He is famous beyond need for introduction. I am confident to say that even the 5% percentile of extreme fanboyism is huge because his sheer amount of following.
Could you please stop harassing people about their exercising freedom of speech? Does every comment need to be substantiated? Why don't you tell your government to stop smearing Huawei?
Substantive != substantiated. It just means a comment should contain a bit more thought and information.
Freedom of speech on HN is subject to the site guidelines, which are at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. That's for much the same reason that freedom of fire is limited in national parks. If you want to comment here, you need to follow the rules the same as other users do, so please review them.
I'm surprised we don't get that question more often. The answer is that if you follow the site guidelines, your comments will automatically get more substantive. For example, if one takes the name-calling ("Musk fanboys") and weak-interpreting (of cars on the road) out of your comment upthread, there would be nothing left of it. If there's a more specific guideline we could add that would cover any patches of unsubstantiveness that we currently miss, I'd love to know about it.
The HN guidelines aren't a blacklist in which anything not listed counts as fair game. It would be foolish to try to make such a list, plus how tedious—and it would only invite trolls to drive trucks through loopholes. Instead, you need to read them more as a sketch of a certain intention, and then take that intention to heart. Doing that is what makes a good HN commenter, not conforming to a contract adversarially.
Not even a little, it's wishful thinking. No city is going to want a bunch of autonomous vehicles without proof that they won't be a danger to its people and traffic system. Imagine what will happen when Teslas start hitting people or start to stall traffic because they can't handle the situation. And that's just two variables of many that still need to be solved. Also, Musk likes to make predictions on time but he has yet to meet any of his predictions in terms of time. He reminds me of a boss I once had that liked to predict how much time a project would take yet he had no concept of the true time. He would promise a project for a certain time and we would look like jerks because we could not meet it. Eventually, we all got fired because the IT department was ineffective.
It might happen but not in 2 years. My guess is that we won't start to see auto autonomy until 2024. It's my guess but I bet mine is better than his.
I doubt a million but someone will allow it. I think they easily have the best solution and its going to take years before car manufactures put sensors suites in cars that would allow them to gather data to even get the navigate on autopilot level.
Waymo with lidar might have a chance, but the more I see the more people who've tried lidar says the pure computational is much better than the hybrid approach. Lidar only gives depth and it very error-prone. It's easy though because it requires no data to actually do depth preception but its messy.
Tesla only produced 350,000 vehicles in 2018. A million by the end of 2020 containing technology they don't have yet, in addition to vehicles sold to consumers, seems...ambitious.
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 54.8 ms ] threadFreedom of speech on HN is subject to the site guidelines, which are at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. That's for much the same reason that freedom of fire is limited in national parks. If you want to comment here, you need to follow the rules the same as other users do, so please review them.
The HN guidelines aren't a blacklist in which anything not listed counts as fair game. It would be foolish to try to make such a list, plus how tedious—and it would only invite trolls to drive trucks through loopholes. Instead, you need to read them more as a sketch of a certain intention, and then take that intention to heart. Doing that is what makes a good HN commenter, not conforming to a contract adversarially.
HN is a spirit-of-the-law, not a letter-of-the-law kind of place. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606756 from 5 years ago.
It might happen but not in 2 years. My guess is that we won't start to see auto autonomy until 2024. It's my guess but I bet mine is better than his.
Waymo with lidar might have a chance, but the more I see the more people who've tried lidar says the pure computational is much better than the hybrid approach. Lidar only gives depth and it very error-prone. It's easy though because it requires no data to actually do depth preception but its messy.