Yep, reporting OSHA violations that hurt employees to save Tesla money is just a set up from the big car companies because they are worried. Heres the thing: the product might scare them a bit, but the company far from does. I havent seen a company mismanaged as Tesla in a very long time

I agree it was a physics problem .. but it was also a massive engineering problem too!

Automated driving systems do have infinitely more variables to control for though.

I’m just saying that our technological capability is immensely more now ... I suspect we’ll get there eventually.

Side note: I’m not necessarily even an…

That asterisk you include is a big one. What they have is exactly what Ford’s CEO described. A very narrow application. Highways not residential streets, clear roads not weather obstructed, normal flow, not construction zones, simple traffic flows, not complex junctions.

People like to forget that all software is buggy. All of it. 100%. There has never been a piece of software that is 100% bug free (and I don’t think there ever will). It’s because software is written by imperfect humans that have to engineer imperfect solutions that map to an imperfect world normally under unrealistic…

I’ve been working as a software engineer for 9 years now. I’ve worked at 3 different companies and on at least 5 or 6 enterprise level products. Every one has been a jumbled together mess at one level or another - software starting with good intentions and then getting smacked with the reality of deadlines and “I know…

Yep. How many will be too lazy to clear the snow off their cars to uncover the cameras/sensors that the autonomous systems rely on?

There’s a difference between acknowledging that cars are a smaller part of the portfolio, and just saying, cars and hatchbacks need to be reduced to zero. Fact is, there are sedans and small cars and hatchbacks that are selling reasonably well in the US, it’s just that Ford and Chevy’s sedan offerings sort of blow…

Lots of people just don’t understand how difficult its going to be to make autonomous vehicles work in inclement weather and limited visibility. I’m all for AV advancement, but there is a LOOOOONG way to go before it can take the place of a human driver.

As a software engineer, I still have to manually enter the correct number of parenthesis and semicolons. If I make a variable called “timeNow” and then later refer to it as “timenow”, computer freaks out.

Um, no.

Hey man, all it takes is that one emergency swerve to justify every penny of the higher-performing stuff. There are longer-lasting, quieter, cheaper tires out there, but BFGoodrich Comp-2's are why I’m typing this comment today and not a name buried in an article somewhere in last year’s news.

You don’t sound like a triggered snowflake. Nope, no sir. 

Wow. A well-tanned Mario (who’s looking super I might add) surrounded by pasty-pale fans.

Right car brand....wrong model. Should have used a FORESTER.

Mitsubishi used to make a car called the Colt Vista:

If you care about aerodynamics a 3 row crossover is an odd choice.

I still don’t understand how they can even fit anyone back there without the suggested roofline change.

especially for the poor chumps stuck sitting in the third row

Which, actually, is not a bad thing.

You made the side profile of a Chrysler Pacifica