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This is what happened. Tesla security received tons of bug reports that required root access to identify, yet they got a vanishingly small number of root vulnerability reports. Thi…

> Nope, they gave up on that and moved them to the driver's seat. FWIW, Tesla disputes this claim: https://x.com/robotaxi/status/1963436732575072723

Yeah I think their early success with Tesla Vision was faster than expected, it went to their heads, and they underestimated the iteration and fine tuning needed to solve the edge …

I haven't closely followed which rides have drivers where, and what is driven by Tesla vs what is regulatory -- but I thought some "drivers" were still in the passenger seat in Aus…

Yeah, Tesla did themselves no favors with how they initially marketed FSD, and all the missed timelines amplified the brand cost of that. I'm glad to see them focus on what it can …

The first one. > Tesla has changed the meaning of “Full Self-Driving”, also known as “FSD”, to give up on its original promise of delivering unsupervised autonomy. They have not gi…

People never learn. The haters always think this time will be different.

This is clickbait from a publication that's had it out for Tesla for nearly a decade. Tesla is pivoting messaging toward what the car can do today. You can believe that FSD will de…

No, they never had LIDAR.

Thanks.

Any recommended article/link to get the backstory on this situation?

I led a migration from Mongo to Riak at Shareaholic about 12 years ago: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/migrating-to-riak-at-sh... It was successful at first, but ultimately w…

FWIW most people mean the Lansing book when referencing Endurance (the book).

I'd suggest Lost in the Funhouse. It's a collection of short stories and showcases a wide range of his authorial style. I'd suggest a paper copy for reasons that will be clear by p…

Damn. He was my favorite living author. Got introduced to his "Lost in the Funhouse" in senior seminar in high school, was hooked immediately. His stories (and especially his writi…

What's this in reference to? WhatsApp, Signal, and many others are in the App Store.

There's lots of research here in the Tesla hacker community. The car continues to function. The easiest (not trivial, but easiest) way to test it yourself is to remove the SIM and …

Tip for the future: you can upvote the submission and then go to "upvoted submissions" in your HN profile.

This only affected pre-BLE models when the owner did not have the key. It's no worse than when an ICE vehicle owner loses their key; it's just that typically with a Tesla, you can …

The info dialog is the screenshot on the left in the embedded tweet. https://twitter.com/_bennettm_/status/1720287612664217758

That isn't what I'm saying. I'm saying it was a reasonable hypothesis that "you're going to have a bad time" with a system like Autopilot, because of the vigilance concern you're r…

With specific respect to ADAS systems reducing fatigue: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13698... > We investigated the effects of ACC and HAD on drivers’ wor…

I don't have any independent data, just what Tesla reports: https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport I've read the many critiques of Tesla's analysis, and I tend to agree the bene…

> Humans are terrible at vigilance tasks, and if you ask them to passively monitor a system that gets things right 98% of the time, you're going to have a bad time. I understand th…