As an engineer/engineering manager, the problem is, alot of execs who didnt come from engineering find it hard to see the engineering value.

As an engineer, its hilarious how we always bear the brunt of layoffs, and then quality falls into a hole after 3 years (or time tables, or keeping up with the market, whatever), and then they bring engineers back. No one in management looks 2 seconds into the future. They only look at next quarters profit margins.

Management, especially at that level, will never internalize that mismanagement is the problem.

Our entire economy is run by institutional investors drunk on short-term profits. Like, ten billion in profit? That’s pretty good, man. You can fix a lot of problems with ten billion dollars.

I don’t think building cars faster or trying to push more cars out the door is going to do Ford any favors right now; they have had serious issues with new product launches and quality control recently, and it’s costing them a substantial amount of money. Pushing out more cars, without first addressing those issues,…

Shareholders love bean counters, but have a soft spot for engineers too. They make the best fall guys when things go bad. 

the strength of our products and revenue has masked this dysfunctionality for a long time.

Welp that’s a mistake. the ONE THING you don’t want to do is piss off engineers when the real issue is likely mismanagement.

Maybe the problem isn’t having too many engineers, but having too many executives with unrealistic ideas about their ability to predict the future.

Maybe “heavy traffic below 40 mph on divided highways” is “extremely limited” where you live, but it’s my friggin life and where all the stress happens. that’s EXACTLY the situation I’d like automation to take off my hands.

I believe Mercedes-Benz takes responsibility for crashes in level 3. So if the car has an accident while being driven in level 3, Mercedes’ insurance covers the claim, at least that’s what I’ve heard. With Tesla, if the car crashes using FSD, your insurance is on the hook.

LOL at Mercedes bribing people to get certified. If that was truly the case you don’t think Musk would’ve done this by now?

The frequent phantom breaking problems I have on flat, straight, empty highways would like a word with your description of Autopilot.

Fucking knew you’d be here.

I think another word for certification is Trust. the Tesla system isn’t bad but there’s no higher authority backing them up. The cert also releases a bit of liability from the consumer and manufacturer in the case of an accident because by definition of level 3, you do not need to pay attention unless specifically…

the rubber stamped “Level 3 certification”

As far as I’m concerned, it’s not “self-driving” until the liability shifts from the person in the drivers seat (would we even call it that anymore?) to the manufacturer who made it.

fuck off elon

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Tesla does everything that Mercedes claimed to do