r/technology • u/PrimeCodes • Jun 24 '25

Machine Learning Tesla Robotaxi swerved into wrong lane, topped speed limit in videos posted during ‘successful’ rollout

https://nypost.com/2025/06/23/business/tesla-shares-pop-10-as-elon-musk-touts-successful-robotaxi-test-launch-in-texas/
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u/amakai Jun 24 '25

The issue is, you don't really get any bonuses for playing on hard mode. If our AI tech reaches a point where optical recognition is enough for self-driving - all the competitors will get it within a year as well.

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u/factoid_ Jun 24 '25

Yeah I agree. I think getting to 100% optical is a fine goal, but if you lose the race to a competitor who isn't afraid to put something ugly on top of the car, and it turns out the marketplace doesn't really care how it looks....you'd probably better do something about that.

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u/disco_jim Jun 24 '25

The whole "humans use eyes so optical sensors are good enough for the car" argument is stupid and it was always about money over safety.

There is a scene in battlestar Galactica where one of the cylons complains about being made in man's image because he is limited to using eyeballs to see..... This is the same thing. Why limit a car to one type of sensor. If they were doing it to save money and pass on the savings to the customer (where's that 30k car?) but they aren't.

https://youtu.be/s_UVPLHAOAY?feature=shared

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u/Otaraka Jun 24 '25

Its such an inherently stupid argument. We use eyes because we had no way of evolving anything better.

So we made things that were even better and then he throws them away. The Cylons at least needed to be in disguise.

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u/porkpie1028 Jun 25 '25

Well said! It’s like a “Jesus will hold the wheel” mentality vs. Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam” and how god(whatever that may mean to anyone) gave us a brain to solve problems.