I agree it would only be a surprise first strike. But if any container ship was potentially hiding a few of these, think of the chaos it would cause in supply chains.

Which version of FSD, and was it HW3?

And how is that any different than a nuclear arsenal? It's an attack weapon that's most highly useful in first strike situations. But your enemy probably has a bunch too and they're hard to find and wipe out in a first strike. So the only way to win is not to play.

This is an interestingly less expensive deterrent for middle powers to buy (or develop themselves) who don't want to invest in a nuclear program to keep the larger countries at bay. I actually see this as a positive because it offers an alternative to nuclear proliferation. With current technology, a barrage of missiles like this can't be intercepted cost effectively, and you can hide them relatively easily. It has a chance to maintain a peaceful status quo, and perhaps avoid the looming WW3.

To give you a more practical example of the range, pretty much all of the continental US would be within 800 miles of the northern and southern US land borders. Not that Canada or Mexico would actually follow a program to develop these, as the US, Canada, and Mexico are still quite close allies, but my points is that the cost would easily be within the capabilities of those countries, and the range is pretty huge. Even container ships parked off the western and eastern coasts could reach well over 2/3 of the US landmass.

I have no idea what gateway was meant to be for.

I suppose you could argue that it was kind of like how the original Apollo worked. The capsule that brings you back to Earth for re-entry stays in lunar orbit and you just descend in the lander and go back up to lunar orbit. Plus you can maintain a much larger living environment at the gateway station. But it certainly made the whole thing seem like a Rube Goldberg affair. Assuming Starship gets the bugs worked out, then you should be able to do the whole mission with a single re-usable ship, assuming you launch it to low Earth orbit empty of fuel and then send up multiple other Starship flights to refuel it before it goes to the Moon.

Why do they call it insurance?

Put me down for 20.

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City people are stupid and will get stuff like this banned. They should have done drone delivery first to rural areas, where it's actually needed. After that they can expand to small towns, medium and then big city. Deploying this city-first will flop. City people don't want new technology, not unless it's marketed with some fear like delivery drivers eat your food or something like that.

I agree, but on top of that the self-driving cars could have a button that passengers can press if they feel threatened. Then, upon using its cameras and AI the car can proceed to secure their safety in the safest possible manner even if it means harming the attackers. I believe Asimov covered this in his laws of robotics. The Waymo should never harm other humans except when required in defense of its passengers.

Yes, it's possible that murderers are able to murder. Why would they choose that method over a lot of other methods?

When was the last time it did something that had you not intervened would have led to an accident within seconds.

Do you have hw3, or hw4?

Unlike reusable rockets, EVs, and full self driving .. all of which he achieved. Yes that includes full self driving, I own a Model Y with FSD and it works great for at least a year now (since v13 and recently v14). Letâ(TM)s not forget how quickly they built the xAI data center and automobile Gigafactories in Nevada, Texas, and Berlin. Semiconductor fabs are known technology. He just has to hire ex TSMC, Samsung, Intel, and ASML employees and heâ(TM)s set. There isnâ(TM)t anything new to invent or hope isnâ(TM)t impossible to do. The processes are well known and documented. He just has to plonk down a bunch of cash for an ASML machine. Oh and btw the companies I mentioned laid off a bunch of workers recently so itâ(TM)s not like he wonâ(TM)t be able to find people. And I am sure with a large enough check many people would cross over. So please, letâ(TM)s not hear any BS about âoeElon has no experience building a fab.â He had no experience building rocket engines, his first employee Tom Mueller did. He didnâ(TM)t have experience designing cars .. that Franz Hof-something dude did. And unlike back then, when he couldnâ(TM)t even write them a fat check, he has a lot more resources at his disposal. He just has to ask around who the top guys in the business are.

After you read this comment, watch this video by Tesla's head of AI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

How does a human who wasn't born in that area deal with those rural driving scenarios you mentioned? And besides, you don't think Tesla has potholes and hilly roads in their training data for its AI to build an accurate policy model? My understanding of how they train it is they have all the video from wherever Teslas are being driven (accumulated over 7.5 billion, that's Billion with a B, miles as of sometime last year). They take all that video and create a world simulation out of it. Then they inject adversarial scenarios into the simulation. The adversarial-injection scenarios themselves are things people have encountered while driving, not just only ones you can speculate. So in the simulation the Tesla will be cruising along on each of those 7.5 billion miles and suddenly a cat will run across the highway, a car swerves, or a UFO or strange shape object lands in front of it, and it may start raining. Or the camera will suffer an occlusion, the lane lines disappear etc. They basically build a giant GTA V game simulation with many plausible and even implausible scenario happening on every mile of road. Once the neural nets prove they have a policy model that can choose correct next-actions in all those random scenarios in a manner that is at least better-than-humanly-handleable, then it is released. That's why it takes months of supercomputing power to train each FSD release.