Man I was twitching reading this until I saw that the online calculators addressed insulation, occupancy, room height, and humidity (climate). Whew

I’m not sure tesla is expecting there to be zero human input, but rather that their design goal for the auto-driving systems is for there to be zero need for human inputs, and I’m not sure that’s a bad take. I think the car should be designed to accept human inputs, and that reasonable people should expect to have to…

I agree with the idea that teslas aren’t ready to be called fully autonomous or have any input devices removed. I don’t agree with the rest of the article

I agree with the idea that teslas aren’t ready to be called fully autonomous or have any input devices removed. I don’t agree with the rest of the article

I’m appreciative for a truck for even small stuff, like bags of dirt, dirty coolers, kayaks, wheelbarrows, bicycles, and so on. that stuff just gets dirty and is a PITA to put into an SUV that I’m trying to keep from destroying the carpet in

I guess I’m used to driving a full size truck for non-road-trip-travel, so the maverick seems like a relative dream to park, but I can see how it’d still be larger than necessary for some use cases. I guess you’re stuck with a crossover or SUV with a very robust rear interior - the idea of putting truck stuff into the…

How do you explain rich people with chauffeurs? They’re not exactly riding around in a honda civic

Musk is channeling his inner Loki right now:

to be fair, jnik defends its right to publish on most any kind of transportation, even if that kind of transportation is a box on wheels that delivers human packages. people who like the idea of being delivered places by a car they own could probably have fun debating what color their delivery car should be 

Totally reasonable point of view, and I think it’s ridiculous for tesla to remove input devices because all it does is reduce the market willing to buy their vehicles. That said... I’m just not going to buy a tesla, because there are other EVs that are better values for me for the cost and have the features I want.…

I totally agree that removing options for user input is dangerous for autopilot’s current iteration! I do agree that the naming is potentially problematic, but then again advertising is usually quite misleading. There are more than a few car accidents that happen while people use autopilot the way it’s supposed to be…

Jason, in this context, they are synonyms. You know this. You’re acting upset at a product that isn’t targeted for you, and is a product that is correctly targeted for a certain demographic. It’s not contempt for anyone any more than chauffeurs are. Ol musky didn’t say that humans are committing errors when they…

“Suggesting that input is error suggests a lack of respect or even an outright contempt for the human beings that choose to drive the car you’re trying to sell.”

Perchance you should consider not purchasing a self-driving car, fully avoiding this anger, and avoiding taking a statement on the goals of self driving vehicle design as an attack on your ability to drive.

In the context of an autonomous driving system, if a human has to make an input that the car didn’t anticipate, then it makes sense for those designers to consider that input as a result of an error on the part of the car.

mm yes, the winged eyeliner look that nissan especially goes for

whoops, I am fully months behind on the uptake. weird, because I remember reading her articles on tokyo drift and the aapi specials

Kristen went to business insider, and has some really cool and meaty articles there. The drive really feels like a young jalopnik and it’d become my new favorite if there were more articles.