adamjcook

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by adamjcook 2y ago
There will be significant differences in demands made by the end users of a web browser and a viable CAD system for serious work though. It is an extremely tough market that many have been shaken out of. Reliability is a must, particularly
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by adamjcook 3y ago
> If you think it's a black box to the Tesla drivers, how is it not a black box to the Waymo customers in the back seat of these cars? The general public (as a vehicle occupant) only interacts with a Waymo vehicle as a passenger wit
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by adamjcook 3y ago
Respectfully, no FSD Beta video can add anything of safety value in evaluating these systems - and the only thing that these videos do these days is add a sense of complacency in most or all FSD Beta users. Videos and personal experiences c
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by adamjcook 3y ago
> Regulators continue to allow it, and their opinion > internet randos. This is true. > When they force FSD to be pulled, then there is weight behind the argument. Well, I suppose that it is pretty hard to dispute this, but it shou
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by adamjcook 3y ago
In my view, the higher-level issues with the FSD Beta program are: - A failure by Tesla to view the system that they are developing as what it really is - a physical safety-critical system and not "an AI". Those two are distinct
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by adamjcook 3y ago
That "comparison YouTube video" is absurd and dangerous, because, at minimum... A Level 4-capable vehicle (a Waymo vehicle) is an incomparably different system than a Level 2-capable vehicle (a vehicle equipped with FSD Beta). The
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by adamjcook 3y ago
In my book, Tesla gets a bad rap for providing an unvalidated, should-be safety-critical system to run-of-the-mill consumers without an accompanying Safety Management System. The fact that they profit handsomely off this structurally danger
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by adamjcook 3y ago
> According to Moravy, vehicle assembly processes haven’t changed in the last 100 years, which he says is “really silly. Where to start with this article? Here is a good spot I guess. First off, Moravy is wrong. If anyone thinks that aut
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by adamjcook 3y ago
I am tired of Tesla lying about its vehicles being capable of "driving themselves" and selling a "Full Self-Driving" product that is anything but - preying on the public's ignorance and substantially harming public
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by adamjcook 3y ago
In some cases, yes, but certainly not in all of them (or a majority of them) here in Detroit (based on photographs taken by urban explorers). There are many department stores and theaters, for example, that had wide open floors. Conversions
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by adamjcook 3y ago
Not to challenge your comment, but we have been converting office high-rises into apartments all over Detroit seemingly quite successfully and tastefully - with buildings built in the 1920s no less. I am living in a converted office high-ri
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by adamjcook 4y ago
Hmm. Perhaps I should have read the parent's comment more carefully. I think that I might have misinterpreted it. You (and the parent comment) are correct. My comment was not intended to argue that a recall prescribed a particular corr
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by adamjcook 4y ago
I agree.
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by adamjcook 4y ago
> The OTA updates do provide an avenue to make cars much safer by reducing the friction for these type of safety fixes. True, but let us also acknowledge the immense systems safety downsides of OTA updates given the lack of effective aut
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by adamjcook 4y ago
It is the terminology that exists in US automotive regulations (what little there effectively are). A "recall" is just a public record that a safety-related defect existed, the products impacted and what the manufacturer performed
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by adamjcook 4y ago
No consumer can purchase any vehicle that is capable of "self-driving" or "driving itself" today. Tesla's vehicles are not capable of self-driving and, at all times, the human driver is driving the vehicle as both A
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by adamjcook 4y ago
> I'm not sure why they don't explicitly write in the report that the driver may have been trapped in the back seat, and was unable to locate or use the mechanical release to escape. Because the NTSB cannot establish that concl
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by adamjcook 4y ago
My experience is the opposite for what it is worth. I used to own an ID.4 (which was a great car in my opinion, but I recently moved from Dallas to Detroit and, ironically, was able to go car-free in Detroit). I made a round trip from Dalla
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by adamjcook 4y ago
> No one would live in Detroit because it’s bleak and sprawling. San Francisco is beautiful and cosmopolitan. The trajectory of Detroit is irreversible and structural As someone who just moved to Detroit (in October of 2022), I could not
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by adamjcook 4y ago
The theater part was demolished. The high-rise building part remains and is being converted into residential units right now.
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by adamjcook 4y ago
Detroit is doing it all over the place. I live in an office building that was first opened in 1914 and was converted into residential units. Another 18-floor office building across my street is being converted as we speak ( https:/&#x2
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by adamjcook 6y ago
> I find hard to believe that no one has thought about this before Automotive companies utilize a myriad of frame designs for their vehicles - each one a collection of different alloys, structural shapes and castings depending on the
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by adamjcook 6y ago
> The reason people think Elon may do level 5 autonomy is because his companies have accomplished several things that industry experts said were either infeasible or impossible. That is all well and good, but what is at issue here and in
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by adamjcook 6y ago
> I don't think it's dangerous, necessarily, unless you ignore people's personal responsibility in the situation as well. Yes, but let us recognize the stark reality and known limitations of "the people" in the d
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by adamjcook 6y ago
> maybe the biggest reason we're doing all this is to flatten the curb so hospitals don't get overwhelmed. I think the other, possibly just as important, reason to lower the infection count is that medical professionals are yet
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by adamjcook 6y ago
See the full Ford press release for more information: https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2020... There are apparently plans in motion to work with GE Healthcare on "si
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by adamjcook 8y ago
> Tesla does more than final assembly, so it's an apples-to-oranges comparison. True, but, this estimate of labor was provided by Michelle Hill, a manufacturing expert at management consulting firm Oliver Wyman who is likely aware o
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by adamjcook 8y ago
I cannot comment either way on Animats' thoughts (because I do not have enough information to do any concrete analysis). However, for what it is worth, Bloomberg's latest article on the trials and tribulations of Model 3 productio
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by adamjcook 8y ago
I agree on the "per component" estimated costs. It is conceivable that Munro, having been in the business for a number of years, would have access to all sorts of data sources that the general public (or even higher quality data s
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by adamjcook 9y ago
I wonder how Microsoft eventually dealt with this: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/intel... Intel seemed to indicate at the time that it was really interested in any licensing around th

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