Kudos to the graphic artist on that one. epic.
Yes, the autopilot is awfully familiar. Excellent reference.
For real, 10/10, no notes
Agreed. First I was like wtf Mr. Peanut dropped his monocle? And then realized what this was.
Hahahahaha fuck Elon
This is becoming the Donald Trump of companies.
In that they won’t have any meaningful regulating done to them or suffer any actual consequences despite the obviously evil shit of which they’re plainly guilty?
Yes.
This is the Gilded Age II: Electric Boogaloo
Waiting for tsla stock to go up now…
I can’t believe it’s still at 170+. People must really not realize that the first mover advantage is over, and Tesla has had their moment already. They are not going to lead this change to evs. Most manufacturers have good or better electric cars now.
Also people can’t afford them. Current prices are ridiculous. The company that brings low price evs that are good enough will dominate the market the next 5 years. It won’t be Tesla.
The fact that a single company is higher valued than the entire car market should ring all alarm bells. Because afaik is Mercedes already ahead of Tesla in regarding (autonomous) self driving. But don’t quote me on it.
“The market” (stocks) has been and will continue to be divorced from reality but to play devil’s advocate, Tesla and it’s investors consider it “more than just a car company”. It’s still ridiculous, but that’s the market for ya.
Elon, suddenly: I’m really concerned about what is going on in Palestine.
Investigate it? The dude literally named it “autopilot”, what is there to investigate, they market this explicitly in their advertising.
What do you think autopilot does in a plane that would make this misleading?
What layman is familiar with the actual technical ability of aircraft autopilot?
Press the button and whammy autopilot?
Autopilot maintains altitude and bearing between waypoints in the sky, and in some (ideal) situations can automatically land the aircraft. In terms of piloting an aircraft, it can handle the middle of the journey entirely autonomously, and even sometimes the end (landing).
Autopilot (the Telsa feature) is not rated to drive the car autonomously, requires constant human supervision, and can automatically disengage at any time. Despite being sold as an “autonomous driver”, it cannot function as one, like autopilot on a plane can. It is clearly using the autopilot feature of an aircraft to imply that the car can pilot itself through at least the middle of the journey without direct supervision (which it can’t). That is misrepresentation.
I am a pilot and this is NOT how autopilot works.
There is some autoland capabilities in the larger commercial airliners, but autopilot can be as simple as a wing-leveler.
The waypoints must be programmed by the pilot in the GPS. Altitude is entirely controlled by the pilot, not the plane, except when on a programming instrument approach, and only when it captures the glideslope (so you need to be in the correct general area in 3d space for it to work).
An autopilot is actually a major hazard to the untrained pilot and has killed many, many untrained pilots as a result.
Whereas when I get in my Tesla, I use voice commands to say where I want to go and now-a-days, I don’t have to make interventions. Even when it was first released 6 years ago, it still did more than most aircraft autopilots.
Im sure they’ll get a fine that’s .000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of their daily profits
The miniature is god tier. 🤣
Good
Notice how no other car makers overstepped that boundary because they aren’t desperate for PR attention.