flakeloaf posted:

yow<=>ytz is not and porter only wants like, $30 more to make the same trip in an hour

granted, airport misery is way more miserable than trainport misery, but still

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Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has a lot of fans. But he's lost the trust of one famous former admirer: Steve Wozniak.

Apple co-founder Wozniak, affectionately referred to as "the Woz," told an audience at the Nordic Business Forum in Sweden on January 24 he has stopped believing what Musk or Tesla promises.

"Now, I don't believe anything Elon Musk or Tesla says," Wozniak says.

That doesn't mean he doesn't love his Tesla, though.

"But I still love the car, it's still beautiful," Wozniak added.

Wozniak cited several promises Tesla has made that he believes have not been kept.

"They came out with some sensors that Elon Musk said would [allow the car to] drive itself across the country to where you were by the end of 2016 ... Oh, I had to have that!" he says.

"[T]hen they discovered those sensors would never drive across the country, so they got rid of their sensor company. They put in new sensors — instead of one camera, eight cameras — and that one will drive itself across the country by 2017. I believed that stuff," says Wozniak.

Indeed, in October of 2016, Musk announced a significant upgrade to the hardware for self-driving capability.

In addition, Wozniak criticized the quality of the autopilot feature, saying it was incapable of responding to inconsistencies in the road and that the car still requires significant attention on the part of the driver.
Man you have got to be ready — it makes mistakes, it loses track of the lane lines. You have to be on your toes all the time," says Wozniak. "All Tesla did is say, 'It is beta so we are not responsible. It doesn't necessarily work, so you have to be in control.'

"Well you that is kinda a cheap way out of it."

Tesla had not responded to CNBC Make It by the time this story was published, but in 2016, when Tesla announced the upgraded autopilot technology, Musk said calling the system "autopilot" even though it requires some monitoring is fair because, "It does not represent self-driving anymore than autopilot in an aircraft makes it self-flying."

"I will tell you, that car does so little," says Wozniak. "Everything I read told me every other car manufacturer in the world — the Audi's the BMW and all — were actually ahead of Tesla for self driving cars." Instead, other car companies are ahead of Tesla when it comes to self-driving, according to Wozniak.

In December, Musk asked Tesla drivers for feedback, and in the course of the exchange, he said the second version of autopilot is "going through exhaustive testing" and apologized for the delay.

Sorry for the delay. We have the most advanced AI neural net of any consumer product by far, so it's going through exhaustive testing. The results are blowing me away though and I think you will have a similar experience.
The eventual update, when it comes, may be too little too late for Musk to win back The Woz. Wozniak says he already prefers the Chevy Volt with one exception: Long drives. Tesla has more battery charging stations, he says, making such journeys in the Chevy Volt challenging.

"We always drive the Chevy Volt EV instead of the Tesla every day," says Wozniak, "except for long road trips."

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haveblue posted:

why on earth did you paste all that it’s not even paywalled

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

the best part is that she only wants to conceal her husband/paramour to defend herself from even more poo poo flung by internet monkeys

if she were a man with a spouse who shared her interest in hobbyist electronics it would be fun and cool, but as a woman, people just want to ascribe her projects to a man offscreen

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

in my geometric design of highways class they showed us the test footage from the 60s - 70s when they were figuring out all that stuff

the worst one was the schoolbus impacting a concrete barrier and throwing the sandbags representing children through the windows

Sagebrush posted:

thank you for the inspiration

Sagebrush posted:

thank you for the inspiration

Microcline posted:

jacking off is the ultimate act of biohacking

Uptime Sinclair posted:

nando's has a garlic peri peri sauce they put out that I've enjoyed

also: posting on the page that's the color of some people's yospos energy

syscall girl posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjXr9Nj5ZbI

ComradeCosmobot posted:

meanwhile in tubes news

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1015657378140704768

lol thai kids are gonna die

Sagebrush posted:

So uh Elon Musk s mom is in makeup ads


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNtt4aZWkF0

Luigi Thirty posted:

https://twitter.com/NESbot_feed/status/1024807604403490818

Truga posted:

lol it gets better
https://twitter.com/TheRalphRetort/status/1024791982047195136
https://twitter.com/TheRalphRetort/status/1024792505437638656
she's a superhero lmao

Suspicious Dish posted:

as a white man I think white men are terrible

jit bull transpile posted:

It is disturbing to me that we're rapidly approaching a point where people seem almost incapable of referring to this site as anything other than "dead gay forum". Like, people's brains have literally been reprogrammed via meme and people are totally incapable of just saying "forum".

Do you even laugh when you see they phrase? If we posit that at some point it was a cutting edge joke, is it still? Why this ritual? Why the need to eternally cling to this one last method of calling something gay? Long after every other old forums meme is dead, this one lives in. Why is that?

This has been your woke moment for the day.

Trabisnikof posted:

stop making fun of turmp for being stupid guys he cant help it