I recall reading an analysis of how the conversion of taxis and trucks to self-driving vehicles could put millions of people with relatively strong jobs that require few hurdles for entry out of work. Something like 3.5 million people drive trucks alone.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 20:46 (three years ago) link
yeah, but those same truck drivers will help spur innovation and growth in the video poker sector
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link
They just need to pivot to video, simple.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 21:10 (three years ago) link
Well, someone's got to plug those video poker machines in. That's millions of jobs gained right there alone!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 21:11 (three years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 21:55 (three years ago) link
It works perfectly well, for the first few hundred feet before it hits another car or runs someone over. But that's theirs problem for not being automated, losers.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 21:58 (three years ago) link
something like the tusimple approach should be possible, since you can invest more money into the sensors for semis. you probably also have a better view of things with the sensor placement. and it looks like they have set shipping routes that will be well-trained. there will still be a driver in the cockpit.
― intrusive dobro, shoeless guest (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 22:31 (three years ago) link
I know this is off topic but it fucking drives me up the wall to see hundreds of idiots on Twitter defend this guy by saying "yeah he's a billionaire but he's literally trying to save the world and advance civilization by bringing about a techno utopia" when he SWATs his own workers for even suggesting they unionize― frogbs, Wednesday, March 24, 2021 3:17 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― frogbs, Wednesday, March 24, 2021 3:17 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
This is because Americans don’t trust one another and are more comfortable with an idea of one “great man” changing things than they are with collective action. There is no solidarity here, people just want to make sure their neighbor doesn’t have more than they do. This is a bitter, self loathing country that worships its worst citizens.
― treeship., Thursday, 25 March 2021 00:51 (three years ago) link
https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/25/22351157/tesla-elon-musk-delete-anti-union-tweet-national-labor-relations-boardNo question that Tesla and Musk have engaged in many illegal shenanigans to pre-emptively bust a union, but what is "technically" the offense in this tweet? The giving up stock options thing?
― Nhex, Friday, 26 March 2021 14:02 (three years ago) link
yes. page 51 of the ruling starts going into the rationale. IANAL but basically it is illegal to tell employees that if you vote to unionize, we will take away a benefit you currently have - it's a form of intimidation. the NLRB finds that this is the most logical/likely interpretation of the tweet.bear in mind also that, threatened in advance or not, if employees chose Union Yes, employers are barred from making unliateral changes to things that are subjects of bargaining, even before a contract is ratified. (they may try anyway, but they can be challenged for doing something illegal.) so tesla also could not legally do this stock options thing that he was implying/threatening would happen.basically a more sophisticated sleazy employer would have listened to his sleazy anti union lawyers, who would have told him "you have to phrase it like you're deeply concerned that a possible outcome *of collective bargaining* would be a contract where for some reason the union's representation agrees to give up this benefit and everybody loses out, bizarre though that might be." employers use this schtick all the time - for example fretting that somehow a union would ratify a contract where workers lose more by paying dues than they gain in take-home pay. never mind that this will never ever happen, because what bargaining unit would vote yes to ratify such a contract? the employer can legally speculate that gosh, it's *possible*! watch out guys! musk didn't bother with that, so it seems like he's just saying "an outcome of you voting yes is i will punish you," which is not allowed.
― this honking's on a bobo (Doctor Casino), Friday, 26 March 2021 14:34 (three years ago) link
gotcha. ty!
