until he is then stepped on by a Kaiju
― P-Zunit (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 April 2021 14:10 (three years ago) link
feels like an admission that their self-driving tech is at the single lane tunnel level.
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, April 16, 2021 10:00 AM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
at 35mph max lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 April 2021 14:23 (three years ago) link
I'm more confused by the fact that Tesla actively chose to release videos of it than I am at how much it sucks.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 16 April 2021 14:30 (three years ago) link
i feel like a lot of the excitement & novelty theyre feeling in that vid has got to be down to the fact that ppl that wealthy are never actually in the front seat of a moving vehicle seeing the road through the windshield
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 16 April 2021 14:32 (three years ago) link
the indescribable thrill of crushing claustrophobia
― rob, Friday, 16 April 2021 14:48 (three years ago) link
going to redub the clip with the tunnel scene from willy wonka
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 16 April 2021 14:51 (three years ago) link
Just wait until these dorks see the United terminal at O'Hare:https://vinepair.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ohaire-internal.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 April 2021 15:09 (three years ago) link
Or that shitty ride at Epcot:
https://www.themeparktourist.com/files/Journey%2520into%2520Imagination.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 April 2021 15:11 (three years ago) link
is that elon on the right?
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 16 April 2021 15:12 (three years ago) link
This is the man who will own Mars
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 16 April 2021 15:45 (three years ago) link
He can have it, imo, but only if he moves there.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 April 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link
he has....two weeks
― P-Zunit (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 April 2021 16:00 (three years ago) link
l-r: elon musk, grimes
― peace, man, Friday, 16 April 2021 16:12 (three years ago) link
^not even funny anymore at this point, tbh.
― peace, man, Friday, 16 April 2021 16:13 (three years ago) link
Well a lot of Tesla's concepts are a figment of his imagination
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 16 April 2021 16:14 (three years ago) link
Lol I could write code for self driving cars in a single lane tunnel
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 16 April 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link
could do this with two, possibly one lego mindstorms reflectometer
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 16 April 2021 16:44 (three years ago) link
"lidar is a crutch"*builds tunnel underground for self-driving cars without lidar*
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 16 April 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link
i tuned out the whole boring story - is the idea that there will be endless lines of cars moving on these things? like a pullover lane where the passenger steps in, and then the boring car automatically moves onto the main 35mph track alongside it and whooshes to the destination?
i mean, i guess
jfc
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 April 2021 16:50 (three years ago) link
i think the best way to understand the boring company is its anti public transportation propaganda in service of selling more cars
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 April 2021 17:00 (three years ago) link
what if we take all the existing cars and then pay elon musk to reconfigure them to work on his boring lanes
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 April 2021 17:01 (three years ago) link
what if we connect all the existing cars together, in a loop, and then put that loop around the moon. then everyone would just hop in their cars, twist the loop, and you're on the moon
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 April 2021 17:02 (three years ago) link
like it doesnt have to be successful at transporting people to accomplish its goal which is to undermine public transportation via introducing chaos into the process of doing public transpo xp self
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 April 2021 17:02 (three years ago) link
heh, you might be right. you think it's kind of like a loss-leader, worth the billions of losses because it opens up other ways that he can make $ in a non-boring fashion?
