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pmorici commented on GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house cnbc.com/2024/12/10/gm-ha... · Posted by u/atomic128

zrobotics · 9 months ago

What tesla salespeople? They're pretty well known for flaunting the dealer model. I've never bought a tesla, but from the friends that have bought one one of the big plusses is you don't talk to a salesperson at all, you buy the car at a fixed retail price online. Has this changed recently?

pmorici · 9 months ago

They have a couple people to manage test drives and they will ask if you have any questions and make sure your aware of the current interest rate or other sales incentives but they aren’t sales people in the sense that you would typically be used to.

pmorici commented on Starlink Direct to Cell starlink.com/business/dir... · Posted by u/tosh

sangnoir · 9 months ago

Wasn't there a shareholder suite that alleged the directors aren't independent because of the above-standard Tesla options they receive? Robyn Denholm excecised and sold $35M worth of TSLA in the past month.

pmorici · 9 months ago

If receiving stock based compensation is grounds for not being independent then wouldn't most companies have an independence issue with their boards? It just seems like a crazy claim on it's face.

pmorici commented on US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash reuters.com/business/auto... · Posted by u/jjulius

smdyc1 · 10 months ago

Not to mention that when you can't see, you slow down? Does the self-driving system do that sufficiently in low visibility? Clearly not if it hit a pedestrian with enough force to kill them.

The article mentions that Tesla's only use cameras in their system and Musk believes they are enough, because humans only use their eyes. Well firstly, don't you want self-driving systems to be better than humans? Secondly, humans don't just respond to visual cues as a computer would. We also hear and respond to feelings, like the sudden surge of anxiety or fear as our visibility is suddenly reduced at high speed.

pmorici · 10 months ago

The Tesla knows when it's cameras and blinded by sun and act accordingly or tells the human to take over.

pmorici commented on Do U.S. ports need more automation? construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/gok

pmorici · a year ago

Half the so called dock workers don’t actually work. They sit at home and collect, “container royalties”.

https://nypost.com/2024/10/04/business/how-did-50k-dockworke...

pmorici commented on Tesla has taken down 2016 release noting full self driving hardware capability twitter.com/AdrianSumBond... · Posted by u/ado__dev

coffeebeqn · a year ago

5 years ago Tesla was a no-brainer if you wanted a EV. In 2024 it seems like competition has caught up and every year their lead grows shorter. Why pay extra to fuel their CEOs crusade about whatever culture war issue pops into his head next?

pmorici · a year ago

I wouldn’t say they have caught up. The self driving features alone are in a league of their own. Supercharger network is also unmatched for reach and reliability.

pmorici commented on Tesla has taken down 2016 release noting full self driving hardware capability twitter.com/AdrianSumBond... · Posted by u/ado__dev

LeoPanthera · a year ago

I've recently been reasonably happy with FSD. But. I paid for it with my car 4 years ago, but I didn't actually get it until ~2 years ago, and even then, it's been fairly sketchy, and only getting a bit less sketchy with recent updates.

I believed their initial claims about what was then simply called "Autopilot", and I'm kind of mad at myself for doing so.

I'm also mad that FSD development has been switched to a new version of the autopilot hardware that my car doesn't have, and apparently can never be upgraded to.

The irony is, I would at least consider a new Tesla, were it not for Elon's antics and interference in US politics. While he's still there, I will never buy another Tesla, and I won't keep this one when the warranty runs out, at the end of this year.

pmorici · a year ago

Making purchase decisions based on a company executive’s personal political opinions is dumb. It’s a self own to buy an inferior product for political reasons.

pmorici commented on No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead pretalx.com/devconf-cz-20... · Posted by u/zdw

pmorici · a year ago

Does anyone have any tips for debugging EFI_STUB kernels when they fail to boot? I've run into BIOS before that I can't get EFI_STUB to work on but grub works fine and I'm not sure why or even how to go about getting any debug info since the bios/firmware is a block box. Is the only option to get in touch for the motherboard vendor and how they care to look into it? It's rare but happens.

pmorici commented on An Analog Network of Resistors Promises Machine Learning Without a Processor hackster.io/news/an-analo... · Posted by u/teleforce

pmorici · a year ago

Is this similar to the Extropic approach but a different mechanism?

pmorici commented on Survival of the richest: Inside the short-lived fallout shelter bubble thehustle.co/originals/su... · Posted by u/paulpauper

atleastoptimal · a year ago

Something I worry about: I imagine rich people who mostly wouldn't concern themselves with long-term outcomes of environmental destruction or global catastrophe may still feel a bit of a pause going full force into risky plans for the future if their personal fortresses would require human labor for upkeep. They may feel a bit of a reluctance to pursue policies fearless of shit hitting the fan due to the chance that in a post-law world, nothing would stop their army of servants from killing them without remorse. That reluctance won't exist once humanoid robots are a sufficient replacement for human labor.

pmorici · a year ago

The notion that rich people aren’t concerned with long term outcomes seems like one of those things that isn’t true. In fact the reverse is often said the poor have, “nothing to lose”. Many wealthy people have gotten where they are by focusing on the longer term. The promise of your comment just doesn’t seem true.

pmorici commented on Obituary for a quiet life (2023) bittersoutherner.com/feat... · Posted by u/conanxin

pmorici · a year ago

Nicely written. I’m a bit confused about the part that seems to conflate individualism with fame or notoriety.

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