We were riding to my buddy's cottage in his Model X and he tried to show us the self-driving option, and it almost drove us into a median. Small sample size, but I would never take my hands off the wheel of any vehicle. I don't get the stock hype for Tesla, I love the company's aspirations, but I wouldn't expect a return for a long time if it was being handled like a normal stock. It just shows how wonky the stock market is when a rant on a conference call can lose people hundreds of millions in value.
It is like that and Musk knows it. You will see in small print on their website somewhere how the AI is not a substitute for a driver yet Musk keeps on pushing the idea that if people don't use the AI, they will be in danger. When in fact, overconfidence in the AI is putting them in danger. Tesla ranks dead fuckin last in AI technology.
According to a recently published study by Navigant research group, Tesla is currently dead last in the self-driving race, placing beside second-to-last Apple on the list of 19 companies. At the top of Navigant’s study were GM and Google’s Waymo, companies whose initiatives to develop and release autonomous vehicles to the public are ranked as being close to perfect.
I was just banned from a stock chat cuz children were defending Musk. I said I hope someone they care about drives a Tesla believing Musk's claims and dies. Because that is what they deserve. Skin in the game. This is people's lives we are talking about.
The widow of the man who died when his Tesla Model X crashed into a barrier last month is now planning to sue.
On Tuesday, Sevonne Huang told ABC 7 that her husband, Walter, had complained about the car's Autopilot before, saying it had tried to veer into the same barrier where he crashed and died on several previous occasions.
So when she heard about a blue Tesla that crashed at that same spot on the midday news on March 23, she immediately knew her husband was dead.
Sevonne has hired an attorney and plans to sue Tesla for the death of her husband, and is speaking out to raise awareness of the issue.
Steve Wozniak said same thing:
Apple co-founder Wozniak, affectionately referred to as "the Woz," told an audience at the
Nordic Business Forum in Sweden on January 24 he has stopped believing what Musk or Tesla promises.
Now, I don't believe anything Elon Musk or
Tesla says," Wozniak says.
Billionaire tech entrepreneur
Elon Musk has a lot of fans. But he's lost the trust of one famous former admirer:
Steve Wozniak.
Apple co-founder Wozniak, affectionately referred to as "the Woz," told an audience at the
Nordic Business Forum in Sweden on January 24 he has stopped believing what Musk or Tesla promises.
"Now, I don't believe anything Elon Musk or
Tesla says," Wozniak says.
That doesn't mean he doesn't love his Tesla, though.
"But I still love the car, it's still beautiful," Wozniak added.
Wozniak cited several promises Tesla has made that he believes have not been kept.
"They came out with some sensors that Elon Musk said would [allow the car to] drive itself across the country to where you were by the end of 2016 ... Oh, I had to have that!" he says.
"[T]hen they discovered those sensors would never drive across the country, so they got rid of their sensor company. They put in new sensors — instead of one camera, eight cameras — and that one will drive itself across the country by 2017. I believed that stuff," says Wozniak.
Indeed, in October of 2016,
Musk announced a significant upgrade to the hardware for self-driving capability.
In addition, Wozniak criticized the quality of the autopilot feature, saying it was incapable of responding to inconsistencies in the road and that the car still requires significant attention on the part of the driver.
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"Man you have got to be ready — it makes mistakes, it loses track of the lane lines. You have to be on your toes all the time," says Wozniak. "All Tesla did is say, 'It is beta so we are not responsible. It doesn't necessarily work, so you have to be in control.'
"Well you that is kinda a cheap way out of it."
