Posted on 08/19/2021 7:42:31 PM PDT by ctdonath2
Tesla AI Day - announces Tesla Bot, available (?) next year
Let the hysterical predictions & hand wringing begin.
I think that, considering many of these tech giants would like to replace humans with automated systems completely and cut people out of the process, it’s not hysterical to be concerned about it.
Is this Bot going to post endlessly on FR in Breaking News?
;-)
To Bot, or not to Bot?
That is the question!
Tesla bot.
Verying interesting stuff on self-driving cars.
They are raising a generation of kids with virtually no skills, just conformist social skills. They know that in 20 or so years there will be no jobs for them anyway.
So, the vaccines are act of mercy to their short lives?
Will the Tesla AI be able to solve this issue below?
We were visiting family in La Quinta in Southern California. Like nearby Palm Springs, it can be 110-120 degrees in the summer. Everywhere there are long, long streets, and you have to go aways to get anywhere. We witnessed a Tesla driving with ALL THE WINDOWS DOWN. It was 110 degrees outside, and this ‘wonderful’ electric car was driving very fast, with all the windows down. I finally realized what must have been happening. If they were ‘low’ on energy, they could not turn on the air conditioning. It would use up too much energy and the car would have stopped. With a gasoline powered car, one can literally ‘pour’ energy into the car by filling up with gasoline. Not so with electric cars.
Also, I did not know that fast charging shortens the lifetime of the battery. So when someone builds more and more ‘fast charging’ stations, the drivers will actually be shortening the overall life of the battery. Will the AI be programmed to issue a warning each time they plug in to ‘fast charge?’ A whole new insurance / warranty industry could develop to take into account all the ‘fast-charging’ damage.
Or….
Will there be very, very small print on the original warranty, warning that only trickle charging will continue the warranty, and any evidence of ‘fast-charging’ will automatically void the warranty? Will the AI monitor, keep track, and report all fast-charging, such history to be permanently attached to the DMV record and Vin number?
I’d rather have a JACK Unit.
Elon Musk should still return anything he has ever received from the US taxpayer.
If Tesla’s self driving AI is added to a humanoid robot, then it could drive just about anything around now.
Jet and rockets in the near future too.
>>Will the AI monitor, keep track, and report all fast-charging, such history to be permanently attached to the DMV record and Vin number?
That is easily possible to keep track of without AI, and probably is.
“Elon Musk should still return anything he has ever received from the US taxpayer.”
He did.
Estimates are he received about $5B in tax credits. He personally wrote a $2.5B tax check in one year alone.
The return on investment for taxpayers re: Tesla has been excellent.
BTW: he never “received” anything, only tax credits - which are a reduction in taxes, which everyone should get. If we can’t get across the board tax cuts, take whatever deductions you can.
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