Self Driving Nonsense

I've had one or two bad takes on this very fine blog of hot takery, but "self-driving cars aren't really going to work in my lifetime" is so far holding up pretty well!

I'm not entirely sure why, but the last decade was filled with a weird techno-optimism, combined with a pessimism about the impact. Change is inevitable, but it will probably be bad and there's nothing we can do about it!

Self-driving cars are (almost) here! The robots are going to take all the jobs!

Musk said a car would drive by itself from NYC to LA in 2017. Sure not everybody believed that, but that we'd be here in 2021 without them really working at all was a minority opinion.

Seeing some issues with 10.3, so rolling back to 10.2 temporarily.

Please note, this is to be expected with beta software. It is impossible to test all hardware configs in all conditions with internal QA, hence public beta.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 24, 2021

Teslas weigh 2 tons give or take, depending on the model, and Musk just sends out software "beta tests" for the robot driver like it's a video game.