― Nhex, Friday, 26 March 2021 14:36 (three years ago) link
'Investors are pouring money into unprofitable companies more than any time since the dot-com bubble.' https://t.co/myvYqbQYR7 pic.twitter.com/EOuevP70ZU— Jesse Felder (@jessefelder) March 26, 2021
― lag∞n, Friday, 26 March 2021 15:29 (three years ago) link
what could go wrong
― sean gramophone, Friday, 26 March 2021 15:34 (three years ago) link
no future no past
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 26 March 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link
Elon Musk, Texas: Apartheid. https://t.co/xzOglJuRyV pic.twitter.com/SSlqHlD3sM— The Onion (@TheOnion) March 25, 2021
can't believe this dumb herb actually replied
― rob, Friday, 26 March 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link
this guy
― lag∞n, Friday, 26 March 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
apparently bitch-ass-ness is as unlimited as income growth for the wealthy these days
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Friday, 26 March 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link
this dude sucks
― Clay, Friday, 26 March 2021 21:22 (three years ago) link
I have been told of this creep's genius mind for almost ten years now and I have yet to use any of his products, and most of the people around me can say the same. Dude is the ultimate snake oil vendor and I hope unionization drives his ideas out of the highway and into the precipice.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 27 March 2021 00:38 (three years ago) link
Lmao the Babylon Bee fucking suuuucks
― frogbs, Saturday, 27 March 2021 00:45 (three years ago) link
on the upside there's a lot of gold in that Onion slideshow
― rob, Saturday, 27 March 2021 01:01 (three years ago) link
I found a video about Tesla's autopilot in Vietnam.That poor system just gave up. pic.twitter.com/9J3FlL2tsw— Tu Minh (@TuhmSG) March 30, 2021
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 19:44 (three years ago) link
Lol
lots of FSD failure vids going on right now. Clearly not close to ready.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
Lol I didn't realize anyone owned a Tesla here in Vietnam. I have often thought when driving here that this might be the toughest challenge on Earth for their autopilot
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 23:32 (three years ago) link
Athens, Greece is also pretty nuts with all the motorbikes.
― DJI, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 23:49 (three years ago) link
It’s fine SpaceX. I’ll just reschedule my field work until next year again because I can’t drive down a state Highway or state beach. It’s only public land and critical habitats you just showered with rocket parts. pic.twitter.com/gTj9l5SXrV— Ross Winton (@rosscwinton) March 31, 2021
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Thursday, 1 April 2021 01:03 (three years ago) link
Technoking indeed
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 1 April 2021 02:55 (three years ago) link
The explosion of yet another (3rd so far this year) SpaceX rocket prototype yesterday showered metal and potentially toxic debris far into the sensitive tidal flats of the South Bay Coastal Preserve, Boca Chica State Park and the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. On the right side of the highway is the SpaceX fenceline, and on the left is what has historically been one of the single most important sites for wintering Piping Plovers and thousands of other shorebirds. Since SpaceX gets County orders to close the highway and beach most weekdays we have had to cut back extensively on our monitoring there. Sadly, most news stories about these explosions neglect to mention the extensive damage being done to these highly unique coastal public lands.
https://www.facebook.com/CBBEPCoastalBirds/photos/a.1410276219230980/2985174601741126/
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Friday, 2 April 2021 00:09 (three years ago) link
Lmaoooooooo pic.twitter.com/DXU5e3dGJ7— logo, uncool zoned dad (@logophobe) April 5, 2021
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 April 2021 15:05 (three years ago) link
this is really something!
Footage of what it looks like when a @Tesla is traveling through the @boringcompany’s Convention Center Loop. #vegas #boringcompany pic.twitter.com/ph1DJoTYBi— Mick Akers (@mickakers) April 9, 2021
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 April 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
remarkable! maybe they can build a scale model of london in the parking area and play the peter pan title music.
