Toyota did it first.

Former U-2 pilot here. We use the cars during engine start, taxi, and takeoff for the same basic reason we do on landing: The pilot can’t see much while wearing the pressure suit, so it’s good to have an extra set of eyes watching what is going on. During ground ops, we show our ejection seat safety pins to the…

By that logic, the camaros they used in the 60s should have never been retired! Considering the model s is a lot faster to pick up speed in, and a much, much quieter environment from which to relay radio directions to the pilot, I’d say it’s a much better car for the job.

The chase cars don’t “wait at the end of the runway,” and they don’t “burn rubber.” They have a somewhat more sophisticated and demanding method of chasing.

This dangerous situation is the driver’s fault, to begin with. He should have responded immediately to the drivers in the adjacent lane slowing so quickly. He was lucky to avoid her person changing lanes but it happened a long time after he should have been slowing down or changing lanes himself.

That’s not at all what the fear comes from. One of the chief concerns is a “paperclip maximizer” scenario: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer

Yeah, no way hackers can get access to biometric info. No way these organizations will ever start to use these biometric systems before ensuring that the bad guys can ever get a hand on the data. I mean my fingerprints never change so if anyone ever gets to it i’m literally fucked for life. So we gotta trust that…

Fuck that. I don’t care who you are, rush hour traffic is the worst and is indeed a chore. I embrace our machine overlords. I can drive my fun three pedal car on the weekends.

Bingo, humans have had over a century to prove their worthiness to drive. Might be worth letting them take a backseat.

“I wonder what’ll happen if I approach this T-intersection at fifty, then switch on Autopilot at the latest possible moment. Is it going to freak out?”

Again, the data is available to investigators, as is mandated by law, and if the investigation finds that the Autopilot system was engaged and at fault, then they will say so.

I also don’t trust other drivers, which is precisely why I support autonomous driving systems.

They don’t need to be available to the public, they need to be available to the accident investigators, and they are available to the accident investigators, as they have been on every car manufactured for sale in the US after 2010. Tesla’s online telemetry is just a tad bit faster than offline access to the onboard…

Fixed it for you. He was behind the wheel. He gets the finger pointed at him.

Gochu fam

Here’s the highlight reel Stef forgot to include

Something something headgasket joke.

Absolute madness. Here’s a photo from the helicopter of Travis putting a wheel over the abyss