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There will be significant differences in demands made by the end users of a web browser and a viable CAD system for serious work though. It is an extremely tough market that many h…

> If you think it's a black box to the Tesla drivers, how is it not a black box to the Waymo customers in the back seat of these cars? The general public (as a vehicle occupant) on…

Respectfully, no FSD Beta video can add anything of safety value in evaluating these systems - and the only thing that these videos do these days is add a sense of complacency in m…

> Regulators continue to allow it, and their opinion > internet randos. This is true. > When they force FSD to be pulled, then there is weight behind the argument. Well, I suppose …

In my view, the higher-level issues with the FSD Beta program are: - A failure by Tesla to view the system that they are developing as what it really is - a physical safety-critica…

That "comparison YouTube video" is absurd and dangerous, because, at minimum... A Level 4-capable vehicle (a Waymo vehicle) is an incomparably different system than a Level 2-capab…

In my book, Tesla gets a bad rap for providing an unvalidated, should-be safety-critical system to run-of-the-mill consumers without an accompanying Safety Management System. The f…

> According to Moravy, vehicle assembly processes haven’t changed in the last 100 years, which he says is “really silly. Where to start with this article? Here is a good spot I gue…

I am tired of Tesla lying about its vehicles being capable of "driving themselves" and selling a "Full Self-Driving" product that is anything but - preying on the public's ignoranc…

In some cases, yes, but certainly not in all of them (or a majority of them) here in Detroit (based on photographs taken by urban explorers). There are many department stores and t…

Not to challenge your comment, but we have been converting office high-rises into apartments all over Detroit seemingly quite successfully and tastefully - with buildings built in …

Hmm. Perhaps I should have read the parent's comment more carefully. I think that I might have misinterpreted it. You (and the parent comment) are correct. My comment was not inten…

I agree.

> The OTA updates do provide an avenue to make cars much safer by reducing the friction for these type of safety fixes. True, but let us also acknowledge the immense systems safety…

It is the terminology that exists in US automotive regulations (what little there effectively are). A "recall" is just a public record that a safety-related defect existed, the pro…

No consumer can purchase any vehicle that is capable of "self-driving" or "driving itself" today. Tesla's vehicles are not capable of self-driving and, at all times, the human driv…

> I'm not sure why they don't explicitly write in the report that the driver may have been trapped in the back seat, and was unable to locate or use the mechanical release to escap…

My experience is the opposite for what it is worth. I used to own an ID.4 (which was a great car in my opinion, but I recently moved from Dallas to Detroit and, ironically, was abl…

> No one would live in Detroit because it’s bleak and sprawling. San Francisco is beautiful and cosmopolitan. The trajectory of Detroit is irreversible and structural As someone wh…

The theater part was demolished. The high-rise building part remains and is being converted into residential units right now.

Detroit is doing it all over the place. I live in an office building that was first opened in 1914 and was converted into residential units. Another 18-floor office building across…

> I find hard to believe that no one has thought about this before Automotive companies utilize a myriad of frame designs for their vehicles - each one a collection of different al…

> The reason people think Elon may do level 5 autonomy is because his companies have accomplished several things that industry experts said were either infeasible or impossible. Th…

> I don't think it's dangerous, necessarily, unless you ignore people's personal responsibility in the situation as well. Yes, but let us recognize the stark reality and known limi…

> maybe the biggest reason we're doing all this is to flatten the curb so hospitals don't get overwhelmed. I think the other, possibly just as important, reason to lower the infect…