As a result of the construction worker who vanished when the earth opened up under him (they still haven't found the (presumably) body), it was decided today to re-evacuate #Grindavík.
@isagalaev But his timing was incredible, because what was then "virtually impossible" was followed by a huge explosion of research right after he published. It was from 2014, and as a reference point, Google's "Deep Dream" (which seemed like the most incredible thing at the time, but now looks so primitive) came out in 2015. Image detection really took off and became widely accessible in the late 2010s, and at the end of the 2010s LLMs started to get into their stride.
@isagalaev To put it another way, the comment about "the virtually impossible" marked the start of the period of the "virtually impossible" coming to life and becoming everyday.
@majorlinux 1) That says nothing about accident rates, let alone fatality rates.
The OTA update was simply to force stricter driver monitoring.
ALL modern cars handle door latches electronically in a crash. You want the doors locked at the start of & during the crash sequence, then unlocked at the end of the sequence to facilitate egress. Due to one (1!) #Tesla's doors opening in a crash, the update slightly delays the unlocking at the end of the crash sequence.
@majorlinux 1) Updates don't install themselves. The user schedules it for their convenience.
Updates are rolled out in small batches.
All updates are cryptographically signed.
The previous answer to "finding a way to do things even better than a top-safety-ranked-car" was either "you have to bring the car in for an update", or "simply no update at all, the car remains the same as it was when you bought it". OTA updates are an unambiguously good thing.
@majorlinux The vast majority of people prefer convenience, when reasonable precautions (such as cryptographic signing) are taken. Which is why, say, online banking exists and is widely used.
@majorlinux "But a bank won't risk my life" - it'll certainly risk your life's savings, and robbing you blind involves far less "A has to happen, then B has to happen, then C has to happen...." implausible chain of steps than you're positing for a hacker to kill you in your car. The former means they just need the bank's key, and then they have everything. The latter means they need Tesla's key, and control over their distribution network, you have to connect to wifi to download it, then...
@ekknappenberger I just care about facts and don't understand why so many people don't. Why doesn't truth matter? How does "Elon is an arse" translate into "Share misinfo about anything remotely connected to him and then get mad if someone debunks it"?
One of the things I hate most about Musk is his pushing of the notion of a post-truth world - that nothing is knowable, all views are equally valid, so just believe whatever feels best, or nothing at all. Just like they do in Putin's Russia.
Saw my first Tesla Cybertruck in the wild a few days ago. Longer than I expected, but the hood height was lower than I expected — much lower than on big new SUVs & pickups. But worse pedestrian/cyclist visibility than smaller cars, and sure wouldn't want one to hit me.
@stshank Not sure it's really bloated. It's the shortest crew cab pickup on the market with a standard (6') bed. The packing efficiency is really good.
The Ukrainian SBU released a video of one of their USVs. It shows a spectacular new development. Apparently, Ukrainian USVs are now capable to fire missiles. The video shows an attack against Russian Navy vessels at the port of Russian-occupied Sevastopol.
@Tendar I was thinking about this just this morning. Something not much more advanced than the Syrian "Elephant Rockets" would completely bypass both Sevastopol's and the Crimean Bridge's boat / submarine defenses. Just a short-range lob is all you need.
Met an American tonight who spent a year living in #Russia, following her then-fiancé.
First night in #Moscow, went to stay at a hostel. The guy at the hostel asked, in an unfriendly manner, why are you here? She lied and said because Moscow is a famous, beautiful city. He shook his head no.
"The city is grey. The country is grey. The sky is grey. The people are grey. Everything is grey here."
That was pretty much the universal experience in her year living in #Russia: one cold (physically and emotionally), emotionally distant, and cynical.
The only warmth she felt was from babies; she found the Russian babies adorable. She praised a smiling baby to its mother, but was quickly shaken out of the moment when the mother replied basically that babies smile because they haven't yet learned that life is suffering.
Tesla is facing mounting pressure across Nordic countries to sign a collective bargaining agreement with employees in #Sweden.
Finnish transport workers’ union #AKT on Thursday confirmed that a blockade on Tesla vehicles earmarked for Sweden would also come into force across all Finnish ports from Dec. 20."
@HistoPol Tesla is just switching to signing the car over to the owners before it gets the plates and then the owner files a missing plate request.
Note that there's two court cases, once against the transport authority and one against the post office. The former case has gone much better than the latter.
Tesla does not need ports. It already transports a large portion of its vehicles by road.
Tesla Sweden sales this quarter were about 50% higher than one year ago.
@andrewfeeney Are you saying that southern California (where it was designed, Tesla's LA design studio) isn't sunny? 🤔 While the deep outback is brighter than LA, Australia's major cities are dimmer.
I mean, there's a reason why it has a 90% tint plus IR and UV rejection....
