refleks posted:

meltdown incoming

mediaphage posted:

i think there are state laws in delaware preventing this exact thing, or something? it seems a little monopoly rules lawyering though so i imagine under a trump admin this will definitely get pushed through

i mean elon can just pay trump a billion dollars extra if it means getting it over the line lol

well-read undead posted:

man i loving hate that guy

https://electrek.co/2024/12/16/tesla-major-issue-self-driving-computer-inside-new-cars/ posted:

The problem is linked to a new version of Tesla’s HW4 (sometimes called AI4) onboard self-driving computer. Internally, some refer to the new version as AI4.1. The computers are short-circuiting. The cause is still being investigated, but one source told Electrek that one of the possible causes is the low-voltage battery short-circuiting the computer during the camera calibration process.

Tesla drivers are reporting computer failures after driving off with their brand-new cars over just the first few tens to hundreds of miles. Wide-ranging features powered by the computer, like active safety features, cameras, and even GPS, navigation, and range estimations, fail to work.

Insider sources told Electrek that the problem is quite wide-ranging. It affects vehicles built over the last few months with the new computer.

Two sources said that Tesla is currently receiving a high number of complaints about this issue, and it has yet to release a service bulletin about it. One source said that Tesla service is being told to play down any safety concerns related to this problem to avoid people believing their brand-new cars are not drivable.

The issue arose at the end of the year when Tesla is trying to deliver a record number of vehicles to avoid its whole year down in deliveries – a first in a decade.

It’s unclear if Tesla reported the issue to NHTSA despite the fact that the broken rear-view camera goes against federal safety regulations, which should force a recall.

At the moment, the main remedy being discussed is a computer replacement, but Tesla is also looking to push a software patch to help temporarily.

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In late 2002 Musk arranged a meeting with a tank manufacturing company in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He and a handful of engineers arrived the night before, staying at a Holiday Inn Express. Chris Thompson and another early employee named Steve Johnson, seeking to impress Musk, woke early so they would already be eating at the small breakfast buffet when the boss arrived.

“Elon comes down, and he walks over to the breakfast bar and he picks up a package of Pop-Tarts,” Thompson said. “And the funniest thing to me was the fact that most of us take Pop-Tarts for granted. He was transfixed. This was like a scene out of 2001: A Space Odyssey, when the apes examine the monolith. It was clearly the most fascinating thing he had seen that morning.”

Eventually, Musk realized that Pop-Tarts were best enjoyed toasted. So he opened a package and put two of them into the toaster, Thompson said. Only Musk made the rookie mistake of inserting the pastries horizontally, rather than vertically. When they popped back up, he had to stick his fingers into the toaster to grab his breakfast. This was a problem, and at about six in the morning Musk proceeded to scream, at full volume, “gently caress, it burns! gently caress, it burns!” Two older ladies at the front desk, nearby, watched in mortified silence.

well-read undead posted:

he's also an absolutely terrible liar. he lies like a goddamn four year old, saying the least convincing thing imaginable in the least convincing way

when asked his age he says "i'm in my 20s" you know just like a real person in their 20s would. then to paraphrase an exchange:

streamer: what were you doing on 9/11?

elon: just doing my thing, like everyone else. then poo poo got real.

streamer: ok because if you're my age you'd be in your diapers toddling across the living room, and that would've been your answer

elon: yes... i was doing that

loving clown lmao

Platystemon posted:

Arson Daily posted:

Out of nowhere my wife told me she was reading some 2015 bio of elong and while she doesn't think hes a good person she still thinks that he's some kind of genius. Trying to explain to her that eln is the worlds greatest dipshit is proving to be kinda hard. She wont read this thread. Can I get her to understand without having to

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

love to have massive remote input latency in my car controls and the connection dropping under difficult conditions so that the underpaid human driving it loses control and my lazy rear end slams into a wall 30 seconds after I say "no he's actually the smartest man ever, watch"

Zamujasa posted:

remote "full self servant driving" is going to be real fun. even before you get into latency, signal reliability isn't going to be anywhere near 100%. what do you do when it drops out or delays comms?


