Why not force prisoners to work for free, travelling around pushing these bricked devices out of the way.
Can’t wait for some first responders to get out on foot to push one of these, and then promptly get ran over as the vehicle snaps out of being stalled
Surprised no-one has commented with
yetRemember this, aspiring engineers:
If you can make a thing that’s pretty neat in ideal conditions when everything works as it should, you can stop there. It is not your responsibilty to handle what can happen in irregular circumstances or to handle potential failures. Assume everything will always be alright, and if not, it’ll be someone else’s problem.Engineering ethics course will now be a single sentence displayed on a whiteboard: “If something you signed off on fails, just blame it on Grok”
Between this and all the rental scooters and bikes, private organizations are barricading all public roads and sidewalks now
First responders need a snowplow to push the slop out of the way
Barricade as a service
He just keeps making a shittier version of a car and complete with no gas pedal his rabid fanbase are like “bold! innovative! disruptive!”
I can sort of see the vision, even if the execution is sus. A car designed as “self driving first” provides a chance to reconsider interior design. I figure we’ll know self-driving has arrived when there’s a keg mounted between the front seats, or maybe the front seats swivel 360 degrees if the “driver” no longer has to keep an eye on the road.
I could see offering a different workflow for “emergency move the car out of traffic”, like a plug-in override console limited to 5km/h or something.
Comparable: they used to make railway locomotives designed without a full cab, since they were usually sold in sets with another loco with a full cab. You could decouple them and they had a minimal control stand just useful to nudge them around, but you wouldn’t want to out one up front.
I think the vision should be “fuck cars, build rail everywhere”. Self-driving cars are still cars and still need to fuck off.
A car designed as “self driving first” provides a chance to reconsider interior design
Problem here is that you would have to be willing to recreate about 60 years of car safety development before you do that. Tesla clearly won’t, so they shouldn’t mess with the safest we’ve managed to create.
The steering wheel and column aren’t necessarily better for safety, you can set up the driver’s side the same way you’d do the passenger side and this will actually give a passenger more room and reduce lower limb intrusion (and thus better survival) during a collision.
I don’t trust Tesla not to fuck all of this up of course, but the steering column used to be the deadliest part of a car until shockingly recently. If you’re old enough to vote or drink in any country, you’re older than safe steering columns being a common feature of brand-new cars.
Ohh nooo…this 3000lb “car” is in the way of my 52,000lb firetruck! Whatever will we doOOoo?
The only problem with this is now you have two fires.
And one of them can’t be put out and just has to burn itself out.
I wonder who will get more kick out of the situation: the firefighters pushing this piece of shit off the road with a truck, or the accountant sending a bunch of bills for firetruck bumper repair to tesla HQ
If the fire is in like an uninhabited house where there’s nobody in danger, then definitely the firefighters. Just an excuse to get out there and smash the fuck out of some Tesla bullshit.
“What’s a failsafe?” -
Sounds expensive
Removing both the auto and mobile from automobile
“cattle catchers on locomotive engines”
“Tesla catchers on fire engines”And yet I can imagine an even stupider idea: to allow first-responders override access, let them pair an Xbox 360 controller to operate the vehicle.
This goes swimmingly until one picks up a family visiting a GameStop.
Like it’s not going to burst into flames and cook everyone inside first.
Right? Statistically, what exactly do they think the first responders are going to be responding to here?
Wouldn’t a stalled Cybercab effectively be “in gear”?
And who knows which way it will choose to steer? Likely to stay in the lanes, per programming… Right?.. Right?
I read that as cybercrab
I would attend the cybercrabrave
