@DD182367@imdjbuchan@SawyerMerritt Yeah, I get you. Politics can cloud things sometimes, but at the end of the day, the facts and results should speak for themselves.
@jasonbraun@SawyerMerritt Yeah, that’s a fair distinction. The ones with drivers have obviously been part of the testing for a while, but seeing the driverless Cybercabs show up is the part that really gets my attention. Curious to see how quickly they scale from here.
@SawyerMerritt FYI these all have drivers and steering wheels and they've been driving around Austin for months. We do have the driverless CyberCabs, but those seem to have just popped up in the last week or so, and there are less of them.
Yeah, I think the cellphone comparison fits really well. Autonomy is still in that early stage where the technology is improving in real time and people are learning what it can actually do. Once it becomes reliable, affordable, and widely available, I think we’ll look back and wonder how we ever considered driving everywhere ourselves as normal.
@SawyerMerritt I feel like we're at the point of adoption like with cell phones, where you know a few people that have one, and they still have rough rough edges in service. Then fast forward 20 years later and not only does everybody have a cellphone, but they do much more.
@imdjbuchan@SawyerMerritt I get what you mean. People can dislike MAGA and everything they associate with it, while still seeing the potential in the technology. I think it’s better to keep the politics and the actual technology separate and judge each on its own.
@edshapiro@SawyerMerritt That’s a pretty strong endorsement. If FSD felt that good on your test drive, it’ll be interesting to see how much better it gets as more people put it through real-world situations.
@SawyerMerritt The comments by steering-wheel aficionados are not criticism - quite the opposite - but a hope for a privately owned vehicle with a steering wheel
That’s the human side of this that can easily get lost in all the technology and numbers. If safer transportation can genuinely prevent crashes and help people get home safely to their families, that’s a benefit that goes far beyond convenience or economics. That’s ultimately what makes the pursuit of better safety so meaningful.
@SawyerMerritt@wholemars The value being created is hard to comprehend. People’s moms and Dads will come home today to loved ones instead of being killed in a car crash.
@twitbot72169658@SawyerMerritt Tesla isn't slow my friend to what I've seen Tesla takes there time in everything and make it something unexpected that is what we should be looking at