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 9 April 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link
Apartheid guy is an arsonist
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 9 April 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
Lol fair
behold: the las vegas tradition of using light design to distract you from what a bad time you're having https://t.co/Yaot4SRTPJ— Scott Frazier (@safrazie) April 9, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 9 April 2021 18:02 (three years ago) link
can you carry open bottles in the tunnel, though
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 9 April 2021 18:09 (three years ago) link
My neighbor just bailed on getting a Tesla solar roof installed after like 8 months of runaround from the company.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 9 April 2021 18:27 (three years ago) link
Actual footage of Elon's Tesla submarine attacking a competitor's loop prototype:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5e/23/9b/5e239b8a83739df81702fdd2e80af52d.gif
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 April 2021 19:04 (three years ago) link
In more serious/interesting news, I did hear a good Freakanomics episode that addressed the challenges self-driving cars face with roundabouts:
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/roundabouts/
When a human driver enters a roundabout, Cameron explains:CAMERON: What you’re doing is having to do this intricate dance almost, with all of these other people. You’re basically taking social cues from all of these different vehicles and you’re doing that visually.As we’ve been hearing, learning this roundabout dance can be a challenge for human drivers.CAMERON: In a robo-taxi, that same challenge is present. You have to be able to perceive these objects early.Objects including not just other vehicles but pedestrians, cyclists, dogs.CAMERON: You have to be able to understand their intent, understand their direction, their speed. And all of these things make for a particularly interesting challenge. And a robo-taxi is not quite as aggressive as a human driver. So it’s very conservative.And in some circumstances:CAMERON: You cannot be conservative. It just doesn’t work. You’d be stuck there at the entrance to a roundabout forever.
As we’ve been hearing, learning this roundabout dance can be a challenge for human drivers.
CAMERON: In a robo-taxi, that same challenge is present. You have to be able to perceive these objects early.
Objects including not just other vehicles but pedestrians, cyclists, dogs.
CAMERON: You have to be able to understand their intent, understand their direction, their speed. And all of these things make for a particularly interesting challenge. And a robo-taxi is not quite as aggressive as a human driver. So it’s very conservative.
And in some circumstances:
CAMERON: You cannot be conservative. It just doesn’t work. You’d be stuck there at the entrance to a roundabout forever.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 April 2021 19:10 (three years ago) link
"Hey, kids --- Big Ben! Parliament!"
― sgt. pepper's one-and-only bobo honkin' band (Doctor Casino), Friday, 9 April 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link
lol that's in the episode!
BERESFORD: It was that Lampoon with Chevy Chase — that’s so much stuck in the psychology of the Americans, that you’re just going to go ’round and ’round forever on a roundabout.You may remember this scene:Chevy CHASE: I guess what we do is just drive around the circle here. It’s from the 1985 film National Lampoon’s European Vacation. Chevy Chase plays the American dad Clark Griswold, driving around a London roundabout with his family.CHASE: Hey look, kids! There’s Big Ben and there’s Parliament!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 April 2021 19:16 (three years ago) link
hahahahhaa
― sgt. pepper's one-and-only bobo honkin' band (Doctor Casino), Friday, 9 April 2021 19:23 (three years ago) link
Stephenson's Rocket, a fucking oak barrel on wheels, went faster than the Las Vegas Loop in 1829 and hauled more people pic.twitter.com/X90A3uWZfe— 🌈Wings & Strings (@TomColetti) April 9, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 9 April 2021 21:03 (three years ago) link
Elon would go faster if he sealed himself in a barrel and got thrown over Niagara falls.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 April 2021 21:19 (three years ago) link
I like subways.
Why would you replace subways?
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 10 April 2021 02:32 (three years ago) link
because theyre competition for your car business
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 April 2021 02:33 (three years ago) link
Seems very unsafe, also.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 10 April 2021 02:47 (three years ago) link
Kylie Jenner drives through Deathtrap Tunnel
Kylie Jenner showing off The Boring Company tunnel in Las Vegas 👀 🔥 @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/wwN0yc9zIx— SAINT (@saint) April 14, 2021
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 16 April 2021 13:49 (three years ago) link
the cars must be on self driving mode in the tunnel no
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 April 2021 13:52 (three years ago) link
makes sense, but doesn't look like it from that video.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 16 April 2021 13:55 (three years ago) link
good, because Jenners don't have a good track record when driving their own vehicles
― P-Zunit (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 April 2021 13:56 (three years ago) link
thankfully there have been no incidents to date of accidents involving self-driving cars
― sgt. pepper's one-and-only bobo honkin' band (Doctor Casino), Friday, 16 April 2021 13:56 (three years ago) link