Chad Elliott 🛩

[Chad Elliott 🛩 @WayPostSoftware]

Thank you, @Tesla. A deer sprinted into the road in front of me while I was driving home from the mountains at nearly 50 mph. FSD spotted it moving on the side of the road and began slowing down before I even knew what was happening. By the time it sprinted into the road, the car had confidently applied brakes and avoided a crash. Incredible!

[Chad Elliott 🛩 @WayPostSoftware]

@niccruzpatane Wouldn’t that approach require an even more robust and advanced neural network than FSD in order to understand all of the sensor information and then arbitrate?

[Chad Elliott 🛩 @WayPostSoftware]

@jasonfried I love you as much as @dhh hates an open office 🥰

[Chad Elliott 🛩 @WayPostSoftware]

@elonmusk @aaronburnett Standing waves are a major source of slowdowns. Autonomous vehicles can solve this, even in modest numbers.

[Chad Elliott 🛩 @WayPostSoftware]

@JSX423 It’s a safety margin. It’s there to give people a half second of reaction time after the car tells them to stop.

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With respect, there are serious problems with this idea. First, it exposes people to spying and pressure within their homes to vote a certain way. The privacy of a voting booth is by design. Second, the more friction you remove, the lower the price of vote buying gets. It basically becomes pay-per-click. Third, we discover massive software security breaches every year. Many are found years after they’ve been exploited. In-person, bubble-sheet ballots are the gold standard for end-to-end auditable voting. They offer great privacy and just enough friction to make vote buying difficult. And, you get election results the same night.

[Chad Elliott 🛩 @WayPostSoftware]

I can’t intelligently speak on the exact feasibility of A/B software and firmware fallback for the various parts of a Tesla. But, for the sake of discussion, I do think that dividing their update flow into recoverable sections is a good first step. Yes, I understand you can’t stop midway through flashing the BMS, but the infotainment system? FSD model? I can’t imagine there isn’t room for improvement.

[Chad Elliott 🛩 @WayPostSoftware]

@elonmusk @testerlabor Memories of printing my code on tractor-feed printer paper, and stretching it out across the floor. 🥰

[Chad Elliott 🛩 @WayPostSoftware]

@AIDRIVR @future_yas Vision says "camera obscured" -- Lidar/Radar/Etc. says "I gotchoo bro..." My prediction is that Tesla will continue to "chase the nines" regarding safety via custom designed sensors in the future.

[Chad Elliott 🛩 @WayPostSoftware]

@PalmerLuckey @traestephens Going to Harvard Square in the 90s to find hacker/tech mags like 2600, Mondo 2000, WIRED, etc. were some really fun times.

[Chad Elliott 🛩 @WayPostSoftware]

@hamptonism It will substantially reduce SAAS sales. It will drive down license costs. However, many large enterprise customers won't want to reinvent the wheel or break tall stacks of working integrations.

[Chad Elliott 🛩 @WayPostSoftware]

@MrBeast @TernsCheese Aw shit… hope MrBeast doesn’t give me an airplane with his logo on it. 🤞

[Chad Elliott 🛩 @WayPostSoftware]

@tetsuoai For many of my friends, the difference between having a clean criminal record and a DUI was pure dumb luck. I'm looking forward to a future where self-driving cars put an end to the harms of drinking and driving.

[Chad Elliott 🛩 @WayPostSoftware]

@elonmusk @SawyerMerritt God bless the neckbeard Sisyphuses who rewrite the kernels, drivers, and libraries each new hardware cycle...

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@minchoi This is cool, but rigid, fixed rigs were never the problem. Soft, flexible, organic things, and changing environments are where human dexterity shines.

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@dhh There are some existing guardrails on free speech I do agree with. Direct threats of violence, false and defaming statements about specific individuals (libel / slander). These are narrow and make logical sense.

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@robzolkos I prefer a dark mode toggle over relying on system settings. My opinion on dark mode is that only a few sites do it well.

[Chad Elliott 🛩 @WayPostSoftware]

@charliegreenman @elonmusk @grok Grok-code-fast-1 + @kilocode has replaced Cursor for my daily development. The only thing I miss are Cursor’s code completions. I’ve dropped in Windsurf, which isn’t bad, but not as project-aware as Cursor was.

[Chad Elliott 🛩 @WayPostSoftware]

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