e:f;b lol

Agile Vector posted:

difficult conditions like 'bridge'

rowkey bilbao posted:

autopilot slams you into random scenery while fsd can reliably target firetrucks with its advanced terminal guidance capabilities

Chris Knight posted:

lol

big scary monsters posted:

perhaps this is not the case in the US, but in the UK the people employed by the DWP to do medical assessments for welfare claims are tasked with denying as many people as possible, often dismissing serious conditions out of hand in direct contradiction to written evidence provided by the claimant's actual doctors. some huge proportion of decisions are overturned on appeal, but appeals are extremely time consuming, difficult and stressful. so is this lady's job also to deny people with mental illnesses financial support?

Kenny Logins posted:

love that the guy is in the driver’s seat on the phone lol

duTrieux. posted:

gently caress tariffs on starlink, i don't know why nobody has tried to shoot those things out of the sky

Beeftweeter posted:

grady booch is a well-known computer scientist, he's exactly the type of person elon wants to be liked by (and would probably know of). it's pretty likely that he actually read that and let it get to him

graph posted:

https://x.com/provisionalidea/status/1888662805588619373

Beeftweeter posted:

i don't like giving my SSN out over the phone but i've had to deal with my credit card company's support line a lot in recent weeks (got a new card, it doesn't work with apple pay/google pay. got a replacement, it doesn't either). whenever i call, someone usually remarks that it's "weird" that it has a very easily guessed sequence starting with a 1 (if you guessed "2" then "3" you were right) towards the end of it

i never really know what to say to that, it's like, ok, what do you expect me to do about it? afaik they don't just give you a new one if you ask nicely. so i just chuckle weakly and go "heh, yeah, weird. can you _{^{stop repeating my social out loud while you're very clearly in a room full of other people and}} move on please"

e: never got the problem fixed either. they've been telling me to wait 3-5 days before trying again pretty much every week since the end of december and it never fixes a loving thing

big scary monsters posted:

still better than when your bank cold calls you and before they'll tell you why give you the "now, to confirm your identity we'll just need some personal information". I already know my identity friend, you're the one calling me

Luigi Thirty posted:

there are rumors that he has a lot, like a lot a lot

Beeftweeter posted:

well they apparently didn't use a surrogate, and idk what about ashley st. clair elon might find attractive except her appearance, so i guess it's possible this was his only non-ivf child. otoh though, he's an insane white supremacist who's into eugenics. so it's very likely ivf and he's probably actively declining sex

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Texts viewed by The [New York] Post between St. Clair and Jared Birchall, Musk’s money manager, appear to show that she complied with the billionaire’s wish to be left off the birth certificate to preserve privacy, security and confidentiality.

Birchall, the CEO of Neuralink, which Musk co-founded, did not respond to a request for comment.

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Dubbed as Musk's personal fixer and right-hand man,[5][11][3] Birchall has also been tasked with managing itinerary, hiring bodyguards, and selling homes for Musk. Slate reported in 2018 that he was CEO of Foundation Security—a detective and armored car services company.[12] During that year, in the lead up to a defamation case against Musk by a British caver following the Tham Luang cave rescue, Birchall paid over $50,000 of Musk's funds to hire a private investigator, who turned out to be a convicted fraud, to dig up dirt on the caver.[13] Birchall stated in court deposition he had an "instinct to protect Musk".[6]

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From earlier Sibán, from Anglo-Norman Jehane or Jehanne, from Old French Jehanne, from Medieval Latin Johanna, variant of Joanna, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets.

Chris Knight posted:

Luigi Thirty posted:

aaaaaaand he blew up another rocket

Beeftweeter posted:

or just regular customers lol. put yourself in their shoes for a second:

love too go to the tesla dealership to pick up my car that's been in the shop 12 times now, have to muscle past a paramilitary force "protecting" it from nothing in particular, only to find out that the dealership gave the car to some other moron as a loaner. oh, and the problem still hasn't been fixed, and their next available appointment is in late october. still love the car though

outhole surfer posted:

i thought grimes had all the nickels

Cactrot posted:

massive cyberattack