cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/2212325
It’s not hard to find videos of self-driving Teslas wilding in bus lanes. Check the videos out, then consider:
"There was an interesting side-note in Tesla’s last earnings call, where they explained the main challenge of releasing Full-Self Driving (supervised!) in China was a quirk of Chinese roads: the bus-only lanes.
Well, jeez, we have bus-only lanes here in Chicago, too. Like many other American metropolises… including Austin TX, where Tesla plans to rollout unsupervised autonomous vehicles in a matter of weeks…"
It’s one of those regional differences to driving that make a generalizable self-driving platform an exceedingly tough technical nut to crack… unless you’re willing to just plain ignore the local rules.
I know the problem of Teslas not seeing bus lanes is a very real problem, but it is dwarfed by the problem that Billionaires like Musk can’t even see busses themselves in the first place, busses might as well be family members dying because they cannot afford healthcare, they are utterly invisible to Billionaires.
It’s worse than that. They want to squeeze buses out so they can capture more market. Billionaires don’t care who they hurt. They are insane with greed.
They are the ultimate product of a societal structure that rewards only greed.