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Never heard of DART I guess
obviously there are still TONS of cars. Just look at the highway infrastructure and traffic.
55 million and change rides a year on dart. It isn’t nobody riding
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My friends who already owned Teslas are doubling down on it (upgrading). Others are buying cars from actual fascist regimes (BYD). If that doesn’t raise alarm bells to you, you might be suffering from EDS.
Oh please ... I guess we're going to ignore Gigafactory Shanghai and the parts Tesla sources from China. Enjoy your fascist Uber, son.
Everyone sources parts from China. Tesla does least of it.
p.s. if you buy cars by “coolness” and not by specs and features - you are part of the problem.
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Car and house are usually most expensive persons purchases. It is absurd to not make them smart.
I'm not sure what the threshold is for a house to be smart. But I just had to get some fairly extensive work done and all my light switches and so forth are just traditional toggles. I'm not sure what's absurd about that.
Admittedly light switch automation is nice but not that useful. Wireless switches are probably cheaper than running cables tho.
I’ve recently posted items about my smart home. Point of DIY it doesn’t need to suck, cost a lot or hold you captive.
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The existing regulations here might be insufficient. There is definitely risk if the devices are not carefully designed to be safe.
To date I can't think of any existing lasers which you are intended to look at during daily use. Most consumer facing lasers are either class 1 but hidden (CD-ROM), or class 2 but basically not shined into your eye (barcode reader). There was another discussion a week back https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46126780 The lack of accessible certification/testing docs for the lidars is also worrying. Where is the proo…
If it's like everything else, it's "move fast, break things". I'm sure if it turns out to be harmful, we'll find out decades before regulation catches up
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Far be it from me to tell automakers how to roll out software but I would expect them to have relatively slow and gradual rollouts, segmented by region and environment (e.g., Phoenix might be first while downtown London might be last).
Tesla certainly does it this way today. This is also the norm for IoT that I'm aware of. Nobody wants fleet-wide flag days anyway.
> Nobody wants fleet-wide flag days anyway.
Crowdstike raises their hand..
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#636It is nice to see a car company investing in a sensor platform that could actually safely self-drive. It is unfortunate that the existing market participants seem hell-bent on destroying consumer confidence in self-driving before this will make it to market. We desperately need a safety regimen for self-driving cars that takes it as seriously as airplane safety.
Have you driven in Tesla FSD 14 yet? I've been in both Waymo and the latest version of FSD from Tesla. They are very, very good.
How many hours have you spent with the latest Tesla FSD in congested neighborhoods or unprotected left turns at sunset? It may be "good," but it's not even remotely close to the current Waymo experience, especially when it comes to abnormal situations. I am continually blown away by how Waymo behaves (spent 3 hours in them this past week). I'm rooting for Tesla, but it is nowhere near Waymo as of today.
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This comment is pretty funny to me, as a car guy. What’s there to service? It’s a software issue.
As a car guy you should know that there's tech in cars these days. Or do you calibrate everything from tpms monitors to re pointing/tunes in your garage? If something's wrong with your car's head unit firmware or android auto connection or whatever, of course you'd have a technician look at it?
> Or do you calibrate everything from tpms monitors to re pointing/tunes in your garage?
Pretty much, yeah. I race SCCA and build race cars. Exactly why I want nothing to do with these, you don’t own it. You’re leasing the hardware that’s hogtied to the software.
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I agree with you but I don't believe the marketplace does. If you get rid of parking requirements in Houston I doubt you'd see a significantly different development pattern because ultimately people there actually do need to park their cars.
If you remove parking requirements then the marketplace can discover the right amount of parking. Parking minimums keep the amount of parking artificially high.
That's kind of eliding the whole point of parking minimums (which I also hate, by the way). Parking is a classic tragedy of the commons issue where each individual developer would prefer not to build any parking and externalize that cost onto nearby lots/public streets/following developers.
In fact developers did do this, and "the market" responded by creating regulations that prevent it. Which are obviously causing their own set of serious problems.
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I'm not sure what the threshold is for a house to be smart. But I just had to get some fairly extensive work done and all my light switches and so forth are just traditional toggles. I'm not sure what's absurd about that.
Admittedly light switch automation is nice but not that useful. Wireless switches are probably cheaper than running cables tho. I’ve recently posted items about my smart home. Point of DIY it doesn’t need to suck, cost a lot or hold you captive. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45999721
A lot of walls were open after a kitchen fire. Electrician was redoing a lot of knob and tube and other older wiring. I had previously had a limited amount of DIY wireless switching (originally X10 but then a couple of voice-controlled switches) but basically everything was being redone anyway. And I basically just now have some dimmers and a simple programmable thermostat I haven't even programmed.
The parent point was that it's silly not to have a smart house (whatever that means exactly) and I disagree. It may make sense to do selectively rather than get an electrician in unless you have some other reason to do so.