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Comment Killer robot 2.0 (Score 0) 52

Yeah; make the AI try to kill us even more effectively; like don't just look for reasons to drive into walls and do emergency braking in tunnels - let's ramp it up and invoke the dance of the sugar-palm-thing while in a high speed situation; I'm sure they can tune that AI to be even more evil then now. What a hype. Totally useless tech - give me a normal car, electric, with sensible features and the same amount of seats and roughly the same spec as the X and off we fucking go. Teslas problem is that they have no competition in the "loop-hole-economy" of "electric-sport-car-SUVs-that-sound-environmentally-friendly-but aint". Anyone can do that with the right incentive. Jaguar should make a 7 seater and kill the X. The rest of the Teslas - Who the fuck buys that without being a total fanboy? Ungreat engineering. I bet I could fill a week of giving feedback on annoying things to their engineers - and I have tried a lot of cars. I would claim that Skoda makes better cars then Tesla. ;D

Comment Re:Good chance for a real-world controlled experim (Score 0) 110

Glad that it's working out for you down in LA where the roads probably never change and are broad and straight and the traffic jams limit your speed to something a pocket-calculator could handle, but I live in Norway - the country with the highest density of Teslas per capita on the planet - and the thing is literally dumb as a cow. I wouldn't trust it to do anything else than total grid-lock-type traffic jams on highways. Completely useless from a usability standpoint and totally horrible from a safety standpoint. That Tesla decides to make a product for one market is probably a good monetary decision - but as soon as somebody makes a system that can drive in Europe; the US is basically a walk in the park. So I hope they get some serious competition soon. The cars are total shit and the AP is br0ken beyond repair.

Comment Re:Good chance for a real-world controlled experim (Score 0) 110

Nope. No way. It uses the GPS-data for speed limits - I know this for a fact because it obviously changes speed depending on that - it's very easy to see that if you drive underneath a road with a different speed limit. Also the maps in the cars are seriously outdated - so it's gonna show you the speed limit from a couple of years ago and not the current speed limit. I am not talking about the "cruise control"-thing where you set the speed and manually adjust up and down - I'm talking about the full blown "enhanced" thing that steers the wheel and uses turn-signals and adjusts the speed according to the (old) speed limit. It's completely broken all of it.

Comment Re:Good chance for a real-world controlled experim (Score 0) 110

You should seriously try it before claiming that you have; it's gonna kill you. I'm serious. I have tried many hours now and I get more and more anxious about letting it drive the car. Even for a short time. It can be "all fine" for five minutes; respecting lanes and other traffic - and all of a sudden it's gonna emergency brake inside a tunnel because it believes that the speed limit is super low. Thing is; it has super outdated maps that it uses for stuff like speed limit - it doesn't read the signs and it has no concept of altitude - so a road above you might trigger it to brake like crazy. I haven't found a single piece of road where this thing behaves like the hype would suggest. Super dangerous. Super scary. Super bad.

Comment Re:Good chance for a real-world controlled experim (Score 0) 110

No shit. That car is actively trying to kill you. So disabling that stuff is "survival instinct". The only time to use that "crap" is when in a total grid-lock-type traffic jam where you would have ample time to respond to the skynet actively trying to kill you. So yeah; it's safe if you don't fucking use it. It's just a hyped up gimmick they use to try to safe a horrible car-company that makes shit cars. That's literally all it is. No AI. No "tech". No "revolution" going on; just a crappy EV with a hyped up coked-up owner that needs money - so he has this language about "AI" that is so not fucking true. Try a tesla and you will instantly know this to be true.

Comment Been thinking this for some time (Score 1) 111

Imagine a hypervisor spinning up 120 identical Linux instances - they all generate ssh-keys at the same time during boot/install (+- ms'). How can that be "good"? It will probably survive statistical testing but so a LCG. I have serious doubt that there is enough entropy in ze clouds. Btw: coolest way to harvest entropy is to feed your PRNG with SDR-input.

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