KayLeadfoot
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Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla Robotaxi Mows Down Bollards & Keeps Driving, After “Impeccable” Record Touted on Stock Call
3·18 days agoI actually looked into that…!
The Google Maps interface lets you see when the street was imaged. It’s been that way since 2024, at least. A helpful Redditor shared the link to it.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/VZRjSc325Kg7Vpq17
I’m bad as an automotive journalist. What I lack in skill, I make up for with effort and comedic timing
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Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla Robotaxi Mows Down Bollards & Keeps Driving, After “Impeccable” Record Touted on Stock Call
3·18 days agoI’m honestly surprised that a Tesla Model Y fit in this gap. Maybe it ran over the first bollard a bit?

Edit: And, IDK, “managed to get out appropriately” in this case would unfortunately mean throwing it in reverse and doubling back through the cross-walk, I think. It’s never a good idea to run stuff over to get where you’re going.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years.
1·3 months ago2024, I didn’t ask the dealership guy what hardware powered it (because I don’t care), I reviewed it here actually: https://fuelarc.com/cars/review-2024-tesla-model-3-long-range-rwd/
I don’t see how it could have gotten much better with a vision-based solution, but who knows? Personally, it wasn’t in the same ballpark as acceptable quality for my use-case. I don’t expect incremental software patches will fix that to my satisfaction.
Again, I’m weird, never been in an accident and I drive a ton, I’m particular about my car not crashing because I used to be on an ambulance crew and treating car-crash victims really takes the shine off your apple.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years.
1·3 months agoPoor anticipation of turns and poor trailing distance. Didn’t spot many other vehicles on the road, too, that’s ultimately what made me pull the plug.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Waymo Fleet More Than Triples In Size Year-over-Year, According to NHTSA Recall Data
2·4 months agodeleted by creator
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Technology@beehaw.org•Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years.
3·4 months agoEven on non-lethal accidents, Waymo generates something like 12x fewer.
I think that tech will be the automotive equivalent of the polio vaccine. Dying in road accidents will become akin to dying of rabies, a freak accident of extreme rarity. Probably, so will driving cars with no autonomous capabilities.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years.
1·4 months agoI’m glad for you!
Personally, I tried it. Wasn’t my cup of tea, bad safety margins (it doesn’t drive how I drive, and I am particular). There’s a consumer for that product, though. So long as you watch it closely, I certainly don’t mind, glad it suits you.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years.
11·4 months agoI mean, there are traffic violations, and then there are traffic violations - if there’s a dead body at the end, it was the second type.
Neither is desirable, but it would actually be a big win to create a tech system that drives a car that produces fewer fatalities per mile than the average human, regardless of whether or not it generates speeding tickets or other inconveniences.
That’s my opinion, anyway. I won’t downvote you, I only downvote comments unhelpful to the overall conversation, you’re not being unhelpful, I just disagree with you.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years.
51·4 months agoI was actually surprised that Waymo had only thousands of units in operation.
That being said, 3,000 commercially operating for years with zero fatalities, that’s not nothing. It’s not a ton, it doesn’t change the world (much), but it isn’t zero. Tesla’s result so far rounds down to zero.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years.
4·4 months agoNo, no, the AI calls APIs.
That is to say, A.ctual P.eople in I.ndia
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Technology@beehaw.org•Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years.
5·4 months agoIt’s me. And yes, I’m bad at math, guilty as charged. I tend to make pretty simple points.
But, yes, when a publicly traded company promises exponential growth on their earnings calls, and then delivers double-digit unit delivery a year later, I do tend to point and laugh. All of that is accurate.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years.
191·4 months agoDo they know how to scale up an autonomous taxi service? I mean, maybe? There’s no sign of that anywhere in the Tesla data, though.
The original target was Robotaxis to cover “half the US population by the end of 2025,” so we’re nowhere close to on-target, and those goals weren’t given with any asterix on the earnings call when they were declared. I don’t see any reason to move the goalpost, it’s just a miss taken to a funny conclusion.
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Technology@beehaw.org•An Enterprising Ioniq 6 Driver Got DOOM Running on Center Console
11·6 months ago¯_(ツ)_/¯
Figured I could trust you to find the link that says “WROTE A TUTORIAL.”
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Technology@beehaw.org•An Enterprising Ioniq 6 Driver Got DOOM Running on Center Console
1·6 months agoLinux, but you can run Android apps once you root it :)
It’s an excessively involved process at the moment, this individual managed it by using a common malware method, he imitated a legitimate OTA update but rewrote it to root the system. He was basically his own supply-chain-attacker: https://hackaday.com/2022/07/18/hacker-liberates-hyundai-head-unit-writes-custom-apps/
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Technology@beehaw.org•An Enterprising Ioniq 6 Driver Got DOOM Running on Center Console
1·6 months agoDidn’t realize folks would want a proof-of-concept of HOW it was done.
If you want a proof-of-concept, like steps for how to do the thing, that’s here: https://hackaday.com/2022/07/18/hacker-liberates-hyundai-head-unit-writes-custom-apps/
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Technology@beehaw.org•An Enterprising Ioniq 6 Driver Got DOOM Running on Center Console
13·6 months ago(This is the spirit of the post: Doom is a fun and silly demonstration of the software being hackable.)
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Technology@lemmy.world•An Enterprising Ioniq 6 Driver Got DOOM Running on Center Console
101·6 months agoThat’s the spirit!
Treat yourself.
Slice it thin and fry it til it browns a little. Thank me later.
Yea nah the good parts of the pig, those they sell in far better cuts XD
Spam is all that’s left over but the squeal, and then, sawdust or whatever they use to retain the water.









15 EVs ignited, 6 allowed to burn without mitigation, 9 they tried to extinguish, 2 of which reignited.
I’m famously bad at headlines, but it’s both an interesting study and a hard-to-distill-into-a-headline study.