Someone died because one of those cars thought the broadside of a white semi trailer was the sky and drove under it

But was it a "stealthy" fire truck??

Speaking of fire trucks has anyone here ever read the emergency response procedures for teslas in severe accidents? When I was a volunteer we gave it a look over.

If I remember right, Depending on the model they recommend up to 8,000 gallons (~30k liters) to keep an overheating battery's temp stable in case of fire or exposure to high heat. I'll link the resource page here.

Our engine holds 700 gallons (5.2k liters) and the typical tanker in our area holds 2,000 (7.5k liters)

That's a house fire level response for a single electric vehicle. Just getting that much water moved to a scene would be challenging. We have tankers, but how many city departments can move that much water? You don't see hydrants on highways. And foam is not effective like it is for normal car fires. The future will be interesting for firefighters.

It is especially important to understand that Tesla's struggles with navigation are entirely a result of Elon refusing to equip them with LiDAR. This isn't some "The tech is really new and really complicated and we're still figuring it out" problem. There is a very good solution to most collision avoidance scenarios, but Elon refuses to let them use it because he's an idiot.

They also sometimes lock people inside and burn them to death.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/...

You can place cameras anywhere, they don't need to be right next to what is being targeted. Nearer ranges will allow AI to misidentify at much higher rates than max standoff ranges of an AIM-120C.

Pffffffff

I can see that bright white dot against the dark mode background on my maximum brightness screen with ease! Therefore your argument is invalid!

"I said AI sir!"

Just for reference: JWST has an optical resolution of 0.07 arcseconds. It’s a mirror 22 feet in diameter though, not something you’d put inside a missile guidance package.

Yeah but what about the AI? Have you thought about the AI that would be running it, which never misses, and would totally be a useful existing thing? 😉

Magnifying glass makes things bigger, checkmate! 🔍🔍

and then also dealing with the F-35 itself, even if you managed to lock on and target it, it will have anti-warfare capabilities you have to contend with.

Yeah, sure. But that doesn't matter if you point the AI at it with a really good zoom lens, though. And then you have a ton of them, pointed in an directions, like the compound eye of a fly. F35 spotted.

your not thinking like a musk, not if the government pays the subscription and contract for his early warning camera drone balloon swarm thing or something something they could run on ketamine or something.

Part of the reason air defences mostly rely on radar and other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum from at least 3 locations using triangulation to build a precise map of objects in the sky, but just like cameras that doesn't work when the objects in question are too high or hidden behind objects. From there you can send countermeasures to intercept coordinates and then arm them to search for nearby objects via infrared.

Using the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum is pretty much useless in modern weapons. I remember seeing even a Tank operator's display being totally jank because they don't use normal cameras either, perhaps because they wanted data to train machines to do it instead of human operators? Idk, didn't make sense to me.

Yeah, the "lidar is useless" guy whose cars are consistently crashing into things when visibility is bad is telling us that he can do the same thing with missile targeting systems... Sounds like a great idea

Also night

My friend bought a red car specifically so it could be seen by Tesla's cameras.

No no. See guessing objects from flat images is much better than using math and lidar. Especially if you may have a flawed llm model.

Given how advanced our math and knowledge of radar is, it is literally stupid to use them.

See, those, radar, lidar and math give you a 3d objects.

Oh, wait. It is the other way around.

He's not, otherwise he would know that "low light sensitivity" cameras aren't "sensitive in low-light conditions" but "with lower than normal light sensitivity".

In an imaginary world where cameras are way more expensive, he'd absolutely be pushing LiDAR in cars. The metrics he cares about are cost and marketability (cool factor), or money for short.

Elon Denegerate

Easy. Just build a giant ball of telescopes and ban water

Edit: Kinda forgot about the horizon. Ban the earth too. Better yet ask the physicists to borrow their ideal frictionless vacuum.

His rise really is symbolic of the rot that has taken hold of our society. Truly, our most degenerate moron has risen to the top of the shit pile.

Look. Just because people hope to not see it and actively avoid looking in the general direction of, does not make the cyber truck invisible.

"It's a shit design" Says the man responsible for this:

The f-35 is built for engagements outside the horizon, like, the target is blocked by the curvature of the earth.

Light sensitive cameras and rudimentary AI..

but have you considered that if i can’t see it then it doesn’t exist?

He's riding that curve like one of those surfing dogs.

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/...

You'd need a camera network spanning the entire battlefield. And it'd need telephoto lenses at the very least, because stealth fighters are high and small. And it'd need to stay connected after an initial missile exchange.

I don't buy for a moment that nobody in the Pentagon has thought of this, and explained why it's not a dealbreaker in a classified report.

Nah man, just use AI with night cameras. It's never cloudy or foggy anyway.

He has Tesla's "Full Self Driving" system, which works with AI and cameras.
He probably wants to just upload his software to US fighter jets for, say, $20 million per unit.

Sucking up to Putin. The next thing he will say is all 2 su57s in existence are much more advanced.

I'm looking forward to someone reminding Trump about the carrier catapults.

He has always been this stupid.

But also, how far can low light sensitive cameras see into the sky? Maybe a couple miles with some sort of telescopic optics? The F35 can attack from beyond visual range using its 100 mile range radar system.

Yeah, while we are at it. Everything sucks compared to the starship enterprise. You can't beat photon torpedoes and shields. All current military technology sucks.

Or the curvature of the Earth

I'm glad it's been officially proven by a competitior. I've been shouting that since articles came out about the first human test subject. All of that invasive surgery, issues with the brain tissue pushing out some of the wires, and the best denonstrable result is that he can use a computer mouse with his mind?

There are so many damn options for accessibility with computer control (even mouse control) that don't involve invasive brain surgery, and we know that we can monitor brain activity pretty clearly through sensors on the scalp.

Gobbment adjacent so pesky conflict of interest goes away.

Elon and Musk?

That VERY much depends on mission requirements. The F35 has issues, but calling it a big piece of shit shows that you're an internet troll who has no idea what it's talking about