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 April 2021 17:04 (three years ago) link
theres that and also hes not a totally rational actor who has made it clear he just hates public transportation on its on merits and he prob also believes his own bs so i mean why not dig some tunnels and make ridiculous claims
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 April 2021 17:07 (three years ago) link
whatever you think of bezos, he is clearly a good executive and logistics is the original hard operational problem. musk just seems insane, maybe 0.5% of the world (i.e. US men aged 20-30) find his shtick compelling, and the fact that he is the world's second richest man is proof that nothing matters.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 16 April 2021 17:12 (three years ago) link
i get a panic attack just thinking about riding in that thing
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 April 2021 17:12 (three years ago) link
it looks too narrow to open the doors (which probably don't work unless you turn the engine off and on again)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 16 April 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link
half-kidding but: Elon as a public figure makes me regret that Freudianism has fallen so out of favor
― rob, Friday, 16 April 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link
Engineer who worked on this tunnel for a bit before quitting messaged me other day and said “basically all the engineers did was work to make sure that the fancy lights looked cool” and that people trashing the tunnel - bc cars are slow, etc - are way more right than they realize https://t.co/arWokSQxdR— Ryan Deto (@RyanDeto) April 16, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 16 April 2021 17:29 (three years ago) link
I don’t think it’s possible to be any more right about Musk than I think I am
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 16 April 2021 18:04 (three years ago) link
I swear this whole project is a death trap.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 16 April 2021 18:17 (three years ago) link
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/16/22387887/elon-musk-spacex-win-nasa-lunar-lander-contract-artemis
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 16 April 2021 18:46 (three years ago) link
finally...mankind will touch the surface of the moon
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 April 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link
i have to admit it would be kind of funny if we found out that elon musk faked his moon landing
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 April 2021 19:18 (three years ago) link
I see Musky as this guy who controls/pays lots of really smart people then steals all the credit
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 16 April 2021 19:48 (three years ago) link
He is the Thomas Kinkade of tech.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 April 2021 20:07 (three years ago) link
controls/pays lots of really smart people
to do what
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 16 April 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
stuff that he steals the credit for
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Friday, 16 April 2021 21:51 (three years ago) link
tbf space exploration feels like a major grift
> Acting NASA administrator Steve Jurczyk said Friday that under President Biden’s budget request, the agency’s Artemis mission has a new goal: in addition to landing the first woman on the Moon, it will also send the first person of color to the lunar surface. So far, the only Earthlings to touch the Moon’s surface have been white men.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/9/22375899/nasa-first-person-of-color-artemis-mission-moon-woman
I hope this prevents cops from shooting black kids.
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 16 April 2021 22:00 (three years ago) link
i think it makes a lot of sense that his market worth is so huge because he's basically an avatar for the continued dominance of car culture. it's certainly not because he's competent in any way. he's kind of a similar figure to trump in the sense of being a stand-in for the relevance of a huge reactionary industry where his incompetence is a feature. like his real asset is just the fact that he's a stupid blowhard true believer.
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Friday, 16 April 2021 22:02 (three years ago) link
all they do is make robot cars that murder people, spaceships that explode on the ground, and imaginary submarines that get too mad at invisible paedophiles to get around to existing
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 16 April 2021 22:58 (three years ago) link
eh if you're into space stuff than SpaceX making launches way way cheaper is a big deal. and jump-starting the electric vehicle market (sorry too lazy to change bad metaphor) was a big deal.but yes, launching a suicidal self-driving feature was bad. the tunnel under Las Vegas seems like the dumbest so far (someone pointed out that they're too small for people to open their doors, so no escape in an emergency ... AND you can't get help because they're too small for emergency vehicles. and it was an awful idea anyway. trains! just make trains!)
― lukas, Friday, 16 April 2021 23:06 (three years ago) link
what good is SpaceX going to go for anything?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 April 2021 23:56 (three years ago) link
Ruining the night sky with orbiting trash and satellites.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Friday, 16 April 2021 23:58 (three years ago) link
I feel like the only real motivation is some pathetic billionaire sci fi escape fantasy of escaping a dying Earth and living on a space station
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 17 April 2021 00:00 (three years ago) link
yeah I'm not into space stuff either but I know smart devoted geeks who worship SpaceX so ... like so many things ... it might be useless, but the engineering was good.
― lukas, Saturday, 17 April 2021 00:04 (three years ago) link
I’ll give Tesla some credit for making a fully electric EV seem like a luxury vehicle - there are a lot of legitimately cool and impressive things about them. This has almost nothing to do with Musk himself, however - in fact, the more I read about this company the more I’ve come to the conclusion that his contribution to the company is generally limited to stupid, gimmicky features and bad QC as a result of making dumb promises. That said he does appeal to a certain type of mega online dork and that alone has probably sold thousands of cars.
― frogbs, Saturday, 17 April 2021 00:19 (three years ago) link
I’ll give Tesla some credit for making a fully electric EV seem like a luxury vehicle
this is terrible, not good
it might be useless, but the engineering was good.
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.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 17 April 2021 00:29 (three years ago) link
prototypes do blow up sometimes, that's sort of the point of the testing.if my comment didn't make it sufficiently clear, I'm a HUGE fan of blanketing wildlife refuges with rocket debris. I hope they explode a thousand more rockets. muhahahaha
― lukas, Saturday, 17 April 2021 00:34 (three years ago) link