Recent content by Mullermn

As is often the case, this argument completely denies history and commercial reality. As I understand it Tesla defined the major bones of its current hardware package back in HW2, which was late 2016. They now have a massive fleet of vehicles with a vision-only hardware package for which FSD...

How does a car detect painted lines or other information without a visual awareness of the world?

Your statement, that a technology solution does not always follow the natural solution, is perfectly reasonable, though I would argue rather needlessly obvious to anyone who doesn't live in a nest, use fur for warmth or clean their junk using their face. In context, though, the OP is saying...

This is a massive logical disconnect. Explain the connection between a choice of cameras as sensors and the amount of computing power required for self driving? You’re implying that a different choice of sensors would require less computing power? If that’s not the connection you’re drawing...

Probably noone would watch it directly for that long but you would immediately find services popping up to stream your feed and use it as a security camera/ archive it long term etc, the same way TeslaFi and Tessie etc have built services around the API. I would imagine that’s the sort of...

That’s not now business services work. They’ve designed their premium connectivity proposition around a certain level of service utilisation and if you blow it by streaming video constantly then the proposition doesn’t work anymore. It’s not about whether they can literally afford the phone bill.

Video of the new auto park feature we’re projected to be getting in April

Streaming video from the car uses a lot (in relative terms) of bandwidth, which Tesla has to pay for. The data plan that they purchase will be a corporate/IoT tailored plan that probably allows their devices to roam over multiple mobile providers to improve connectivity and which will have a...

I don't think this is correct. Most cars work this way (which is why they generally have a 'half pull for 3 flashes' type feature) but the auto cancel in Teslas also takes in to account things like line markings on the road...

With the tantalising hints that Tesla may be about to roll out Smart Summon, which I have paid for as part of EAP but never received due to having an USS-less car, I’ve been wondering what we might actually get. Does anyone know what level of function is permitted here by regulation? Let’s say...

By the time a car is good enough to do genuine L5 then these scenarios won’t seem such a stretch. Whether the automakers will be prepared to build them is another matter. You might be prepared to run in to a car jacker to make an escape, but would you deploy software for which you had liability...

Seems that for the last week or so the app has taken ages and ages to connect to the car and update when I open it. Is anyone else seeing this? I do have other apps that connect to the car, but I’m not getting the ‘too many clients’ message, it’s just going really slow.

I swear posts like this are part of Musk's supervillain origin story (along with dating that weird woman and buying Twitter). He quite clearly means that a software release under the version 12 branch will lose the 'beta', not that the very first version of a brand new implementation will be...

That's an interesting question, actually, since that mirror folding behaviour is something that basically zero humans will do, especially in a Tesla where you have to go hunting through menus to find the option. I've always thought it was a pointless behaviour (the car on V11 seems to have...

It's incredible how deep the conspiracy to make FSD look good goes, isn't it.