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Sorry, have to disagree. Tesla's special blend of vision-only driving and software built seemingly with generative ai leads to unsafe situations.
On top of that, self driving is a solution that keeps cars on the roads.... Yucky. Make the driving tests stricter to weed out idiots and build much more robust transit infrastructure for everyone else.
You want Tesla to create transit infrastructure? I hard disagree, that should be something the government does, not a private company. Tesla should stay in the business of making cars, and the government should move to make that obsolete in cities with good public infrastructure.
Self-driving has pushed probably 0 people in the world from using public infrastructure to using cars. I've never met anyone that has said "yeah, I was using trains daily, but I decided to buy a $50,000 car with a $12,000 software upgrade to have it autonomously drive me". You honestly think there's a person that exists that has done this?
Absolutely, it's just human drivers lead to unsafe situations more often. I understand it might not feel that way, but it's the actual truth, we have massive amounts of data on this, and your feelings don't outweigh that.
Sorry perhaps I was unclear. (Or perhaps you willfully misinterpreted me)
I don't think Tesla should be making anything as long as the current figurehead is in charge. Transit should always be public infrastructure... Not sure how you would have thought I was advocating for privatized public transit.
I also never intended to suggest that self driving is pushing individuals from adopting transit.... Moreso that the proverbial carrot of "fewer road accidents thanks to self driving" is likely to prevent regulators from taking the note effective steps of:
Yep. And fewer cars overall makes pedestrians safer as well. You dont want human drivers, I dont want cars
I'm the one misinterpreting you, yet when I explicitly advocate for public infrastructure to lessen the amount of cars, I'm somehow in favor of cars? You're definitely projecting.
Go back and read your comment. You never said the word public, I did. We were in a conversation about Tesla and its failings, and you randomly brought up "transit". So either you were making a completely off-topic point about something the government should do, or you were making an on-topic point about something Tesla should do. I read it as an on-topic comment.
Actually stop for a moment, take off your argument hat, and think about what you're advocating for. The government has had 100 years of non-self driving cars to implement the changes you've wanted. They've failed, miserably. They've actually taken a ton of steps to do exactly the opposite, and have built the largest car-centric society the world has ever seen.
Now that we have something that is statistically reducing the number of accidents on the road (autonomous vehicles, which will only get better, but already statistically outperform humans), you want private companies to revert these safety features in the hopes that the uptick in human deaths will lead to regulation that the U.S hasn't implemented in the 100 years of sole human driving?
Please tell me you're just miscommunicating your position again, and that you're actually not against the development of safety features to reduce human deaths in cars just to encourage the government to do something it hasn't done in the past 100 years.
Alright, let me walk back and apologize for my performative argumentation and be extremely clear about my opinion in the shortest, most sincere way I can do this.
Fewer human drivers is good
Fewer cars on the road at all is better
Self driving does significantly increase the safety of roads, however increasing transit and reducing cars on the road increases safety for everyone by a larger margin
While selfdriving is good to reduce the number of human caused accidents, telsa's implementation is has no secondary sensors, and no map correlation for it's vision results
Even with self driving, car centric infrastructure steals valuable space that could be used for housing, transit or pedestrians
Ultimately, I think our disconnect is that my argumentation made it seem like I dont support both (I was really unclear, I apologize) self driving is really awesome for road safety, but on it's own, it still means there's generally the same amount of cars on the road. Implementation of (reliable) self driving in combination with other regulatory changes such as larger public transit investment, stricter testing regulations, stronger punishments for breaking driving laws, and more regulation on where cars are allowed will do more than self driving on its own could ever do.
Agreed on everything, like I said in my first comment. I was fairly confident we were on the same page on everything, less cars is good, less human drivers is good, etc. I hate Musk, you hate Musk, etc.
Also I appreciate the humility, it's something very few people have, and what you've done here is what I hope I'm also able to do when needed.
I'm fully in favor of the USSR/European/Chinese/Japanese/etc. model for public transit (prefer public transportation over cars as much as possible). It vastly outperforms the U.S in every important metric (safety, reliability, cost, etc.)
Also agree that self-driving is a small piece of the overall picture. It's just I think that's the only piece Tesla really has a part in playing, most of the improvements need to happen on the government's end.
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