean there are many more crashes involving Autopilot and FSD than what NHTSA was able to find.
You seem to be pretending that these numbers are an overestimate. But the article makes clear. This investigation is a gross underestimate. There are many, many more dangerous situations that “Tesla Autopilot” has been in.
Driving is an inherently unsafe process, journalists suck at conveying relative risks, probably because the average reader sucks at understanding statistical risk, but there needs to be a better process for comparing systems than just "29 people died’.
This is 29 people died while provably under Autopilot. This isn’t a statistic. This was an investigation. Your treatment of this number as a “statistic” actually shows that you’re not fully understanding what NHTSA accomplished here.
What you want, a statistical test for how often Autopilot fails, is… well… depending on the test, as high as 100%.
100% of the time, Tesla Autopilot will fail this test. That’s why Luminar technologies used a Tesla for their live-demonstration at CES Vegas, because Tesla was so reliably failing this test it was the best one to pair up with their LIDAR technology as a comparison point.
Tesla Autopilot is an automaton. When you put it inside of its failing conditions, it will fail 100% of the time. Like a machine.
TheRegister compiled this count back in 2022, but Tesla’s issues continue until today. Reported ADAS crashes for Tesla are an abnormal outlier. Anyone looking at the reports can see something is grossly wrong here.
How about this. Lets take ADAS usage from other companies, and compare them to Tesla?
Oh right. No one else is dying anywhere close to Tesla. As it turns out, no other car jerks you out of a lane and into a center-median killing everyone inside.
You’re not up against other “humans”. Its 2024. Many cars have ADAS systems, lane centering systems, etc. etc. In fact, its Tesla who has fallen behind. Tesla doesn’t even have RADAR anymore, and typical Toyotas and Subarus (even cheap ones) all have lane centering, emergency braking.
And when we’re in parking lots (where most accidents occur, albeit non-fatal ones but still costly), other vehicles have ultrasonics, cross-lane detection, and 360 cameras to see all around us.
No one else’s ADAS systems have anywhere close to the reported number of errors, crashes, or deaths as Tesla has.
Y’all are overcomplicating this. Death car kills people because asshole CEO lies about how safe it is.
There is footage of Tesla’s autopilot crashing into medians and driving on the wrong isde of the road right now.
As I said earlier: it’s an automation. An automaton. When this ‘Autopilot’ or ‘Full Self Diving’ gets placed in front of still objects (like Firetrucks with their sirens on), the damn thing crashes into them. It’s clearly fucking blind vs still objects and no one at Tesla has figured out how to solve that yet.
Still median? Crash.
Still firetruck on the side of the road? Crash
Still balloon in the shape of a child at live CES / Luminary tech demo? Crashes every time.
It’s a god awful system that is only saved because of human intervention in these cases. When Tesla ASDS fails, it’s near certain and repeatably fails.
Despite that fact, we have a CEO lying trying to convince people otherwise of this automations capabilities.
Now we have an NHTSA investigation into deaths and crashes, and the fanbase is still pretending the emperor has clothes on.
Answer: Tesla fails this test 100% of the time. That’s why its a tech demo for Luminar tech, because they’re selling LIDAR units to the public. They chose Tesla because it reliably fails vs these balloon children.
Just because they are causing accidents doesn’t mean they’re causing more accidents.
These statistics literally show Tesla vehicles literally causing more accidents than other ADAS systems.
but how many Teslas are on the road vs other ADAS cars?
Mobileye has 170 million vehicles under its ADAS system across Nissan, BMW, Volkswagen, Ford, Toyota, Porsche, and … early versions of Tesla (back when Tesla Autopilot 1 was performing better than this new crap that’s come out more recently).
Tesla isn’t even the #1 manufacturer of ADAS systems. Mobileye is. The only reason Tesla ever went into this Autopilot / FSD crap was because Mobileye fired them as a customer because Mobileye didn’t like how Tesla’s advertisements oversold the capabilities. And now Tesla has a shittier ADAS system that they pretend is better than their competitors, even though Tesla can’t even figure out how to integrate RADAR and Ultrasonic systems like Mobileye can.
And when the CEO says that Full Self Driving coast-to-coast by 2017, and that “The human is only here for regulatory purposes”, overselling the capabilities of the “FSD” system, what do you think that causes?
Drunk people relying upon FSD to drive them head-first into a firetruck.
The contract was determined to be null-and-void because Elon Musk (the largest shareholder) was working with Elon Musk (the Chairman of the Board) to determine Elon Musk’s salary (the CEO).
There’s a bit of squabbling at the Board of Directors stage, as there’s more people involved. But it turns out that the Board of Directors acted entirely like Elon Musk sycophants. The Court of Delaware was not amused at this obvious and massive scale corruption where Elon Musk loyalists set the wage of Elon Musk.
2023 / 2024 Prius and Prius Prime recall notice (static.nhtsa.gov)
TL;DR: Prius and Prius Prime have a flaw where the rear doors may get water-leak (possibly from a car wash?) and randomly open even while driving. Toyota has issued a large scale recall as well as a stop-selling order to all dealerships....
Elon Musk Can’t Solve Tesla’s China Crisis With His Desperate Asia Visit (www.wired.com)
Tesla’s deal with Baidu isn’t new, the mapping data Tesla will collect likely can’t leave China, and Full Self-Driving can’t compete with more advanced Chinese alternatives...
GOP House hard-liners won’t compromise. They’re losing key fights because of it. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Democrats, Johnson told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt last week, “move in a herd” and “act like a union” following their leader because there’s no diversity of opinion causing them to stray. Their groupthink could even be described as the behavior of “socialists,” he asserted. Republicans, however, can’t be...
Why there is so much communist propaganda on lemmy?
Even from people that never lived in a communist state...
Natron Energy Achieves First-Ever Commercial-Scale Production of Sodium-Ion Batteries in the U.S. (www.businesswire.com)
Next-generation battery technology, in the form of either Sodium-Ion batteries, or Solid-State Batteries, are beginning to come into mass production....
Blogpost: [Codedbearder] made a new backplane for my Terramaster F2-221 NAS (codedbearder.com)
Edited the “I” for less confusion. The blogpost’s title is “I made a…”, but “I” (Dragontamer) didn’t do this. I just found this blogpost and though it was relevant for this sublemmy.
What’s one miscast role that irks you in an otherwise perfect film?
Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths (www.theverge.com)
In total, NHTSA investigated 956 crashes, starting in January 2018 and extending all the way until August 2023. Of those crashes, some of which involved other vehicles striking the Tesla vehicle, 29 people died. There were also 211 crashes in which “the frontal plane of the Tesla struck a vehicle or obstacle in its path.”...
Former Exec Baglino Sells Tesla Shares Worth $181.5 Million, SEC Filing Shows (money.usnews.com)
Article’s introduction is everything you need to know....
[Threads] Musk demanding a $53 billion payout would be the equivalent of (www.threads.net)
A nifty little @threads post by esg.hound....
Elon Musk insists Tesla isn’t a car company as sales falter (finance.yahoo.com)
As Tesla car sales faltered, Musk delivered an optimistic pivot: Tesla isn’t a car company....