Category: Self Driving Roadkill

We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

Alternative Subsidy Self Driving Roadkill 13 Comments

Unsafe at any speed – including “parked”.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has launched an investigation into the possibility that battery defects in Tesla vehicles may have caused the cars to burst into flames.
 
The investigation will involve certain battery management system software updates in Model S and Model X vehicles made between 2012 and 2019 in response to an “alarming number of car fires that have occurred worldwide,” according to a letter the agency sent to Al Prescott, Tesla’s deputy general counsel, on Oct. 24.

 
The alleged defects in question are “high-voltage battery fires that are not related to collision or impact damage to the battery pack,” according to the letter.

As in this case.

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Self Driving Roadkill Tech 17 Comments

Baby, you can drive my car.

This after-sales support is a relatively new problem that automakers are facing. As cars become more and more intertwined with electronics and software, the interactions and potential for errors increase exponentially. This is less of a problem for a company like Apple, which sells a phone for hundreds of dollars that gets replaced after a couple of years. Automakers like BMW, on the other hand, are expected to build a car that works just like the day it rolled off the showroom floor for hundreds of thousands of miles in all kinds of conditions.

Confidence inspiring.

Related, via Mark Spiegel: This is the “genius” responsible for the $TSLA’s “killer app” Autopilot.

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A Tesla car, running on Autopilot, skidded 1,600 feet after sliding under a semitruck at 68 mph, shearing off its top and killing its driver, according to a lawyer who is suing the carmaker.
 
The crash in west Delray Beach happened four months ago when a tractor-trailer pulled out in front of a bright red Tesla Model 3 driven by 50-year-old Jeremy Banner.
 
The Autopilot system failed, according to a lawsuit Banner’s family filed Thursday in Palm Beach County. The system should have braked or swerved to avoid the semitruck, Trey Lytal, the family’s attorney, said at a news conference.

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Juxtapose! Self Driving Roadkill 14 Comments

July 16, 2019;

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Says It’s Ready for Brain Surgery … The startup just unveiled its plan to implant paralyzed patients with electrodes that’ll let them work computers with their minds.

It’s juxtapose time!

July 16, 2019;

It’s sad and frustrating when half of the super chargers AT THE TESLA FACTORY aren’t working and the employee inside says the only thing we can do is call and report them. I’ve been waiting to talk to an actual person for <15 mins now...

The self-driving brain community is abuzz.

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@Mtass7 – Policeman jumps out of the road to avoid getting hit by Tesla on autopilot.

The repatriation police have one of the most dangerous jobs in the Norwegian police. They must stand along Norwegian roads to measure speed, control belt and mobile use and stop those who break the law. Only protection is a yellow reflective vest.
 
Earlier in May, Christian Sørby from Modum learned that it is important to keep abreast of the cars he tries to stop. Because at the end of Verpsletta in Øvre Eiker there was a near accident with a Tesla on “autopilot”.
 
– I realized that neither the car nor the driver saw me, so I threw myself out of the way to get from it all without damage, explains Sørby to Bygdeposten .

Via Google Translate.

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Great Moments In Socialism Roadkill Self Driving Roadkill 30 Comments

Shush now, Luddite.

The European Union has provisionally agreed to force every car sold in Europe starting in 2022 to include software designed to slow drivers down if they break the speed limit.
 
EU leaders on Monday agreed that every car, van, truck, and bus should be fitted with a feature called “Intelligent Speed Assistance” designed to slow them down if they go too fast.
 
The software uses a combination of GPS, sign-recognition cameras, and advanced map software to pinpoint a vehicle’s location and the local speed limit. The software is designed to automatically slow down vehicles found to break the limit.

You don’t know what you’re talking about, because buggy whip.

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Science Self Driving Roadkill 17 Comments

Sit back and let the machine figure it out.

A growing amount of scientific research involves using machine learning software to analyse data that has already been collected. This happens across many subject areas ranging from biomedical research to astronomy. The data sets are very large and expensive.
 
But, according to Dr Allen, the answers they come up with are likely to be inaccurate or wrong because the software is identifying patterns that exist only in that data set and not the real world.

 
“Often these studies are not found out to be inaccurate until there’s another real big dataset that someone applies these techniques to and says ‘oh my goodness, the results of these two studies don’t overlap‘,” she said.
 
“There is general recognition of a reproducibility crisis in science right now. I would venture to argue that a huge part of that does come from the use of machine learning techniques in science.”

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Bloomberg Law;

A Tesla car crashed into a Virginia couple’s home on two occasions when its parking assistance features failed, a new lawsuit alleges.
 
Bikan and Daljit Octain paid $111,450 for a 2016 Tesla Model S 90D Automobile, including a $3,000 charge for the “Full Self-Driving Capability,” they allege in a suit in Virginia Circuit Court against Tesla Inc. and Tesla Motors Inc.
 
This capability includes the “Tesla Autopark” feature, which allows the car to be parked remotely, the complaint said. It also includes the “Tesla Summon” feature that lets owners move the car in and out of a parking space from outside the vehicle using a mobile app or the key, the complaint alleges.
 
But the car crashed itself once into their home and months later drove itself into the wall of their garage when they attempted to use the parking assist features, the Octains allege.

Maybe it was just stoned.

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