KayLeadfoot

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[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

Oh, RIGHT, that XD

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I've been thinking about exactly this... you could probably get an apples to apples comparison, by comparing only a specific model year.

IE, how did every 2023 car perform in the year 2024? Then, parse that by the vehicle's price, or maybe by its propulsion type, maybe both. THAT would be how an honest study of the question would go.

Of course, Tesla knows that, they can afford really great data scientists. Makes you wonder why they run their obviously flawed safety study instead.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 2 points 6 days ago

No way, those "robots" are remote controlled, by underpaid actors in motion capture suits XD

 

This is the same system that Tesla fans have been insisting for years is a better-than-human driver.

... What the fuck? This system isn't better than a learner's permit holder

 

Temu Tony Stark is apparently terrible at leading teams for AI development.

... Which is wild, because that was his whole qualification for rewiring the federal government.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

"It broke the test equipment" is not NEARLY the clapback Elon thinks it is. That's actually really bad, and probably demonstrates the lethality of the vehicle (it's just too heavy)

Also I love your username, show me the lie

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

My helmet has a radar in it. Like, why the fuck not, toss two in there

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago

No way, the company leadership that gave us MechaHitler would never skimp on Q/A or safety guardrails for their AI products.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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And radar is dirt cheap. Toss a radar module (or two!) under the hood, watch as your cars stop plowing into stuff in the frontal plane of movement. It's automation so simple that even Hyundai gets it right.

 

To quote a random commenter:

"Well it is impressive... impressively bad."

 

This Tesla Robotaxi demo video is a mess.

Watch as the car makes a left turn from the wrong lane, ignoring a red light. The safety operator steps in, and the car comes to a stop… right in the middle of the intersection.

Eventually, it completes the illegal turn after blocking traffic for 45 seconds, which raises the question, what exactly is the safety operator there for?

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you ask Tesla drivers, they often purchased the car because someone told them Teslas are safe, despite them being the statistically most lethal car you could drive in America.

We live in a dystopian information environment.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

Wow, that's crazy -- I thought they impartially reviewed the federal government and determined that all the waste was coming from the 10-person autonomous safety office at the NHTSA, and whoever does the science to make sure rockets don't poison us all at the FAA.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

I've also noticed that.

Intrinsic to the tech, I think. It's not that it gets worse, it just gets different (intentionally, as a feature).

The teams that ensure "different" trends in the direction of "better," those teams are universally very new at their jobs and at the technology.

So, serious organizations are figuring out how to test and deploy consistently better AIs. I don't think Elon Musk runs a single serious organization, other than arguably SpaceX.

 

TL;DR: Tesla self-driving tech is becoming less safe per mile, according to Tesla’s own data.

Q1 2025 was 2.5% worse than Q1 2024.

Q2 2025 was 2.8% worse than Q2 2024.

Not a great look.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

Not normal in Chicago, either.

It's just janky Tesla stuff. You can see a Waymo negotiates the turn into the parking lot just fine.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 5 points 2 weeks ago

Buckle the fuck up, my friend XD

You haven't seen the end. You haven't even seen the middle.

With OpenAI's reasoning models, you maybe saw the end of the beginning.

 

Robotaxi! It's like a regular cab, but less safe.

Don't worry, there's even still a stranger sitting up front. That's because it's less safe.

Anyway, Tesla stock is trading up with 5 times the market cap of Uber and maybe 20 times the market cap of the Ford Motor Company, so mission accomplished.

 

The new Grok 4 didn't make it halfway through its first day on the job before hurling racial conspiracy theories at users.

This is the same Grok that Elon Musk promises will be added to Tesla vehicles by "next week at the latest."

You'll remember that Grok 3 was briefly shut down just earlier this week for a different bunch of antisemitic outbursts. This doesn't bode well for the state of AI safety guardrails or Q/A at xAI.

 

I'm not sure the SS trim stands for "super sport," y'all.

 

Not even a single full day into operation, and the new Grok 4 is hurling racist conspiracy theories at users.

According to Elon Musk, no later than next week, it will be added to Tesla vehicles.

 

Update: engineers updated the @Grok system prompt, removing a line that encouraged it to be politically incorrect when the evidence in its training data supported it.

 

Not a great look.

 

In case you were worried about cars being too safe, don't worry. The most lethal car brand in the USA is pushing the envelope and innovating entirely new ways to make a nuisance of themselves.

Also, the dash cam footage of Tesla's self-driving tech is terrifying.

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