adamjcook
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Systems engineer focused on machine design, robotics, automation, manufacturing technologies and computer-aided design.
Built in Chicago. Living in Detroit.
Built in Chicago. Living in Detroit.
There will be significant differences in demands made by the end users of a web browser and a viable CAD system for serious work though. It is an extremely tough market that many have been shaken out of. Reliability is…
> If you think it's a black box to the Tesla drivers, how is it not a black box to the Waymo customers in the back seat of these cars? The general public (as a vehicle occupant) only interacts with a Waymo vehicle as a…
Respectfully, no FSD Beta video can add anything of safety value in evaluating these systems - and the only thing that these videos do these days is add a sense of complacency in most or all FSD Beta users. Videos and…
In my view, the higher-level issues with the FSD Beta program are: - A failure by Tesla to view the system that they are developing as what it really is - a physical safety-critical system and not "an AI". Those two are…
In my book, Tesla gets a bad rap for providing an unvalidated, should-be safety-critical system to run-of-the-mill consumers without an accompanying Safety Management System. The fact that they profit handsomely off…
> According to Moravy, vehicle assembly processes haven’t changed in the last 100 years, which he says is “really silly. Where to start with this article? Here is a good spot I guess. First off, Moravy is wrong. If…
I am tired of Tesla lying about its vehicles being capable of "driving themselves" and selling a "Full Self-Driving" product that is anything but - preying on the public's ignorance and substantially harming public…
In some cases, yes, but certainly not in all of them (or a majority of them) here in Detroit (based on photographs taken by urban explorers). There are many department stores and theaters, for example, that had wide…
> The OTA updates do provide an avenue to make cars much safer by reducing the friction for these type of safety fixes. True, but let us also acknowledge the immense systems safety downsides of OTA updates given the…
It is the terminology that exists in US automotive regulations (what little there effectively are). A "recall" is just a public record that a safety-related defect existed, the products impacted and what the…
No consumer can purchase any vehicle that is capable of "self-driving" or "driving itself" today. Tesla's vehicles are not capable of self-driving and, at all times, the human driver is driving the vehicle as both…
> I'm not sure why they don't explicitly write in the report that the driver may have been trapped in the back seat, and was unable to locate or use the mechanical release to escape. Because the NTSB cannot establish…
My experience is the opposite for what it is worth. I used to own an ID.4 (which was a great car in my opinion, but I recently moved from Dallas to Detroit and, ironically, was able to go car-free in Detroit). I made a…
> No one would live in Detroit because it’s bleak and sprawling. San Francisco is beautiful and cosmopolitan. The trajectory of Detroit is irreversible and structural As someone who just moved to Detroit (in October of…
Detroit is doing it all over the place. I live in an office building that was first opened in 1914 and was converted into residential units. Another 18-floor office building across my street is being converted as we…
> I find hard to believe that no one has thought about this before Automotive companies utilize a myriad of frame designs for their vehicles - each one a collection of different alloys, structural shapes and castings…
> The reason people think Elon may do level 5 autonomy is because his companies have accomplished several things that industry experts said were either infeasible or impossible. That is all well and good, but what is at…
See the full Ford press release for more information: https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2020... There are apparently plans in motion to work with GE Healthcare on "simplified" ventilators (under…
I agree on the "per component" estimated costs. It is conceivable that Munro, having been in the business for a number of years, would have access to all sorts of data sources that the general public (or even higher…
I wonder how Microsoft eventually dealt with this: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/intel... Intel seemed to indicate at the time that it was really interested in any licensing around the x86 ISA.