Dear Elon, I think you are wrong on this, in the long term. Several of the smartest moves I ever made were wake up to Tesla around 2008; Seeing how the OEM sloths were leaving the field wide open for Tesla around 2018; finally able to leave gas guzzlers behind as a memory with my brand new Model Y in May of 2021 (w/FSD of course!); order the Limited Edition Simplified Cybertruck and hope that it is ready early next year. Why? Because I believed back in 2019 that your tenancy was the right force to make ANNs solve the self-driving problem for the general public. I hope that sometime in 2027 I can be enjoying the scenery from my FSD enabled CT, either in Florida or Texas and watch how other mortals enjoy the services of my Model Y as a Tesla Robotaxi.
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@bscholl@profgalloway Something must be said about the mindset of Mr. GALLOWAY based on the allusions from his name. Certainly appears more as someone who exudes more totalitarian Marxism and Nazism than Democratic propriety and justice.
We get the business side of it, Warren. When the Robotaxi business has been properly developed and batteries are in higher volume or cheaper, then the Cybertruck or a CyberSUV could be brought back. It is doubtful that there is another manufacturer with the ability and guts to come out with something as technologically advanced even 10 years from now, especially because everyone else is still lagging on FSD by quite a bit.
Perhaps LA can set an example by buying Cybercabs to shelter their homeless and store cheap solar power at the same time. A whole load of possibilities open up with the right engineering and mindset.
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@alex_avoigt Sorry to say this but the link you provide to buttress your argument is a poor excuse for doing your own detailed analysis which today can be done much better with a reliable AI account.
FYI the projected area of the Space Station thermal radiator is about 645 sqm. The amount of PV this associated with this system is >3000 sqm. If you employ a good and reputable AI today, it should help you see that about 750 sqm of Si based PV arrays and about 250 sqm of thermal cooling radiators should suffice to support a 120 kW datacenter in Sun synchronous LEO.
Given the track record of SpaceX in placing and managing the tens of thousands of Starlink Satellites they currently have in LEO, it should be a slam dunk for Elon Musk to make predictions about datacenters in space and their associated costs.
@elonmusk Rocket Man burnin' out the fuse down here all the time
Where Waymo's trips one cannot find
And it won't to be a long long time
'til Waymo's done making a dime
Another casualty of the times
Too much rotation that cannot find
Enough flotation on empty rides
Oh, no, no, no !
@kwasny007@elonmusk It is claimed that they use defensively to bring down jet powered Russian attack drones, coming into Ukraine and hitting schools and hospitals. Why does Russia attack Ukraine?
Elon, thank you for your support of Ukraine.
When I read the last paragraph of your explanation above, regarding those that want endless war and slaughter, I think of
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and all the lives lost because of Communists in the 20th century and now continuing in this one. God help us.
Chuck saying; "this problem is never solved" and "It is always an incremental improvement to continue and solve the unsupervised driving problem" represent an overly pessimistic view of what Tesla is doing. Don't focus so much as to the versions of the controlling software scheme, i.e. 12, 13, 14 etc. because the hardware is so much more important. Note the dead-end HW3 represents. V15 may be able to run on HW4, but note Elon's emphasis on AI5 for Optimus, which must deal with an even richer set of circumstances than a Robotaxi. SI brain power today is more dependent on the amount of memory available than processor speed. Today's SI SCHEMES need to maintain the ESSENCE of the world they must negotiate as numbers (weights) in a span of computer memory that's essentially 98% EMPTY, i.e. full of zeros, i.e. SPARSE MATRICES. Working within a "geofenced" area likely allows a reduction in the amount of hardware/memory required to function with a high degree of situation "detection" efficiency. Optimization of the hardware requirements is why Elon is so adamant about having ample microelectronics capacity. The higher the amount of memory that can be applied to the hardware the lesser the incremental improvements needed, i.e. the smoother and more general the behavior of the automata.