XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: j63840576@gmail.com   
      
   Mitchell Holman wrote:   
   > bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote in   
   > news:10ll4d3$17n$1@panix3.panix.com:   
   >   
   >> Elon Musk, ten years ago:   
   >> |   
   >> | I consider autonomous driving to be a basically solved   
   >> | problem. ... We're less than two years away from complete   
   >> | autonomy. Regulators however will take at least another   
   >> | year; they'll want to see billions of miles of data.   
   >>   
   >> Elon Musk, six years ago:   
   >> |   
   >> | I feel very confident predicting that there will be   
   >> | autonomous robotaxis from Tesla next year -- not in all   
   >> | jurisdictions because we won't have regulatory approval   
   >> | everywhere. ... From our standpoint, if you fast forward   
   >> | a year, maybe a year and three months, but next year for   
   >> | sure, we'll have over a million robotaxis on the road.   
   >>   
   >> Today:   
   >> |   
   >> | Tesla's nascent robotaxi program is off to a rough start.   
   >> | New NHTSA crash data, combined with Tesla's new disclosure   
   >> | of robotaxi mileage, reveals Tesla's autonomous vehicles   
   >> | are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers, and   
   >> | that's with a safety monitor in every car.   
   >> | ...   
   >> > -rate-3x-worse-than-humans-even-with-monitor/>   
   >>   
   >>      --bks   
   >>   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >      Autodriving is the wave of the future,   
   > the software isn't foolproof just yet. I   
   > have it in my Tesla, it is fun to engage   
   > on empty roads but I would not depend on   
   > it for local freeway use.   
   >   
   >   
   I guess I wouldn't mind using it to tell the car to pull up to the curb   
   from the parking lot with no driver, but that's about it.   
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