Yes. The entire world is like that. It makes it a much safer place. Also a lot richer.
Right. The US government has sold off it's majority ownership of GM, as well as its stake in Chrysler. The new thing is chips, which is why it's bought part of Intel and half a dozen other chip companies, has profit sharing agreements with Nvidia and AMD, and some weird export protection racket thing going with Nvidia. Oh, and owns chunks of a rare earth mining company or two.
Thanks, you've provided an excellent answer to the OP's question.
Why would he have to make a car to have an opinion? That argument is generally a "well there's nothing better on the market, so if you know better, clearly you can do better", except here pretty much *everyone* is doing it better by having a wheel except Zoox.
Even Zoox at least gets *something* for skipping the steering wheel: more passenger volume and ability to face each other. The Tesla concept is a two-seater for zero benefit.
That awkwardly addresses one minor facet of a 27 page manual for one car model for emergency situations, and this is the Model Y variant that can be traditionally operated.
Fun fact, those documents apply to the Model Y, and does not answer the question about how the car gets manually moved because that question is still obvious because the car has a steering wheel.
But even without that, they are expecting first responders to deal with 27 pages of material over their snowflake and also directs the first responder that they must call Tesla along with everything else.
While they *can* move a car that cannot be steered on it's own, they generally prefer not to resort to it. It takes longer and requires more equipment. It's unavoidable if an accident messes up the steering or drive of the car badly enough, but even in pretty significant wrecks, they will frequently steer it. When someone totaled my car so badly the door was stuck and I had to climb through the window, they still drove it out of the way, and then onto the flatbed.
The "no steering wheel even possible" is a needless way to signal your overconfidence in the tech. Rarely requiring the wheel may be a feature, removing the wheel is just stupid.
Sure, mock him now, but you'll not be laughing when SpaceX sorts out the time machine that he had been secretly baking into his predictions all along.
Will it be cheaper to ride in a no-driver vehicle than in a regular old taxi or Uber? Because if it is (and the programming was such that I could put luggage or some other item on there and not have to worry about the vehicle disappearing with my stuff) I would absolutely want to use it when I need to move something too big for the bus or train.
There are a bunch of inductive algorithms. x_n+1 = x_n + f(x_n) dt is an integral curve. Doing it discretely is a a piecewise approximation of that curve. The vast majority of neural nets we use today are piecewise linear function approximators.
Worse. It's like the HR lady who writes the telephone sanitization SOPs and has no background in microbiology, health or any relevant field. They're making it up as they go along.
to the point where the model reasons entirely or almost entirely in latent space
Early models did all their work in latent space. Then someone figured out that you could run them repeatedly so they could do things step-wise and called that "chain of thought." Then someone else (re)discovered that you could reuse some of your layers and get better results for more computation but the same amount of parameters and memory, which is what "recurrent depth" seems to be. That's just like adding more layers, which nobody cares about, but someone gave it a fancy name so now its the end of the world.
It's called a carbon tax. Maybe you've heard of it? Maybe you've voted against it? Lots of people have.
I grew up in a rural community. The farmers all think global warming is a liberal conspiracy. But they're also happy to tell you how it just doesn't get cold in the winter like it used to, they're constantly worried because the spring melt isn't ever as much water as it was twenty years ago, and the weather has just been crazy unpredictable the last decade or so.
We aren't going to stop flying, we aren't going to setup a factories in every country to reduce global shipping, we're not going to stop eating meat and we're not going to all magically transition to an EV that's backed by 100% clean energy.
We will if it gets hot enough. Almost no one flew a hundred years ago because they didn't have enough money. If there are food shortages, water wars and mass migrations from coastal cities and the tropics most people will again be too poor to fly, meat will be a luxury and goods shipped around the world will be exotic luxuries, just like they were a century ago.
Premature optimization is the root of all evil. -- D.E. Knuth
