p51-remorse

I’m not insane, my ability to remember instances of my car trying to kill me is quite well developed.

Are you assuming good faith?

I dunno what to tell you. It did it. A disengagement every 40 miles is not what I’m seeing on my car.

(By the way, this is part of the reason Tesla owners get called Elon-worshipers: we see the sentiment in places like this, it doesn’t line up with the reality we’re seeing every day, and trying to correct the discrepancy comes across as worship. It’s not, it’s just that it seems like something other than truth is driving these conversations.)

Breaking my own rule only once: My car, that I own as a consumer, drove me through town, on the freeway, through another town, and into a parking lot four hundred miles away.

Twenty years ago, that was sci-fi. HN would have been able to reason clearly about it twenty years ago.

(Yes, I know HN wasn’t around in 2004. You don’t need to nitpick that)

[citation-needed]

Usually HN engineers are able to compartmentalize and correctly answer questions like this, but it’s a lost cause with Tesla for some reason. They’re unable to separate “it did a dangerous thing, but did not cause harm” in their minds.

Yes, it has problems. Yes, it has regressions. Yes, sometimes it does dangerous things. But it drove me 400 miles, door to door, last week and did fine. There’s clearly something historic happening here, but all HN can talk about is flaws.

If someone developed a warp drive, and 25% of the time it turned the operator into jelly, we wouldn’t sit here talking exclusively about jelly. We’d talk about how warp drive is cool and what the path to fixing stuff is.

It’s really bizarre.

> Macs are media consumption appliances

Yeah, yesterday I media-consumptioned up a whole new feature for a multi-million dollar web app on my media-consumption appliance.

You can make whatever point you're trying to make without saying things that are outright false. That tends to make people disregard the other things you say.

> somewhere after 2070.

This is clearly willful incompetence.

> opening a browser is going to automatically set it as my default

Pretty sure that's not what that says.

Except able to go to different places, with the much lower cost of road infra vs. rail infra.

It’s highly disincentivized by basic game theory. Any individual sacrifice has highly negative effects on the individual player, and undetectable positive effects on the problem we’re supposed to be solving.

Nah, that brings the 200-400mi range to my mind, far outside of the 750-1250km range that I intuit is implied by single-significant-digit “1000km” in this context.

“1,000km (about 600-700 miles)” would feel better.

Sounds like effort is best spent on improving those processes, then, rather than worrying about personal consumption that doesn’t move the needle.