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[rjag]

http://business.fina...source=Facebook

 

 

 

A self-driving car from Uber hit and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona, on Sunday evening, what is likely the first pedestrian fatality involving a driverless vehicle

[MarkoJ]

Possibly.  but full level 2 capability to every stall is still overkill.   Every second stall would be plenty and then they can install dual head power sharing stations as required.

 

110v is good enough for 95% of people.

[LeoVictoria]

110v is good enough for 95% of people.

Yeah never needed L2 charging for our driving. That said I’m putting a L2 charger in anyway since they are currently being subsidized for 75% off

[On the Level]

http://business.fina...source=Facebook

 

 

 "human drivers kill just 1.16 people for every 100 million miles driven. Waymo and Uber and all the rest combined are nowhere near covering that kind of distance, and they’ve already killed one."

 

https://www.wired.co...ona-pedestrian/

 

Driverless cars have the potential to be much safer than than those driven by humans, unless humans release faulty code, or hack the system.  Then humans will make driverless cars much more deadly. 

[LJ]

Was golfing today and we had a new guy join our foursome as we were one short. Nice guy, decent golfer, over beers afterward he reveals he is Elon Musk's cousin and has driven every car Tesla has produced, spent time at the Giga Factory, and at Spacex. They drove one Tesla from 0-60-0(mph) in 300'.

 

They don't expect to make money on vehicles for quite some time.

[MarkoJ]

Was golfing today and we had a new guy join our foursome as we were one short. Nice guy, decent golfer, over beers afterward he reveals he is Elon Musk's cousin and has driven every car Tesla has produced, spent time at the Giga Factory, and at Spacex. They drove one Tesla from 0-60-0(mph) in 300'.

 

They don't expect to make money on vehicles for quite some time.

 

The four models they've produced?

[LJ]

The four models they've produced?

Is there four, I thought there was only 3.

[MarkoJ]

Is there four, I thought there was only 3.

 

Roadster, Model S, Model X, Model 3

[MarkoJ]

If Tesla stock goes below $300 I am jumping in.....sooner or later they ramp the Model 3 production.

[Jackerbie]

Roadster, Model S, Model X, Model 3

 

And Y is coming up, so we'll have Model S 3 X Y. Yes, Elon did that on purpose.

[LeoVictoria]

Test drove the new Leaf in Vancouver. It is very nice. More power, looks normal, propilot, epedal, very quiet. Great vehicle as a city car, not a long distance cruiser though.

[LeoVictoria]

And doesn’t look as low rent as the Bolt.

[dasmo]

Greatest thing Musk did for the industry is brought S3XY to the electric car format and with around 500,000 reorders for the Model 3 he is forcing the others to do the same.... 

[lanforod]

I disagree, I don't think the S or 3 look sexy at all. The new Leaf looks better than either.

[LeoVictoria]

Either way, electric cars went from this:

and this:

 

to this:

 

 

 

and this

 

 

 

And none of the new ones coming out have the weirdmobile look.  That's a good thing and Tesla certainly played a big role in getting the industry there.

[Rob Randall]

The victim was a middle-aged woman walking a bicycle. That implies a relatively low speed. I initially thought it must have been someone dashing out between parked cars and the car couldn't stop in time but the reports say the car didn't brake at all so there's a big question about how the car's multiple sensors could have missed her.

 

https://www.nytimes....times&smtyp=cur

[jonny]

It won't take very many of these incidents to seriously derail autonomous cars. 

[VicHockeyFan]

Yes it will. 15 pedestrians are killed every single day in the US by cars. So since that one death last week 100 people were killed by human-driven cars. Another 100 will be killed this week.

https://www.npr.org/...destrian-deaths

How many will be saved by auto-braking cars? How many already have.

People have to see perspective.

Edited by VicHockeyFan, 20 March 2018 - 12:47 PM.

[jonny]

People have to see perspective.

 

If people had perspective, 99% of the controversial things or ideas out there wouldn't be very controversial. If people had "perspective", we would have never heard a peep about Site C. 

 

One day, a driverless (or should we call it a "driver assist") car will run over a group of children because it miscalculated or some algorithm was not coded correctly or a sensor was off or whatever. How many times has your computer frozen or your smartphone has randomly rebooted itself? Just saying that bad PR is probably the one thing that can kill "driver assist" vehicles. 

[rjag]

At one point someone thought the Hindenburg was a good idea as well....just saying